Students engage with increasingly complex, award-winning texts that serve as both "windows and mirrors" to the human experience:

  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

  • The Giver by Lois Lowry

  • Life in Motion (Young Readers Edition) by Misty Copeland

  • The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

  • Refugee by Alan Gratz

  • The Unwanted by Don Brown