Books about belonging
12 books that US schools assign on this theme
Boy 2.0
Tracey Baptiste
Grades 4–8
Corduroy
Don Freeman
Grades K–3 · Lexile 600L
Gibberish
Young Vo
Grades K–3
How This Book Got Red
Margaret Chiu Greanias
Grades K–2
No Cats in the Library
Lauren Emmons
Grades K–2
Other Words for Home
Jasmine Warga
Grades 4–7 · Lexile 930L
The Firefly Summer
Morgan Matson
Grades 3–7
The One and Only Ruby
Katherine Applegate
Grades 2–5
The Thing About Leftovers
C.C. Payne
Grades 4–7
The Wrong Way Home
Kate O'Shaughnessy
Grades 4–8
Witchlings
Claribel A. Ortega
Grades 2–5
Yuna's Cardboard Castles
Marie Tang
Grades K–2
