Recommended Books for ESL C
| Fiction | ||
| Title | Author | Call No. |
| Orca Currents / Soundings series (~100 pages) | ||
| Death Wind (RL 3.2) | Bell, William | F BEL |
| Chat Room (RL 4.0) | Butcher, Kristin | F BUT |
| The Hemingway Tradition (RL 4.2) | Butcher, Kristin | F BUT |
| The Trouble with Liberty (RL 4.2) | Butcher, Kristin | F BUT |
| Zee's Way (RL 3.2) | Butcher, Kristin | F BUT |
| Thunderbowl (RL 4.0) | Choyce, Lesley | F CHO |
| Chill (3.5) | Frizzell, Colin | F FRI |
| Kicked Out (RL 3.0) | Goobie, Beth | F GOO |
| Blue Moon (RL 3.4) | Halvorson, Marilyn | F HAL |
| Hit Squad (RL 3.8) | Heneghan, James | F HEN |
| Truth (RL 3.2) | Kyi, Tanya | F KYI |
| Charmed (RL 3.8) | Mac, Carrie | F MAC |
| Crush (RL 3.4) | Mac, Carrie | F MAC |
| Tell (RL 4.0) | McClintock, Norah | F MCC |
| No More Pranks (RL 4.0) | Polak, Monique | F POL |
| Laggan Lard Butts (RL 3.5) | Walters, Eric | F WAL |
| Stuffed (RL 3.8) | Walters, Eric | F WAL |
| Saddleback Pageturners Series - Detective, Mystery, Spy, Suspense (~75 pages) | ||
| Hamlet's Trap (RL 3.7) | Green, Janice | F GRE |
| The Girl Who Had Everything (RL 3.5) | Green, Janice | F GRE |
| A Deadly Game (RL 4.4) | Lorimer, Janet | F LOR |
| An Eye for an Eye(RL 4.3) | Lorimer, Janet | F LOR |
| Boneyard (RL 3.8) | Lorimer, Janet | F LOR |
| Scavenger Hunt (RL 4) | Lorimer, Janet | F LOR |
| Tuesday Raven (RL 4.2) | Lorimer, Janet | F LOR |
| Once Upon a Crime (RL 4.6) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| Roses Red as Blood (RL 4.3) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| The Case of the Bad Seed (RL 4.5) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| The Case of the Cursed Chalet (RL 4.3) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| The Case of the Dead Duck (RL 4.3) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| The Case of the Wanted Man (RL 4.2) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| The Case of the Watery Grave (RL 4.4) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| The Cold, Cold Shoulder (RL 4.1) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| The Hunter (RL 4.5) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| Whatever Happened to Megan Marie? (RL 4.7) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| When Sleeping Dogs Awaken (RL 4.6) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| Where's Dudley?(RL 4.7) | Schraff, Anne | F SCH |
| Other Fiction | ||
| Thirteen Reasons Why (RL 3.9) | Asher, Jay | F ASH |
| Alt. Ed. (RL 3.4) | Atkins, Catherine | F ATK |
| Annexed (RL 3.5) | Dogar, Sharon | F DOG |
| Beastly (RL 3.7) | Flinn, Alex | F FLI |
| What Happened to Cass McBride? (RL 3.2) | Giles, Gail | F GIL |
| Hacker (RL 3.6) | Kropp, Paul | F KRO |
| Scarface (RL 3.5) | Kropp, Paul | F KRO |
| The Adoration of Jenna Fox (RL 3.8) | Pearson, Mary | F PEA |
| The Lost Hero (RL 3.8) | Riordan, Rick | F RIO |
| Eleanor and Park (RL 3.8) | Rowell, Rainbow | F ROW |
| Fangirl (RL 3.9) | Rowell, Rainbow | F ROW |
| Crash (RL 3) | Spinelli, Jerry | F SPI |
| Outrage (RL 3) | Varrato, Tony | F VAN |
| American Born Chinese (RL 3.3) | Yang, Gene | F YAN |
| Non-Fiction | ||
| Strange But True Stories | ||
| Strange But True Stories Book 1 (RL 3.5 - 4.0) | Greene, Janice | 001.94 GRE |
| Strange But True Stories Book 2 (RL 3.5 - 4.0) | Lorimer, Janet | 001.94 LOR |
| Strange But True Stories Book 3 (RL 3.5 - 4.0) | Lorimer, Janet | 001.94 LOR |
| Strange But True Stories Book 4 (RL 3.5 - 4.0) | Lorimer, Janet | 001.94 LOR |
