ReadWorks Book Studies make it easy to integrate more reading into your daily ELA instruction. Each Book Study is built to supplement your existing novel unit with a hand-curated text set that supports explorations and discussions of the book's content and themes. Have your students read one, two, or all three Book Study text sets as you teach each book! 

Book Studies can be digitally assigned, printed, or projected. The passages can be taught in the best order for your students: start with the one that interests them most or the one most closely tied to your current discussions then build from there! The links below go right to each text and its interactive vocabulary activity and comprehension-monitoring question set. Want to bring more writing and speaking in too? Download our easy one-page guide for linking reading, writing, and speaking!

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6th Grade

A Wrinkle in Time

Theme Text Set: Being Bold in New Frontiers

• Baking Her Way (nonfiction)
• Jim Abbott on the Mound (nonfiction)
• Lea Salonga, Broadway Star (nonfiction)
• Se Ri Pak, Champion Golfer (nonfiction)
• Who Was Alan Shepard? (nonfiction)
• Who Was John Glenn? (nonfiction)
• Who Was Neil Armstrong? (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Love and Support

• Climbing Cadillac Mountain (fiction)
• How to Say I Ruff You (fiction)
• No Time for the Blues (fiction)
• Saving Anna's Family (fiction)
• Summer at the Polka Dot Café (fiction)
• The Summer of the Cast (fiction)
• Welcome Home (fiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Adventures on a New Planet

• Alien Kids Series #1: The Fence (fiction)
• Alien Kids Series #2: Two Aliens (fiction)
• Alien Kids Series #3: Lost (fiction)
• Alien Kids Series #4: Surrounded! (fiction)
• Alien Kids Series #5: Big Changes (fiction)
• Place in Space (fiction)

Bud, Not Buddy

Theme Text Set: Facing Discrimination

• Billie Holiday (nonfiction)
• Front of the Bus (nonfiction)
• Hair Wars (nonfiction)
• Life Story: Katherine Johnson (nonfiction)
• Life Story: Maggie Walker (nonfiction)
• The Importance of Muhammad Ali [Abridged] (nonfiction)
• What Happened at the Mall (fiction)

Theme Text Set: The Power of Music

• Farewell to Dan's Depot (fiction)
• Jazz and its Influence on American Music (nonfiction)
• Music and Your Mind (nonfiction)
• Music Inside of Us (nonfiction)
• Music Scores (nonfiction)
• Playing with Sounds (fiction)
• Time for Jazz (fiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: All Kinds of Family Relationships

• Blue Lightning (fiction)
• Grandma (fiction)
• Hairline Mistake (fiction)
• Her Own Room (fiction)
• Learning to Skate (fiction)
• Thanksgiving in London (fiction)
• Three Generations (fiction)

Hidden Figures (Young Reader's Edition)

Knowledge Text Set: Civil Rights in the 1950s and 1960s

• Amelia Boynton Robinson (nonfiction)
  
• Bus Boycott in Alabama (nonfiction)
• Civil Rights on a City Bus (nonfiction)
• Honoring King (nonfiction)
• John Lewis (nonfiction)
• School Colors (nonfiction)
• Thurgood Marshall: From Briggs to Brown (nonfiction)
• Voting for Change (nonfiction)
• Walking Tall (nonfiction)

Knowledge Text Set: The Space Race

• All the 'Buzz' (nonfiction)
• Climbing Space (nonfiction)
• From the Earth to Outer Space (nonfiction)
• Space Centers Across the U.S.A. (nonfiction)
• NJ Physics Professor Has the "Right Stuff" (nonfiction)
• When the Space Age Came to Florida (nonfiction)
• Who Was Alan Shepard? (nonfiction)
• Who Was John Glenn? (nonfiction)
• Who Was Neil Armstrong? (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Women Breaking Barriers

• Alexa Canady, Breaking Barriers in Medicine (nonfiction)
• Elizabeth Blackwell (nonfiction)
  
