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Child failing school

When she took the books to her teacher for approval, she was told she couldn’t use any of them because they had low Lexile Levels. This all seemed ridiculous to me, especially when we went into the website for Lexile Levels together and saw that Diary of a Wimpy Kid had a higher Lexile Level than John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. I love Greg Heffley and the gang, but seriously, Diary of a Wimpy Kid over Steinbeck? For real?

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