Picture Books
Brown, Dolores. The Day of Your Arrival. An adoption story told from the point of view of two parents about the love they have for their adopted child.
Bunting, Eve. Jin Woo. Davey is dubious about having a new adopted brother from Korea, but when he finds out that his parents still love him, he decides that having a baby brother will be fine.
Carlson, Nancy. My Family Is Forever. A young Asian girl’s first-person simple narration states how she came to her adoptive parents and describes the joys of having a loving family.
Clark, Karen Henry. Sweet Moon Baby: An Adoption Tale. The smiling moon watches over a baby girl in China whose parents love her but cannot take care of her, and guides a childless couple that lives far away to the daughter for whom they yearn.
De Paola, Tomie. A New Barker in the House. The Barker family adopts a 3-year-old boy who only speaks Spanish, so they all teach each other new words.
Galindo, Renata. My New Mom & Me. When the puppy comes to live with his new mom, he is nervous. After all, his mom has stripes and he doesn’t. But his mom says she likes that they look different, and soon the puppy likes it, too.
Jordan-Lake, Joy. A Crazy-Much Love. “How MUCH is the crazy-much love?” This simple question is answered as two parents recount the journey of adopting their daughter and the many milestone moments that follow. From the child’s first bath and first time riding a tricycle, all the way to her boarding that big yellow bus, the crazy-much love grows SO MUCH that it spills out the windows and busts down the doors.
Lin, Grace. The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale. A sad king and queen find joy and happiness after a mysterious red thread leads them to a baby waiting to be adopted.
Mallery, Sydra. A Most Unusual Day. Caroline is anxious all day at school, nervous about her newly-adopted sister’s arrival from far away.
McDonnell, Christine. Goyangi Means Cat. An understanding cat helps a young Korean girl adjust to her new home in America.
Young, Ed. My Mei Mei. Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
Parent and Teacher
Caseley, Judith. Sisters. Tells about Melissa and her newly adopted sibling, Kika, who barely speak the same language but must now become sisters. The story alternates between the first-person viewpoints of each girl as they discover what it means to be a family.
Lambert, Megan Dowd. Real Sisters Pretend. Safe in the knowledge that adoption has made them “forever family,” stepsisters Mia and Tayja improvise an imaginary adventure with a joyful homecoming to a real home with their two moms.
Lears, Laurie. Megan’s Birthday Tree. Megan worries that her birth mother will forget her when she moves to a new house and leaves behind Megan’s Birthday Tree.
Lopez, Silvia. Just Right Family : An Adoption Story. When Meili learns her parents are adopting another child, she must accept the role of big sister and realize a new addition can be just right too”
Serrano, Berta. Born From the Heart. Every child is born from the heart, even when that child is adopted. This poetic parable follows Rose and Charlie as they search for a child to make their own. As Rose’s dream becomes reality, her heart grows and grows . . . until it bursts with happiness, laughter, and wonder when she finally kisses the face of her beautiful new baby.
Thomas, Eliza. The Red Blanket. Tells the story of a mom bringing a red blanket when she meets her new daughter in China.
Williams, Vera B. Home at Last. After Lester is adopted from his foster home by Daddy Albert and Daddy Rich, he can’t fall asleep in his new bed. What will it take to make Lester feel home at last?
Illustrated Literature
Cummings, Mary. Three Names of Me. A girl adopted from China explains that her three names – one her birth mother whispered in her ear, one the babysitters at her orphanage called her, and one her American parents gave her – are each an important part of who she is. Includes scrapbooking ideas for other girls adopted from China.
Pettitt, Linda. Yafi’s Family: An Ethopian Boy’s Journey of Love, Loss, and Adoption. Yafi was born in Ethiopia and remembers living with his Grandma Elsa before moving to the orphanage where his new family found him. Yafi describes his early life and how he felt when first adopted.
Say, Allen. Allison. When Allison realizes that she looks more like her favorite doll than like her parents, she comes to terms with this unwelcome discovery through the help of a stray cat.
Little, Jean. Emma’s Yucky Brother. When Emma’s family adopts 4-year-old Max, they both need a little time to adjust before they become friends.
Little, Jean. Emma’s Strange Pet. Emma’s allergic to dogs, so she and her brother get a lizard. Her brother is glad they adopt the lizard, just like they adopted him.
Children’s Fiction
Frazier, Sundee Tucker. Cleo Edison Oliver, playground millionaire. Fifth-grader Cleo Edison Oliver is full of money-making ideas, and her fifth-grade Passion Project is no different. Things get more complicated when she has to keep her business running, be a good listener when her best friend needs her, and deal with the bully teasing her about being adopted at the same time. 213 pages. (J FIC Fra)
Kadohata, Cynthia. Half a World Away. Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden’s family is trying to adopt a “normal” baby. 225 pages. (J FIC Kad)
Kent, Rose. Kimchi and Calamari. Adopted from Korea by Italian parents, fourteen-year-old Joseph Calderaro begins to make important self-discoveries about race and family after his social studies teacher assigns an essay on cultural heritage and tracing the past. 220 pages. (J FIC Ken)
Levy, Dana. The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher. Relates the adventures of a family with two fathers, four adopted boys, and a variety of pets as they make their way through a school year, Kindergarten through sixth grade, and deal with a grumpy new neighbor. 260 pages. Level V (J FIC Lev)
MacColl, Michaela. Rory’s Promise. Rory and Violet are orphaned sisters living in the Sisters of Charity Foundling Hospital in New York, but when the nuns decide to send Violet to an adoptive family out West, Rory is determined to follow her and keep their family together. 288 pages. (J FIC MacC)
McKay, Hilary. Permanent Rose. While trying to reconnect with her friend Tom, who has returned to the United States without leaving a forwarding address, eight-year-old Rose inadvertently discovers the identity of her adopted sister Saffy’s father. 234 pages. (J FIC McK)
Partridge, Elizabeth. Dogtag summer. In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her. 229 pages. Level Y (J FIC Par)
Peacock, Carol Antoinette. Red Thread Sisters. After an American family adopts eleven-year-old Wen from a Chinese orphanage, she vows to find a family for her best friend, too. 236 pages. (J FIC Pea)
Rodowsky, Colby F. Ben and the Sudden Too-Big! Family. Until now, ten-year-old Ben has believed that life is made up of “all right” and “not all right” stuff, but when his father remarries and the couple adopts a Chinese baby, he wonders which kind of stuff will prevail. 120 pages. (J FIC Rod)
Non-Fiction
Books about adoption can be found in the J 362.734 section.
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Birdseye, Tom. Storm Mountain. Two thirteen-year-old cousins are trapped in a blizzard on the same treacherous mountain in the Cascades that claimed the lives of their world-famous, mountain-climber, twin fathers exactly two years earlier. 135 pages.
Bodeen, S.A. Shipwreck Island. Reluctantly moving to California with her newly blended family, Sarah struggles to adjust to life with her new stepmom and stepbrothers during a family vacation that abruptly ends when they are shipwrecked on a spooky deserted island. 184 pages.
Creech, Sharon. The Wanderer. Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England. (Level V) 305 pages.
Fama, Elizabeth. Overboard. Escaping from a sinking ferry in the waters off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy, who draws courage from his quiet but firm Islamic faith. 158 pages.
Grant, Kate. Hide & Seek. In the remote mountains of Arizona where he lives with his mother, stepfather, and two sisters, fourteen-year-old Chase discovers two kidnapped boys and gets caught up in a dangerous adventure when he comes up with a plan to get them to safety. 230 pages.
Hobbs, Will. Take Me to the River. When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper. 184 pages.
Jacobson, Jennifer. Small as an Elephant. Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company. (Level U) 275 pages.
Kehret, Peg. Escaping the Giant Wave. When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years. 153 pages.
Kennedy, Marlane. Disaster Strikes Series (Earthquake Shock, etc.) When disaster strikes, the only thing you can count on is yourself! (Level R) 100-113 pages.
Key, Watt. Terror at Bottle Creek. When a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast, thirteen-year-old Cort is trapped in the lower Alabama wilderness with two other survivors and finds the skills he learned from his hunting and swamp lore expert father put to the ultimate test. 213 pages.
Key, Watt. Deep Water. When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, twelve-year-old Julie and one of her father’s scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.
Lacey, Josh. Island of Thieves. Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. 228 pages.
Lawrence, Iain. The Skeleton Tree. Surviving a shipwreck along the Alaskan coast, twelve-year-old Chris struggles to find food and shelter alongside a prickly boy and a friendly raven as the salmon migration ends and dangerous cold weather sets in. (Level X) 278 pages.
Marsh, Katherine. Nowhere Boy.Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime.
Maddox, Jake. Blizzard! Owen and Gray get caught in a raging blizzard, and must try to find their way back to civilization. 65 pages.
Mikaelsen, Ben. Jungle of Bones. When he is caught joyriding in a stolen car, Dylan is sent to stay with his uncle, but soon they are on the way to Papua New Guinea in search of a World War II fighter plane and Dylan learns that defiance is not a survival skill. 211 pages.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Roxie and the Hooligans. Roxie Warbler, the niece of a famous explorer, follows Uncle Dangerfoot’s advice on how to survive any crisis when she becomes stranded on an island with a gang of school bullies and a pair of murderous bank robbers. 115 pages.
Neale, Jonathon. Lost at Sea. A brother and sister recount their harrowing experiences as they sail a small yacht across the Atlantic Ocean, after their mentally unstable mother’s boyfriend is washed overboard. 101 pages.
Newsome, Richard. The Billionaire’s Curse. Gerald Wilkins never considered himself a particularly exceptional thirteen-year-old. But that was before he inherited twenty billion pounds, a Caribbean island, a yacht, and three estates from a great-aunt he never knew. With this fortune, however, comes a letter. One from his great-aunt Geraldine. One that tells Gerald that she was murdered, and that it’s up to him to find out why. 344 pages.
Orr, Wendy. Nim’s Island.Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new e-mail friend could be the only one who can help. (Level R) 125 pages.
Patterson, James. Treasure Hunters. The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and traveling the world, helping their famous parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean. But after their parents mysteriously disappear, the kids are suddenly thrust into the biggest treasure hunt of their lives. (Level T) 451 pages.
Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet. Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, haunted by his secret knowledge of his mother’s infidelity, is traveling by single-engine plane to visit his father for the first time since the divorce. When the plane crashes, killing the pilot, the sole survivor is Brian. (Level R) 189 pages.
Peterson, P.J. Wild River. Considered lazy and unathletic, twelve-year-old Ryan discovers a heroic side of himself when a kayak trip with his older brother goes horribly awry. 120 pages.
Probst, Jeff. Stranded. Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island. (Series) 176 pages.
Runholt, Susan. Adventure at Simba Hill. When fourteen-year-old best friends Kari and Lucas travel to an archaeological dig in Kenya with Kari’s uncle Geoff, they help expose a smuggling ring. 273 pages.
Smith, Roland. I, Q. Book 1, Independence Hall. Teenagers Q (Quest) and Angela go on tour with married rockers Blaze and Roger and, while in Philadelphia, become submerged in a world of danger when they discover the identity of Angela’s real mother, who is a former Secret Service agent. (Series) (Level Z) 302 pages.
Smith, Roland. Storm Runners. Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a “storm runner,” but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida. (Level U) 143 pages.
Stevenson, Robert Louie. Treasure Island. While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate’s fortune. (Level Z) 221 pages.
Watson, Geoff. Edison’s Gold. Tom Edison and his friends become embroiled in a mystery involving his “double-great” grandfather’s inventions, a secret society, and a vendetta being carried out by a descendant of inventor Nikola Tesla. (Level T) 312 pages.
Wilson, N.D. Leepike Ridge. While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom Hammond, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground caves with another survivor and a dog, and pursued by murderous treasure-hunters. (Level V) 224 pages.
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Picture books
Aylesworth, Jim. Little Bitty Mousie. Little Bitty Mousie sneaks into a house one night and discovers many tantalizing new things, as well as one very scary thing.
Baker, Keith. LMNO Peas. Busy little peas introduce their favorite occupations, from astronaut to zoologist.
Blackstone, Stella. Alligator Alphabet. Animals represent each letter of the alphabet, from alligators to zebras.
Boldt, Mike. 123 Versus ABC. Numbers think they’re the stars of this book, but Letters disagree!
Bottner, Barbara. An Annoying ABC. When Adelaide annoys Bailey, their entire preschool class gets upset, one child after another, until Zelda zaps Adelaide and a round of apologies begins.
Brunhoff, Laurent de. Babar’s ABC. “Alexander aims his arrow at the apple. A bear reads a book in bed. Celeste wears her crown when she drives her car.” From A to Z (“Zephir zips up his sleeping bag zipper”), Babar takes readers on a trip through the alphabet.
Carluccio, Maria. D is for Dress-Up. Celebrating the creativity of what we wear, this playful fashion alphabet introduces key terms for dressing and dressing up, from apron to zippers.
Cooper, Elisha. 8, An Animal Alphabet. Discover hundreds of animals, great and small. Learn one wild fact about each animal. (Did you know that gorillas yawn when they are nervous?) Look carefully, because for each letter of the alphabet, one animal is pictured eight times. Why 8? Come inside and find out
Demarest, Chris L. Firefighters A to Z. An alphabetic look at a firefighter’s day.
Doran, Ella. A Is For Artist. Presents the alphabet from A to Z featuring pictures and objects created by different artists.
Escoffier, Michael. Take Away the A: An Alphabeast of a Book! Describes how taking away a letter of the alphabet can change one word into a different word, including taking away the letter “A” which changes beast into best and taking away the letter “M” which changes farm into far.
Floca, Brian. The Racecar Alphabet. A century of racecars and races. “B is for Belts turning, fuel burning, the buzz and bark of engines.”
Frampton, David. My Beastie Book of ABC: Rhymes and Woodcuts. Illustrations and brief rhymes present an alphabet of animals from alligator and hippo to parrot and zebra.
Frasier, Debra. A Fabulous Fair Alphabet. Letters of the alphabet in various graphic styles accompany words associated with fairs.
Fuge, Charles. Astonishing Animal ABC. Rhyming text and a series of whimsical animal scenes introduce the letters of the alphabet.
Gelber, Lisa. P Is for Peanut: A Photographic ABC. Shows the alphabet using photos from the J. Paul Getty Museum collection.
Golenbock, Peter. ABCs of Baseball. Presents an alphabet book that highlights the history, players, places, and terms associated with baseball.
Heder, Thyra. Fraidyzoo. Little T remembers that she was frightened last time her family visited the zoo but not why, so her creative family helps by imitating animals from A to Z until she recalls exactly what caused her fear.
Hills, Tad. R is for Rocket: An ABC Book. Rocket the dog, Bella the squirrel, Owl, and other friends discover the alphabet, from acorns and an angry alligator to a zig zag drawn by the Little Yellow Bird.
Isadora, Rachel. On Your Toes: A Ballet ABC. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by an illustration of a ballet-related word.
Jeffers, Oliver. Once Upon an Alphabet. From an Astronaut who’s afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a Cup stuck in a cupboard and longing for freedom, this series of interconnected stories and characters explores the alphabet.
Joubert, Beverly. National Geographic Little Kids: African Animal Alphabet. Gives basic information about several African animals alongside each letter of the alphabet, and a corresponding wildlife photo.
Katz, Susan B. ABC School’s For Me! Simple rhymes for each letter of the alphabet introduce children to school activities.
Koehler, Lana Wayne, Ah-choo! After deciding to get a pet, a young boy is dismayed to find that every animal he brings home, from antelope to zebra, makes his sister go “ah-choo.”
Krans, Kim. ABC Dream. Beautiful drawings of creatures and natural wonders introduce the letters of the alphabet.
Levis, Caron. May I Have a Word? The letters C and K have an argument when K accuses C of stealing all the good words that start with the “k” sound.
Lobel, Anita. Playful Pigs from A to Z. One golden morning, twenty-six pigs leave their pen, race along a country road, and find a field of letters, where they play all day until Zeke Pig falls asleep on a Z and they wearily return home by moonlight.
MacDonald, Suse. Edward Lear A Was Once an Apple Pie. A collection of twenty-six nonsense rhymes, one for each letter of the alphabet.
Martin, Bill. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.
Martin, Susi. Animal ABC. Presents labeled color illustrations of animals for every letter of the alphabet.
Martins, Isobel Minhos. Abzzz. The letters of the alphabet help readers get ready for bed and go to sleep.
November, Deborah. Elmo’s ABC Book (board book). Elmo, the little monster, cannot decide which is his favorite letter of the alphabet, because he has favorite things for almost every letter.
O’Connell, Rebecca. Danny is Done with Diapers: A Potty ABC. Celebrates the accomplishments of children, from Adam to Zach, as each learns to use the toilet for him or herself. (Parent and Teacher – J P&T 649.62 O’Co)
Olivera, Ramon ABCs on Wings. From A is for ace to Z is for zeppelin, young children will be introduced to biplanes, carriers, gliders, jets, and many more vehicles of flight.
Pallotta, Jerry. The Airplane Alphabet Book. An alphabet book that presents interesting facts about different kinds of airplanes.
Pallotta, Jerry. The Flower Alphabet Book. Describes a variety of flowers from A to Z beginning with the amaryllis and concluding with the zinnia.
Pallotta, Jerry. The Jet Alphabet Book. An alphabet book presenting unusual facts about a variety of jet planes, from the Airocomet to the Zephyr.
Pearson, Debora. Alphabeep: A Zipping, Zooming ABC. Describes a vehicle or street sign for every letter of the alphabet from Ambulance to Zamboni.
Pittman, Rickey E. Irish Alphabet. An A-to-Z exploration of Irish culture, religion, folklore, and history. (Children’s non-fiction 941.5 Pit)
Rand, Beth. ABC Gulls. A flock of seagulls enjoy everyday activities in a book that provides words and sentences designed to teach each letter of the alphabet.
Roussen, Jean. Beautiful Birds. Presents a rhyming, A to Z exploration of birds around the world, from albatross to zosteropidae.
Schoonmaker, Elizabeth. Square Cat ABC. Eula, the square cat, grows many vegetables in her garden but cannot be persuaded to like spinach.
Scieszka, Jon. Race from A to Z. Dump trucks, fire trucks, and even garbage trucks join in a race through the streets of Trucktown.
Sendak, Maurice. Alligators All Around. An silly alligator family’s life illustrates letters of the alphabet through alliteration.
Sobel, June. B is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC. As children watch over the course of a year, builders construct a rollercoaster using tools and materials that begin with each letter of the alphabet.
Townend, Jack. A Railway ABC. Uses behind-the-scenes information on railroads to teach young readers the alphabet.
Twohy, Mike. Oops Pounce Quick Run!: An Alphabet Caper. When a bouncing ball wakes a sleeping mouse, it’s just the beginning of an alphabet adventure.
Vamos, Samantha R. Alphabet Trains. Simple text uses railroads to teach children about different trains and the alphabet.
Walsh, Liam Francis. Fish. A boy and his dog reel in different letters of the alphabet while on an unusual fishing trip.
Wells, Rosemary. Max’s ABC. Max is in trouble – the Ants are taking Bites of his sandwich and drinking his Cranberry juice. Children will enjoy learning the alphabet with Max and Ruby in this charming concept book.
Watkins, Adam F. R is for Robot: A Noisy Alphabet. Introduces the letters and their sounds through a group of robots who attempt to build the alphabet.
Watterson, Carol. An Edible Alphabet: 26 Reasons to Love the Farm. A rhyming alphabet that names things related to modern farming, and provides background information on each one. (Children’s non-fiction 630 Wat)
Zuckerman, Andrew. Creature ABC. Alphabet book featuring two wildlife photographic portraits for each creature, offering an up-close view of the animal kingdom.
