2024 OBOB List with Reading Levels 

The following ordered list is a response to parents who ask, “How do I know which books are going to be right for my child?  Some of them seem really hard.”  This list is sorted by several  leveling systems that each attempt to score the relative difficulty of text samples.  Books with  lower scores are expected to be easier to read and comprehend that books with higher scores.  There is no exact science to assigning a reading level to a body of text and different systems often produce contradictory results, but used as a generalization the scores may be helpful.  Especially with developing readers, I suggest that the students start their independent reading with the easier books and gradually work their way to the more difficult ones, while parents read aloud to their children starting with the more difficult books and work their way down until you meet somewhere in the middle.  There is no requirement that the books be read independently, and books can also be  borrowed online from the school or public library in audio format. The State OBOB Committee recommends that each team member read at least eight books from the current list.  There is no minimum reading requirement for participation at Sato.