• Grace Hopper (1906-1992) (nonfiction)
• Kalpana Chawla (nonfiction)
• Life Story Mary Church Terrell (nonfiction)
• Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)
• Life Story: Katherine Johnson (nonfiction)
• Life Story: Maggie Walker (nonfiction)

The Lightning Thief

Knowledge Text Set: Greek Mythology

• Ancient Greece - The Cyclopes (nonfiction)
• Arachne the Weaver (nonfiction)
• Archaeologists Hit a Homer Run (nonfiction)
• Architecture - The Parthenon (nonfiction)
• Religion of Ancient Greece (nonfiction)
• The Lyre (nonfiction)
• The Stuff of Legend (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Identity and Belonging

• A Diplomat's Son (fiction)
• Group Behavior (nonfiction)
• Helen Needham: Advocate for Autism (nonfiction)
• Relative Problems (fiction)
• Solange Knowles, Award-Winning Singer and Songwriter (nonfiction)
• Summer at the Polka Dot Cafe (fiction)
• Understanding Learning Disabilities​ (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Family Relationships

• Discovering Family Connections (nonfiction)
• Intertwining Memories (fiction)
• Learning to Skate (fiction)
• ​Shedding Skin​ (fiction)
• Taming Sibling Rivalry (nonfiction)
• The Phonograph (fiction)
• Trading Pumpkins (fiction)

The One and Only Ivan

Theme Text Set: Art and Social Justice

• Charlene Teters's Activism and Art (nonfiction)
• Claribel Alegria (nonfiction)
• Gerard Sekoto: Art in Apartheid (nonfiction)
• Quilts and Activism, Yesterday and Today (nonfiction)
• Quilts and the Women's Movement (nonfiction)
• Social Causes and Justice in Fabric (nonfiction)
• The Story of Mexican Murals (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Protecting Animals

• A Day at the Zoo (nonfiction)
• A Day in the Life of a Veterinarian Technician (nonfiction)
• Debate: Are Zoos Bad News? (nonfiction)
• Endangered Animals at a Glance (nonfiction)
• Heart Sick (nonfiction)
• Killing Fields (nonfiction)
• News Debate: Spouting Off (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Emotional Health

• Attack of the Nerves (nonfiction)
• By Popular Demand (nonfiction)
• Furry Friends (nonfiction)
• Music and Your Mind (nonfiction)
• Taking Down the Green-Eyed Monster (nonfiction)
• Taming Sibling Rivalry (nonfiction)
• Vitamin G for Your Mind (nonfiction)
• Weather or Not (nonfiction)
• What Is Bullying? (nonfiction)
• World Wide Web of Hurt (nonfiction)

The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963

Theme text set: Talking about Grief

• Always Remember (nonfiction)
• Introduction to Dia de los Muertos (nonfiction)
• Pet Cemetery (nonfiction)
• Quilts for Commemoration (nonfiction)
• Shadows and Spirits in Choctaw Beliefs (nonfiction)
• The Beekeeper (fiction)
• What to Say (fiction)

Theme Text Set: The Civil Rights Movement

• Civil Rights on a City Bus (nonfiction)
• Front of the Bus (nonfiction)
• Letter from Jackie Robinson on Civil Rights (nonfiction)
• The King Holiday: A Day to... (nonfiction)
• Thurgood Marshall: From Briggs to Brown (nonfiction)
• Voting for Change (nonfiction)
• Walking Tall (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Quilting and Social Issues

• Quilting and Politics (nonfiction)
• Quilts and Activism, Yesterday and Today (nonfiction)
• Quilts and the Women's Movement (nonfiction)
• Quilts in Wartime (nonfiction)
• Social Causes and Justice in Fabric (nonfiction)
• The NAMES Quilt (nonfiction)

Two Roads

Knowledge Text Set: World War I and the Great Depression

• Eyewitness to History: The Promise of Arthurdale (nonfiction)
• Photograph of a "Hooverville," 1936 (nonfiction)
• World War I & the Great Depression - Robert Lindsay Mackay's First World War Diary (nonfiction)
• World War I & The Great Depression - The Great Depression (nonfiction)
• World War I & the Great Depression - World War I Basics (nonfiction)
• World War I and the Great Depression - Trench Warfare and the Battle of the Somme (nonfiction)
• WWI & the Great Depression: Excerpts from Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Navigating Identity and its Many Layers