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Allenby, Victoria. Timo Goes Camping. Camping is supposed to be fun. But Timo’s first-ever camping trip is not going so well. His friend Suki has a habit of laughing at things Timo doesn’t find funny, like how he read a book about camping to prepare for the trip, or how Hedgewick fell out of his boat! Timo can’t have fun when he’s anxious Suki is going to tease him. When his own friend is making him feel bad, can Timo find a solution and help everyone enjoy the trip?
Bar-el, Dan. Audrey (Cow): An Oral Account of a Most Daring Escape, Based More or Less on a True Story. Longing for a life filled with poetry and the green pastures beyond the farm where she is destined for the slaughterhouse, Audrey the cow enlists the help of human and animal friends to stage a daring escape.
Bearn, Emily. Tumtum and Nutmeg; Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall. Wealthy, married mice Tumtum and Nutmeg find adventure when they secretly try to help two human siblings who live in a tumbledown cottage with their absent-minded inventor father. (Level T)
Birney, Betty G. The World According to Humphrey (series) Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher. (Level Q)
Broach, Elise. The Miniature World of Marvin & James. When his best friend, a human boy named James, goes away on vacation, Marvin the beetle worries that their friendship may end.
Carris, Joan Davenport. Welcome to the Bed & Biscuit. The family animals at the Bed and Biscuit begin to feel slighted when Dr. Bender returns from a fire with something that occupies the time usually reserved for them. (Level O)
Cazet, Denys. Minnie & Moo and the Seven Wonders of the World.Minnie and Moo are the best of friends. Moo has her books. Minnie has her espresso machine. Farm life is good. Almost perfect. Until Moo overhears the not-so-good news that the farmer needs money so desperately that he must sell the farm. No! He mustn’t! Not if Minnie and Moo can help it. (Level M)
Cleary, Beverly. Ralph S. Mouse. A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling. (Level O)
Coe, Victoria J. Fenway and Hattie: Up to New Tricks. Even though Fenway is disappointed when his best human friend Hattie refuses to remove the Cone of Doom so he can care for his own injury, he is determined to cheer her up when she worries about her grandmother’s visit. (Level R)
Cowley, Joy. Snake and Lizard. Presents the adventures of Snake and Lizard, who, from their first meeting find themselves constantly arguing, but once they get to know each other, they realize they really do have many things in common.
Dahl, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox. Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family. (Level P)
Delaney, Michael. Obi, Gerbil on the Loose. Obi the gerbil must fend for herself in a dangerous household, consisting of a dog, three cats, a parrot, and a mouse hidden in the attic, when the Armstrongs go on vacation and instructions for taking care of Obi get lost.
Dillard, Sarah. Mouse Scouts. To earn their Sow It and Grow It badge, Violet, Tigerlilly, and the other Mouse Scouts plant a vegetable garden. (Level N)
Elliott, Rebecca. Owl Diaries. (series) The adventures of a young owl and her friends.(Level M)
Falatko, Julie. Two Dogs in a Trench Coat go to School. Sassy and Waldo are good dogs, who keep their house safe (from squirrels, mostly), and worry about their boy, Stewart, who always comes home from school smelling of anxiety; so the two dogs come up with a plan to help him – they will dress up in a trench coat and attend school, posing as a new student, to find out just what is bothering Stewart.
Freeman, Martha. The Orphan and the Mouse. In 1949 Philadephia, Mary Mouse and an orphan named Caro embark on an adventure when they team up to expose criminals and make the Cherry Street Orphanage a safe haven for mice.
Green, Poppy. A New Friend. (series) Eight-year-old Sophie Mouse is excited to return to school after the long winter break, but there is a new student – a snake – and Sophie and the other animals are afraid to sit near him, much less ask him to play with them, because they have heard snakes are awful.
King-Smith, Dick. Ace, The Very Important Pig. Farmer Tubbs’ amazing pig, Ace of Club, eventually winds up on television for his cleverness. (Level R)
King-Smith, Dick. A Mouse Called Wolf(paperback) A mouse with an unusual name shares his musical gift with a widowed concert pianist. (Level O)
Klimo, Kate. Dog Diaries Series.The dog diaries series tells a dog’s story in a new way – from a dog’s point of view! Focusing on a different breed for each book, these stories are based on true dog stories or on true-to-life situations. (Level S-V, depending on book)
Marentette, Meghan. The Stowaways. When Grampa, of the adventurous Stowaway family, goes missing, Papa refuses to lead the rest of the family on more explorations, but young Rory and Morgan find that Gran Stowaway knows what really happened to Grampa and is planning a rescue.
Messner, Kate. Rescue on the Oregon Trail. Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog – except for the squirrels – but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail. (Level T)
Reiche, Dietlof. I, Freddy.Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized creature. (Level O)
Seidler, Tor. Gully’s Travels. Gulliver leads a life of luxury with his master. But when his master falls in love with a woman who is allergic to dogs, Gulliver is sent to a new home. He finds himself with a family of raucous human beings and three mutts. But just as Gulliver begins to make a grudging peace with his new reality, he gets swept up in a harrowing new adventure.
Selden, George. The Cricket in Times Square. The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat. (Level S)
Smith, Alex T. Claude in the City. When Claude, a small, plump dog, and his friend, Sir Bobblysock, visit the city Claude heroically, if accidentally, stops a thief, then, when Sir Bobblysock becomes ill, Claude rushes him to a hospital and is mistaken for a doctor. (Level N)
Steig, William. Abel’s Island (paperback) Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home. (Level T)
Tellegen, Toon. The Squirrel’s Birthday and Other Parties. Readers are invited to Squirrel’s birthday party – and into a magical world of the imagination. A squirrel and an ant discover a mysterious feast with an invisible host in the depths of a forest. A whale and a seagull dance silently on a moon-drenched beach. A grasshopper pays a fortune for a speck of dust.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. The Gecko & Sticky: Villain’s Lair (series) When Thirteen-year-old Dave and his sidekick, a talking gecko named Sticky, try to retrieve an ancient Aztec powerband and its magic ingots from the evil villain, Damien Black.
White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web. Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer’s Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. (Level R)
White, E.B. Stuart Little. The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird that stayed for a few days in his family’s garden. (Level R)
White, E. The Trumpet of the Swan.Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home. (Level R)
Yee, Wong Herbert. Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole. Mouse and his downstairs neighbor, Mole, discover that when they help each other, housecleaning and other daily tasks are much easier. (Level L)
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Armstrong, Alan. Whittington. Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington’s famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor’s story. (Level T)
Avi. Ragweed. Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time. (Level U)
Avi. The Mayor of Central Park. Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.
Bondoux, Anne-Laure. Vasco, Leader of the Tribe. Following his dreams of finding a safe haven in a new place, Vasco leads a motley group of rats out of the city, through a dangerous sea voyage, and finally to a forest where the rats, now a true tribe, can make a fresh start.
Cox, Judy. The Mystery of the Burmese Bandicoot. Two rats escape from their comfortable life in an elementary school classroom and survive many dangerous adventures as they stow away on a pirate ship in search of a valuable statue.
Deedy, Carmen Agra. The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale. A community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an unlikely alliance at London’s Cheshire Cheese, an inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Victoria makes an unexpected appearance. (Level W)
DiCamillo, Kate. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread (Newbery section) The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. (Level U)
Fiedler, Lisa. Mouseheart(series) Follows the experiences of an escaped pet shop mouse who descends into a utopian rat civilization before confronting threatening rebels, ravenous cats, and a generations-long battle involving deadly secrets.
Finney, Patricia. I, Jack. Jack, a Labrador Retriever, tells about his daily life of food, walks, and the “apedogs” and “funny-looking dogs” (cats) in his pack, as well as how everything changes when a pretty girl dog moves into the neighborhood. Includes explanatory footnotes written by the cats.
Gemeinhart, Dan. Good Dog. After his death, Brodie cannot forget the boy he left behind and breaks the rules by returning to Earth as a spirit with two other lost souls to ensure the safety of the boy he loves.
George, Jean Craighead. The Cats of Roxville Station. Thrown into a river by a cruel human, a young tiger-striped cat fights to survive amid feral cats and other creatures near Roxville train station, aided by Mike, an eleven-year-old foster boy who is not allowed to have a pet. (Level S)
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside; Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger. (Level S)
Hill, Chris. Lucky. Lucky is a young red squirrel who was rescued from a hawk, and now must somehow make his home among the Cloudfoot clan of the larger, gray squirrels who live in the city park – and trouble is brewing, for the rival gray squirrels known as the Northenders are planning an invasion.
Holt, Christopher. The Vanishing.Book One of The Last Dogs (series) When all humans in his world disappear, Max, a yellow Labrador Retriever, searches for Madame Curie who, he knows, will help find his people but as he and friends Rocky and Gizmo search, they face angry wolves, a gang of subway rats, and the Corporation,a supposed “perfect” society for dogs.
Jacques, Brian. Redwall (series) When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall’s inhabitants destroy the enemy. (Level Z)
Lasky, Kathryn. The Escape. Book One of Horses of the Dawn (series) Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
Lee, Jenny. Elvis and the Underdogs. Benji Wendell Barnsworth is a small ten-year-old boy with a big personality. Born premature, Benji is sickly, accident-prone, and at the hospital so often he even has his own punch card. So when Benji wakes up one day from a particularly bad spell, his doctors take the radical step of suggesting he get a therapy dog. But when a massive crate arrives at Benji’s house, out walks a two-hundred-pound Newfoundland who can talk! And boy, is he bossy.
Lofting, Hugh. The Story of Doctor Dolittle. The adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals and understands their language, as he travels to Africa with some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness. (Level U)
Lowry, Lois. Stay! Keeper’s Story. Separated early in life from his mother and siblings, Keeper tells of his adventures with various human masters and his continual search for his little sister. (Level U)
Moranville, Sharelle Byars. The Hop. The intertwining stories of a girl traveling to the Rock and Roll Extravaganza and a toad whose home is in danger of being paved over.
O’Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Newbery section) Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. (Level V)
Oppel, Kenneth. Silverwing(series) When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called “Runt” becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys. (Paperback section) (Level U)
Peck, Richard. The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail. A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
Pryce, Trevor. An Army of Frogs. For years, the frogs of the Amphibilands have lived in safety, protected by an elite group of poisonous frogs named the Kulipari and by the dreamcasting spell of the turtle king that cloaks their lands in mystery. Now the spell is threatened by the Spider Queen, a talented spellcaster, and Lord Marmoo, leader of the scorpions.
Salamon, Julie. Cat in the City. As he tries to make his own way in New York City, a handsome stray cat that becomes known as Pretty Boy finds a series of temporary homes while learning that relying on others, and being relied upon, is a wonderful thing.
Spirit (various authors). Wild Born. (series) As a dark force engulfs the land, the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers who each have forged a rare bond with their spirit beasts – a bond that gives great powers to all of them.
Torday, Piers. The Last Wild. In a world where animals no longer exist, Kester Jaynes feels like he hardly exists either. He’s been locked away in a home for troubled children and cannot speak. Then one night some talking pigeons come to help him escape– and the animals need him to save them too.
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Picture Books about Day Care/Preschool
Ballard, Robin. My Day, Your Day. Children have a busy day at day care while their parents have a busy day at work.
Cousins, Lucy. Maisy Goes to Preschool. Maisy the mouse has a busy day at preschool dancing, painting, singing and doing other things.
Day, Alexandra. Carl Goes to Daycare. Carl the rottweiler takes charge when things take an unexpected turn at the day care center he is visiting.
DeMuth, Patricia. Busy at Day Care Head to Toe. Photographs and rhyming text demonstrate how arms, legs, ears, and mouths are kept busy during a day at day care.
Dewdney, Anna. Llama Llama Misses Mama. Llama Llama experiences separation anxiety on his first day of nursery school.
Edwards, Becky. My First Day at Nursery School. On the first day of preschool, a little girl misses her mother, but on the second day she is excited to go back.
Norling, Beth. Little School. Follows twenty children from when they wake up in the morning and go to preschool to sing, read, and play, until they come home and go to sleep.
Rankin, Joan. First Day. Little Haybillybun is not the only one who is worried about the first day of preschool.
Picture Books about Kindergarten
Alter, Anna. Francine’s Day. Francine the fox does not want to go to school, but she has a good day anyway.
Brillhart, Julie. Molly Rides the School Bus. Molly is worried about riding the school bus on her first day of kindergarten, but a friendly older girl helps her adjust.
Buzzeo, Toni. Adventure Annie Goes to Kindergarten. Even though there are rules to follow, a little girl who loves adventure has an exciting first day of kindergarten.
Carlson, Nancy L. Look out, Kindergarten, Here I Come! Even though Henry is looking forward to going to kindergarten, he is not sure about staying once he first gets there.
Davis, Katie. Kindergarten Rocks! Dexter knows everything there is to know about kindergarten and is not at all scared about his first day there, but his stuffed dog, Rufus, is very nervous.
Hays, Anna Jane. Kindergarten Countdown. Rhyming text follows an excited little girl as she counts down the days before the start of kindergarten.
Johnston, Tony. Off to Kindergarten. A young boy lists all the things he will have to take with him on his first day in kindergarten.
Kargman, Jill. Pirates & Princesses. Ivy and Fletch have been best friends since they were born but now, at age five, the boys in their kindergarten play Pirates at recess while the girls play Princesses, and the duo is split apart.
Kroll, Virginia L. On the Way to Kindergarten. A mother describes the increasing accomplishments of her five-year-old, from crying and sleeping, to riding a tricycle, then preparing for school.
McGhee, Alison. Countdown to Kindergarten. Ten days before the start of kindergarten, a preschooler cannot tie her shoes by herself and fears the worst.
Pattison, Darcy. 19 Girls and Me. John Hercules is worried about being the only boy in his kindergarten class, but after the first week he stops worrying.
Penn, Audrey. The Kissing Hand. When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.
Portis, Antoinette. Kindergarten Diary. Annalina’s diary entries reflect her feelings and experiences as she goes from being afraid to go to kindergarten to loving it during her first month of school.
Rabe, Tish. On the First Day of Kindergarten. A five-year-old recounts the cool new things she got to do in the first twelve days of kindergarten.
Robinson, Lisa. Pirates Don’t go to Kindergarten! Emma the pirate does not want to start kindergarten, so she returns to her preschool classroom to stir up a mutiny against kindergarten.
Rockwell, Anne F. Welcome to Kindergarten. A boy visits the classroom where he will attend kindergarten the following fall and finds out what is in store for him.
Rogers, Jacqueline. Kindergarten Count to 100. A young boy counts his way through his day at kindergarten.
Rose, Deborah Lee. The Twelve Days of Kindergarten: A Counting Book. A cumulative counting verse in which a child enumerates items in the kindergarten classroom, from the whole alphabet, A to Z, to twelve eggs for hatching.
Slate, Joseph. Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten. Introduces the letters of the alphabet as Miss Bindergarten and her students get ready for kindergarten.
Vernick, Audrey. Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten? Although kindergarten provides unique challenges for a young buffalo, one who follows the rules and tries his best will get along fine.
Wells, Rosemary. My Kindergarten. Through a month-by-month review of a year in kindergarten, Emily shares the stories of the many happy experiences she has at her school with her new classmates, including first day introductions, a review of the changing seasons, learning how to read a map, and taking a special field trip to the local library.
Wells, Rosemary. Yoko Writes Her Name. Kindergartner Yoko not only learns to write her letters and numbers in English, she shows her teacher and fellow students how to write their names using Japanese calligraphy.
Wild, Margaret. Tom Goes to Kindergarten. When Tom, a young panda, goes to his very first day of kindergarten, his whole family stays and plays and wishes they could be in kindergarten too.
Winget, Susan. Tucker’s Four-Carrot School Day. The start of Tucker the rabbit’s first day of kindergarten is rocky, but making new friends helps change his attitude toward school.
Yum, Hyewon. Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten! A five-year-old boy, ready and eager on his first day at “the big kids’ school,” must calm his very worried mother.
Picture Books about First Grade and School in General
Appelt, Kathi. Oh My Baby, Little One. A mother explains to her child all the ways her love remains even while she’s away.
Austin, Mike. Monsters Love School. Nervous monsters attending school for the first time learn new things, make friends, and sample Chef Octi’s special School Gruel.
Berenstain, Stan. The Berenstain Bears Go Back to School. On the first day of the new school year, the Berenstain cubs are reminded that “though school is a challenge, it can also be fun.”
Bliss, Harry. Time for School! Even though she has just moved to Tinyville Town, everyone at her new school, from Principal Paul to the lunch lady, is kind and does his or her part to keep things running smoothly for Ellie Emberley on her first day of school.
Bliss, Harry.Bailey. Although he is a dog, Bailey goes to school where his canine abilities enliven an ordinary day.
Borden, Louise. Off to First Grade. Each member of a first grade class, as well as their teacher, principal, and a bus driver, expresses excitement, worry, or hope as the first day of school begins.
Bourgeois, Paulette. Franklin Goes to School. On the first day of school, Franklin is a little nervous, but his teacher, Mr. Owl, knows just what to do.
Calmenson, Stephanie. Ollie’s School Day: A Yes-and-No Book. Asks the reader a series of yes or no questions as Ollie gets dressed, spends a day at school, and returns home.
Calmenson, Stephanie. Oopsy, Teacher! Even Mr. Bungles the teacher sometimes has a day when, no matter how hard he tries, everything seems to go wrong–including allowing the class hamster, Nibbles, to escape.
Carlson, Nancy L. First Grade, Here I Come! Henry tells his mother that he did not like his first day of first grade, but as he describes what he did and learned, he begins to realize that he might enjoy it after all.
Chast, Roz. Marco Goes to School. Marco the bird is eager to start school because he wants to learn how to reach the moon, and although he does not accomplish that on his first day, he does make a new friend.
Clements, Andrew. Slippers at School. Slippers the dog is sad that Laura and Edward have no time for him on the first day of school, but he finds a comfortable backpack in which to fall asleep before they leave.
Cocca-Leffler, Maryann. Jack’s Talent. On the first day of school, as the children in Miss Lucinda’s class introduce themselves and name their special talent, Jack wonders if he is good at anything.
Cohen, Miriam. Will I Have a Friend? Jim’s anxieties on his first day of school are happily forgotten when he makes a new friend.
Cox, Judy. Carmen Learns English. Newly-arrived in the United States from Mexico, Carmen is apprehensive about going to school and learning English.
Danneburg, Julie. First Day Jitters. Sarah is afraid to start at a new school, but both she and the reader are in for a surprise when she gets to her class.
De Groat, Diane. Brand-New Pencils, Brand-new Books. Gilbert’s excitement over starting first grade turns to worry that the teacher will be mean, the work too hard, and his classmates too unfriendly, but throughout the day there are pleasant surprises.
Dodd, Emma. Foxy. Emily is worried about starting school for the first time, but Foxy waves his magic tail to provide what she needs to be ready.
Dyer, Jane. Little Brown Bear Won’t Go to School. Little Brown Bear does not want to go to school, so he tries various jobs instead.
Edwards, Pamela Duncan. Dinosaur Starts School. Dinosaur worries about the first day of school, but with the help of a reassuring classmate he finds that school can be fun.
Elliot, Laura. Hunter’s Best Friend at School. Hunter the raccoon is not sure what he should do when his best friend Stripe starts acting up at school.
Forward, Toby. What Did You Do Today? The First Day of School. A child describes the events of the first day of school, from making sandwiches for lunch to holding a parent’s hand on the walk home.
