I think the first thing to do is figure out exactly what Lexile 1550 is like, and see if there are any books that look good -
http://www.librarything.com/lexile/1550LTitles
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford Paperbacks) by John D. Barrow
The European Reformation by Euan Cameron
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (A Council on Foreign Relations Book) by John Lewis Gaddis
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Sun-Tzu: The Art of War (History and Warfare) by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Catriona Kelly
Feminist Methods in Social Research by Shulamit Reinharz
Socrates: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by C. C. W. Taylor
Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany by Norma Broude
Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) by David D. Hall
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (Verso Classics, 2) by Perry Anderson
Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
Japanese Culture by Paul Varley
Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley by Barry Levy
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence by T. H. Breen
Complete Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Feminism and History (Oxford Readings in Feminism) by Joan Wallach Scott
Content and Consciousness (International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method) by Daniel Dennett
This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 (OPUS) by Julia Briggs
Culture/Power/History by Nicholas B. Dirks
The Creative Suffering of God (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Paul S. Fiddes
Freedom within Reason by Susan Wolf
Poems: New and Selected by James Laughlin
Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction by Darko Suvin
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War Before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley
Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (Opening Out) by Val Plumwood
Surrealism and the Sacred: Power, Eros, and the Occult in Modern Art by Celia Rabinovitch
On Infantry: Revised Edition (Military Profession) by John A. English
World War I and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United States (Norton Essays in American History) by Paul L. Murphy
Borders by Pat Mora
Was George Washington Really the Father of Our Country?: A Clinical Geneticist Looks at World History by Robert Marion
Russian folk belief by Linda J. Ivanits
Time in history : the evolution of our general awareness of time and temporal perspective by G. J. Whitrow
How Should One Live?: Essays on the Virtues by Roger Crisp
Understanding Japanese Society (Nissan Institute Routledge Japanese Studies Series) by Joy Hendry
Religion and the Enlightenment: From Descartes to Kant by James M. Byrne
The Great Depression and the New Deal (Greenwood Press Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century) by Robert F. Himmelberg
Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender by Sheldon Hsia-Peng Lu
Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture by David Lyle Jeffrey
The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry by Marshall I. Goldman
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis by Bernstein
The origins of war : from the Stone Age to Alexander the Great by Arther Ferrill
Orphans Of The Cold War America And The Tibetan Struggle For Survival by John Kenneth Knaus
Ground Forces for a Rapidly Employabel Joint Task Force: First-Week Capabilities for Short-Warning Conflicts by Eugene C Gritton
Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century (Indians of the Southeast) by John R. Finger
A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present by John R. Finger
Bond Men Made Free by Rodney Hilton
Making the connections: Essays in feminist social ethics by Beverly Wildung Harrison
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The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 by Deborah Cohen
The Fashion Business: Theory, Practice, Image (Dress, Body, Culture Series) by Nicola White
The modernist impulse in American Protestantism by William R. Hutchison
The Ownership Solution: Toward A Shared Capitalism For The 21st Century by Jeff Gates
Roman Philosophers by Mark Morford
Struggles in the Promised Land: Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States by Jack Salzman
The American Indian and the End of the Confederacy, 1863-1866 (Civil War) by Annie Heloise Abel
Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart (Institutional Structures of Feeling) by Helena Ragone
Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt by Debbie Nathan
The Roman War Machine (Medieval Military Library) by John Peddie
On Virtue Ethics by Rosalind Hursthouse
Why Era Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution (Everywoman: Studies in History, by Mary Frances Berry
The Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston, 1800-1830 by Matthew H. Crocker
Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (Ernest Bloch Lectures) by Susan McClary
The dust rose like smoke : the subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux by James O. Gump
Art Forgery: The Case of the Lady of Elche by John F. Moffitt
Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia (Shaps Library of Asian Studies) by Charles F. Keyes
Signs in Society: Studies in Semiotic Anthropology (Advances in Semiotics) by Richard J. Parmentier
Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation by Anthony O'Hear
Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion: With an Annotated Literal Translation of the Libretto by Michael Marissen
Kings and Prophets: Monarchic Power, Inspired Leadership, and Sacred Text in Biblical Narrative by Cristiano Grottanelli
The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860 by Irma Jaffe
Women in medieval society by Irma Jaffe
Understanding Multivariate Research: A Primer for Beginning Social Scientists (Essentials of Political Science) by William Dale Berry
U.S. History As Women's History: New Feminist Essays (Gender and American Culture) by Alice Kessler-Harris
So one approach would be to send this list in to the teacher and ask her if she would help by suggesting one of these books to start with. Very Innocently.
