Reading is Powerful

The Minnesota Twins Reading is Powerful program promotes the fun of reading and shares life lessons through baseball-themed stories. Introduced in 2018, this in-classroom program provides free, engaging learning to K-5 students in Twins Territory.

T.C.'s Book List

  • A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
  • Beautiful, Beautiful Me by Ashley Sirah Hinton
  • Catching the Moon by Crystal Hubbard
  • Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
  • Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj
  • Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Hey, Pretty! by Maya Marchelle
  • Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel
  • Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
  • Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
  • Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
  • This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell
  • The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen
  • This Is My America by Kim Johnson
  • The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
  • We March by Shane W. Evans
  • We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson
  • A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Y. Green
  • Anybody's Game by Heather Lang
  • Goodnight Baseball
  • The Hero Two Doors Down by Sharon Robinson
  • The Right Thing To Do by Joe Schmidt & Joe Mauer
  • Who Was Jackie Robinson? by Gail Herman
  • Who Was Roberto Clemente? by James Buckley Jr.