Independent Reading Suggested Books for Exploring Human Rights: The Breadwinner
See our Independent Reading for Elementary Students Teacher Tool for guidance on how to use the suggested texts below.
Additional Texts by the Author
- Mud City by Deborah Ellis (740L)
- My Name is Parvana by Deborah Ellis (670L)
- Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis (700L)
Informational Texts to Build Content Knowledge
- Every Human Has Rights: A Photographic Declaration for Kids by Mary Robinson (880L)
- I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali **
- Kids of Kabul by Deborah Ellis (800L)
- Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat (870L) **
- Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak by Deborah Ellis (790L)
- Understanding Afghanistan Today by Don Nardo
- Who is Malala Yousafzai by Dinah Brown (680L) *
Texts with Connecting Topics and Themes
Escaping war/human rights violations
- Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan (800L) **
- Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai (880L) **
- I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin (770L) **
- Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai (800L)
- The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon (840L)
- The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz (830L) **
- The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney (620L)
Fighting for human rights
- 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye (910L)
- A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird (830L)
- Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed (600L) **
- The Breadwinner: 15th Anniversary Edition by Deborah Ellis (710L)
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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