# Watercress

**Author:** Andrea Wang
**Grade range:** Grades K–4
**First published:** 2021
**Page count:** 35
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9780823446247`
**ISBN-10:** `0823446247`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/watercress
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Caldecott Medal Winner Newbery Honor Book APALA Award Winner A story about the power of sharing memories—including the painful ones—and the way our heritage stays with and shapes us, even when we don’t see it. New England Book Award Winner A New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book While driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's Chinese immigrant parents spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. They stop the car, grabbing rusty scissors and an old paper bag, and the whole family wades into the mud to gather as much as they can. At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family just get food from the grocery store, like everyone else? But when her mother shares a bittersweet story of her family history in China,

## Where this book is assigned

### Caldecott Medal

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2022 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2022 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2022 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2022 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2022 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)

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