• A Native in the Land of Poetry (nonfiction)
• Charlene Teters's Activism and Art (nonfiction)
• Gerard Sekoto: Art in Apartheid (nonfiction)
• Grade Six in Edmonton (nonfiction)
• Julia Alvarez (nonfiction)
• Sandra Cisneros (nonfiction)
• What's in a Name? (fiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: The Difficult Past and Present Between Native Americans and Settlers

• Fighting for the Nez Perce Homeland (nonfiction)
• Important Cree Chiefs (nonfiction)
• Native American Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation in the 19th Century (nonfiction)
• Native Americans and U.S. Policy in the Late 1800s to Early 1900s (nonfiction)
• Sitting Bull and the Lakota Resistance (nonfiction)
• The History of the Ghost Dance (nonfiction)
• The Invisible "Guns": Disease and Native Americans (nonfiction)
• The Louisiana Purchase and the Trail of Tears (nonfiction)
• The Sand Creek Massacre (nonfiction)

Walk Two Moons

Theme Text Set: COPING WITH LOSS

• Army Dad (fiction)
• Freedom's Road (nonfiction)
• Intertwining Memories (fiction)
• Lost in Flight (fiction)
• The Beekeeper (fiction)
• The Writing Assignment (fiction)
• What to Say (fiction)

Theme Text S​et: DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTY

• Leaving Nashville (fiction)
• Open House (fiction)
• Saving Anna's Family (fiction)
• Sherry's Game (fiction)
• Summer at the Polka Dot Café (fiction)
• The New Baby (fiction)
• Unexpected Fortune (fiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Understanding and Taking Care of Your Mental Health

• About You: How Music Affects Your Moods (nonfiction)
• Attack of the Nerves (nonfiction)
• Cool to Be Kind (nonfiction)
• Furry Friends (nonfiction)
• How to Overcome Shyness (nonfiction)
• How to Say What You're Feeling (nonfiction)
• It Feels Good to Laugh (nonfiction)
• Weather or Not (nonfiction)

7th Grade

A Long Walk to Water

Knowledge Text Set: Sudan

• Growing Up in Darfur (nonfiction)
• Killing Fields (nonfiction)
• Mali & African Empires - The Mali Empire (nonfiction)
• ​The Dinka Dunker (nonfiction)​
• The Doum Palm of the Sahara Desert (nonfiction)
• What Is a Refugee (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Working to Improve People's Lives

• Designing from Scratch (nonfiction)
• Greta Thunberg Is Worried About the Future (nonfiction)
• Keeping the Lions Away (nonfiction)
• Predicting the Future (nonfiction)
• Remya Cleans Up (nonfiction)
• Think About What You Drink (nonfiction)
• Waste Woes (nonfiction)

​Deeper Dive through Fantasy Text Set: Perseverance and Community

• The Run Series #1: The Run​ (fiction)
• The Run Series #2: Refueling (fiction)
• The Run Series #3: Searching for Survivors (fiction)
• The Run Series #4: On the Road (fiction)
• The Run Series #5: Missing (fiction)
• The Run Series #6: Changes (fiction)
• The Run Series #7: End of the Road (fiction)
• The Run Series #7 Alternate Ending: Realizations (fiction)
• The Run Series #7 Alternate Ending: The End (fiction)

Animal Farm

Theme Text Set: Laboring Away

• Cesar Chavez and Workers' Rights (nonfiction)
• Chinese Immigrants during the Industrial Era (nonfiction)
• Eastern and Southern European Immigrants during the Industrial Era (nonfiction)
• Grace Abbott (nonfiction)
• John Malanga, Newsie (nonfiction)
• Spanish Colonization of South and Central America (nonfiction)
• Sticky Fingers, Helping Hands (nonfiction)
• The Growth of Slavery in the North American Colonies (nonfiction)
• The Mexican Border and Immigration in the 19th and 20th Centuries (nonfiction)
• The Very First Labor Day (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Oppression Around the World

• Cuban Immigration to the United States (nonfiction)
• From Tsardom to Communism (nonfiction)
• Hmong Refugees in the United States (nonfiction)
• Julia Alvarez (nonfiction)
• Life Under the Nazis (nonfiction)
• Nothing Left to Lose (nonfiction)
• Refugees from Myanmar in the United States (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Oppression in the U.S.

