Independent Reading Suggested Books for Pursuing Dreams: A Raisin in the Sun
Additional Texts by the Author
- The Sign in Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry
Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
- All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor **
- Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 by Patricia McKissack (760L) *
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- Fences by August Wilson
- Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome *
- Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor (850L)
- One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes *
- The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis (750L)
- This Side of Home by Renée Watson
Informational Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South by Wade Hudson
- Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani
- Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton (990L) *
- Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor **
- South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration by Marcia Chatelain **
- Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America by Tonya Bolden (1130L) **
- The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (950L)
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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