Independent Reading Suggested Books for 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
- 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 (770L)
- On the Block by Ellen Oh
- Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
- The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya (750L)
- The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
- The Green Kingdom by Cornelia Funke and Tammi Hartung
- The Harlem Charade by Natasha Tarpley (800L)
- The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden by Karina Yan Glaser
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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