Gantos, Jack. Back to School for Rotten Ralph. Afraid of being left alone, Rotten Ralph, the nasty red cat, follows Sarah to school and tries to prevent her from making new friends.
George, Lucy M. Back to School Tortoise. Summer is over and Tortoise must summon the courage to go back to school.
Harris, Robie H. I Am Not Going to School Today. A little boy decides to skip his very first day of school, because on the first day one doesn’t know anything, but on the second, one knows everything.
Hennessy, B.G. Mr. Ouchy’s First Day. Mr. Ouchy, a new teacher, is nervous about his first day of school, but when he teaches the class about time and counting, they all enjoy the experience.
Hest, Amy. Off to School, Baby Duck! Baby Duck experiences the fear of the first day of school, but with a little help from Grampa, everything turns out okay in the end.
Horse, Harry. Little Rabbit Goes to School. Little Rabbit takes his favorite toy, Charlie Horse, along for his first day of school and when there is trouble, he blames it all on Charlie.
Johnston, Tony. First Grade, Here I Come. Told in verse, a boy encounters first grade, with all its peaks and valleys, but most of all with new friends.
Kaufmann, Nancy. Bye, Bye! On the first day of school, Piggy has a difficult time letting his father go, but after he does, Piggy is in for a pleasant surprise.
London, Jonathan. Froggy Goes to School. Froggy is nervous about his first day of school, but, even though it’s hard to sit still, he has a wonderful time.
Mackall, Dandi Daley. First Day. The first day of school starts out filled with doubt, but after facing fear of the big kids, reciting the alphabet with ease, and learning about recess, a child can’t help but look forward to day two.
McCourt, Lisa. It’s Time for School, Stinky Face. As a young boy wonders about all the things that might go wrong at school, his mother reassures him.
McCully, Emily Arnold. School. A curious little mouse decides to find out what school is all about.
Milgrim, David. Eddie Gets Ready for School. As young Eddie goes through his checklist to get ready for school, his mother does not agree with all of his choices.
Millman, Isaac. Moses Goes to School. Moses and his friends enjoy the first day of school at their special school for the deaf and hard of hearing, where they use sign language to talk to each other.
Milord, Susan. Happy School Year! Children gather for a first day of school celebration that calms their worries about the day. Includes note about the history of such celebrations, and a related website.
Minden, Cecilia. The Most Unbelievable First Day of School. Herbie Bear’s first day back to school is full of action and adventure when the classroom pets escape and roam the halls.
Neubecker, Robert. Wow! School! Izzy finds many things to be excited about on the first day of school.
Ormerod, Jan. When an Elephant Comes to School. With the help of his classmates, an elephant has a good first day of school.
Parr, Todd. Otto Goes to School. After a breakfast of juice, cereal, and a banana split, Otto goes to school for the first time, where he makes new friends and learns how to wag his tail without knocking things over.
Preller, James. A Pirate’s Guide to First Grade. A young pirate and his crew embark on a grand adventure when they board the bus for the first day of first grade.
Primavera, Elise. Louise the Big Cheese and the Back-to-School Smarty-Pants. Louise is determined to get straight As even though she’s stuck with the toughest teacher in the whole school.
Puttock, Simon. Mouse’s First Night at Moonlight School. A very shy mouse has trouble even saying hello on her first night of school, but a game of hide-and-seek with Miss Moon and her classmates Bat, Owl, and Cat may help her come out of her shell.
Quackenbush, Robert. First Grade Jitters. A small boy wonders what first grade will be like, but is not sure that he wants to find out.
Recorvits, Helen. My Name is Yoon. Disliking her name as written in English, Korean-born Yoon, or “shining wisdom,” refers to herself as “cat,” “bird,” and “cupcake,” as a way to feel more comfortable in her new school and new country.
Rey, Margret. Margret & H.A. Ray’s Curious George’s First Day of School. When Curious George attends the first day of school as a special helper, he winds up creating a big mess.
Rim, Sujean. Birdie’s First Day of School. Birdie is both excited and nervous about starting school, but once she sees the classroom and meets her teacher, she knows that everything will be fine.
Rouss, Sylvia A. Sammy Spider’s First Day of School. Sammy Spider sneaks onto Josh’s lunch box and accompanies him to school, where he learns about the important Jewish value of being kind to animals.
Rubel, Nicole. Ham and Pickles: First Day of School. Pickles is nervous about her first day of school, but taking advice from her big brother Ham may not be a good idea.
Russo, Marisabina. I Don’t Want to Go Back to School. Despite his older sister’s dire warnings of all the terrible things that could go wrong on his first day in the second grade, Ben has a wonderful time.
Saltzberg, Barney. Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for School? Cornelius the pig has his own style when preparing for school in the morning, but he does not really feel ready until he gets a kiss.
Scotton, Rob. Splat the Cat. A nervous Splat finds his first day at Cat School much better than he expected.
Shannon, David. David Goes to School. David’s activities in school include chewing gum, talking out of turn, and engaging in a food fight, causing his teacher to say over and over, “No, David!”
Shreeve, Elizabeth. Captain Freddy Counts Down to School. Freddy is nervous about his first day of school since it’s big, it’s far away, and it’s full of strangers, but luckily, he remembers that he has work to do in space and Freddy’s space adventures just may get him ready for his big day back on Earth.
Sierra, Judy. We ♥ Our School: A Read-Together Rebus Story. Rhyming text with rebuses follows a group of animals through their first day of school.
Singer, Marilyn. I’m Your Bus. In rhyming text, a school bus describes its busy day transporting children to and from school.
Schmid, Paul. Oliver and His Alligator. Nervous about the first day of school, Oliver brings an alligator to school for protection.
Sparrow, Leilani. My First Day. Rhyming text and colorful illustrations invite readers to follow a little bear as he experiences all the firsts that a first day of school brings, including his first story, his first friend, and his first school snack.
Stoeke, Janet Morgan. Minerva Louise at School. Out for an early morning walk, a chicken wanders into a school that she mistakes for a fancy barn.
Valdes, Leslie. Dora Goes to School. On her way to school, Dora’s teacher gets a flat tire on her bike and it is up to Dora and Boots to help her get to school before all the other students get there.
Wells, Rosemary. Hands Off, Harry! Harry has trouble keeping his hands off his classmates until Tina thinks of the perfect piece of gym equipment to teach him about personal space.
Wells, Rosemary. Timothy Goes to School. Timothy learns about being accepted and making friends during the first week of his first year at school.
Weston, Carrie. The New Bear at School. When a new bear comes to school, all the other animals are afraid of him until he saves them from the Rat Pack bullies.
Wright, Michael. Jake Starts School. No one can pry a frightened Jake away from his parents on the first day of school, and so the three must watch as his classmates have fun until, at the end of the day, his teacher finally gets him to let go.
Parent & Teacher Collection
Murkoff, Heidi Eisenberg. What to Expect at Preschool. Answers your child’s questions about what preschool is like, what preschoolers do, who teachers are, and how they make preschool such a fun and special place. (J P&T, 372.21 Mur)
Greven, Alec. Rules for School. School is hard! There’s a lot to know, like where to sit on the bus, how to find your way around the halls, and what to do to make sure you stay on your teacher’s good side. Lucky for you Alec Greven has just turned eleven, and he’s seen it all. Alec passes down his sixth-grade wisdom and gives advice that will help every student who’s starting out or just started out on the wrong foot.
Illustrated Literature
Bloch, Serge. Butterflies in My Stomach and Other School Hazards. On the first day of school, a student is confused by many of the phrases that are used, such as when the librarian says not to open a can of worms, or when the teacher says he expects the class to be busy bees doing their homework.
Rumford, James. Rain School. The children arrive on the first day of school and build a mud structure to be their classroom for the next nine months until the rainy season comes and washes it all away.
Walton, Rick. Mr. President Goes to School. When the President finds the many pressures of his job to be overwhelming, he disguises himself and returns to kindergarten, where he is reminded of the important lessons he learned there.
Beginning Readers
Capucilli, Alyssa Satin. My First Day of School. Beginning readers can learn what to expect on the first day of school. What will it be like? You will meet the teacher and new friends. You will sing songs, play, learn, and so much more!
Collicott, Sharleen. Mildred and Sam go to School. After learning about caterpillars, frogs, and the planets for school, Mildred and Sam’s eight little mice children have wonderful dreams about each topic.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Hamsters, Shells, and Spelling Bees: School Poems.Twenty poems about school from writers such as Jane Yolen, Alioce Schertle, and J. Patrick Lewis.
Jinkins, Jim. Pinky Dinky Doo: Back to School Is Cool! When her little brother Tyler is nervous about his first day of school, Pinky Dinky Doo tells him a story about the time she and her friends had really bad hair days when school pictures were scheduled.
Silverman, Erica. Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: School Days. Cocoa the horse does not want Cowgirl Kate to go to school without him.
Van Leeuwen, Jean. Oliver Pig at School. During Oliver Pig’s first day at school, he builds with blocks, plays with his toy dinosaur, and makes a new friend.
Wiseman, Bernard. Morris Goes to School. Morris the moose has an exciting day in school learning the alphabet, counting, singing, spelling, and doing other things that make him a unique moose.
Wells, Rosemary. Mama, Don’t Go! Yoko loves kindergarten, but she doesn’t want her mother to leave – until her new friend helps her realize that “mothers always come back.”
Fiction
Adler, David A. Cam Jansen and the First Day of School Mystery. On her first day of fifth grade, Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help the police find a car thief. 50 pages. (J FIC Adl)
Friedman, Laurie. Back to School, Mallory. After moving, eight-year-old Mallory struggles with being new at school, especially because her mother is now the music teacher and director of the third grade play. 175 pages. Level O (J FIC Fri)
McDonald, Megan. Judy Moody. Third grader Judy Moody is in a first-day-of-school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage. 160 pages. Level M. (J FIC McD)
McMullan, Kate. A Fine Start: Meg’s Prairie Diary. My America Series. In this book Meg brings her prairie diary to an end describing her days in the Kansas Territory, a deadly twister, and the start of school. 106 pages. (F FIC My)
Pennypacker, Sara. Stuart Goes to School. Worried about his first day at a new school, eight-year-old Stuart wears his magic cape and hopes that it will help him. 58 pages. Level M. (J FIC Pen)
Warner, Sally. Not-So-Weird Emma. Eight-year-old Emma is just beginning to like her new school when her friend Cynthia starts telling other kids that Emma is, well, a little strange. 117 pages. Level O. (J FIC War)
Non-Fiction
Barber, Nicola. First Day of School. (J 372.218 Bar) Starting school — Getting ready — Going to school — Saying goodbye — In your classroom — Playtime — Lunchtime — Making friends — Going home — School words.
Marx, Trish and Ellen B. Senisi. Kindergarten Day USA and China (J 372.218 Mar) Contains two stories that depict a day in an American and Chinese kindergarten classrooms to reveal the similarities and differences between how classes are run in the two countries.
Eisenberg, Lisa. Silly School Riddles. (J 782.42 Eis) A compilation of school-themed riddles features such humorous questions and answers as “When you’re having trouble with math, what can you always count on for help? Your fingers” and “Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because seven ate nine.”
Katz, Alan. Smelly Locker: Silly Dilly School Songs. (J 793.735 Kat) Well-known songs, including “Oh Susannah” and “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” are presented with new words and titles, such as “Heavy Backpack!” and “I Don’t Want to Do Homework!”
Chmielewski, Gary. The Classroom Zone: Jokes, Riddles, Tongue Twisters and “Daffynitions” (J 793.735 Chm) Contains school-themed jokes for children as well as exercises to teach children how to write their own jokes.
Franco, Betsy. Messing Around on the Monkey Bars and Other School Poems for Two Voices (J 808 Fra) Presents nineteen poems about daily life in school, including the school library, recess, and boring homework, with each poem designed to be read by two distinct voices.
Lewis, J. Patrick. Countdown to Summer: A Poem for Every Day of the School Year. (J 811.54 Lew) Offers a collection of humorous poetry covering everything and anything about school and all the events that take place during one full school year.
Holbrook, Sara. Zombies! Evacuate the School! (J 811.54 Hol) Collection of 41 poems about familiar school experiences. Includes poetry facts, definitions, and challenges to get young poets writing.
Singer, Marilyn. First Food Fight this Fall and Other School Poems (J 811.54 Sin) Poems, each told in the voice of one or more pupils, paint a picture of life in their classroom–the friendly feuds, sandwich trades, field trips, science fair, the subjects kids like, the ones they don’t, and their troubles and triumphs.
Trapani, Iza. Rufus and Friends: School Days. (J 811.54 Tra) A collection of traditional rhymes illustrated and adapted to a school setting, with hidden objects for the reader to find in the illustrations.
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Picture Books
Abrahams, Peter. Quacky Baseball. With the game on the line on opening day, nervous rookie Thumby Duckling steps up to the plate.
Golenbock, Peter. ABCs of Baseball. Presents an alphabet book that highlights the history, players, places, and terms associated with baseball.
Gutman, Dan. Casey Back at Bat. Sequel to the poem Casey at the bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer.
Hopkinson, Deborah. Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings. In the early 1900s, Alta Weiss, a young woman who knows from an early age that she loves baseball, finds a way to show that she can play, even though she is a girl.
Isadora, Rachel. Luke Goes to Bat. Luke is not very good at baseball, but his grandmother and sports star Jackie Robinson encourage him to keep trying.
Johnson, Angela. Just like Josh Gibson. A young girl’s grandmother tells her of her love for baseball and the day they let her play in the game even though she was a girl.
Kinerk, Robert. Clorinda Plays Baseball! Clorinda the cow is a talented baseball player and coach whose dream of playing in the big leagues comes true in an unexpected way.
Lies, Brian. Bats at the Ballgame. Two teams of bats play an exciting nighttime baseball game.
London, Jonathan. Froggy Plays T-ball. Froggy looks forward to playing in his first T-ball game but finds it hard to remember the rules.
London, Jonathan. When the Fireflies Come. Baseball and fireflies are summer.
Lorbiecki, Marybeth. Jackie’s Bat. Joey, the batboy for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, learns a hard lesson about respect for people of different races after Jackie Robinson joins the team.
Mammano, Julie. Rhinos Who Play Baseball. Baseball-playing rhinos crack dingers out of the park, rip grass-cutting grounders across the field, and rally in the bottom of the ninth. Includes a glossary of “catch phrases.”
McCully, Emily Arnold. Mouse Practice. Monk the little mouse learns from his parents that practice is the way to succeed–whether it is in playing baseball or in playing music.
Meshon, Aaron. Take Me Out to the Yakyu. A little boy’s grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, teach him about baseball and its rich, varying cultural traditions.
Nevius, Carol. Baseball Hour. Follows a multicultural group of boys and girls through their teams baseball practice.
Preller, James. Mighty Casey. The Delmar Dogs baseball team is terrible, especially Casey Jenkins, but with a little bit of faith in themselves, they finally manage to win a game.
Rodriguez, Alex. Out of the Ballpark. Although Alex is nervous about his role in the approaching baseball playoffs and championship game, he soon figures out how to fix his mistakes and become a better player.
Smith, Charles R. Let’s Play Baseball! A baseball tries to talk a young boy into going outside to play by describing the throwing, catching, and hitting they can do together.
Tavares, Matt. Zachary’s Ball. Dad takes Zachary to his first Boston Red Sox game where they catch a ball and something magical happens.
Van Dusen, Chris. Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit. Randy Riley, a science genius who loves baseball but is not very good at it, needs to use both his interests to save his town from a giant fireball that is heading their way.
Weatherford, Carole Boston. Champions on the Bench: The Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars. Story based on the discrimination faced by the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League All-Stars when the white teams refused to play them in the series tournament.
Welch, Willy. Playing Right Field. Although he is always chosen last and sent to play in right field, a young boy discovers the importance of that position.
Wheeler, Lisa. Dino-Baseball. Meat-eating dinosaurs face plant-eating dinosaurs in a baseball game.
Beginning Readers
Adler, David A. Get a Hit, Mo! Mo Jackson is excited for his baseball game, but Coach Marie tells him he is batting last and playing right field, again. Will Mo ever get a hit?
Adler, David A. Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery. When a baseball game is stopped because of a lost ball, Cam uses her photographic memory to find the ball.
Berenstain, Stan. The Berenstain Bears Play T-ball. When Brother and Sister Bear help teach some younger cubs how to play T-ball, they learn a lesson in patience.
Dean, James. Play Ball! Pete the Cat has a mitt, a ball, and a bat. He’s ready to play baseball! Pete’s team, the Rocks, is playing the Rolls. But when things don’t go Pete’s way, will he get upset? Cheer on Pete as he tries his best and brings his signature groovy attitude to the game of baseball.
Foster, Kelli C. Let’s Play Ball. Finding a lost baseball is the only thing standing in the way of a perfect ball-playing day.
Gantos, Jack. Three Strikes for Rotten Ralph. When Rotten Ralph, the cat, fails to win a spot on a baseball team with his friend Sarah, he becomes the “cat boy” instead, still dreaming of proving himself the superstar he imagines himself to be.
Hooks, William H. Mr. Baseball. A Little Leaguer suffers the enthusiastic activities of his baseball-loving five-year-old brother.
Kramer, Jennifer E. Good Luck, Charlie. Charlie tries to use lucky charms to win a baseball game, but all he really needs is his lucky pitching arm.
Mara, Wil. Tee Ball. Explains the basic rules of tee ball and includes tips on good sportsmanship and nutrition.
Meister, Cari. Game Day. Illustrations and simple text describe the events of a baseball game.
Murphy, Frank. Babe Ruth Saves Baseball! A lively, interactive narrative tells of Babe Ruth’s love of baseball and his desire to restore integrity to the game following the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
Nelson, Robin. Baseball is Fun! Offers a brief overview of the rules and objectives of baseball, and describes the setup of the baseball field and the equipment required to play.
Parish, Peggy. Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia. Amelia Bedelia, who knows very little about baseball, stands in for a sick player during a game.
Patrick, Jean L. S. The Girl who Struck Out Babe Ruth. A retelling of the day Jackie Mitchell, a seventeen-year-old female professional baseball player, struck out the New York Yankees best hitters, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, in an exhibition game in 1931.
Rylant, Cynthia. Mr. Putter & Tabby Drop the Ball. Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby take time off from napping to play on the Yankee Doodle Dandies baseball team.
Sharp, Paul. Paul the Pitcher. Rhymed text describes the different things Paul enjoys when he throws a ball. Includes word list.
Walker, Sally M. Jackie Robinson. Describes the life and accomplishments of baseball star Jackie Robinson, who became the first African American in twentieth-century major-league baseball.
Illustrated Literature
Abbott, Bud. Who’s on First? Abbott and Costello’s classic comedy routine, reissued for children, features a bear and a rabbit trying to determine the baseball player covering each base.
Borden, Louise. Baseball Is… The ultimate celebration of an all-American sport, this picture book captures the joy and the history of baseball – and knocks it out of the park!
Burleigh, Robert. Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson, Against the Odds. Although in 1947 Major League Baseball was only open to white players, the extraordinary talent of Jackie Robinson could not be denied and, after being given the opportunity to play, proved to everyone that he was just as capable – sometimes even more so – than the rest.
Cooper, Flyod. Willie and the All-Stars In 1934 Chicago, Willie sees a game between the Negro League All-Star team and the Major League All-Stars, and realizes that his dream of becoming a professional baseball player could come true.
Crowe, Chris. Just as Good: How Larry Doby Changed America’s Game. An African American family in Cleveland, Ohio, listens on their new radio to the first game of the 1948 World Series, in which Larry Doby, the first black player in the American League, won the game for the Cleveland Indians.