• A Landmark Court Case for Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. (nonfiction)
• Bus Boycott in Alabama (nonfiction)
• Thurgood Marshall: From Briggs to Brown (nonfiction)
• Native Americans and U.S. Policy in the Late 1800s to Early 1900s (nonfiction)
• United States vs. Wong Kim Ark (nonfiction)
• Juneteenth Celebration (nonfiction)
• Voting for Change (nonfiction)
• Cherokee in the United States (nonfiction)
• The Importance of Muhammad Ali [Abridged] (nonfiction)
• Japanese American Internment (nonfiction)

Farewell to Manzanar

Knowledge Text Set: The U.S. and Japan in World War II

• China Under Attack (nonfiction)
• Day of Infamy (nonfiction)
• Eyewitness to History: I'm American, No Matter What! (nonfiction)
• Fred Korematsu (nonfiction)
• Japanese American Internment (nonfiction)
• World War Two - Pearl Harbor (nonfiction)
• WWII: Hiroshima, Japan (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Navigating Culture and Identity

• A Locker Mystery (fiction)
• A Mix of Colors and Cultures (fiction)
• A Surprise in My Family History (fiction)
• Halmeoni's Cooking Show (fiction)
• Julia Alvarez (nonfiction)
• Sandra Cisneros (nonfiction)
• Shedding Skin (fiction)
• The Tea Ceremony (fiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Living Through Major Historical Events

• Always Remember (nonfiction)
• Letter from Jackie Robinson on Civil Rights (nonfiction)
• The Importance of Muhammad Ali [Abridged] (nonfiction)
• The Night Before the Invasion (fiction)
• The President Has Been Killed (fiction)
• War Stories (nonfiction)

One Last Word

Knowledge Text Set: People and Art of the Harlem Renaissance

• Augusta Savage: Teacher and Sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance (nonfiction)
• Billie Holiday (nonfiction)
• Harlem Renaissance: Visual Art (nonfiction)
• Langston Hughes (nonfiction)
• Life Story: Sarah "Madam C.J." Breedlove Walker (nonfiction)
• Life Story: Zora Neale Hurston (nonfiction)
• Novelist, Essayist, and Playwright James Baldwin (nonfiction)
• The Harlem Renaissance (nonfiction)

Knowledge Text Set: U.S. History Leading Up to the Harlem Renaissance

• African American Men Get the Vote in 1870 (nonfiction)
• Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - Reconstruction (nonfiction)
• Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - The Election of 1860 and Abraham Lincoln (nonfiction)
• Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - The Emancipation Proclamation (nonfiction)
• Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - The Massachusetts 54th Infantry (nonfiction)
• Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - The Underground Railroad (nonfiction)
• Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction: Slavery in the Territories (nonfiction)
• Slavery, the Civil War & Reconstruction: Fort Sumter and the First Shots of the Civil War (nonfiction)
• Slavery, the Civil War & Reconstruction: Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address (nonfiction)
• The American Civil War (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Art as a Voice

• Art in Fabric: African American Quiltmakers (nonfiction)
• Charlene Teters's Activism and Art (nonfiction)
• Expressing Emotion with Quilts (nonfiction)
• Gerard Sekoto: Art in Apartheid (nonfiction)
• Not-So-Loony Toons (nonfiction)
• Quilts as a Creative Outlet (nonfiction)
• Quilts that Tell Stories (nonfiction)

