Independent Reading Suggested Books for Born a Crime
Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard
- The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Non-Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
- Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
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