Fishman, Cathy Goldberg. When Jackie and Hank Met. Examines the similarities of two major league baseball players who met for the first time on May 17, 1947: Jackie Robinson, who had to overcome barriers because of his color, and Hank Greenberg, who faced challenges because of his religion.
Frisch, Aaron. Pirates at the Plate. Teams of pirates and cowboys, including such figures as Blackbeard and Wild Bill, inject rowdy adventure into America’s pastime in this story about baseball and the imagination of youth.
Golenbock, Peter. Teammates Describes the racial prejudice experienced by Jackie Robinson when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first black player in Major League baseball and depicts the acceptance and support he received from his white teammate Pee Wee Reese.
Hyman, Zachary. The Bambino and Me. For his birthday, George gets tickets to see his favorite team, the New York Yankees, play the Boston Red Sox, but George is horrified when his mother makes him wear the Boston Red Sox baseball jersey and cap his uncle gave him to the game.
Mackall, Dandi Daley. A Girl Named Dan. Dandi enjoys nothing more than baseball, and so after the boys at school tell her their lunchtime game is now boys only, she enters an essay contest hoping to become a bat boy for the Kansas City A’s, not realizing the contest is for boys only. Includes author’s note on Title IX.
Perdomo, Willie. Clemente! A tribute to the one of baseball’s most beloved players, Pittsburgh Pirates Roberto Clemente, shows how his skills made him the first Latin American player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame and how his career was cut short.
Ripkin, Cal. The Longest Season: The Story of the Orioles’ 1988 Losing Streak. The story of how Cal Ripken and the Orioles broke their losing streak of twenty-one consecutive games in 1988.
Robinson, Sharon. Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson. As a testament to his courage, Jackie Robinson’s daughter shares memories of him, from his baseball career to the day he tested the ice for her, her brothers, and their friends.
Rosenstock, Barb. The Streak: How Joe DiMaggio Became America’s hero. Chronicles the story of the legendary baseball star, his favorite bat, Betsy Ann, and the longest hitting streak in baseball history, which united the country on the brink of World War II.
Tavares, Matt. Becoming Babe Ruth. Traces his mischievous childhood in Baltimore before his life-changing enrollment in Saint Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, where a strict code of conduct and his introduction to baseball inspired his historic career.
Waldman, Neil. Say-Hey and the Babe: Two Mostly True Baseball Stories. Presents two interrelated stories, based on fact, about the 1927 New York Yankees, the 1951 New York Giants, and a stickball team from the Bronx. Sidebars explain baseball terms and events of the time periods, players’ nicknames, and stickball lore.
Winter, Jonah. Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio. Chronicles the life and career of the baseball legend, from his childhood in San Francisco to his fifty-six-game hitting streak.
Wise, Bill. Silent Star: The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy. A biography of William “Dummy” Hoy, who pursued his love of baseball and became the first deaf player to have a long career in the Major Leagues.
Yolen, Jane. All Star! Honus Wagner and the Most Famous Baseball Card Ever.
Fiction
Bauer, Joan. Soar. Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach. 296 pages. (J FIC Bau)
Bildner, Phil. A High Five For Glenn Burke. After researching Glenn Burke, the first major league baseball player to come out as gay, sixth-grader Silas Wade slowly comes out to his best friend Zoey, then his coach, with unexpected consequences. 288 pages. (J FIC Bil)
Christopher, Matt. Little League Baseball (series) Eleven-year-old cousins who are closer than most brothers, catcher Liam McCarthy and pitcher Carter Jones grew up playing baseball together. Now, their team is on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball World Series. (J FIC Chr)
Green, Tim. Baseball Great. (series) The series follows Josh, a Little League baseball player with his team, the Titans. (J FIC Gre)
Gutman, Dan. Baseball Card Adventures (series) Joe Stoshack can travel through time when he touches old baseball cards. When he holds a baseball card, he is transported to the year that card was made and somewhere near the ballplayer on the card. He tries to use this power wisely, and he attempts to change history several times, but it is always something different from his original goal. (J FIC Gut)
Howard, Ryan. Little Rhino (series) When Little Rhino’s grandfather signs him up for a baseball league, he must quickly learn to be a good teammate, especially when there is a bully also on his team. (J FIC How)
Hurwitz, Johanna. Baseball Fever. Ten-year-old Ezra, who is suffering from an advanced case of baseball fever, must convince his scholarly father that this disorder is not responsible for wasting his mind away. 128 pages. (JPB Hur)
Jeter, Derek. The Contract. In Kalamazoo, Michigan, eight-year-old Derek Jeter, who dreams of playing for the New York Yankees, learns what it takes to be a champion on and off the field. 150 pages. (J FIC Jet)
Kapit, Sarah. Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! In this perfectly pitched novel-in-letters, autistic eleven-year-old Vivy Cohen won’t let anything stop her from playing baseball–not when she has a major-league star as her pen pal. 200 pages. (J FICTION Kap)
Kelly, David A. Ballpark Mysteries (series) Cousins Kate and Mike solve mysteries at different American ballparks. (J FIC Kel)
Lupica, Mike. Heat. Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof. 220 pages. (J FIC Lup)
Lupica, Mike. The Batboy. Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team. 247 pages. Level U. (J FIC Lup)
Lupica, Mike. The Big Field. When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too. 243 pages. Level U. (J FIC Lup)
Lupica, Mike. The Only Game. Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls’ softball team, seems to understand. 310 pages (J FIC Lup)
Ritter, John H. The Boy Who Saved Baseball. The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato. 216 pages. Level U. (J FIC Rit)
Ritter, John H. The Desperado Who Stole Baseball. In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings. Prequel to: The boy who saved baseball. 260 pages (J FIC Rit)
Robinson, Sharon. The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend. Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited–and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship. 202 pages (J FIC Rob)
Non-Fiction
Jorgensen J 641.5973 Jor Ballpark cookbook : the American League, recipes inspired by baseball stadium foods
Jorgensen J 641.5973 Jor Ballpark cookbook : the National League, recipes inspired by baseball stadium foods
Schulz J 741.5 Sch Sandlot Peanuts
Rosenberg J 793.735 Ros Baseball Jokes
Thayer J 811.52 Tha Thayer’s Casey at the Bat
Fehler J 811.54 Feh Change-up: Baseball Poems
Florian J 811.54 Flo Poem Runs: Baseball Poems and Paintings
Additional books about baseball and baseball teams can be found in the J 796.357 section.
Our biography section has a selection of baseball biographies at J 796.357.
4/27/18 CC
Picture Books
Alexander, Kwame. Surf’s Up. Surf’s up! Not yet, Dude! Books are boring! Not this one! Bro and Dude have very different ideas about how to spend the day at the beach. But as Bro continues to gasp and cheer as he reads his book, Dude can’t help but get curious.
Alley, R.W. Gretchen Over the Beach. Gretchen turns to her vivid imagination when she is left behind while her siblings swim in the ocean.
Anderson, Sara. Octopus Oyster Hermit Crab Snail: A Poem of the Sea. Dive deep and discover the amazing colors, shapes and soothing rhythms of a mysterious and inviting underwater world.
Beardshaw, Rosalind. Grandma’s Beach. When Emily is disappointed because she and her mother cannot go to the beach, her grandmother comes up with a wonderful idea.
Berenstain, Stan. The Berenstain Bears Go on Vacation. The Berenstain Bears have a wonderful vacation at the seashore, playing on the beach, visiting a museum, eating, and going fishing.
Berry, Lynne. Duck Dunks. The reader is invited to count the ducks as they enjoy a day at the beach.
Blackstone, Stella. Octopus Opposites. Creatures big and small introduce pairs of opposites.
Bond, Micael. Paddington at the Beach. Paddington Bear heads to the beach and worries if he will be able to enjoy his bun as one seagull after another follows him in hopes of stealing his snack.
Brown, Margaret Wise. The Seashore Noisy Book. Muffin, a little dog with sharp ears, enjoys new sights, sounds, and experiences during a visit to the seashore.
Bunting, Eve. Mouse Island. Mouse enjoys living on his island but feels that something is missing from his life until the day he performs a daring rescue and acquires an unlikely friend.
Bunting, Eve. Whales Passing. A boy standing with his father on the shore watches five Orca whales and imagines them talking underwater in their star-dance light while the bubbles bubble up.
Calmenson, Stephanie. Hotter Than A Hot Dog. A little girl and her grandmother escape the city on a hot summer day by going to the beach.
Carle, Eric. A House for a Hermit Crab. A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels.
Carle, Eric. Mister Seahorse. After Mrs. Seahorse lays her eggs on Mr. Seahorse’s belly, he drifts through the water, greeting other fish fathers who are taking care of their eggs.
Catrow, David. Fun in the Sun. Illustrations and easy-to-read text relate a trip to the beach that features a man in a funny hat–or hat on a funny man, a sandy lunch and swimsuit, and a high-flying kite.
Clements, Andrew. Because Your Daddy Loves You. When things go wrong during a day at the beach, like a ball that drifts away or a gooey ice cream mess, a father could do a lot of things but always picks the loving one.
Cousins, Lucy. Maisy Goes on Vacation. Maisy the mouse and her friend Cyril go on vacation, where they stay at a hotel, play on the beach, and send postcards to their friends at home.
Crimi, Carolyn. There Might be Lobsters. A little dog’s paralyzing anxiety gives way to bravery when someone smaller arrives in need during a whooshy, splashy, overwhelming day at the beach.
Crum, Shutta. Uh-Oh! Two toddlers have a nearly-silent adventure at the beach.
Cumberbatch, Judy. Can You Hear the Sea? Sarah’s grandpa gives her a special shell and says if she listens carefully she can hear the sea, but all she hears are everyday village noises.
Cyrus, Kurt. The Voyage of Turtle Rex. Follows the life of a giant prehistoric sea turtle.
D’Amico, Carmela. Ella Sets Sail. When Ella the elephant goes to the carnival and loses her lucky hat in a storm, she learns a valuable lesson about the real meaning of luck.
Davies, Nicola. Dolphin Baby. Following his mother, a baby dolphin learns about life under the sea, from catching his first fish to developing his own unique whistle.
Dempsey, Kristy. Surfer Chick. The story of a little chick and her dad who take to the beach where he teaches her how to surf.
Docherty, Thomas. To the Beach. Looking out his window on a rainy day, one little boy imagines his way to the beach, traveling on a bicycle, a truck, a boat, a plane, and even a very friendly camel!
Donaldson, Julia. The Fish Who Cried Wolf. Tiddler the fish is always telling tall tales about why he is late for school, but when he is actually caught in a net and taken far from home, it is his stories that help him find his way back.
Donaldson, Julia. The Snail and the Whale. Wanting to sail beyond its rock, a tiny snail hitches a ride on a big humpback whale and then is able to help the whale when it gets stuck in the sand.
Elschner, Geraldine. Fritz’s Fish. Fritz, who longs to have a pet, captures a fish after the river floods his neighborhood, but must decide how long he can keep him in the apartment bathtub.
Elya, Susan Middleton. Bebé Goes to the Beach. A baby and his mother spend a day at the beach. Spanish words, interspersed in the rhyming text, are defined in a glossary.
Frasier, Debra. Out of the Ocean. A young girl and her mother walk along the beach and marvel at the treasures cast up by the sea and the wonders of the world around them.
Frazee, Marla. A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. Friends James and Eamon enjoy a wonderful week at the home of Eamon’s grandparents during summer vacation.
Gaiman, Neil. Chu’s Day at the Beach. Chu the Panda Goes to the Beach! Chu and his family are going to the beach! Chu is excited. He will get to play in the sand and wade in the water. But what will happen if Chu sneezes at the beach? And what will happen if he doesn’t?
Gall, Chris. Dinotrux Dig the Beach. Part-dinosaur, part-truck monsters called Dinotrux take a vacation to cool off at the beach, where they have to work together to build a sandcastle and to rescue a friend.
Geist, Ken. The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark. In a spoof of “The Three Little Pigs,” Jim Fish builds his house of seaweed and Tim Fish builds his house of sand, but Kim Fish smartly sets up house in an old sunken ship to keep the big bad shark from destroying it.
Grey, Mini. Three by the Sea. Cat, Dog, and Mouse live together contentedly in a cottage by the sea, dividing the work between them, until A. Stranger, Esq., a fox from the Winds of Change company, arrives and stirs up trouble.
Halfmann, Janett. Star of the Sea: A Day in the Life of a Starfish. Follows a starfish as she hunts for her morning meal and escape from danger with one less ray than before.
Harris, Trudy. Pattern Fish. Illustrations and rhyming text describe various patterns depicted by different fish. Includes related activities.
Hills, Tad. Duck & Goose Go to the Beach. Duck wants to go on an adventure. Goose doesn’t. He doesn’t see the point. After all, why would they go anywhere when they’re happy right where they are? But then Goose sees the ocean and loves it. Who doesn’t? Well, Duck, for one.
Hubbell, Patricia. Sea, Sand, Me! A young girl enjoys building sandcastles, splashing in the sea, and making a new friend during an afternoon at the beach.
Huneck, Stephen. Sally Goes to the Beach. Sally, a black Labrador retriever, goes to the beach, where she enjoys various activities with other visiting dogs.
Hurley, Jorey. Fetch. Illustrations and simple text follow a dog as it chases a ball at the beach.
Jay, Alison. Out of the Blue. When a giant octopus entangled in fishing line is washed ashore during a big storm and becomes stranded on the beach, a young boy and girl, assisted by various sea creatures, push and pull him back to sea.
Keller, Holly. Miranda’s Beach Day. Miranda and Mama spend a fun day at the beach building castles and catching sand crabs, and Miranda learns that just like the sand and the sea, she and her mother will always be together.
Kirk, Ellen. My Beach Book (Board book). Fun and facts for children from one of the most trusted names in learning: the Smithsonian Institution.
Kono, Erin Eitter. Caterina and the Best Beach Day. Caterina, a very organized brown bird, thinks she has the perfect plan to make sure she and her little brother Leo see a whale on their day at the beach.
Larsen, Andrew. The Not-So-Faraway Adventure. For Poppa’s birthday, Theo takes him on a trip to the beach, where they ride the rumbling streetcar, walk barefoot in the sand, and collect treasures along the shore.
Larsen, Andrew. See You Next Year! Each summer, a girl travels with her family to the same beachside resort, with everything being comfortably predictable, but this year, the pattern of her vacation changes when she meets a new friend.
Lee, Suzy. Wave. A wordless picture book that shows a little girl’s first experiences at the beach, as she goes from being afraid of the roaring waves to playing on the shore while gulls soar overhead.
Lester, Alison. Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach. In rhyming text, Noni the pony and her friends, Dave Dog and Coco the cat, spend the day at the beach.
Lies, Brian. Bats at the Beach. On a night when the moon can grow no fatter, bats pack their moon-tan lotion and baskets of treats and fly off for some fun on the beach.
Lionni, Leo. Swimmy. A little black fish in a school of red fish figures out a way of protecting them all from their natural enemies.
Lyon, George Ella. Boats Float. In rhyming text, the reader is introduced to all the different kinds of boats floating on rivers, lakes, oceans, and ponds.
MacDonald, Margaret Read. Surf War! A Folktale from the Marshall Islands. A bragging contest between Whale and Sandpiper turns into a battle over the beach and sea, until both parties realize that the beach and the sea, as well as sea creatures and shorebirds, are interdependent.
Malnor, Carol. On Kiki’s Reef. A green sea turtle hatches and grows up in the ocean, then moves to shallower water near a coral reef where she spends most of the rest of her life. Includes supplementary information about turtles, coral reef creatures, maps, and activities.
Malone, Cheryl Lawton. Dario and the Whale. When Dario and his mother move to Cape Cod from Brazil, Dario has a hard time making friends since he doesn’t speak English well. But one day Dario meets someone else who has just arrived in New England and he doesn’t speak any English at all, because he’s a right whale! Day after day Dario and the whale meet at the beach. But what will happen when it’s time for the whale to migrate?
Milbourne, Anna. Bunny on the Beach . Looking through the holes and turning the pages, readers can help bunny and her friends build a sandcastle.(Board book)
Nolan, Dennis. Sea of Dreams. A wordless picture book featuring a sandcastle that takes on a life of its own.
O’Neill, Alexis. Loud Emily. A little girl with a big voice who lives in a nineteenth-century whaling town finds a way to be useful and happy aboard a sailing ship.
Pallotta, Jerry. The Dory Story.While taking a bath with his new red toy dory, a boy imagines himself alone on the ocean getting a first-hand look at the ocean’s food chain.
Peck, Jan. Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea. A child explores the treasures of the deep blue sea from the safety of a bathtub.
Pfister, Marcus. Rainbow Fish. The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.
Raczka, Bob. Summer Wonders. Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the sights and sounds of summer, from days of diving and swimming to nights of stargazing and fireflies.
Rohmann, Eric. Clara and Asha. Young Clara would rather play with her imaginary giant fish, Asha, than settle down to sleep.
Roosa, Karen. Beach Day. Rhyming text describes a perfect day at the beach, complete with sandy knees, deviled eggs, and a castle with a moat.
Ryan, Pam Monez. Hello Ocean. Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.
Sattler, Jennifer Gordon. Pig Kahuna. Fergus is afraid to go in the water, but he and his baby brother Dink find a surfboard while collecting treasures along the seashore.
Serafini, Frank. Looking Closely Along the Shore. Introduces things found on the seashore and invites young readers to guess the identity of each plant, animal, or object depicted, including gooseneck barnacles, coconut palms, and rocks.
Sherry, Kevin. I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean. A giant squid brags about being bigger than everything else in the ocean–almost.
Simmons, Jane. Ebb and Flo and the Baby Seal. Ebb finds a baby seal who is a long way from home, and it’s up to Ebb to help find her mother.
Soman, David. Ladybug Girl at the Beach. Lulu, who likes to wear a ladybug costume, goes to the beach for the first time and makes sand castles, flies kites, and deals with her fear of the ocean.
St. Pierre, Stephanie. What the Sea Saw. A lyrical introduction to the sea, its inhabitants, and its role in the world around it. Includes facts about the ecosystems of oceans and shorelines.
Stockdale, Susan. Fabulous Fishes. Introduces a variety of familiar and exotic fish using simple, rhyming text, including round fish, striped fish, and fish that leap and glide.
Stewart, Sarah. The Friend. With Mom too busy and Dad away much of the time, Belle finds companionship with a household employee who after each day’s work takes Belle “hand in hand” to the beach.
Walvoord, Linda. Razzamadaddy. A father and son spend a wonderful day together at the beach.
Watt, Melanie. Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach. As summertime approaches, Scaredy Squirrel, who only feels safe when he is at home in his nut tree, decides to build his own beach getaway complete with a germ-free inflatable pool and a plastic flamingo until the lure of the real beach gets too strong!
Weninger, Bridgitte. Miko Goes on Vacation. Miko the mouse likes going to the beach with his mother but does not know what to do with his toy animal, Mimiki when it is time for a swim.
White, Amanda. Sand Sister. When lonely Paloma goes to the beach and wishes that she had a sister to play with, the girl she draws in the sand comes magically alive, and at day’s end her parents give her the good news of a new baby on the way.
Wiesner, David. (Caldecott) Flotsam. The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.
Wood, Audrey. Ten Little Fish. Ten little fish swim along an ocean reef, each finding a different reason to leave until there is only one left.
Beginning Readers
Berenstain, Stan. The Berenstain Bears’ Seashore Treasure. When the Bear family goes to the seashore, they find a map which they hope will lead them to buried treasure.
Bond, Michael. Paddington Sets Sail. Paddington visits the beach where he splashes in the ocean and builds a sand castle before being swept off in an adventure.