The Giver

Knowledge Text Set: Memory

• Are You Lonesome Tonight? (fiction)
• Bad Memories (fiction)
• Capturing the Memories (nonfiction)
• Focus: Understanding How the Brain Works (nonfiction)
• How Do Our Brains Retain and Remember Information? (nonfiction)
• ​Intertwining Memories​ (fiction)
• Memories - Good and Bad (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: THe Complexity of Emotions

• Attack of the Nerves (nonfiction)
• Furry Friends (nonfiction)
• How Do Our Brains Process Pain? (nonfiction)
• It Feels Good to Laugh (nonfiction)
• ​Music and Your Mind (nonfiction)
• The Brain's Stress Response: Fight, Flight, or Freeze (nonfiction)
• The Science of Senses (nonfiction)
• Visual Processing in the Brain (nonfiction)
• Weather or Not (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: The Interdependence of Humans and Nature

• Biomimicry (nonfiction)
• Is the Earth Getting Warmer? (nonfiction)
• Jellyfish Take Over! (nonfiction)
• Pollinators (nonfiction)
  
• Saving Indonesia’s Coral Reefs (nonfiction)
• The Endangered Bamboo-Eaters of Nepal: Red Pandas (nonfiction)​
• The History of Planet Earth (nonfiction)

The House on Mango Street

Knowledge Text Set: Latinx History and Culture

• A Midsummer Night's Sueno (nonfiction)
• Challenges Facing Mexican Immigrants in the 19th and 20th Centuries (nonfiction)
• Culture Box -- Guatemala -- Cacao (nonfiction)
• Early People in the Central American Land Bridge (nonfiction)
• Introduction to Dia de los Muertos (nonfiction)
• Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts (nonfiction)
• The Mexican Border and Immigration in the 19th and 20th Centuries (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: The Power and Struggle of Being Female

• Bolivian Female Wrestlers Fight for Equality (nonfiction)
• Excerpt from New York Times Article: Suffrage Wins in Senate; Now Goes to States (nonfiction)
• Grace Hopper (nonfiction)
• Life Story: Katherine Johnson (nonfiction)
• Life Story: Maggie Walker (nonfiction)
• Ronald Reagan's Proclamation of Women's History Month, 1987 (nonfiction)
• The Mirabal Sisters (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive text Set: Famous Latina Writers

• Claribel Alegria (nonfiction)
• Gabriela Mistral (nonfiction)
• Isabel Allende (nonfiction)
• Julia Alvarez (nonfiction)
• Julia de Burgos (nonfiction)
• Sandra Cisneros (nonfiction)

The Outsiders

Theme Text Set: ​GROWING UP

• A Diplomat's Son (fiction)
• A Winter's Drive (fiction)
• Brothers (fiction)
• Crash! (nonfiction)
• Fanhood (fiction)
• Letters from the Past (fiction)
• Owen Interstate Wants to Celebrate (fiction)
• Unexpected Fortune (fiction)​

Theme text Set: THE ​​VALUE OF FRIENDSHIP

• Back Roads (fiction)
• Climbing Cadillac Mountain (fiction)
• Closure in the Darkness (fiction)
• How to Say I Ruff You (fiction)
• Learning to Skateboard (fiction)
• Relative Problems (fiction)
• Running a Real Zombie 5K (fiction)
• The Summer of the Cast (fiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Finding out who you are and who you can be

• The Weird Ones Series #1: Crystal's Powers (fiction)
• The Weird Ones Series #2: Not Alone (fiction)
• The Weird Ones Series #3: Going Viral (fiction)
• The Weird Ones Series #4: Disappearing Act (fiction)
• The Weird Ones Series #5: A Moving Experience (fiction)

Walk Two Moons

Theme Text Set: COPING WITH LOSS

• Cabin in the Woods (fiction)
• Closure in the Darkness (fiction)
• Letters from the Past (fiction)
• Lost in Flight (fiction)
• The Beekeeper (fiction)
• The Makings of a Man (fiction)
• The President Has Been Killed (fiction)

