2025: Bonus: Children's book related to any of the other prompts
Book recommendations/suggestions for the Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 book challenge. Find your next book!
read, seed, water, feed book challenge - about prompt support posts
about prompt support posts
All of the prompt support posts (those that begin with "2025: Book written by...", for example) are organized similar to each other.
Each of these posts was created to support the Read, Seed, Water Feed book challenge on Storygraph that I am hosting. They were also created to support learning outside of the university, collective educational efforts, finding new authors to read, finding books, and more.
For each book challenge prompt, I will share the following sections:
- one or more slides with books I have read or am currently reading that I recommend for the prompt
- a list of additional books from my TBR (to-be-read) list for the prompt
- a text listing of the books that I shared in the slides
I might share one or more of the following in addition, depending on capacity and other factors:
- other supportive text as appropriate, such as countries included
- some quotes, notes, and/or reflections about one or more of the books
- links to other posts on the site where I discuss the books or prompt in more detail
I did many things to minimize hierarchy within these posts, and there will still be some things that might feel odd, such as split galleries of slides, which was a choice made to address current limitations in how the galleries work.
If interested, find bingo cards, more background on the prompts, and other reflections, on the Reading Challenge page and if on Storygraph, join the challenge.
Mostly, my goal for prompt support posts is to share books for each prompt, as suggestions and as examples. This section will be first on every post and may be skipped.
Thank you for reading.
Recommended Books
Books I've read that I recommend for this prompt.
Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 reading challenge prompt and description, showing books recommended that I have read or am currently reading. All recommended books are listed lower in the post in the section “Recommended Books in a List.”
Notes
This bonus category includes all age ranges of children and young adult books. I did my best to place the books in their age categories, from what I could find about them. To my knowledge, rough approximations are:
- picture book: ages 4-8
- middle grade: ages 8-12
- teen: ages 12-14
- young adult: ages 12-18
Recommended Books in a List
As a list, books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt:
Picture book
Sam's Super Seats (2022) by Keah Brown, illustrated by Sharee Miller
Middle grade “coming of age” novels
Behind the Mountains (2002) by Edwidge Danticat
Conjure Island (2023) by Eden Royce
Root Magic (2021) by Eden Royce
Teen & young adult novels
Bitter (2022) by Akwaeke Emezi
Pet (2019) by Akwaeke Emezi
The Nsibidi Scripts
Akata Warrior (2017) by Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Witch (2011) by Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Woman (2022) by Nnedi Okorafor
Young adult novels
coming-of-age
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir (2016) by Kai Cheng Thom
Legacy of Orïsha
Children of Blood and Bone (2018) by Tomi Adeyemi
Children of Virtue and Vengeance (2019) by Tomi Adeyemi
Children of Anguish and Anarchy (2024) by Tomi Adeyemi
Get any/all of these books wherever you get your books.
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Please consider purchasing books when they are available from Workshops 4 Gaza's bookstore: When I share books that are available for purchase there at the time of posting, I will list them here after the link.
Thank you for reading
supporting each other..
Please support this campaign if you are able, and copy & share the link with your community.
North Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid by Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project Campaign
"Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential aid to those who need it most, especially families with specific and urgent needs. The aid is bought from existing products in the market and is NOT being brought in through any border.
SUPPORT NEEDED: 1,410,251 GBP USED UP ALREADY (Last updated 26.06.2025), what's left will keep us afloat for 8 days at the current rate of spending"
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Thank you for reading.
