Kindergarten Reading List | What is Justice?

See our Teacher Tool Independent Reading (K-5) for guidance on how to use the suggested texts below.

Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics

Civil Rights - Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (720L)
I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks (520L)
I am Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ordinary People Change the World) by Brad Meltzer (640L)
I am Rosa Parks (Ordinary People Change the World) by Brad Meltzer (600L)
If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 33) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Peaceful Leader (I Can Read Level 2) by Sarah Albee, Chin Ko
My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King III
National Geographic Readers: Martin Luther King, Jr. by Kitson Jazynka (630L)
National Geographic Readers: Rosa Parks by Kitson Jazynka (790L)
Rosa Parks (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 9) by Lisbeth Kaiser (470L)
Rosa's Bus: The Ride to Civil Rights by Jo. S. Kittinger

Understanding Race

All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get our Skin Color by Katie Kissinger
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
Black is brown is tan by Arnold Adoff
Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
I am Latino: The Beauty in Me by Myles C. Pinkney
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children by Sandra L. Pinkney
Skin Again by bell hooks

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