Theme Text Set: DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTY

• A Diplomat's Son (fiction)
• A Lonely Girl (fiction)
• Astro-Dad (fiction)
• Climbing Cadillac Mountain (fiction)
• Farewell to Dan's Depot (fiction)
• Relative Problems (fiction)
• The Divorce (fiction)
• The Forgotten Island (fiction)
• The Night Before the Invasion (fiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Outdoor Adventures

• A Grand Journey (fiction)
• Across the Lake (fiction)
• Back Roads (fiction)
• Fireflies (fiction)
• Good-Bye to Xochimilco (fiction)
• Growing Up (fiction)
• Home Stretch (fiction)
• Target Rock (fiction)
• The Windy City (fiction)
• Too Much Time in Nature (fiction)

8th Grade

Animal Farm

Knowledge Text Set: Communism and the SoViet Union

• Anti-Communism in the 1950s​ (nonfiction)
• Condolence Letter from General MacArthur, 1950 (nonfiction)
• Excerpt from "The Fifties": The Cold War (nonfiction)
• From Tsardom to Communism (nonfiction)
• The Roots of Russia (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Language As Power

• Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom (nonfiction)
• Invasion of the Pod People (nonfiction)
• Letters from the Past (fiction)
• The Code of Hammurabi (nonfiction)
• The Fiction Partner Challenge (fiction)
• The Reader (fiction)
• Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive text Set: Young People Stand Strong

• Billie Eilish Does It Her Way (nonfiction)
• From TikTok to the Grammys (nonfiction)
• Greta Thunberg Is Worried About the Future (nonfiction)
• Keeping the Lions Away (nonfiction)
• Remya Cleans Up (nonfiction)
• Skateboard Stars (nonfiction)
• Teen Chefs Take Charge (nonfiction)

Farewell to Manzanar

Knowledge text set: Japanese culture

• Ceremonial Teahouse: Sunkaraku (nonfiction)
• Fireman's Coat (Hikeshibanten) (nonfiction)
• ​​How Cute Is This? (nonfiction)
• Japan's Month-Long Festival: Gion Matsuri (nonfiction)
• Saicho, Kukai, the Matrix, and the Diamond (nonfiction)
• Yabu Lane Below Atago (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Pride and Perseverance

• Black Panther Conquers the World (nonfiction)
• Hair Wars (nonfiction)
• It's a Wrap! (nonfiction)
• Lizzo Has a Lot to Say (nonfiction)
• Remya Cleans Up (nonfiction)
• Shirley Chisholm Runs for President (nonfiction)
• Tiny Giant (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: Immigration and Challenges for New Americans

• Challenges Facing Immigrants: From Ellis Island to Main Street (nonfiction)
• Challenges Facing Immigrants: From the Founders to the Know-Nothings (nonfiction)
• Challenges Facing Mexican Immigrants in the 19th and 20th Centuries (nonfiction)
• Chinese Immigrants during the Industrial Era​ (nonfiction)
• Eastern and Southern European Immigrants during the Industrial Era (nonfiction)
• Japanese American Internment (nonfiction)
• The Mexican Border and Immigration in the 19th and 20th Centuries (nonfiction)

Persepolis

Knowledge Text Set: Persian Culture

• ​Iranian Food (nonfiction)
• Islam (nonfiction)
• It's a Wrap! (nonfiction)
• ​Persepolis (nonfiction)​
• Persian Tile Mosaic Wall Panel (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Oppression and war at home

• A Chance for Freedom (nonfiction)
• Blood Mineral (nonfiction)
• Claribel Alegria (nonfiction)
• Freedom's Road (nonfiction)
• Honeymoon in Havana (nonfiction)
• Rigoberta Menchu (nonfiction)
• ​Sadeq Hedayat (nonfiction)​

Deeper Dive Text Set: Women Standing up and breaking barriers

• ​Alice Paul (nonfiction)
• Greta Thunberg Is Worried About the Future (nonfiction)
• Life Story: Maggie Walker (nonfiction)
• Lizzo Has a Lot to Say (nonfiction)
• Lucretia Coffin Mott (nonfiction)
• Rihanna Rocks the Business World (nonfiction)
• ​Shirin Ebadi (nonfiction)​​
• Shirley Chisholm Runs for President (nonfiction)
• ​Soccer Superstars (nonfiction)
• The Many Lives of Wonder Woman (nonfiction)
• The Teen Who Won a Nobel Prize (nonfiction)

