Independent Reading Suggested Books for Seeking Truth: A Wrinkle in Time
See our Independent Reading for Elementary Students Teacher Tool for guidance on how to use the suggested texts below.
Additional Texts by the Author
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet Book 3) by Madeleine L’Engle (850L)
- A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet Book 2) by Madeleine L’Engle (790L)
- An Acceptable Time (Time Quintet Book 5) by Madeleine L’Engle (710L)
- Many Waters (Time Quintet Book 4) by Madeleine L’Engle (700L)
Informational Texts to Build Content Knowledge
- Endurance, Young Readers Edition: My Year in Space and How I Got There by Scott Kelly (1070L) *
- Racing the Moon by Alan Armstrong (780L)
- T-Minus: The Race to the Moon by Jim Ottaviani (740L)
Texts with Connecting Topics and Themes
Seeking truth/science fiction
- Among the Hidden (The Shadow Children series) by Margaret Peterson Haddix (800L)
- Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer (660L) *
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (780L) **
- George’s Secret Key series by Stephen Hawking (860L)
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline **
- The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm (550L) *
- The Jupiter Pirates series by Jason Fry (860L)
- The Stonekeeper (The Amulet Series) by Kazu Kibuishi (310L) *
- The White Mountains by John Christopher (890L)
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (750L)
- Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke (310L) *
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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