What to Read After Freedom Summer
Readers who loved Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Freedom Summer 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 Freedom Summer
The Other Side
Henry's Freedom Box
Pink and Say
Through My Eyes
Baseball Saved Us
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Sit-in
Chicken Sunday
Goin' Someplace Special
Freedom on the Menu
Name Jar
Silent Music
Happy to Be Nappy
Boxes for Katje
Uptown (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)
10 minutes till bedtime
Arlene Sardine
One Green Apple
Something Beautiful
One Tiny Turtle
The Butterfly
Fly Away Home
Ellington Was Not a Street with Hardcover Book(s)
Honey...honey...lion!