Summer of the Mariposas

Knowledge Text Set: The History, Culture, And People of Mexico

• Challenges Facing Mexican Immigrants in the 19th and 20th Centuries (nonfiction)
• Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts (nonfiction)
• Overwintering Monarchs (nonfiction)
• Rufino Tamayo, An Influential Mexican Artist (nonfiction)
• Running to Hunt, Running for Sport (nonfiction)
• The Mexican Border and Immigration in the 19th and 20th Centuries (nonfiction)
• The Mystery of the Maya (nonfiction)
• Woman of Tehuantepec (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: What Journeys Can Teach Us

• A Winter's Drive (fiction)
• Astro-Dad (fiction)
• Climbing Cadillac Mountain (fiction)
• Home Stretch (fiction)
• Jessica Nabongo's Odyssey (nonfiction)
• Mission to Mars (fiction)
• What is Wayfinding? (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: What is real? What is fantasy?

• An Insignificant Occurrence (fiction)
• Born Without Luck (fiction)
• Nighttime in Texas (fiction)
• The Inventor's Children (fiction)
• The Reader (fiction)
• The Stuff of Legend (nonfiction)
• Vanquishing the Gooples (fiction)

The Giver

Theme Text Set: Dealing with Complex Emotions

• A Lonely Girl (fiction)
• Always Be Prepared (fiction)
• Astro-Dad (fiction)
• Boxcars and Bravery (fiction)
• In Art Class (fiction)
• The Bird (fiction)
• The Columbia (fiction)
• The Divorce (fiction)
• Trading Pumpkins (fiction)

Theme Text Set: It Takes Courage to Make a Difference

• Hacked! Series #1: Danger Arrives (fiction)
• Hacked! Series #2: App Attack! (fiction)
• Hacked! Series #3: Power Play (fiction)
• Hacked! Series #4: An Unexpected Connection (fiction)
• Hacked! Series #5: Fearless Fatima (fiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: The Interdependence of Humans and Nature

• Can Imitating Be Life Saving? (nonfiction)
• High Jumpers (nonfiction)
• Keeping Sea Turtles in the Dark (nonfiction)
• Meet the Ologist: Eleanor Sterling (nonfiction)
• Overwintering Monarchs (nonfiction)
• Saving the Elephants (nonfiction)
• ​The Great Barrier Reef (nonfiction)
• The Orchid’s Secret (nonfiction)

The Omnivore's Dilemma (Young Reader's Edition)

Knowledge Text Set: Biodiversity and Food Supply

• Are the Everglades Forever? (nonfiction)
• Holy Cow! (nonfiction)
• How Water Loss Affects Biodiversity (nonfiction)
• The Amazon Rainforest (nonfiction)
• Valley Nuts (nonfiction)
• Water from the Air: Cloud Forests (nonfiction)
• Wetlands and Habitat Loss (nonfiction)
• Worldwide Loss of Bees a Growing Concern (nonfiction)

Theme Text Set: Buying and Eating Local

• Nothing Fresh in Sight? (nonfiction)
• Saucy by Nature (nonfiction)
• The Nutritious Num Num (nonfiction)
• Top Crops (nonfiction)
• Urban Farms (nonfiction)
• Where Does Your Food Come From? (nonfiction)

Deeper Dive Text Set: The Far-Reaching Effects of Industrialization

• Naturally Selected to Survive (nonfiction)
• People Who Built America: Carnegie (nonfiction)
• People Who Built America: Ford (nonfiction)
• People Who Built America: Morgan (nonfiction)
• People Who Built America: Vanderbilt (nonfiction)
• Quilts and the Women's Movement (nonfiction)
• Slavery in the North (nonfiction)
• Third-Class Carriage by Honoré Daumier, 1856-1858 (nonfiction)

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