| Strange But True Stories Book 5 (RL 3.5 - 4.0) | Greene, Janice | 001.94 GRE |
| Who Is / Was Series (~104 pages) | ||
| Who was Frederick Douglass? | Prince, April | 305.567 DOU PRI |
| Who was Harriet Tubman? | McDonough, Yona | 305.567 TUB MCD |
| Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? | Bader, Bonnie | 323.3 KIN BAD |
| Who was Rosa Parks? | McDonough, Yona | 323.3 PAR MCD |
| Who is Bill Gates? | Demuth, Patricia | 338.76 GAT DEM |
| Who was Steve Jobs? | Pollack, Pam | 338.76 JOB POL |
| Who was Hellen Keller? | Thompson, Gare | 362.4 KEL THO |
| Who was Blackbeard? | Buckley, James Jr. | 364.164 BLA BUC |
| Who was Galileo? | Demuth, Patricia | 520.92 GAL BRE |
| Who was Albert Einstein? | Brallier, Jess | 530 EIN BRA |
| Who was Marie Curie? | Stine, Megan | 540.92 CUR STI |
| Who was Charles Darwin? | Hopkinson, Deborah | 576.8 DAR HOP |
| Who is Jane Goodall? | Edwards, Roberta | 599.885 GOO EDW |
| Who was Amelia Earhart? | Jerome, Kate | 629.13 EAR JER |
| Who was Claude Monet? | Waldron, Ann | 759.4 MON WAL |
| Who was Pablo Picasso? | Kelley, True | 759.4 PIC KEL |
| Who was Leonardo da Vinci? | Edwards, Roberta | 759.5 DAV EDW |
| Who were the Beatles? | Edgers, Geoff | 781.66 BEA EDG |
| Who was Elvis Presley? | Edgers, Geoff | 781.66 PRE EDG |
| Who was Walt Disney? | Stewart, Whitney | 791.43 DIS STE |
| Who was Harry Houdini? | Sutherland, Tui | 793.8 HOU SUT |
| Who was Dr. Seuss? | Pascal, Janet | 813.5 SEU PAS |
| Who was William Shakespeare? | Mannis, Celestte | 822.33 SHA MAN |
| Who was Ferdinand Magellan? | Kramer, Sydelle | 910.9 MAG KRA |
| Who was Marco Polo? | Holub, Joan | 910.9 POL HOL |
| Who was King Tut? | Edwards, Roberta | 932 TUT EDW |
| Who was Abraham Lincoln? | Pascal, Janet | 937.7 LIN PAS |
| Who was Anne Frank? | Abramson, Ann | 940.5318 FRA ABR |
| Who was Marie Antoinette? | Rau, Dana | 944.035 ANT RAU |
| Who was Gandhi? | Rau, Dana | 954.035 GAN RAU |
| Who was Nelson Mandela? | Pollack, Pam | 968.065 MAN POL |
| A Wicked History Series (~128 pages) | ||
| Attila the Hun: leader of the barbarian hordes | Price, Sean | 936.03 ATT PRI |
| Julius Caesar: dictator for life | Rinaldo, Denise | 937.05 CAE RIN |
| Alexander the Great: master of the ancient world | Wilhelm, Doug | 938.07 ALE WIL |
| Mary Tudor: courageous queen or Bloody Mary? | Buchanan, Jane | 942.05 TUD BUC |
| Henry VIII: royal beheader | Price, Sean | 942.052 HEN PRI |
| Robespierre: master of the guillotine | DiConsiglio, John | 944.04 DIC |
| Napoleon: emperor and conqueror | Heuston, Kimberley | 944.05 NAP HEU |
| Ivan the Terrible: tsar of death | Price, Sean | 947.04 PRI |
| Catherine the Great: empress of Russia | Vincent, Zu | 947.063 CAT VIN |
| Grigory Rasputin: holy man or mad monk? | Goldberg, Enid | 947.083 RAS GOL |
| Joseph Stalin | McCollum, Sean | 947.0842 STA MCC |
| Vlad the Impale: the real Count Dracula | Goldberg, Enid | 949.8 VLA GOL |
| Genghis Khan: 13th-century Mongolian tyrant | Goldberg, Enid | 950.02 KHA GOL |
| Cixi: evil empress of China? | Price, Sean | 951.035 CIX PRI |
| Mao Zedong | Heuston, Kimberley | 951.05 MAO HEU |
| Graphic Novels | ||
| Timeline series (20 titles about different historical figures and events) | Winter, Barbara | 428.6 WIN |
| Adventures from China: Monkey King (Volumes 1 - 20) | Chen, Wei Dong | 741.5 CHE |
| Legends from China: Three Kingdoms (Volumes 1 - 12) | Chen, Wei Dong | 741.5 CHE |
| The Adventures of Tintin series (21 titles) | Herge | 741.5 HER |