Ms. Galang’s Reading Recommendations
The Real World (memoirs that teach real life lessons):
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
March 1-3 by John Lewis
Educated by Tara Westover
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
This Is America (learning about American culture and history):
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Books by John Steinbeck:
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Travels with Charley
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Between the World and Me by Ty-Nehisi Coates
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Writers of the World:
Pachinko by Ming Jin Lee
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
We Should All Be Feminists
and Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Persepolis + all other books by Marjane Satrapi
Fantasy and the Supernatural:
The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
Akata Witch and Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Life Is Poetry:
Indivisible: Poems for Social Justice
Ed. by Gail Bush and Randy Meyer
Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (A Far Corner Book)
by Naomi Shihab Nye
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye
Read any collections by:
Langston Hughes
Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Struggles and Survival of Young Characters:
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Science, Health, and Environment
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Real World (memoirs that teach real life lessons):
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
March 1-3 by John Lewis
Educated by Tara Westover
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
This Is America (learning about American culture and history):
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Books by John Steinbeck:
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Travels with Charley
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Between the World and Me by Ty-Nehisi Coates
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Writers of the World:
Pachinko by Ming Jin Lee
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
We Should All Be Feminists
and Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Persepolis + all other books by Marjane Satrapi
Fantasy and the Supernatural:
The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
Akata Witch and Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Life Is Poetry:
Indivisible: Poems for Social Justice
Ed. by Gail Bush and Randy Meyer
Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (A Far Corner Book)
by Naomi Shihab Nye
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye
Read any collections by:
Langston Hughes
Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Struggles and Survival of Young Characters:
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Science, Health, and Environment
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
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