授人以鱼不如授人以渔，分享一个秘传小技巧，教你怎么查英文原版书的难易程度是否适合自己。
蓝思（Lexile）分级是美国教育科研机构专门帮助学生鉴定图书阅读难度的网站，以帮助美国的学生们能够找到适合自己阅读能力的书。
网站地址是这个The Lexile® Framework for Reading，不行的话就百度也能出来
分级的单位是Lexile（一般简写为L），这个单位怎么来的呢？
就是读懂一本超级低幼读物，和读懂一本百科全书之间的差距，除以1000，得到这个单位，一个Lexile。
网站首页如下图：
点进去后，直接右上角就有搜索框
输入英文书的书名，点一下search
结果就出来了
以《小王子》为例，网站显示《小王子》的难度是710L
那么蓝思分级的数字和我们的能力怎么对应呢？
如下图：
高一就可以阅读650L到850L的书 所以根据表格右边的年级，选择合适难度的书，
但数据是死的，人是活的。如果你读了之后发现对自己太难或者太简单，那就选难度更低或更高的书呗。
下面是我推荐的一些难度较低，又非常好看、评分很高的书，也会附上书中的一些句子，大家参考看看难度：
Charlotte's Web（680L）夏洛的网
这是我读完的第一本英文原版书 一个非常感人的童话故事
1. When your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it's always hard to sleep.
2. The quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready.
3. Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen.
The Little Prince（710L）小王子
根本无需多介绍
If you were to say to the grown-ups: "I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof," they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have to say to them: "I saw a house that cost $20,000." Then they would exclaim: "Oh, what a pretty house that is!"
The Book Thief（730L）偷书贼
看完哭的稀里哗啦，泪如雨下
“他打动了我，每次都打动了我，这是他造成的唯一伤害，他踩住了我的心，让我哭泣” 正像温柔的死神这样说鲁迪一样。
偷书贼，这样一本絮叨的故事，在他乡的孤馆里，摇曳的火车上，打动了我，让我泪流满面。
Before they went into their respective homes, Rudy stopped a moment and said, "Goodbye, Saumensch." He laughed.
"Goodnight, book thief." It was the first time Liesel had been branded with her title, and she couldn't hide the fact that she liked it very mcuh. As we're both aware, she'd stolen books previously, but in late October 1941, it became official. That night, Liesel Meminger truly became the book thief.
The Giver（760L）赐予者
The Giver，翻译为赐予者，这本200页不到的小书描述了一个乌托邦社会，但有一个人例外，他一个人承担了整个世界该有的记忆，他必须独自承受痛苦、恐惧、和孤单，而他也同时知道什麼是温暖、幸福和爱。这个人被称为the receiver of memory，也就是the Giver。
当12岁的男主角Jonas成为这个the receiver of memory的接班人后，他得到了他以前所不曾有过的经验，而当他知道愈多时，他愈发现这个世界的不合理，最后他选择了逃离……
Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.
Memories are not just about the past, they determine our future. I had learned that knowing of what something is, is not the same as knowing how something feel. I got lost ... to good kind of lost. Have faith, the Giver told me. Faith, that was seeing beyond. He compared it to the wind: something felt but not seen.
Wonder（790L）
中途无数次哭成毛毛虫，虽然朋友早就警告过我这本书超催泪的。
美国作家R. J.帕拉秋创作的一部关于“勇敢”的少年小说，描绘了一个充满泪水、爱与希望的生命旅程，述说一个平凡的男孩如何接纳自己、勇敢长大的不凡故事。
I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid. I mean, sure, I do ordinary things. I eat ice cream. I ride my bike. I play ball. I have an XBox. Stuff like that makes me ordinary. I guess. And I feel ordinary. Inside. But I know ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory（810L）查理和巧克力工厂
我不知道我这个年龄的人，再读这类的幻想文学是不是太过幼稚。
不过有一些例外，那些能在诙谐幽默语言中带给人心灵的洗濯的经典，无论对于哪个年龄段的人们，哪怕就是老到白发替代了黑发；光滑的皮肤被沟壑取代，也不会过时。
阅读时因为难得的流畅 而对故事能更好地感受 真好。
最让人惊喜的当然是地下的那个奇妙的巧克力世界 我甚至发现了3D打印的雏形 哈哈 童话很美好。
The thing to remember,' Grandma Georgina said, 'is that whatever happens, you'll still have the bar of chocolate.' But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
A Thousand Splendid Suns（830L）灿烂千阳
悲伤像缺乏哀鸣和怒吼的河流。死没什么了不起，活着才是勇敢。
Jalil写给Mariam的信，How little those things matter to me now after all the loss all the terrible things i have seen in the cursed war. 战争的伤害毁灭，日复一日的家暴，庆幸她们拥有一千个太阳般热烈伟大的爱，获得救赎。
In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too has had sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed.
A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.
The Kite Runner（840L）追风筝的人
For you，a thousand times over.
为你，千千万万遍。
For me, Canada is a place to pursue my dreams. However, it is also the place where I realized my parents have aged.
Although it seemed to have little to do with the book, I still felt outraged to see such a man who was successful and prestigous back home became a worker at the gas station.
For Amir and his Baba, they had no choice because they had to escape from the war. However, I do not understand how can the thousands of immigrants give up their families, friends, memories and successes to a foreign place where there are no families and friends.
They have to start from nothing and they can never be successful again. Most of them cannot find a job. If they did, it would be a waiter or waitress at a restuarant, or a worker in a small company paid with minimal wage. Their intelligience is buried in their homeland, which no one in a foreign country would value.
The House on Mango Street（870L）芒果街上的小屋
《芒果街上的小屋》所记录的，是从女孩蜕变为女人的过程，是少女时代的最后一段光阴。作品的触角伸向生活的每个角落，妈妈，婶婶，一朵小云彩，一只小狗，一次小伤心，一点小悸动在少女澄澈的眼底，这些都打上了“家”和“回忆”的记号
Someday I will have a best friend all my own. One I can tell my secrets to. One who will understand my jokes without my having to explain them.
Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
One day we were passing a house that looked, in my mind, like houses I had seen in Mexico.
I don't know why. There was nothing about the house that looked exactly like the houses I remembered.
I'm not even sure why I thought it, but it seemed to feel right.
Harry Potter系列（880L）
魔法词汇较多，可能会难一些
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Peter Pan（920L）
童话都是大人写的。当我们长大后，带着一颗童心重读那些儿时听过的故事，才能越明白大人所讲的童话。
Every child is affected thus the first time he istreated unfairly…
After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy.
No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.
He often met it, but he always forgot it.
I suppose that was the real difference between him and all the rest.
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