Dawson, Emily C. Ocean Animals. Compares common ocean animals and how they move through the water. Includes comprehension activity.
Dean, James. Pete at the Beach.Visiting the beach with his family, groovy Pete enjoys collecting shells and building a sand castle but resists going into the water or accepting a surfing from Bob, despite the hot weather.
De Groat, Diane. Gilbert, the Surfer Dude. Gilbert the opossum imagines himself as Surfer Dude on a fun-filled day at the beach.
Gorbachev, Valeri. Not Me! While Bear enjoys a day at the beach, Chipmunk, who is not a beach person, does not, suffering one mishap after another all in the interests of spending time with his good friend Bear.
Kittinger, Jo S. Going to the Beach. A family spends a day at the beach enjoying the water, sand, and sun.
McKay, Sindy. About the Ocean. Explores many aspects of the ocean environment, from coral reefs to deep seas to sandy shores and presents facts about life in the ocean, including dolphins, sharks, whales, starfish and much more.
Riley, J.D. Axel the Truck: Beach Race. Axel the truck may be little, but he has big wheels, a big heart, and a big appetite for adventure…Axel the truck heads to the beach for a sandy, salty, muddy, super-fun day that includes a race with the monster trucks…and some fast fish, too.
Scotton, Rob. A Whale of a Tale. Looking forward to a trip to the beach, where he hopes to find a seashell that will enable him to hear ocean sounds, Splat the Cat is frustrated by his inability to find anything but broken shells until he receives help from a special new friend.
Spohn, Kate. Turtle and Snake’s Day at the Beach. Turtle and Snake go to the beach, where they and some other animals participate in a sandcastle-making contest.
Suen, Anastasia. The Big Catch: A Robot and Rico Story. Robot and Rico are off to the beach. Rico wants to catch the biggest fish, but Robot may end up with the biggest surprise.
Wallace, Karen. A Day at Seagull Beach. A seagull flies over the sea looking for something before returning to its nest.
Illustrated Literature
Arnosky, Jim. Dolphins on the Sand. A dozen dolphins, led by their eldest member and her youngster, become stranded on a sandbar and must be helped to safety by humans.
Brenner, Barbara. One Small Place by the Sea. For one afternoon, a child visitor observes the cycle of change within a tidepool, a small place at the edge of the sea that is home to many plants and animals.
Curtis, Jennifer. Turtles in My Sandbox. A scrapbook journal explains the nesting cycle of loggerhead sea turtles and how volunteers help them, and describes the natural life along the southeastern coast, including local shore birds, shells, and the sea turtle hospital.
Hodgkins, Fran. Between The Tides. What happens to the denizens of the tidal zone when the sea recedes every 12 hours? This is the question that Hodgkins answers in a playful yet instructive way.
Jenkins, Steve. Down Down Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea. A top-to-bottom look at the ocean, from birds and waves to thermal vents and ooze.
McClure, Nikki. Waiting for High Tide. While waiting with family members for high tide to come in, a youngster who is very knowledgeable about the seashore and what lives there helps to build a raft.
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro. What If? What if a boy found a beach ball and kicked it into the ocean? What if two seals found it and began to play? What if a third seal appeared on the beach looking for a friend? Enjoy this visit to the beach and the chance to guess what happens when different choices are made.
Yaccarino, Dan. The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau. Examines the life and accomplishments of the French oceanographer, and describes his work studying and filming the undersea world.
Non-Fiction
Rauen, Amy. J 513 Rau. Using Math Outdoors: Math at the Beach Is Fun! A visit to the beach provides the opportunity to count, to compare larger and smaller numbers of things, and to add.
Beckett-Bowman, Lucy. J 574.92 Bec. Seashore. Which fish can breathe on land? Why do some crabs have to live in other animal’s shells? This book contains fascinating facts about the seashore and the creatures that live there.
Johansson, Philip. J 577.699 Joh. The Seashore: A Saltwater Web of Life. Provides information about the biome of the seashore following the food web and flow of energy from sun to plants and animals.
Bulion Leslie. J 811.54 Bul. At the Sea Floor Café: Odd Ocean Critter Poems. This clever collection of poems celebrates how various creatures who live in the sea search for food, capture prey, and protect themselves and their young.
Coombes, Kate. J 811.54 Coo. Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems. Presents a collection of ocean poems that evokes the beauty and power, the depth and mystery, and the endless resonance of the sea.
Swinburne, Stephen R. J 811.54 Swi. Ocean Soup: Tide-Pool Poems. Playful poems and information about some of the creatures that live in Atlantic and Pacific Ocean tide pools.
4/30/18 CC
All books are in the picture book section unless noted otherwise.
Cars
Aroner, Miriam. Clink, Clank, Clunk! A group of animal friends ride to town in a junky car that has numerous mechanical problems.
Barton, Bryon. My Car. Sam describes in loving detail his car and how he drives it.
Bee, William. And the Cars Go… Features a range of vrooming, chugging, and whispering vehicles driven by characters ranging from a beach-going family and hat-wearing royals to a noisy troupe of schoolchildren and a fretful ice-cream vendor.
Bee, William. Stanley’s Garage. Stanley is working at his garage today. From filling up Hattie’s red sport car with gas to changing the tire on Shamus’ and Little Woo’s blue car, it sure is a busy day. As his friends each come in with their car problems, Stanley knows just what to do to get them back on the road.
Biggs, Brian. Everything Goes: Henry in a Jam. Henry and his parents get stuck in traffic. Luckily, there are plenty of emergency vehicles here to help! (Beginning Reader)
Chriscoe, Sharon. Race Car Dreams. After a day at the track, a race car is tired and ready for bed so he washes his rims, fills up with oil, chooses a book that is all about speed, and drifts off to sleep.
Dotlich, Rebecca Kai. Race Car Count. Count to ten with fast and colorful race cars.
Durand, Hallie. Mitchell’s License. Mitchell never wants to go to bed until, at the age of three years, nine months, and five days he gets his license so that he can drive there – at least until he and the car have a disagreement about what fuel goes in the tank.
Feiffer, Kate. My Side of the Car. Sadie and her father have been planning a trip to the zoo for a long time but something always gets in the way, so when they finally start out and her father sees some raindrops, Sadie insists there is no rain on her side of the car.
Fliess, Sue. Calling All Cars. This bouncy text explores the wonderful world of cars zipping up, down, fast, and slow. And at the end of the day it’s bedtime for these busy cars.
Fliess, Sue. Race! Cars line up for the Winner’s Cup, and with one car smaller than the rest, they all speed down mountains, by waterfalls, through tunnels, and past landslides to the finish line.
Floca, Brian. The Racecar Alphabet. An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track.
Harper, Jamie. Miles to Go. Although concerned about a broken horn, young Miles makes his way to preschool in his very own car, with Mom close at hand.
Harper, Jamie. Miles to the Finish. Looking forward to participating in race day at Red Apple School, Miles and Otto discover tough competition in a Speedster-driving girl who becomes Miles’ toughest rival on the track.
Hatanaka, Kellen. Drive: A look at Roadside Opposites. Illustrations depicting a long car trip demonstrate such pairs of opposites as “above” and “below,” “near” and “far,” and “worm’s-eye view” and “bird’s-eye view.”
Hubbell, Patricia. Cars: Rushing! Honking! Zooming! Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate different kinds of cars and what they can do.
Knudsen, Michelle. Big Mean Mike. Mike is proud to be the biggest, toughest dog in the neighborhood, so when tiny, fuzzy bunnies start showing up in his big, mean car he sees them only as a threat to his reputation, no matter how adorable they are.
Leiter, Richard. The Flying Hand of Marco B. Marco is riding in the backseat of a car driven by his parents. Being bored, he puts his hand out the window and fantasizes about flying. As he does so, his fantasy takes him on a wild ride up in the sky.
Milusich, Janice. Off Go Their Engines, Off Go Their Lights. Having completed their daytime tasks, various vehicles get ready for a restful night.
Norman, Kim. This Old Van. After receiving a special invitation, Grandma and Grandpa head out in their hippie van on a journey filled with descriptions that rhyme with the tune of “This Old Man.”
Pearson, Debora. Alphabeep: A Zipping, Zooming ABC. Describes a vehicle or street sign for every letter of the alphabet from Ambulance to Zamboni.
Pizzoli, Greg. Number One Sam. A competitive race-car driving dog learns that some things are more important than being number one.
Root, Phyllis. Toot Toot Zoom! Pierre lives all alone at the foot of the mountain so he hops in his car to find a friend. Will the car make it to the top of the mountain? Will it get safely down? Will Pierre ever find a friend?
Santat, Dan. Are We There Yet? A boy goes on a long car ride to visit his grandmother and discovers time moves faster or slower depending on how bored he is.
Slegers, Liesbet. Vroom! Kevin’s Big Book of Vehicles. Invites young readers to learn about all types of vehicles, including tractors, garbage trucks, fire engines, police cars, motorcycles, and passenger cars.
Stein, Peter. Cars Galore. Cars of all shapes, colors, and sizes–including an igloo ice-fueled polar car and an eco-friendly car that runs on air–are presented in illustrations and rhyme.
Suen, Anastasia. Red Light, Green Light. A young boy creates an imaginary world filled with zooming cars, flashing traffic lights, and racing fire engines.
Wheeler, Lisa. Dino Racing. Illustrations and rhyming text follow dinosaurs as they race against each other in dragsters, then off-road vehicles, and finally stock cars.
Non-fiction books about cars can be found at J 629.2.
Trucks
Anderson, Peggy Perry. Chuck’s Truck. When too many barnyard friends climb in to go to town, Chuck’s truck breaks down, but Handyman Hugh knows just what to do.
Barton, Chris. Mighty Truck. When a muddy truck reluctantly gets a truck wash, he transforms into a superhero.
Barton, Byron. Trucks. Brief text and illustrations present a variety of trucks and what they do.
Beaumont, Karen. Where’s My T-R-U-C-K? Tommy’s not himself today. He’s lost his T R U C K! And no matter what Mom, Dad, sis, brother, and Grandma offer, it’s just not as fun as his best red truck.
Braun, Sebastien. Digger and Tom! The building site will not be ready until one last rock is removed, and although the big machines all have a go at it, only Little Digger has what it takes to get the job done–with some encouragement from Tom, the dump truck.
Bryant, Megan E. Dump Truck Duck. Dump Truck Duck and his friends break ground on a new playground, helping each other overcome obstacles to get the job done.
Clement, Nathan. Drive. In brief text with illustrations, a boy describes his father’s work as a truck driver.
Clement, Nathan. Job Site. The bulldozer, the excavator, the loader and other heavy machinery all have important tasks to accomplish at the job site: digging, lifting, carrying, dumping, moving, shaping.
Cuyler, Margery. The Little Dump Truck. A happy little dump truck, driven by Hard Hat Pete, hauls stones, rocks, and debris from a construction site to a landfill.
Floca, Brian. Five Trucks. Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.
Freedman, Claire. Beep, Beep, Beep, Time for Sleep! A group of tired trucks and machines get ready for bedtime after a long day at a building site.
Friend, David. With Any Luck I’ll Drive a Truck. A little boy has a grand time pretending to drive every big vehicle he can imagine.
Goodwin-Sturges, Judy Sue. Construction Kitties. Wearing their hats, Construction Kitties use heavy equipment to dig, move, push, and smooth the dirt.
Hamilton, K.R. Red Truck. When a school bus gets stuck in the mud, Red Truck the tow truck saves the day by pulling it out.
Hines, Anna Grossnickle. I Am a Backhoe. A young boy imagines himself to be different types of trucks as he plays in the sand.
Holub, Joan. Mighty Dads. Told in simple rhyming text, hard-working construction vehicle fathers guide and encourage their children.
Mortensen, Denise Dowling. Wake Up Engines. Rhyming verses describe the sights and sounds of morning traffic as cars, trucks, and airplanes rev up their engines and go!
Rey, Margaret & H.A. Curious George and the Dump Truck. Curious George gets into trouble when he boards a dump truck and spills a load of dirt in a pond but redeems himself when the dirt creates an island for the pond’s ducks.
Rinker, Sherri Duskey. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site. At sunset, when their work is done for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces of construction equipment make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.
Rinker, Sherri Duskey. Mighty, Mighty Construction Site. Told in rhyming text, Excavator, Bulldozer, Crane Truck, Dump Truck, and Cement Mixer will all need to work together as they tackle their biggest job yet – a massive building.
Rockwell, Anne F. Truck Stop. A boy and his parents prepare breakfast at their truck stop for drivers of eighteen-wheelers, tankers, moving vans, and other vehicles, while Uncle Marty checks tires and makes repairs.
Sauer, Tammi. Truck, Truck, Goose! Goose is all packed for a picnic, but when he ventures outside his cottage to cross the street to the park, he encounters some problems.
Savage, Stephen. The Mixed-Up Truck. A little cement mixer learns that making mistakes isn’t always a bad thing in this vehicle book.
Savage, Stephen. Supertruck. When the city is hit by a colossal snowstorm, only one superhero can save the day. But who is this mysterious hero, and why does he disappear once his job is done?
Sayres, Brianna Caplan. Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? Illustrations and rhyming text reveal what trucks, tractors, and construction vehicles do to get ready for bed after a hard day’s work.
Schertle, Alice. Little Blue Truck. A small blue truck finds his way out of a jam, with a little help from his friends.
Schotter, Roni. Go, Little Green Truck! Little Green is a proud and strong pickup truck who loves helping with chores, but when Farmer Gray buys a big new blue truck, Little Green is left to rust in a pasture until the farmer’s daughter, Fern, suggests they fix him up and use him for such gentle jobs as going to the farmers’ market.
Scieszka, Jon. Smash! Crash! Best friends Jack Truck and Dump Truck Dan love to smash things but sometimes their antics get them into trouble. One day they meet Wrecking Crane Rosie. Are Jack and Dan’s smashing days over?
Slack, Michael H. Monkey Truck. Monkey Truck comes racing to the rescue anytime there is trouble in the jungle.
Steggall, Susan. The Diggers are Coming! Uses rhyming text to follow different construction vehicles, including bulldozers, diggers, and trucks, as they build a group of houses.
Sutton, Sally. Roadwork. There are many big machines and busy people involved in building a road, and this picture book, with its rambunctious rhymes and noisy fun, follows them every step of the way, from clearing a pathway to rolling the tar to sweeping up at the end.
Wolf, Sallie. Truck Stuck. Illustrations and simple rhyming text tell the story of a big truck that gets stuck under a bridge.
Non-fiction books about trucks can be found at J 629.224 and 629.225.
Fire Trucks and Firefighting
Beaty, Andrea. Firefighter Ted. When Ted awakens to the smell of smoke and cannot find a firefighter, he decides to become one for the day, much to the dismay of his mother, neighbors, principal, and classmates.
Cuyler, Margery. The Little Fire Truck. A happy little fire truck, driven by Jill, zips all over town helping to put out fires and rescue animals.
Elya, Susan Middleton. Fire! ¡Fuego! Brave Bomberos. A brave group of firefighters set off to battle a blaze at a townhouse. Spanish words interspersed in the rhyming text are defined in a glossary.
George, Lucy M. Firefighter. Easy to read text with rebuses explores the job of a firefighter.
Graham, Thomas. Five Little Firefighters. Even though their dinner is ready to eat, when the fire alarm bell sounds, the firefighters must go out to rescue a family and their cat.
Hubbell, Patricia. Firefighters! Speeding! Spraying! Saving! Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate firefighters and what they do.
McMullan, Kate. I’m Brave! He’s a big red engine with a siren, a horn, a tank full of water, and whole lotta hose! He’s a good-lookin’ fire truck, and he’s brave, too. When the alarm sounds, he’s gotta drive through smoke and heat straight to a blazing fire!
Meier, Joanne D. The Fire Truck Adventure. A simple story belonging to the fourth level of Herbster Readers, young Herbie has an imaginary adventure on a fire truck after local firefighters visit his school. (Beginning Reader)
Murray, Laura. The Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck. When the Gingerbread Man joins the children who made him on a school field trip to a fire station, he escapes being eaten by Spot the Dalmatian and rides along to a fire.
Rockwell, Anne F. At the Firehouse. Jason, who loves fire engines, goes to the firehouse on Visitor’s Day and learns all about being a firefighter.
Teague, Mark. Firehouse! Edward and his cousin Judy come for a visit to the firehouse and learn how everything works, with some unexpected results.
Zimmerman, Andrea Griffing. Fire Engine Man. A young boy imagines the work he will do and the safety gear he will wear when he becomes a fireman someday, as his younger brother first watches then joins him on the job.
Non-fiction books about fire engines can be found at J 628.925.
Trains
Awdry, W. Thomas the Tank Engine Thomas the tank engine and his friends. (Series)
Brown, Margaret Wise. Two Little Trains. Two little trains, one streamlined, the other old-fashioned, puff, puff, puff, and chug, chug, chug, on their way West.
Crews, Donald. Freight Train. Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.
Gurney, John Steven. Dinosaur Train. Jesse imagines riding on a train where all the passengers and workers are dinosaurs.
Ichikawa, Satomi. My Little Train. A little train goes for a ride, taking all the stuffed animals where they want to go.
Lindeen, Mary. Trains. Simple text and supportive full-color photographs introduce young readers to trains. (Beginning Reader)
McMullen, Kate. I’m Fast! Two trains race each other on the way to Chicago.
Mortensen, Denis Dowling. Wake Up Engines. Rhyming verses describe the sights and sounds of morning traffic as cars, trucks, and airplanes rev up their engines and go!
Petersen, Jessica. Old Tracks, New Tricks. Finally able to join a train track of their own, Trixie, Tracky, and Tinker are disappointed to find that bossy trains rule while the old tracks lay, until they decide to teach the old tracks some new tricks.
Piper, Watty. The Little Engine that Could. Although she is not very big, the Little Blue Engine agrees to try to pull a stranded train full of toys over the mountain.
Rey, Margaret & H.A. Curious George Takes a Train. While waiting for the man with the yellow hat to buy train tickets, Curious George causes trouble by mixing up numbers on the schedule, but he makes up for it when a little boy’s toy rolls toward the tracks.
Roth, Carol. All Aboard to Work—Choo-Choo! Animal mothers and fathers with various professions take the train to work and return at the end of the day to spend time with their children.
Ryan, Phillips. Steam-Powered Trains. Introduces steam trains and describes how they work and what jobs they perform.
Sarcone-Roach, Julia. Subway Story. Jessie, a subway car “born” in St. Louis, Missouri, enjoys many years as an important part of the New York City subway system, and after she is replaced by more modern cars she begins another important job.
Sayres, Brianna Caplan. Where Do Steam Trains Sleep at Night? Imagines the bedtime rituals of different types of trains.
Townend, Jack. A Railway ABC. Uses behind-the-scenes information on railroads to teach young readers the alphabet.
Vamos, Samantha R. Alphabet Trains. Simple text uses railroads to teach children about different trains and the alphabet.
Wickberg, Susan. Hey Mr. Choo-choo, Where are You Going? A train engine hauls his cars from the city to the sea, answering questions about what he is pulling, seeing, and hearing along the way.
Non-fiction books about trains can be found at J 625.1
Planes and Other Transportation
Braun, Sebastien. Toot and Pop! Little tugboat Pop is happy to help the big boats like Toot out of the harbor–even if Toot thinks he can do it himself.
Cotter, Bill. Hello, Airplane! Illustrations and easy-to-read text follow an airplane as it says good-bye to the ground and hello to the sky, where it flies over a town, mountains, clouds, and people.
