# Last Stop on Market Street

**Author:** Matt de la Peña
**Lexile:** 610L
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**Age range:** 4–8
**First published:** 2015
**Page count:** 32
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9780399257742`
**ISBN-10:** `0399257748`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/last-stop-on-market-street
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

CJ and his grandmother ride the bus across town, learning to see beauty in their neighborhood. The first picture book to win the Newbery Medal (2016) and also a Caldecott Honor, the book is widely assigned in K-2 ELA for its accessible verse and lens on urban poverty + cross-generational connection.

## Themes

- grandparent relationship
- urban community
- gratitude
- poverty and dignity
- public transit

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B K read-aloud (Newbery Medal 2016 picture book)](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B grade 1 picture book](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B grade 2 picture book](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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