What to Read After Chicken Sunday
Readers who loved Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Chicken Sunday is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Chicken Sunday
The Story of Ruby Bridges
The Other Side
Tar Beach
The Great Kapok Tree
Amazing Grace
Too Many Tamales
Peter's Chair
Baseball Saved Us
Freedom Summer
My great-aunt Arizona
Two Bad Ants
Pink and Say
Come on, Rain
Thank You, Mr. Falker
The Keeping Quilt
Ron's Big Mission
Thunder Cake
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
Aunt Flossie's hats (and crab cakes later)
Cendrillon
Shortcut
The Art Lesson