One question I’m often asked is what the AR (or accelerated
reader) level is for a particular book.
Or where the question asker can find a book of a particular AR
level.
Before I address where you can find information like this
let me pause to issue a diatribe against Accelerated Reader. As a librarian I hate the program. As far as I can tell it takes all the fun
out of reading. Kids are proscribed to
a particular set of books and deprived of the joy of stumbling upon the perfect
book. It’s always so disappointing to
me when the kid brings up a book all happy and looking forward to reading it
only to find it is above (or below) their “AR” level. They all seem to have
been told that they can’t read books outside of their levels so at this point they
move on to another title. I can go on
longer about my dislike of accelerated reader but let’s revert to the original
point.
