Book comparisons
Side-by-side comparisons of the most-assigned canon books in US K-12 ELA classrooms. Each pair shows Lexile differential, grade- range overlap, shared curricula, themes, and (when applicable) banned-state overlap.
45 pairs indexed across the canon.
Grades 3-5
- New Kid vs Wonder
- Shiloh vs WonderLexile gap: 100L
- Out of My Mind vs WonderLexile gap: 90L
- The Crossover vs WonderLexile gap: 40L
- Holes vs WonderLexile gap: 130L
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library vs Wonder
- The War That Saved My Life vs WonderLexile gap: 210L
- Restart vs WonderLexile gap: 60L
- Smile vs WonderLexile gap: 380L
- New Kid vs Shiloh
- New Kid vs Out of My Mind
- New Kid vs The Crossover
- Holes vs New Kid
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library vs New Kid
- New Kid vs The War That Saved My Life
- New Kid vs Restart
- New Kid vs Smile
- Out of My Mind vs ShilohLexile gap: 190L
- Shiloh vs The CrossoverLexile gap: 140L
- Holes vs ShilohLexile gap: 230L
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library vs Shiloh
- Shiloh vs The War That Saved My LifeLexile gap: 310L
- Restart vs ShilohLexile gap: 160L
- Shiloh vs SmileLexile gap: 480L
- Out of My Mind vs The CrossoverLexile gap: 50L
- Holes vs Out of My MindLexile gap: 40L
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library vs Out of My Mind
- Out of My Mind vs The War That Saved My LifeLexile gap: 120L
- Out of My Mind vs RestartLexile gap: 30L
- Out of My Mind vs SmileLexile gap: 290L
- Holes vs The CrossoverLexile gap: 90L
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library vs The Crossover
- The Crossover vs The War That Saved My LifeLexile gap: 170L
- Restart vs The CrossoverLexile gap: 20L
- Smile vs The CrossoverLexile gap: 340L
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library vs Holes
- Holes vs The War That Saved My LifeLexile gap: 80L
- Holes vs RestartLexile gap: 70L
- Holes vs SmileLexile gap: 250L
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library vs The War That Saved My Life
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library vs Restart
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library vs Smile
- Restart vs The War That Saved My LifeLexile gap: 150L
- Smile vs The War That Saved My LifeLexile gap: 170L
- Restart vs SmileLexile gap: 320L