Cousins, Lucy. Maisy Goes on a Plane. Maisy is off on a journey to see her friend Ella, but Ella lives such a long way away. Maisy must go by plane and what an exciting trip it is!
Crews, Donald. School Bus. Follows the progress of school buses as they take children to school and bring them home again.
Docherty, Thomas. Little Boat. One brave little boat is on a journey to discover the seven seas. Setting off into the big, wide world, Little Boat runs into treacherous waters, turbulent tides, and seafaring friends. After all his nautical adventures, our hero finds out that he’s no longer such a little boat.
Houran, Lori Haskins. Busy Tractors, Busy Days. Tractors are busy machines. See the big jobs they do each day! (Beginning Reader)
London, Johnathon. A Plane Goes Ka-Zoom! Easy-to-read, rhyming text describes the sounds of, and uses for, different kinds of airplanes.
Lyon, George Ella. Planes Fly! Illustrations and easy-to-read rhyming text celebrate different kinds of planes, their instruments, what they carry, and what it is like to go for a flight.
Meadows, Michelle. Traffic Pups. Canine motorcycle police officers zoom through the town pursuing suspects, clearing the road of accidents, and serving as escorts.
Rosen, Michael. The Bus is For Us! In rhyming text, an exuberant cast of kids express their travel preferences while ultimately agreeing that the bus is the best ride of all because it’s designed for everyone to share.
Savage, Stephen. Little Plane Learns to Write. Little Plane learns to write by practicing his skywriting.
Singer, Marilyn. I’m Your Bus. In rhyming text, a school bus describes its busy day transporting children to and from school.
Slegers, Liesbet. Vroom! Kevin’s Big Book of Vehicles. Invites young readers to learn about all types of vehicles, including tractors, garbage trucks, fire engines, police cars, motorcycles, and passenger cars.
Steggall, Susan. Following the Tractor. Follows the story of a tractor as it plows, sows, and harvests the fields throughout the course of a year, with a little help from some other farm machinery.
Van Lieshout, Maria. Flight 1-2-3. A boy counts his way through the airport and onto the plane as it flies towards its destination.
Non-fiction books about planes can be found at J 629.1
Non-fiction books about motorcycles can be found at J 629.227
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Non-Fiction
J 020.23 Ame. Ames, Michelle. Librarians in Our Community.
J 020.23 Mon. Peterson, Judy Monroe. A Day in the Life of a Librarian.
J 027 Mar. Marsico, Katie. Working at the Library.
J 027 Mei. Meister, Cari. Librarians.
J 027.4 Swe. Sweeney, Alyse. Welcome to the Library.
J 027.8 Gar. Garrett, Winston. What Does A Library Media Specialist Do?
J 363.2 Ame. Ames, Michelle. Police Officers in our Community.
J 363.2 Lie. Liebman, Daniel. I Want to be a Police Officer.
J 363.2 Low. Niven, Felicia Lowenstein. What Does a Police Officer Do?
J 363.2 Mul. Mullenbach, Cheryl. Women in Blue: 16 Brave Officers, Forensics Experts, Police Chiefs, and more.
J 363.2 Par. Parks, Peggy J. Police Officer.
J 363.2 Rea. Ready, Dee. Police Officers.
J 363.2 Sch. Schaefer, Lola M. Police Station.
J 363.22 Gor. Gorman, Jacqueline Laks. Police Officer.
J 371.1 Ame. Ames, Michelle. Teachers in our Community.
J 371.201 Cap. Capici, Gaetano. What Do They Do? Principals.
J 383.145 Mac. Macken, JoAnn Early. Mail Carrier.
J 383.145 Mei. Meister, Cari. Mail Carriers.
J 383.145 Tru. Trumbauer, Lisa. What Does a Mail Carrier Do?
J 590.73 Swe. Sweeney, Alyse. Who Works at the Zoo?
J 610.6 Jor. Jordan, Anna Louise. What Does an EMT Do?
J 363.34 Ger. Gersh, Camilla. Emergency Rescue.
J 610.6 She. Shepherd, Jodie. A Day With Paramedics.
J 610.69 Ada. Adamson, Heather. A Day in the Life of a Doctor.
J 610.69 Hea. Heath, Erin. Doctors in our Community.
J 610.69 Low. Niven, Felicia Lowenstein. What Does a Doctor Do?
J 610.69 Mei, Meister, Cari. Doctors.
J 610.73 Flu. Fluet, Connie. A Day in the Life of a Nurse.
J 610.73 Rea. Ready, Dee. Nurses.
J 615.1 Fro. Frost, Helen. We Need Pharmacists.
J 615.1 Gib. Gibson, Karen Bush. Pharmacists.
J 617.6 Ada. Adamson, Heather. A Day in the Life of a Dentist.
J 617.6 Cra. Crabtree, Marc. Meet My Neighbor, The Dentist.
J 617.6 Sch. Schaefer, Lola M. Dental Office.
J 621.9 McF. McFadden, Jesse. A Construction Worker’s Tools.
J 628.4 Mil. Miller, Heather. What Does a Sanitation Worker Do?
J 628.925 Ame. Ames, Michelle. Firefighters in our Community.
J 363.37 Bou. Bourgeois, Paulette. Fire Fighters.
J 510 Cle. Clemson, Wendy. Firefighters to the Rescue (Math Adventures).
J 363.37 For. Fortney, Mary T. Fire Station Number 4: the Daily Life of Firefighters.
J 363.37 Gol. Goldish, Meish. City Firefighters.
J 363.37 Gol. Goldish, Meish. Smoke Jumpers.
J 628.925 Gor. Gordon, Sharon. What’s Inside a Firehouse?
J 628.92 Sch. Schmidt, Erin. What Does a Firefighter Do?
J 628.925 Kal. Clemson, Wendy. Firefighters to the Rescue!
J 363.37 Pet. Petersen, Justin. Smokejumpers: Fighting Fires from the Sky.
J 628.925 Rea. Ready, Dee. Fire Fighters.
J 363.37 Sch. Schaefer, Lola M. Fire Station.
J 363.37 Sch. Schomp, Virginia. If You Were a: Firefighter.
J 628.92 Sch. Schmidt, Erin. What Does a Firefighter Do?
J 628.925 Swe. Sweeney, Alyse. A Very Busy Firehouse.
J 629.224 Tru. Trumbauer, Lisa. What Does a Truck Driver Do?
J 629.2844 Sch. Schomp, Virginia. If You Were a…Truck Driver.
J 630 Jef. Jeffries, Joyce. Farmers.
J 635.0484 Orr. Orr, Tamra. Organic Farmer.
J 636.089 Ada. Adamson, Heather. A Day in the Life of a Veterinarian.
J 636.089 Ame. Ames, Michelle. Veterinarians in our Community.
J 636.089 Low. Niven, Felicia Lowenstein. What Does a Veterinarian Do?
J 641.5 Tur. Turnbull, Stephanie. How to be… a Chef.
J 641.5092 Kle. Klein, Hilary Dole. A Day with a Chef.
J 647.2 Yan. Yanuck, Debbie L. Custodians.
J 690 Sch. Schaefer, Lola M. Who Works Here? Construction Site.
Beginning Readers
Askew, Amanda. Chef. Rory the chef demonstrates to young readers the work that he does to run his restaurant and prepare meals for his customers.
Askew, Amanda. Doctor. Meet Amar the doctor. Find out what he does every day and how he helps sick people to get better.
Askew, Amanda. Firefighter. Learn all about the job of a firefighter.
Askew, Amanda. Police Officer. Meet Anita the police officer. Find out what she does every day and how she fights crime.
Askew, Amanda. Teacher. Meet Kimi the teacher. Find out what she does every day and how she helps children learn.
Askew, Amanda. Vet. Meet Beth the vet. Find out what she does every day and how she helps sick animals get better.
Bennett, Leonie. A Day with an Airplane Pilot. Prepare for takeoff! Follow a pilot as he takes control of a huge jumbo jet during a busy day flying from London to New York.
Catala, Ellen. Who Keeps Us Safe? Simple text and photos present many people in the community that work to keep others safe.
Mann, Rachel. Race to a Fire! Shows firefighters rushing to a store fire in an easy-to-read text that incorporates phonics instruction and rebuses.
Mayer, Mercer. This Is My Town. Little Critter invites readers to explore his town and discover where everyone works and plays.
Meltzer Kleinhenz, Sydnie. Work and Play. A girl looks at different jobs as she thinks about what she might do someday.
Rau, Dana Meachen. Firefighter. Easy to read text with rebuses explores the job of a firefighter.
Thomas, Mark. A Day with a Plumber. Explains in simple terms some of the work that a plumber does.
Picture Books
Cronin, Doreen. Rescue Bunnies. Newbie struggles to pass her field test to become a full-fledged Rescue Bunny.
Demarest, Chris L. Firefighters A to Z. An alphabetic look at a firefighter’s day.
George, Lucy M. Doctor. Explains all the important things that Doctor Miranda does each day as she helps her patients.
George, Lucy M. Firefighter. Frank the fire fighter and his crew help save a school and a guinea pig when a fire starts in the library.
George, Lucy M. Librarian. Explains all the important things that Rita the librarian does each day at the library.
George, Lucy M. Police Officer. Explains all the important things that Seth and his fellow police officers do each day.
George, Lucy M. Teacher. Explains all the important things that Ms. Betts does each day as she educates her students.
Grambling, Lois G. My Mom is a Firefighter. Billy spends time with his “second family” at the Floral Avenue firehouse where his mother works, and dreams of growing up to be a firefighter just like her.
Hartland, Jessie. Night Shift. Late at night after children have gone to bed, people who work the night shift, like street sweepers, window dressers, newspaper printers, road workers, and donut bakers, are doing their jobs.
Lloyd-Jones, Sally. How to Get a Job, by Me, the Boss. A young girl describes in detail how to decide on an interesting job and then tells exactly how to go about getting it.
Markes, Julie. Shhhhh! Everybody’s Sleeping. A young child is encouraged to go to sleep by the thought of everyone else sleeping, from teacher to baker to postman.
McMullen, Kate. Bulldog’s Big Day. While looking for a job, Bulldog tries being a firefighter, a window washer, a sign painter, and a bookseller before finding just the right job for himself.
Muir, Leslie. The Little Bitty Bakery. When an elephant pastry chef works straight through her birthday with no time for birthday cake, some industrious mice make good use of her kitchen and bake a delicious surprise.
Parr, Todd. Teachers Rock! A celebration of the ways in which teachers change the world, from encouraging creativity, to making students laugh, to helping them form friendships, always wanting everyone to succeed and making the classroom a great place to be.
Ransome, James. My Teacher. A student wonders why her teacher has chosen to teach in her school for so long, and highlights all the special things her teacher does for her class.
Rathmann, Peggy. Officer Buckle and Gloria. The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle’s safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches. (Caldecott shelf).
Rockwell, Anne F. Library Day. While visiting the library for the first time, a young boy listens to stories, reads books and magazines, and learns that there is something for everyone at the library.
Stoeke, Janet Morgan. It’s Library Day. The children walk down the hall in a nice straight line with big grins on their faces on library day.
Watts, Bernadette. Harvey Hare, Postman Extraordinaire. To show their appreciation for the reliability and hard work of their postman Harvey Hare, the other animals plan to give him a perfect present.
Illustrated Literature
Loy, Jessica. When I Grow Up: A Young Person’s Guide to Interesting & Unusual Occupations.
5/5/2018 CC
Picture Books
Anno, Mitsumasa. Anno’s Counting Book. A counting book depicting the growth in a village and surrounding countryside during twelve months.
Ashburn, Boni. Over at the Castle. In this variation on the folk song “Over the Meadow,” the occupants of a medieval castle spend their day spinning, cleaning, cooking, and dancing, until they receive a special surprise from their dragon neighbors.
Baker, Keith. 1-2-3 Peas. Busy little peas engage in their favorite activities as they introduce the numbers from one to 100.
Berkes, Marianne Collins. Over in the Grasslands: On an African Savanna. This grasslands variation of the classic song “Over in the Meadow” introduces animals and their offspring that dwell on the savanna of Africa, from a mother zebra and her “little calf one” to a “cunning father jackal and his little pups ten.”
Brown-Wood, JaNay. Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story! In rhyming text, when the whole family and guests show up for the big dinner at Grandma’s house, it becomes clear that the house is much too small to hold them all.
Bloom, Suzanne. A Number Slumber. A series of yawning, pajama-clad animals countdown as they prepare to go to sleep.
Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.
Cyrus, Kurt. Billions of Bricks. A counting book that leads readers through the day in the life of a construction worker building with bricks.
Dean, James. Pete the Cat: Five Little Ducks. Readers are invited to join Pete the Cat as he stars in the classic song “Five Little Ducks.”
Flintham, Thomas. One Lonely Fish / A Counting Book with Bite! Turn the page to see a new fish on each spread, and count along as each fish prepares to eat the one before it.
Fox, Mem. Let’s Count Goats! The reader is invited to count goats of many shapes, sizes, hobbies, and professions.
Greene, Rhonda Gowler. Push! Dig! Scoop! : A Construction Counting Rhyme. In this variation on the the classic song “Over in the Meadow,” mother and father trucks show their youngsters how to build down at the construction site, from “mama bulldozer with her little dozer one” to “mama steamroller with her little rollers ten.”
Hart, Caryl. One Shoe Two Shoes. Introduces colors and numbers one to ten as increasing numbers of mice explore a wide variety of shoes.
Hays, Anna Jane. Kindergarten Countdown. Rhyming text follows an excited little girl as she counts down the days before the start of kindergarten.
Hoban, Tana. Count and See. Photographs of common objects and events illustrate the numbers one through one hundred.
Krans, Kim. 123 dream. Drawings of creatures and natural wonders introduce numbers from one to ten. Includes a search-and-find activity.
Lessac, Frane. Island Counting 123. Counts from one to ten, featuring pictures and brief rhyming text with a Caribbean island theme.
Long, Ethan. One Drowsy Dragon. As one dragon tries to take a nap, his ten little dragons, in increasing numbers, disturb his sleep by making milk shakes, screaming at scary movies, and playing loud games.
Matheson, Christie. Bird Watch. Count backwards from ten as you search for hidden birds (and insects and animals) in this seek-and-find picture book.
McKellar, Danica. Goodnight, Numbers. Illustrations and simple text help the reader understand the numbers one to ten and recognize them as they appear all around us, especially at bedtime.
Micklos, John. One Leaf, Two Leaves, Count with Me! Illustrations and simple, rhyming text tell the story of a year in the life of a tree.
Pinder, Eric. Counting Dinos. Rodrigo the Ankylosaurus and his dinosaur friends explore their prehistoric world as they count from one to ten.
Rose, Deborah Lee. The Twelve Days of Kindergarten: A Counting Book. A cumulative counting verse in which a child enumerates items in the kindergarten classroom, from the whole alphabet, A to Z, to twelve eggs for hatching.
Rose, Deborah Lee. The Twelve Days of Springtime: A School Counting Book. A cumulative counting verse in which a child lists items pertaining to springtime given to her by her teacher, from a garden that needs to be carefully watered to twelve flags for flapping.
Sendak, Maurice. One Was Johnny: A Counting Book. See how Johnny restores peace and quiet to his home as he rids himself of ten intruders.
Sirotich, Erica. Found Dogs. Counts up ten dogs who are waiting in a shelter, then counts back down to one as each dog is adopted.
Surplice, Holly. Guinea Pig Party. The guinea pigs are having a party, and like many children’s birthday parties, things aren’t going perfectly. But in the end everyone has a good time and the party is a success!
Thompson, Lauren. How Many Cats? From zero to twenty, a house becomes filled with frolicking cats, who then leave alone or in groups.
Ward, Jennifer. Way Up in the Arctic. A counting book in rhyme presents various Arctic animals and their offspring, from a mother caribou and her “little calf one” to a mother Arctic fox and her “little cubs ten.”
Wood, Audrey. Ten Little Fish. Ten little fish swim along an ocean reef, each finding a different reason to leave until there is only one left.
Board Books
Bang, Molly. Ten, Nine, Eight. Numbers from ten to one are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.
Faliere, Amlie. 123 in a Tree: A Book of Numbers. Increasing amounts of animals in a tree teach young readers how to count from one to ten.
Hill, Eric. Spot Counts to 10. Illustrations of familiar objects from a child’s world–from one playful puppy to ten stars–encourage children to begin counting from one to ten with Spot the dog.
Katz, Karen. Ten Tiny Tickles. Family members awaken a baby with tickles, from one little tickle on a lovely sleepy head to ten tiny tickles on chubby, tubby toes.
Mitter, Matt. Cookie Countdown. Cookie Monster baked ten cookies to eat at Elmo’s party, but as he keeps meeting friends on his way to Elmo’s house, the cookies are quickly disappearing and Cookie Monster wonders if there will be a treat left for him to eat.
Mitter, Patricia. 1 2 3: My Numbers. Introduces young readers to the numbers from one to ten using illustrations of such birds as cardinals, bluebirds, robins, and goldfinches.
Oklejak, Marianna. Numbers. Introduces numbers one through ten with objects representing each number, including violins, rocking horses, and shirts.
Thompson, Lauren. Little Quack Counts. While exploring their neighborhood one afternoon, Little Quack and his sister, Piddle, count all the wonderful things they see, such as beautiful butterflies and busy bees, before finally returning home to the one they love, Mama Duck.
Walters, Eric. Bedtime 123. A counting board book that introduces little ones to all the animals around the farm that are going to bed.
Non-fiction
J 513.211 (Counting books)
J 398.8 Dil Mother Goose: Numbers on the Loose. Presents an illustrated collection of twenty-four counting rhymes, from “Baa, baa black sheep” to “Wash the dishes, wipe the dishes.”
J 460 Zak My Numbers in Spanish. Rhyming text in English introduces the Spanish and French terms for the numbers from one to ten and other words.
J 513.2 Bro 1 Cookie, 2 Chairs, 3 Pears. Offers photograph illustrations demonstrating groups of things from one to twenty.
J 599.789 Mar How Many Baby Pandas? Basic counting skills combine with panda facts to introduce readers to numbers and these cuddly cubs, from the moment they were born to the time they started climbing trees.
4/7/20 AH
Picture Books
Bley. Anette. And What Comes After A Thousand? Tells the story of a friendship between a young girl and an old, hard-of-hearing man. Lisa and Otto share many interests, but they are especially captivated by numbers. After he dies, she must learn to deal with her pain and feelings of abandonment.
Cazet, Denys. Christmas Moon. Patrick misses Grandpa, especially at Christmas, but his mother helps him to remember happy times with Grandpa and to use what Grandpa taught him to make Christmas happy for himself and his friends. (Holiday section)
Chichester Clark, Emma. Up in Heaven. When Arthur’s dog Daisy dies, she watches over him from heaven and eventually helps him find a new puppy.
Krishnaswami, Uma. Remembering Grandpa. When Grandma comes down with a bad case of sadness one year after Grandpa’s death, Daysha collects objects that will remind her grandmother of Daysha’s grandfather.
Levert, Mireille. Tulip and Lupin Forever. Tulip, the watering fairy, grieves the loss of her pet, knows that she will never forget him, and learns that she can go on, and find a new way to be.
Rylant, Cynthia. Cat Heaven. Describes all the good things for cats in cat heaven.
Rylant, Cynthia. Dog Heaven. Describes all the good things for dogs in dog heaven.
Sinykin, Sheri Cooper. Zayde Comes to Live. When Rachel’s beloved grandfather, Zayde, comes to spend his last days with her family, she worries what will happen when he dies, especially after friends tell her the Christian and Muslim beliefs about the afterlife.
