Independent Reading Suggested Books for Building Community: Seedfolks
See our Independent Reading for Elementary Students Teacher Tool for guidance on how to use the suggested texts below.
Informational Texts to Build Content Knowledge
- 101 Small Ways to Change the World by Lonely Planet Kids, Aubre Andrus
- Hand to Heart: Improving Communities by Jessica Cohn
Texts with Connecting Topics and Themes
Building community
- Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio by Tony Johnston (600L)
- Junebug by Alice Mead (570L) *
- Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar (670L) **
- Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
- The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya (750L)
- The Harlem Charade by Natasha Tarpley (800L)
- The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden by Karina Yan Glaser
- The Year of the Garden by Andrea Cheng (620L) *
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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