If you’re seeking a good summer read, look no further. At our recent National Advisory Board meeting, we asked members to share the name of a book that has meaning for them. From classics to a children’s book to unexpected treasures, you’ll find something for everyone in the list below.
Editor’s Note: Although NACSA does not endorse any particular book or author, we do endorse the idea of reading. Enjoy!
- As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson
- Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
- The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
- Five Miles Away, a World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America by James E. Ryan
- The Grapes of Wrath by James Steinbeck
- Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
- High Schools with Character by Paul T. Hill, Gail E. Foster, Tamar Gendler
- Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Drama of the Greatest Courtroom Clash of the Century by Jerome Lawrence
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers’ Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States by Liping Ma
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Letters to a Young Education Reformer by Frederick M. Hess
- Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney (or La llama llama rojo pajama in Spanish)
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- The Power of One: A Novel by Bryce Courtenay
- The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? By Rick Warren
- Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream by Andy Stern
- Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher
- Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools by Jonathan Kozol
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
- Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
- The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980 by Diane Ravitch
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
