Independent Reading Suggested Books for Discovering Self: Bud, Not Buddy

• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (980L)
• The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis (870L)
• The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis (750L)
• TWGTB by Christopher Paul Curtis (920L)

• Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression by Robert Cohen
• Kit’s World: A Girl’s-Eye View of the Great Depression by Harriet Brown and Teri Witkowski
• Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression by Kate Lied (500L) *
• The Great Depression: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose series) by Michael Burgan (600L)
• We the People: The Great Depression by Michael Burgan (910L)
• What Was the Great Depression? by Janet B. Pascal (790L) *

Discovering home

• Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk (770L)
• Homecoming (The Tillerman Cycle) by Cynthia Voigt (630L) **
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (820L)
• Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech (660L)
• The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda Woods (670L)

The Great Depression

• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (670L)
• Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift by Kathryn Lasky (770L) **
• Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930’s by Michael L. Cooper (1120L)
• Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm (490L) *
• Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (800L)
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (1040L)
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (920L)
• Rose’s Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression by Marissa Moss (820L)
• Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (610L)