For more books by Christopher Paul Curtis, students should read The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 (2000) or The Mighty Miss Malone (2012).
For books that also deal with the Great Depression, students should read A Year Down Yonder (2000) by Richard Peck or Out of the Dust (1999) by Karen Hesse.
For books related to family and belonging, students should read Maniac Magee (2002) by Jerry Spinelli.