Independent Reading Suggested Books for Belonging to a Movement: One Crazy Summer
See our Independent Reading for Elementary Students Teacher Tool for guidance on how to use the suggested texts below.
Additional Texts by the Author
- Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia (740L)
- P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia (770L)
Informational Texts to Build Content Knowledge
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (1000L)
- Freedom's Children by Ellen S. Levine (760L)
- Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison (1050L) **
- Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Movement by Sheyann Webb-Christburg, Rachel West Nelson Milhouse, Frank Sikora (830L)
- The Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose series) by Heather Adamson (680L)
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose series) by Michael Burgan (740L)
- Turning 15 by Lynda Blackmon Lowery (780L)
- Witnesses to Freedom by Belinda Rochelle (1040L)
Texts with Connecting Topics and Themes
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (990L)
- Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia (710L) **
- Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (710L)
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds (730L)
- It All Comes Down to This by Karen English (680L) *
- Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper (740L)
- The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez (670L)
- The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine (630L)
- TWGTB by Christopher Paul Curtis (920L)
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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