Smith, Maggie. Desser, the Best Ever Cat. A young girl remembers growing up with Desser, the best cat ever, and all the things they did together. When he finally gets old and dies, she misses him, but she tells her new kitten Ginger all about him.
Yolen, Jane. Grandad Bill’s Song. Jon asks his family members what they did on the day Grandad died, and then talks about how he felt.
Illustrated Literature
Boyden, Linda. The Blue Roses. A Native American girl gardens with her grandfather, who helps to raise her, and learns about life and loss when he dies, and then speaks to her from a dream where he is surrounded by blue roses.
Hole, Stuart. Garmann’s Summer. As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann’s three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.
O’Brien, Anne Sibley. A Path of Stars. A refugee from Cambodia, Dara’s beloved grandmother is grief-stricken when she learns her brother has died, and it is up to Dara to try and heal her.
Wood, Nancy C. Old Coyote. Realizing that he has come to the end of his days, Old Coyote recalls many of the good things about his life.
Non-fiction
The 155.9 section has books about death and dying, including:
J 155.9 Tho I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids’ Guide to the Cycle of Life & Death.
J 155.937 Amo Death
J 155.937 Mur Death
J 155.937 San When People Die Parent and Teacher: a special collection of pictures books and non-fiction books for reading together with a child
Alvarez, Julia. Where Do They Go? Children wonder what happens to their loved ones after death.
Bruleigh, Robert. Good-Bye, Sheepie. A father teaches his young son about death and remembrance as he buries their beloved dog.
Cochran, Bill. The Forever Dog. Mike and his dog Corky plan to be best friends forever, so when Corky becomes sick and dies, Mike is angry about the broken promise.
Davies, Nicola. The Pond. A young boy and his family struggle to overcome the loss of his father using the small pond that he had begun to build as part of the healing process.
Harris, Robie H. Goodbye Mousie. A boy grieves for his dead pet Mousie, helps to bury him, and begins to come to terms with his loss.
Huneck, Stephen. Sally Goes to Heaven. A beloved dog dies and goes to Heaven where she lives happily and helps to find her family on earth a new pet.
Jeffers, Oliver. The Heart and the Bottle. After safeguarding her heart in a bottle hung around her neck, a girl finds the bottle growing heavier and her interest in things around her becoming smaller.
Lies, Brian. The Rough Patch. Farmer Evan and his dog do everything together and, especially, in the garden but when his dog passes away Evan lets his garden fill with weeds until a pumpkin vine brings new hope.Loewen, Nancy. Good-Bye, Jeepers: What to Expect When Your Pet Dies. This is a fictionalized account of a boy whose pet dies. The stages of, and through, grief are described.
Loewen, Nancy. Saying Good-Bye to Uncle Joe: What to Expect When Someone You Love Dies. A beloved uncle passes away suddenly, leaving his extended family to try to get used to him being gone. Told from the point of view of a young boy.
Loth, Sebastian. Remembering Crystal. When Zelda’s best friend dies she refuses to accept it and sets off to find Crystal traveling to the highest mountain, deepest ocean, and eventually back to the garden.
Moundlic, Charlotte. The Scar. When his mother dies, a little boy is angry at his loss but does everything he can to hold onto the memory of her scent, her voice, and the special things she did for him, even as he tries to help his father and grandmother cope.
Penn, Audrey. Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories. After his mother explains why his classmate is not returning to school, she teaches Chester Raccoon how to make a memory.
Puttock, Simon. A Story for Hippo; A Book about Loss. Hippo and Monkey are best, best, best friends and when the wise old Hippo dies, Monkey is very sad until Chameleon helps him remember the stories he and Hippo shared.
Schwiebert, Pat. Tear Soup. Describes the stages of grief through a story of one woman’s loss and journey through grief, using the metaphor of making “tear soup.”
Urdahl, Catherine. Emma’s Question. When Emma’s grandmother, who takes care of her after school and takes her out for bagels on Wednesdays, gets sick and has to go to the hospital, Emma is afraid that she will die – but she is also afraid to talk about her fear.
Wild, Margaret. Harry & Hopper. One day when Harry comes home from school, his faithful companion Hopper isn’t there to greet him, in a touching story about the process of healing after losing a beloved pet.
Brisson, Pat. I Remember Miss Perry. A whole class is very sad when their teacher is killed in a car accident, but they all remember how wonderful she was.
Brown, Laurene Krasny. When Dinosaurs Die. Explains in simple language the feelings people may have regarding the death of a loved one and the ways to honor the memory of someone who has died.
Cochrane, Mick. The Girl Who Threw Butterflies. Eighth-grader Molly’s ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, but also helps in other aspects of her life.
Johnston, Tony. That Summer. A family, including a child who is dying, sews together a quilt of its memories and love.
Mills, Joyce C. Gentle Willow: A Story for Children about Dying. Amanda the squirrel is upset that she is going to lose her friend Gentle Willow, but the tree wizards give advice that help both her and Gentle Willow accept the change that comes with death.
Portnoy, Mindy Avra.Where Do People Go When They Die? Different people give different answers to a young girl when she asks where people go when they die.
Raschka, Christopher. The Purple Balloon. Easy-to-read text reveals that dying is hard work, for the old and especially the young, and how good it is that so many people help when a person dies, from medical staff to clergy and friends to family members.
Valdivia, Paloma. And So It Goes. Explores the way that some people leave the world and others come into it, and how those who come into it eventually leave it.
Varley, Susan. Badger’s Parting Gifts. Badger’s friends are sad when he dies, but they treasure the legacies he left them.
Vigna, Judith. Saying Goodbye to Daddy. A young girl narrates the book, telling what it was like when her daddy was killed in a car accident and how sad they all were for a long time.
Weninger, Brigitte. Aunt Fanny’s Star: Children and the Loss of a Loved One. This touching, gentle picture book helps children navigate the difficult issues of dealing with the death of a loved one. It shares in simple terms the truth that death affects us all, and that life goes on as surely as there are stars twinkling in the sky.
Zucker, Bonnie. Something Very Sad Happened: A Toddler’s Guide to Understanding Death. Parent and Teacher Non-fiction
Hewitt, Sally. When People Die. Case studies and helpful advice for kids who have experienced death of a close loved one. 155.937 HewHigginbotham, Anastasia. Death is Stupid. Walks through the emotions and confusion it is common for young people to experience when someone dies, and describes some of the ways to celebrate love and life. 155.937 HigRoberts, Jillian. What Happens When a Loved One Dies? Our First Talk about Death. Offers young readers a gentle introduction to the concept of death, as well as the feelings that come with losing someone and positive ways to deal with them. 306.9 Rob
Children’s Fiction
Beaty, Andrea. Cicada Summer. Twelve-year-old Lily mourns her brother, and has not spoken since the accident she feels she could have prevented, but the summer Tinny comes to town she is the only one who realizes Lily’s secret.
Bishop, Jenn. The Distance to Home. Baseball player and super fan Quinnen must struggle to deal with her older sister’s death in a story that unfolds between two summers.
Brisson, Pat. Sky Memories. When ten-year-old Emily learns that her mother has cancer, the two of them begin a ritual that will help Emily remember her mother after she is dead.
Condie, Allyson Braithwaite. Summerlost. Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief.
Creech, Sharon. Chasing Redbird. Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self-truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family’s farm in Kentucky.
De Guzman, Michael. Henrietta Hornbuckle’s Circus for Life. Twelve-year-old Henrietta Hornbuckle and her parents perform as clowns in a tiny, ramshackle traveling circus until a family tragedy jeopardizes Henrietta’s whole offbeat world.
DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne. A Dog Like Jack. After a long life of chasing squirrels, licking ice cream cones, and loving his adoptive family, an old dog comes to the end of his days.
Doherty, Berlie. The Girl Who Saw Lions. In alternating voices, thirteen-year-old Rosa and her mother are trying to adopt a Tanzanian child in England, while in Tanzania, nine-year-old Abela watches her family die and her uncle illegally sends her to England, in the hopes of selling her.
Edge, Christopher. The Many Worlds of Albie Bright. When Albie’s mother, who is a scientist at CERN, dies of cancer, the concept of parallel universes and quantum physics serve as a comfort. Written at a fifth grade level.
Ellsworth, Loretta. The Shrouding Woman. When her Aunt Flo comes to help care for eleven-year-old Evie and her younger sister after their mother’s death, Evie wants nothing to do with her and she is especially uncomfortable with her aunt’s calling of helping prepare bodies for burial.
Graff, Lisa. Umbrella Summer. After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss.
Henkes, Kevin. Bird Lake Moon. Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer’s little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
Hest, Amy. Remembering Mrs. Rossi. Although she loves her father, their home in New York City, and her third-grade teacher Miss Meadows, Annie misses her mother who died recently.
Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira-Kira. Chronicles the close relationship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950’s and the despair felt when one sister becomes ill. (Newbery)
Klise, Kate. Grounded. After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn’s life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town’s new crematorium.
Kornblatt, Marc. Izzy’s Place. While spending the summer at his grandmother’s Indiana home, ten-year-old Henry Stone gets help from a new friend in dealing with the recent death of his grandfather and the possibility of his parents getting divorced.
Lupica, Mike. Last Man Out. Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
Mathews, Eleanor. The Linden Tree. Nine year old Katie Sue’s mother dies suddenly. She and her family try to recover from their loss with the help of Aunt Katherine.
Mazer, Norma Fox. Girlhearts. Thirteen-year-old Sarabeth Silver’s life is turned upside down when her mother dies suddenly, leaving her orphaned, confused, and at the mercy of everyone who seems to know what is best for her.
McGhee, Alison. Snap: A Novel. Eleven-year-old Edwina confronts old and new challenges when her longtime best friend Sally faces the inevitable death of the grandfather who raised her.
Ness, Patrick. A Monster Calls. Thirteen year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill — an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
Nicholls, Sally. Ways to Live Forever. Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him. Ovreas, Hakon. Brown. When Rusty’s grandfather dies, he and two friends get into some antics with the help of their superhero alter egos, Brown, Black and Blue. Friendship, imagination and talismans from grandpa help Rusty adapt.
Ray, Delia. Ghost Girl: A Blue Ridge Mountain Story. Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near Ridge Mountain her home, but her family’s poverty, grief over the accidental death of her brother, and other problems may mean that April can never learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss Vest.
Rylant, Cynthia. Missing May. After the death of the beloved aunt who raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle leave their trailer in search of the strength to go on living. (Newbery)
Smith, Tamara Ellis. Another Kind of Hurricane. The world, itself, seems to bring together Henry, whose best friend died near their home in the mountains of Vermont, and Zavion, who lost his home in Hurricane Katrina, so that the boys can help each other heal.
Straight, Susan. The Friskative Dog. Sharron’s father has disappeared, and she tries to cope with her feelings of loss through the love of a stuffed dog he gave her.
Wallace, Bill. No Dogs Allowed! Eleven-year-old Christine, still struggling to come to terms with the death of her family’s beloved horse, finds it difficult to accept the new dog she receives for her birthday.
12/22/17 CC
Picture Books
Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta. The Mine-O-Saur. The greedy Mino-o-Saur learns the hard way that he needs to share the toys in order to make friends.
Bardoe, Cheryl. The Ugly Duckling Dinosaur: A Prehistoric Tale. In this take on “The Ugly Duckling,” a tyrannosaurus rex is hatched in a nest of ducklings. Includes facts about dinosaurs.
Bateman, Teresa. Hunting the Daddyosaurus. Two young dinosaurs track their father around the house and finally tackle him in his easy chair.
Carrick, Carol. Patrick’s Dinosaurs. When his older brother talks about dinosaurs during a visit to the zoo, Patrick is afraid, until he discovers they all died millions of years ago.
Carrick, Carol. What Happened to Patrick’s Dinosaurs. Fascinated with dinosaurs, Patrick invents an imaginary explanation of why they become extinct.
Carrick, Carol. Big Old Bones: A Dinosaur Tale. Professor Potts discovers some big old bones and puts them together in various ways until he is satisfied he has discovered a dinosaur that once ruled the earth.
Choldenko, Gennifer. Dad and the Dinosaur. A boy keeps a toy dinosaur in his pocket to help him be brave like his dad–but when the dinosaur goes missing, Dad knows just what to do.
Cyrus, Kurt. The Voyage of Turtle Rex. Follows the life of a giant prehistoric sea turtle.
Dale, Penny. Dinosaur Pirates! A group of prehistoric pirates navigate their way to a desert island in search of a buried treasure, encountering a fearsome band of gold-snatching marauders.
Fisher, Valorie. How High Can a Dinosaur Count? And Other Math Mysteries. Fifteen miniature worlds, each showcasing a math problem.
Fuge, Charles. Three Little Dinosaurs. Dreaming about being able to fly, young dinosaur companions Scratch, Spike, and Lofty climb a volcano and plan to jump into the air only to learn from a friendly pterodactyl that flying is harder than it seems.
Grambling, Lois G. T. Rex and the Mother’s Day Hug. Eager to do something special for Mother’s Day, T. Rex decides to surprise his mother by decorating her car.
Greathouse, Carol. The Dinosaur Tamer. With the strength of an Iguanodon and the speed of a Utah Raptor, lasso-tossing, Pleiosaurus-riding Rocky is legendary. There isn’t a dinosaur in the land that would think of giving Rocky a lick of trouble. That is, until he meets T. Rex, the rip-roarinest, snip-snortinest, flame-breathinest reptilian ever to stomp the earth.
Gurney, John Steven. Dinosaur Train. Jesse imagines riding on a train where all the passengers and workers are dinosaurs.
Hines, Anna Grossnickle. I Am a Tyrannosaurus. A boy mimics the actions of several different dinosaurs as he imagines he is one of them.
Kastner, Jill. Princess Dinosaur. Princess Dinosaur has fun playing with the rest of the toys until Spots the dog comes and carries her off to an outdoor adventure.
Kroll, Steven. The Tyrannosaurus Game. One rainy day at school, a group of children work together to make up a story about their adventures with a tyrannosaurus.
Lund, Deb. Dinosailors. After spending time sailing, some seasick dinosaurs decide they have had enough of the high seas.
Lund, Deb. All Aboard the Dinotrain. When dinosaurs seek adventure by taking a train ride, they find the trip has some unexpected surprises along the way.
Manning, Mick. Dino-Dinners. Presents information about the eating habits of dinosaurs, discussing the types and amount of food they ate, where they found it, and how physical dimensions and environment affected their diet and their role as predators on each other.
Mayo, Margaret. Stomp, Dinosaur, Stomp! Illustrations and rhyming text describe a noisy parade of dinosaurs stomping, swooshing, plodding, and lunging through the landscape.
McCarty, Peter. T is for Terrible. A tyrannosaurus rex explains that he cannot help it that he is enormous and hungry and is not a vegetarian.
McMullan, Kate. I’m Bad. A hungry Tyrannosaurus rex searches for food in the prehistoric forest but is thwarted in its attempts to find something to eat!
McMullan, Kate. I’m Big! A young Sauropod encounters friends and foes while searching for his pack, who left while he was oversleeping.
Mitton, Tony. Dinosaurumpus! A rhyming tale of Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and even Tyrannosaurus gathering at the swamp to dance.
Plourde, Lynn. Dino Pets. A boy brings home various dinosaurs from the pet store, but discovers that neither the biggest nor the smallest, the softest nor the scariest, makes an ideal pet. Includes facts about dinosaurs.
Plourde, Lynn. Dino Pets go to School. A boy brings various dinosaurs to school, but discovers that neither the loudest, nor the tallest, nor the smartest is suited to the classroom. Includes facts about dinosaurs.
Prasadam-Halls, Smriti. T. Veg : The Story of a Carrot-Crunching Dinosaur. Scolded by his parents and teased by classmates, Reginald, a tyrannosaurus rex who does not like meat, leaves home in hopes of finding acceptance among the herbivores.
Rennert, Laura. Buying, Training & Caring for Your Dinosaur. Includes instructions for choosing and caring for a pet dinosaur.
Rosenberg, Liz. Tyrannosaurus Dad. Tobias’s father is different from other dads, not only because he is a tyrannosaurus but also because he is busy all of the time, but when disaster looms during Field Day at Tobias’s school, his dad comes through.
Shea, Bob. Dinosaur vs. Bedtime. A young dinosaur takes on many challenges and wins every time. Then Dinosaur faces his toughest challenge of all: bedtime.
Sierra, Judy. Suppose You Meet a Dinosaur: A First Book of Manners. Illustrates basic polite behavior that one might need to use while grocery shopping at the same time as a dinosaur.
Sis, Peter. Dinosaur! While taking a bath, a young boy is joined by all sorts of dinosaurs.
Sperring, Mark. Find-a-Saurus. Even though Marty’s mother has told him that dinosaurs no longer exist, he is certain they are just good at hiding and sets out to find one, encountering many fantastic creatures along the way.
Staniszewski, Anna. Dogosaurus Rex. Ben selects from the shelter a most unusual “dog” that wreaks havoc in town until she has a chance to prove her worth.
Steinberg, Laya. Thesaurus Rex. Thesaurus Rex, a lovable dinosaur, introduces children to synonyms in this rhyming text that takes him throughout his day.
Stickland, Paul. Dinosaur Roar! Illustrations and rhyming text present all kinds of dinosaurs, including ones that are sweet, grumpy, spiky, or lumpy.
Wheeler, Lisa. Dino-Baseball. Meat-eating dinosaurs face plant-eating dinosaurs in a baseball game.
Wheeler, Lisa. Dino-Hockey. The meat-eating dinosaurs challenge the plant-eating dinosaurs to a hockey match.
Whybrow, Ian. Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs. Harry finds toy dinosaurs in the attic that come to life when he names each one.
Whybrow, Ian.Harry and the Dinosaurs at the Museum. When his family goes to a museum so that big sister Sam can research human ancestors, young Harry wanders off while playing with his toy dinosaurs and becomes lost, but Gran knows just where to find him.
Whybrow, Ian. Harry and the Dinosaurs Say “Raahh!” A young boy takes his toy dinosaurs with him to help calm his fears on his first visit to the dentist.
Willems, Mo. Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct. Everyone in town loves Edwina the dinosaur except one little boy who is determined to prove to everyone, including Edwina, that dinosaurs are extinct.
Yolen, Jane. How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Mother and child ponder the different ways a dinosaur can say goodnight, from slamming his tail and pouting to giving a big hug and kiss. (Series)
Illustrated Literature
Florian, Douglas. Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings. An illustrated collection of poems and collages about dinosaurs.
Beginning Readers
Adler, David. A. Bones and the Dinosaur Mystery. Young Detective Jeffrey Bones investigates the disappearance of the plastic dinosaur his grandfather just bought for him in a museum gift shop.
Brown, Charlotte Lewis. The Day the Dinosaurs Died. A compelling account of how the impact of a giant asteroid may have killed the Earth’s dinosaurs.
Davis, Lee. Dinosaur Dinners. Follows a baby Maiasaurus on its first day out of the nest, describing the habits and behavior of the many other dinosaurs it meets.
DePaola, Tomie. T-Rex Is Missing! Morgie accuses his best friend of taking his favorite dinosaur toy without asking, and then he finds that he must apologize.
George, Kallie. Duck, duck, Dinosaur : Snowy Surprise. Spike wants to play out in the snow with his siblings Feather and Flap, but they’re too cold, so Spike surprises them with gifts.
Hoff, Syd. Danny and the Dinosaur. A little boy is surprised and pleased when one of the dinosaurs from the museum agrees to play with him. (series)
Hopkins, Lee Benett. Dizzy Dinosaurs: Silly Dino Poems. Collects humorous poems about dinosaurs, both real and fictional, including the muddy Triceratops, the pilot Pterodactyl, and the dancing Sauropods.
