As a future elementary school teacher, comparing different levels of literature seemed to me to be a very interesting and applicable exercise. I thought that examining differences in grammatical structure and sentence complexity in different levels of literature would be a fairly simple task, and that different levels of literature would produce very different sentences. Hoping to still have a similar writing style, I chose books in the same genre even though they were at different reading levels. As a child, I loved mystery novels such as Nancy Drew and the Secret of Red Gate Farm, and now that I'm older, I enjoy Agatha Christie novels such as And Then There Were None. By choosing books that I enjoy, I was able to make this project even more applicable by extending into my own reading life while still allowing me to treat this project as a test of the differences between different levels of literature. To ensure that the passages differed, I chose a climatic passage in each work so that I could see how differently a more advanced literary work contained and composed climatic elements. Although I expected that the differences in grammatical structure and, therefore, sentence complexity would be very different and easy to distinguish depending on their reading level, my initial thoughts did not turn out to be entirely correct . Even my expectations of proper grammatical construction in both literary works were wrong. Instead of finding more advanced sentence complexity and grammatical structure in Agatha Christie's work than in Nancy Drew's book, I found the sentence complexity to be rather similar. In fact, the Nancy Drew passage contained a greater number of complex, compound sentences than the Agatha Chris passage...... middle of article ...... per sentences full of descriptive language in the literature aimed at older readers that easily puts to shame some of the apparent descriptive phrases of early writings. However, I feel that what I have found is not sufficient to constitute a complete basis, because more advanced literature is supposed to be and even appears to actually be more complex and more complete because the complexity of the sentence structure was relatively the same in the end. Yet at the same time there is a simple growth from one level to the next in the amount of descriptive words and grammatical liberties taken, as evidenced by the diagrams of the different passages. This growth that makes a difference helps me see how readers grow as they travel through the levels of literature, adapting to more words and more freedoms as they also become more confident in their own abilities..