Independent Reading Suggested Books for 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)
- Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle
- 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
Texts with Connecting Topics and Themes
Believing in yourself
- Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? by Leslie Connor
- Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Solan (770L)
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier (300L)
- Hank Zipzer series by Henry Winkler (760-780L) *
- Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
- Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
- Rules by Cynthia Lord
- 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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