Independent Reading Suggested Books for Believing in Yourself: The Wild Book
See our Independent Reading for Elementary Students Teacher Tool for guidance on how to use the suggested texts below.
Additional Texts by the Author
- All the Way to Havana by Margarita Engle (890L)
- Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle (1120L) **
- The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle **
Informational Texts to Build Content Knowledge
- Dyslexia is My Superpower (Most of the Time) by Margaret Rooke
- My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood by Rosemary Wells (760L)
- National Geographic Countries of the World: Cuba by Jen Green (990L) **
Texts with Connecting Topics and Themes
Believing in yourself
- Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Solan (770L)
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier (300L)
- Hank Zipzer series by Henry Winkler (760-780L) *
- Knees: The mixed up world of a boy with dyslexia by Vanita Oelschlager *
- Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (700L)
- Rules by Cynthia Lord (670L)
- The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph (840L)
- Tom’s Special Talent - Dyslexia by Kate Gaynor *
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio (790L)
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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