What to Read After Tar Beach
Readers who loved Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Tar Beach 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 Tar Beach
A Chair for My Mother 25th Anniversary Edition
Swimmy
Amazing Grace
Whistle For Willie
Smoky Night
Chicken Sunday
When I Was Young in the Mountains
The keeping quilt
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
The Relatives Came
Martin's Big Words
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears
The rough-face girl
The Great Kapok Tree
Lon Po Po
Goggles
Mirandy and Brother Wind (Award Puzzles : Coretta Scott King Collection)
Ben's Trumpet
Working Cotton
Raven
The Faithful Friend
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap (Award Puzzles : the Caldecott Collection)
Moja means one