Independent Reading Suggested Books for Shaping Dreams: A Single Shard
See our Independent Reading for Elementary Students Teacher Tool for guidance on how to use the suggested texts below.
Additional Texts by the Author
Linda Sue Park
- A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park (720L)
- Bee-bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park (390L)
- Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park (770L)
- Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
- Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park (690L)
- Seesaw Girl by Linda Sue Park (810L)
- The Firekeeper's Son by Linda Sue Park (AD580L)
- The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park (880L)
- When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park (670L)
Other Texts in the Same Genre
Historical Fiction
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan (750L)
- Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan (800L)
- Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (800L)
- Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo (730L)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Reader’s Edition) by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (860L)
- The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho (860L)
- The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (930L)
- The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean (900L)
Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
Hard work and achieving dreams
- Ten Thousand Tries by Amy Makechnie (590L)
Korean History or Culture
- Brother's Keeper by Julie Lee (731L)
- Land of Morning Calm: Korean Culture Then and Now by John Stickler & Soma Han
- My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits (480L)
- Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi (840L)
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