Books like Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home

If you liked Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home, read Action!: How Movies Began first — the closest match in our database, matched on shared award lists and reading level.

Looking for books like Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home by Zahra Marwan (Picture Book Nonfiction · grades 2–3)? The 10 titles below are the closest matches in the ReadingList database — each scored on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level, and each linked to the curricula, states, and grades where it’s assigned, with primary sources.

These are reading-level matches, not just topical ones — so the picks stay grade-appropriate for a grades 2–3 reader. See how we judge text difficulty on our methodology page.

10 books similar to Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home

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Action!: How Movies Begangrades 2–3
Both on the South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards list, same genre (Picture Book Nonfiction), and overlapping grades (2–3). Amazon → books like this →
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Skygrades 2–3
Both on the South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards list, same genre (Picture Book Nonfiction), and overlapping grades (2–3). Amazon → books like this →
Concrete: From the Ground Upgrades 2–3
Both on the South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards list, same genre (Picture Book Nonfiction), and overlapping grades (2–3). Amazon → books like this →
Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Songrades 2–3
Both on the South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards list, same genre (Picture Book Nonfiction), and overlapping grades (2–3). Amazon → books like this →
Symphony for a Broken Orchestra: How Philadelphia Collected Sounds to Save Musicgrades 2–3
Both on the South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards list, same genre (Picture Book Nonfiction), and overlapping grades (2–3). Amazon → books like this →
Brave Baby Hummingbirdgrades K–2
Same genre (Picture Book Nonfiction), overlapping grades (K–2), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
Daughter of the Light-Footed Peoplegrades K–2
Same genre (Picture Book Nonfiction), overlapping grades (K–2), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
Gifts from the Garbage Truckgrades K–2
Same genre (Picture Book Nonfiction), overlapping grades (K–2), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
Ice Cream Everywhere: Sweet Stories from Around the Worldgrades K–3
Same genre (Picture Book Nonfiction), overlapping grades (K–3), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →
Jose Feeds the Worldgrades K–2
Same genre (Picture Book Nonfiction), overlapping grades (K–2), and the same era (2020s). Amazon → books like this →

Books like Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home for younger readers (K–2)

Closest matches whose grade range overlaps K–2— same scoring, different audience.

Books like Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home for elementary readers (grades 3–5)

Closest matches whose grade range overlaps 3–5— same scoring, different audience.

Common questions

What books are similar to Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home?
The 10 closest matches to Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home by Zahra Marwan on ReadingList include Action!: How Movies Began, Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky, Concrete: From the Ground Up, Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son, and Symphony for a Broken Orchestra: How Philadelphia Collected Sounds to Save Music. Each is scored on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level (grades 2–3), and links to the curricula, states, and grades where it is assigned in US schools, with primary sources.
Are books like Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home reading-level appropriate?
Yes — every match is a reading-level match, not just a topical one, scored on Lexile and grade band (grades 2–3), so the picks stay grade-appropriate. See how ReadingList judges text difficulty on the /standard methodology page.
How does ReadingList choose similar books?
Matches are ranked by shared themes, shared award and reading-program lists (two books picked for the same state award were chosen by the same committees for the same readers), same genre, comparable Lexile and grade band, and publication decade — computed from cited public curriculum data, not editorial opinion or AI-generated summaries.

Book data last updated 2026-09-05. Matches are computed from each book’s cited attributes — see the methodology.

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