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)
- 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
- “Excerpts from Out of My Mind” by Sharon M. Draper
- “Excerpts from Rules” by Cynthia Lord
- 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 *
- 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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