Comparison
Refugee vs Shiloh
How Refugee by Alan Gratz and Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor compare on reading level, grade placement, curriculum overlap, and shared themes — derived from primary-source citations on each book’s ReadingList page.
Refugee
Alan Gratz
- Lexile
- 800L
- Grades
- 5–9
- Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 352
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Lexile
- 890L
- Grades
- 3–6
- Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 160
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
At a glance
- Lexile differential
- 90L (Refugee: 800L · Shiloh: 890L)
- Grade-range overlap
- Grades 5–6
- Year-of-publication gap
- 26 years (2017 vs 1991)
- Page-count gap
- 192 pages (352 vs 160)
- Shared curricula
- 63 of 140
- Shared themes
- 1 of 9
Reading-level difference
The 90-point Lexile gap puts Shiloh roughly a notch above Refugee. Lexile differences below 50L typically reflect equivalent decoding load (sentence length + word frequency); differences above 200L cross developmental reading-band boundaries. More on how Lexile measures work →
Curriculum overlap
Both books appear in 63 shared curriculum frameworks:
Themes
Shared
family
Only Refugee
refugees · survival · displacement · empathy
Only Shiloh
animal welfare · morality · rural life · courage
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Refugee
Alan Gratz
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Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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