
Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat
by David L. Harrison · Grades 4–6 · Middle Grade Nonfiction
Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat by David L. Harrison is on US reading lists at grades 4–6. It appears on 1 list: the North Carolina Children's Book Award, across 1 state. Every citation below links to the primary source.
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Assigned across 1 curriculum list · 1 state
Grade placement varies by school — the median assigned book spans 4 grade levels (83% span three or more, across 13,258 source-cited assignments).
This page shows where Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat is assigned in US schools — curricula, states, grades, and the primary-source citations behind each placement. Not a summary or study guide.
Reading level at a glance
- Grade range
- Grades 4–6
- Age range
- Ages 9–12
- Pages
- 36
- Reading time
- about 40 minutes (est.)
- First published
- 2024
- Genre
- Middle Grade Nonfiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781623543945
Sources: grade range from the cited lists below, last checked 2026-09-11; pages and year from our catalog record (sources); reading time is an estimate at 250 words a minute.
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Why it is assigned
This middle grade nonfiction title is typically read at grades 4–6. Written in the 2020s; cited on the North Carolina Children's Book Award.
Where this book is recommended
North Carolina Children's Book Award
- recommended·4th grade · North Carolinasource: North Carolina Library Association, Children's Services Section — 2026 NC Children's Book Award annotated nominee lists (Picture Book K-3 · Junior Book 4-6)
- recommended·5th grade · North Carolinasource: North Carolina Library Association, Children's Services Section — 2026 NC Children's Book Award annotated nominee lists (Picture Book K-3 · Junior Book 4-6)
- recommended·6th grade · North Carolinasource: North Carolina Library Association, Children's Services Section — 2026 NC Children's Book Award annotated nominee lists (Picture Book K-3 · Junior Book 4-6)
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Common questions
- What grade level is Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat?
- Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat is listed for grades 4–6. It appears on 1 state book-award list across 1 state. Exact placement varies by school and district.
- How long does it take to read Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat?
- It takes about 40 minutes to read Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat (36 pages) at an average adult reading pace of about 250 words per minute — roughly 40 minutes. Faster or slower readers will vary; the estimate is a planning guide for assigning the book.
- What curricula assign Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat?
- Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat appears on reading lists for North Carolina Children's Book Award. Each assignment on this site links to its primary-source citation.
- Is Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat banned in schools?
- Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat does not appear in PEN America's Index of School Book Bans 2022-2024. No documented multi-district removals on record, but individual districts may challenge titles locally.
Why this book is on this list
How we classifyHide
Each dimension below is sourced from a public reference. The full framework is documented on the classification standard page.
- Lexile measure
- Not classified — this book has no published Lexile measure.
- Grade band
- Grades 4–6 — drawn from the state book-award lists citing this book.
- Curriculum alignment
- Cited in 1 curriculum on this site (see “Where recommended” above for primary-source links).
- State-level evidence
- On state book-award lists in 1 state (see citations above).
- Removal / banning records
- No tracked removal or challenge records in cited sources.
- Seasonal / contextual tags
- Tagged for: book-club.