Death at an Early Age

8 best books like Death at an Early Age (Jonathan Kozol): Beverly, Right Here, Galveston, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship, My Life in Middlemarch, If They Come for Us, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World, As Brave As You

Beverly, Right Here

Author	Kate DiCamillo
ISBN	0763694649

Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly.

Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.
This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted....

Galveston

Author	Nic Pizzolatto
ISBN	1439166641

Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, a dark and visceral debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston by a young writer with a hard edge to his potent literary style. On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that...

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0060845503

Another great book from Jared Diamond. I found this to be just as engaging as Guns, Germs, and Steel, and also an easier read. I find that his books have so much information that it is helpful for me to outline them as I go. Here are my favorite bullet points from The Third Chimpanzee. Not at all a comprehensive...

Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

Author

Michelle Kuo

Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America, still disabled by the legacy...

My Life in Middlemarch

Author	Rebecca Mead
ISBN	0307984761

A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories.

Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town...

If They Come for Us

Author

Fatimah Asghar

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.

In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures...

The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World

Author	Sarah Weinman
ISBN	0062661957

7 Hours and 26 Minutes

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner.

Weaving together...

As Brave As You

Author	Jason Reynolds
ISBN	1481415905

When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires—literally.

Genie’s summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia—in...