Lucas, Sally. Dancing Dinos Go to School. A surprised librarian and a young reader watch as dancing dinosaurs in a book leap off the page and into the school, causing havoc in the classroom and on the playground.
Suen, Anastasia. Dino Hunt. Look high! Look low! Look over! Look under! The dino hunt has begun, turning a day at the museum into another adventure for Robot and Rico.
Surgal, Jon. Have You Seen My Dinosaur? A five-year-old boy searches high and low for his missing dinosaur, and the people he asks for help do not believe such a creature actually exists.
Fiction
Byars, Betsy Cromer. Boo’s Dinosaur. When young Boo is followed home by a dinosaur that only she can see, it causes a bit of trouble for her older brother, Sammy. When young Boo is followed home by a dinosaur that only she can see, it causes a bit of trouble for her older brother, Sammy.
Fulk, David. Raising Rufus. A lonely 11-year-old science nerd named Martin discovers an ancient egg and soon finds himself “surrogate mom” to a very outlandish pet–a T. rex. But when his secret gets too big to keep from the world, Martin must find his inner hero to save the one thing he’s come to really care about.
Griffin, Adele. Oona Finds an Egg. Oona finds a giant egg and brings it back to West Wog to care for it, and see what hatches–but others in the cave want to claim her egg, particularly the nasty kid Bruce Brute, and when the baby stegosaurus hatches it will have to choose who it wants to live with.
Hopper, Ada. Don’t disturb the Dinosaurs. Catapulted through time to the prehistoric era, the DATA Set find their efforts to avoid contaminating history challenged by flying Pterosaurs, stomping stegosaurus stampedes and a sharp-toothed T-rex.
Lubar, David. Dinosaur Disaster. Ed, his friends, and even his little sister are eager to go to Dinosaur Discovery, but ever since he found the magic coin called Silver Center, strange things happen around Ed–so he is not surprised to find that a blue dinosaur has followed his sister home.
Non-fiction
J 513 Mar Tyrannosaurus Math
J 745.5 Ros Crafts for Kids Who Are Learning about Dinosaurs
J 745.5 Ros Crafts for Kids Who Are Wild about Dinosaurs
J 811.54 Lee My Teacher Is a Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric Poems, Jokes, Riddles & Amazing Facts
J 811.6 Wei Can You Dig It? and Other Poems Additional books about dinosaurs can be found in the 567.9 section.
5/11/18 CC
Picture Books
Ashman, Linda.Stella, Unleashed: Notes from the Doghouse. The family dog describes her life in a series of rhymes.
Baek, Matthew J. Be Gentle with the Dog, Dear! Tag is a very gentle dog who understands that baby Elisa only wants to play when she squeezes, pulls, and tackles him, but taking his favorite toy may be more than he can stand.
Barracca, Debra. The Adventures of Taxi Dog. A stray dog in New York City is adopted by a taxi driver, with whom he thereafter rides and shares adventures each day.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Nobody’s Diggier Than a Dog. An ode to man’s best friend unleashes a whole new pack of poetic adjectives to describe the very nature and personality of our devoted dogs.
Beaumont, Karen.Move Over, Rover. When a storm comes, Rover expects to have his doghouse all to himself but finds that various other animals, including a skunk, come to join him.
Bedord, David.The Way I Love You. A little girl celebrates all of the ways she loves her puppy.
Bliss, Harry. Bailey. Although he is a dog, Bailey goes to school where his canine abilities enliven an ordinary day.
Broach, Elise. Wet Dog! A dog’s attempts to cool off on a hot day get him into trouble with a series of people and finally lead him to interrupt a country wedding.
Carter, David A.Woof! Woof! Die-cut pages are used to reveal gradually parts of an overall picture as the reader is asked to guess what the eventual picture will be.
Casanova, Mary. Some Dog! A stray dog moves into George’s formerly peaceful home, dazzling the man and woman of the house with lively tricks and antics that just leave George exhausted.
Clements, Andrew.Naptime for Slippers. Slippers the puppy would rather pay attention to interesting smells, sounds, and sights than take a nap.
Chichester, Clark.Up in Heaven. When Arthur’s dog Daisy dies, she watches over him from heaven and eventually helps him find a new puppy.
Christelow, Eileen.Letters from a Desperate Dog. Feeling misunderstood and unappreciated by her owner, Emma the dog asks for advice from the local canine advice columnist.
Clerici, Lorenzo. The Dog Book. Encourages readers to interact with a yellow dog by calling his name, scratching his back, and telling him to sit.
Cotterill, Samantha. No More Bows. A determined dog runs away from home after his young owner dresses him in one too many ridiculous bows, a decision that he questions when he realizes that life is better at his friend’s side.
Crosby, Jeff. Wiener Wolf. Wiener Dog, bored of his comfortable life with an elderly owner, gets more than he bargained for when he runs away from home and joins a wolf pack living in the state park.
Cumming, Alan.The Adventures of Honey & Leon. Determined to keep their dads safe on their trip to France, two dogs disguise themselves and follow along.
Day, Alexandra.Carl’s Summer Vacation. Carl and Madeleine are supposed to be napping while Mom and Dad get the summer cabin ready for company, but they escape from the hammock to do some exploring on the lake. (Series)
Dewdney, Anna. Grumpy Gloria. Family members try various ways to cheer up their grouchy bulldog.
DiPucchio, Kelly.Antoinette. Raised in a family of talented bulldogs, Antoinette the poodle wonders what makes her special. She gets the chance to prove herself and find what she’s good at when puppy Ooh-la-la goes missing.
Ehlert, Lois.Rrralph.The narrator describes discovering how Ralph the dog can talk, appropriately saying words such as “roof,” “rough,” “bark,” and “wolf.”
Evans, Katie.Hunky Dory Ate It. Spunky Hunky Dory tries to eat everything in sight–and winds up a sick puppy at the vet’s.
Feiffer, Jules.Bark, George! George likes to please his mother, but when she tells him to bark he says “meow” and “quack-quack” and “oink” and “moo” – until she takes him to the vet, who finally figures out what’s going on with George. Or does he?
Flack, Marjorie.Angus and the Cat. Angus the Scottie dog spends three days chasing the new cat that has come to live at his house, but when the cat disappears, Angus misses his new friend.
Bridwell, Norman.Clifford, the Big Red Dog. Emily Elizabeth describes the activities she enjoys with her very big, very red dog and how they take care of each other. (Series)
Edwards, Karl. I Got a New Friend. A little girl and her new puppy get to know one another.
Ehlert, Lois.Wag a Tail. Assorted graduates of the Bow Wow School meet at a farmers market and a dog park, where most of them remember their obedience training.
Faller, Regis.The Adventures of Polo. Polo the dog sets out from his home and enjoys many adventures, including sailing his boat on top of a whale, roasting hot dogs over a volcano, and taking a ride in a spaceship built from a mushroom.
Fergus, Maureen.Buddy and Earl go to School. Buddy and Earl gather their unconventional, messy school supplies and head into the classroom where Earl takes over for the teacher and Buddy teaches such skills as tail chasing.
Flesher, Vivienne.Alfred’s Nose. Even though everybody loves him as he is, Alfred, a French bulldog, finds it hard to accept his unusual looks, especially his nose.
Gianferrari, Maria.Hello Goodbye Dog. A student who uses a wheelchair finds a way to see her dog each day in school.
Goodrich, Carter. Say Hello to Zorro. Mister Bud, the family dog, has a satisfying routine to his life, but when another dog joins the family and disrupts his schedule, Mister Bud must learn to adapt.
Grogan, John.Bad Dog, Marley! Marley, a rambunctious puppy, makes himself at home while causing lots of trouble but then proves in a very dramatic way that he is a valuable member of the household.
Hartland, Jessie. Clementine in the City. Bored with small town life and longing for adventure, Clementine the poodle moves to the city to become a circus entertainer.
Hayes, Sarah.Dog Day. Ben and Ellie’s class has a new teacher, and it’s a dog named Riff!
Heiligman, Deborah.Fun Dog, Sun Dog. Although Tinka the dog can be described in many ways, she is always the right kind of canine for her owner.
Heim, Alastair.The Great Puppy Invasion. When Strictville, where fun, play, and cuteness are all forbidden, is invaded by hundreds of adorable puppies, everyone is terrified until Teddy decides to shake the littlest puppy’s paw.
Hest, Amy.The Dog Who Belonged to No One. The hard-working daughter of two bakers and a perfectly nice stray dog live lonely lives in the same town, until they meet one very stormy day.
Hill, Eric.Spot Goes to the Park. Spot the puppy, his mother, and his animal friends have a fun-filled day playing in the park. Movable flaps conceal portions of the illustrations and text. (Series)
Hodge, Marie.Are You Sleepy Yet, Petey? Petey the puppy doesn’t want to go to bed at bedtime. How will his little boy make sure Petey gets enough sleep?
Holt, Kimberly Willis. Skinny Brown Dog. Benny the baker sees no need for a dog in his life, but while his most faithful customer and the children who visit his bakery for “Free cookie day” soon realize he has been adopted by a stray, it takes a heroic deed to convince Benny that the dog belongs with him.
Huneck, Stephen.Sally Goes to the Beach. Sally, a black Labrador retriever, goes to the beach, where she enjoys various activities with other visiting dogs. (Series)
Inkpen, Mick.Kipper’s Book of Colors. Kipper the dog learns his colors. (Series — some are board books)
Joose, Barbara. Bad Dog School. Harris’s family decides that his dog Zippy should go to dog obedience school, but after he is trained, they miss the old Zippy.
Keller, Holly.Sophie’s Window. When Caruso, a little bird who is afraid to fly, is blown out of his home one windy night, he must rely on a new friend, a dog named Sophie, to take him back to his parents.
Kopper, Lisa.Daisy’s Babies. Every time Daisy’s puppies and their friend, Baby, want to do something, the others have different ideas.
Lacasa, Blanca.Bow-Wow-Meow. Max and his parents have a dog called Fabio. Fabio doesn’t like doing what other dogs do. One day, Max discovers that his dog goes out every night, and he decides to follow him…
LaRochelle, David.The Best Pet of All. A young boy enlists the help of a dragon to persuade his mother to let him have a dog as a pet.
Lee, Spike.Please, Puppy, Please. When two toddlers take on the responsibility of caring for their first pet, a young pup, the little ones quickly realize that they are going to have their hands full as they chase after the energetic new family member.
Loupy, Cristophe.Wiggles. Wiggles the puppy finds her curiosity getting her into all sorts of trouble as she explores the farm with her father.
Luthardt, Kevin.Larabee. The mailman’s dog, Larabee, helps deliver letters and packages to everyone on the route except himself.
MacLachlan, Patricia. Barkus. Barkus is a large and very smart dog who comes to live with seven-year-old Nicky when Nicky’s Uncle Everton goes traveling–and soon he is a family and school favorite.
Masurel, Claire. Domino. As the smallest of five puppies, Domino cannot do many things as well as the others do, but he proves that sometimes being smallest is best.
McCarthy, Meghan.Show Dog. When their town hosts a dog show, the Hubbles enter their dog Oval, a lovable pooch that can spin in circles, get the newspaper, and give big, wet, sloppy kisses.
McCarty, Peter.Fabian Escapes. While Hondo the dog stays home and enjoys his usual pursuits, Fabian the cat escapes out the window and has many adventures.
McDonnell, Christine.Dog Wants to Play. Dog is eager to have fun, but no one in the barnyard will play with him except one special friend.
McGhee, Alison.Always. A loyal dog promises to protect his young mistress and her home from any danger.
McHenry, E.B.Has Anyone Seen Winnie and Jean? Two corgi dogs escape from their owners and have an exciting adventure before being returned home by the police.
Meddaugh, Susan. Martha Habla. Problems arise when Martha, the family dog, learns to speak after eating alphabet soup. (Series)
Meister, Cari.Tiny on the Farm. Eliot and his big dog, Tiny, visit a farm and help Eliot’s uncle find a missing litter of kittens.
Meyers, Susan. Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Rhyming text follows the life of all sorts of puppies from when they are born “with eyes shut tight,” through moving in with a new family and “getting bowls and beds and names,” to learning how to do things grown-up dogs do.
Monfreid, Dorothee de. A Day With Dogs : What Do Dogs Do All Day? Dogs in cars, dogs on skis, dogs in the kitchen, dogs at the doctor. What do dogs do all day?
Niland, Deborah.Annie’s Chair. Little Annie gets upset when the dog sleeps on her chair.
Noullet, Georgette. Bed Hog. The family dog spends a long night looking for a comfortable place to sleep.
O’Connor, Jane.Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy. Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppysitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing.
Parr, Todd.Otto Goes to School. After a breakfast of juice, cereal, and a banana split, Otto goes to school for the first time, where he makes new friends and learns how to wag his tail without knocking things over.
Pitzer, Susanna.Not Afraid of Dogs. Young Daniel must confront his fear of dogs when his mom dog sits his aunt’s pet.
Postgate, Daniel. Smelly Bill. Bill the dog is a scraggly mongrel who loves smelly things like muddy ponds and rubbish bins until a cleaning fanatic named Great Aunt Bleach arrives, determined to put an end to his smelly ways–forever.
Reiser, Lynn. Hardworking Puppies. One by one, ten energetic puppies find important jobs as dogs who help people in different ways, including by pulling sleds and saving swimmers.
Romanova, Yelena.The Perfect Friend. Archie the dog is unsure about his role in the family when a new baby arrives.
Seeger, Laura Vacccaro.Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories. Three easy-to-read stories reveal the close friendship between Dog and Bear.
Seeger, Laura Vacccaro. Dog and Bear: Two’s Company. Three more easy-to-read stories reveal the close friendship between a dachshund named Dog and a stuffed bear.
Scanlon, Elizabeth Garton. Bob, Not Bob! When a young boy gets a cold, he just wants his mommy. But his stuffy nose makes it difficult for him to call out to his mom–not ‘Bob,’ who happens to be the family dog.
Shannon, David.Good Boy, Fergus! Except for his bath, Fergus experiences the perfect doggy day, from chasing cats and motorcycles to being scratched on his favorite tickle spot.
Sirotich, Erica.Found Dogs. Counts up ten dogs who are waiting in a shelter, then counts back down to one as each dog is adopted.
Sullivan, Mary.Frankie. When shelter dog Frankie arrives at his new home, he finds that all of the toys belong to the other dog in the house, Nico, but they soon find a way to share.
Urbigkit, Cat. Puppies, Puppies Everywhere! Simple rhyming text describes different puppies, from large to small, and their actions, from fighting to biting.
Wells, Rosemary. McDuff and the Baby. McDuff enjoys reading the paper with Fred and taking walks in the woods with Lucy, but all that changes when they bring a new baby home.
Wells, Rosemary. Otto Runs for President. While the popular Tiffany and athletic Charles make increasingly outrageous promises in their campaigns for President of Canine Country Day School, Otto quietly enters the race, vowing only to try to do what students really want.
Wood, Audrey. A Dog Needs a Bone. In this rhyming tale, a dog makes extravagant promises to its mistress if only she will give it a bone.
Zarin, Cynthia.Albert, the Dog Who Liked to Ride in Taxis. Albert the dachshund loves nothing better than riding in taxicabs, until the day a taxicab adventure takes him to the airport.
Zion, Gene.Harry the Dirty Dog. When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn’t recognize him as a black dog with white spots. (Series)
Children’s Fiction
American Girl Series.Kaya and Lone Dog: A Friendship Story. Still grieving over the death of her hero, and missing her stolen horse and kidnapped younger sister, Kaya tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies. 81 pages. (J FIC Ame)
Armstrong, William H.Sounder. Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder. 116 pages. (NEWBERY Arm)
Barrow, Rani G.Saving Zasha. In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret. 229 pages. (J FIC Bar)
Beha, Eileen.Tango: The Tale of an Island Dog. Lost at sea while sailing with his wealthy owners, a Yorkshire terrier washes up, nearly dead, in a village on Prince Edward Island where he is nursed back to health by a lonely widow and is befriended by a fox and an abandoned waif who is also struggling to find a home for herself somewhere. 244 pages. (J FIC Beh)
Collard, Sneed B. Dog Sense. After he and his mother move from California to Montana to live with his grandfather, thirteen-year-old Guy gradually adjusts to the unfamiliar surroundings, makes a friend, and learns to deal with a bully, with the help of his Frisbee-catching dog, Streak. 176 pages. (J FIC Col)
Cox, Judy.Puppy Power. Boisterous third-grader Fran has trouble controlling herself, but learning how to train her gigantic Newfoundland puppy helps her gain enough self-control to win the part of princess in the class play. Includes instructions on puppy training. 91 pages. (J FIC Cox)
Crisp, Marty.White Star: A Dog on the Titanic. Twelve-year-old Sam, a passenger on the Titanic’s maiden sea voyage, volunteers to help care for the dogs in the ocean liner’s kennel and becomes fast friends with the Irish setter of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship’s owner. 150 pages. (J FIC Cri)
Dale, Jenny.Puppy Patrol. Follows the adventures of the dogs at King Street Kennels. (Series) (JPB Dale)
DeFelice, Cynthia C.Ghost of Cutler Creek. When Allie is contacted by the ghost of a dog, she and Dub investigate the surly new boy at school and his father, who may be running a puppy mill, to see if they are involved. 181 pages. (J FIC Def).
DiCamillo, Kate.Because of Winn-Dixie. Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie. 182 pages. (JPB Dic)
Finney, Patricia.I, Jack. Jack, a Labrador Retriever, tells about his daily life of food, walks, and the “apedogs” and “funny-looking dogs” (cats) in his pack, as well as how everything changes when a pretty girl dog moves into the neighborhood. Includes explanatory footnotes written by the cats. 185 pages. (J FIC Fin)
Frost, Helen. Diamond Willow. In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her. 111 pages. (J Fic Fro)
Gipson, Fred.Old Yeller. In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family’s farm and making a painful, important decision. 184 pages. (J FIC Gip)
Harper, Charise Mericle.Just Grace Walks the Dog. Eight-year-old Just Grace and her best friend Mimi embark on a campaign to convince Grace’s parents that they are responsible and dependable enough to get a dog. 163 pages. (J FIC Har)
Howe, James.Bud Barkin, Private Eye. Howie, the wirehaired dachshund, tries his paw at writing a new kind of novel, a mystery in which he imagines himself as a private investigator and Delilah as the “mysterious dame.” 88 pages. (Series) (J FIC How)
Howe, Peter.Waggit’s Tale. When Waggit is abandoned by his owner as a puppy, he meets a pack of wild dogs who become his friends and teach him to survive in the city park, but when he has a chance to go home with a kind woman who wants to adopt him, he takes it. 276 pages. (J FIC How)
Kadohata, Cynthia.Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam. A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog. 312 pages. (J FIC Kad)
Klimo, Kate. Dog Diaries. Each diary tells the story of a different dog. (Series) 147 pages. (J FIC Kli)
Lee, Ingrid.Dog Lost. After living happily in a warm home with an eleven-year-old boy, a pit bull terrier is forced to survive on the streets, where its brave deeds surprise many residents who dislike or fear pit bulls. 197 pages. (J FIC Lee)
Loggia, Wendy.A Puppy of My Own. For Emily’s ninth birthday, she has the perfect present picked out–a yellow Lab puppy. But when will her parents believe she is old enough to accept the responsibility of pet ownership? 105 pages. (Series) (JPB Log)
London, Jack.The Call of the Wild. The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. 126 pages. (J FIC Lon)
London, Jack.White Fang. Part wolf and part dog, orphaned White Fang relies on his instincts as well as his inborn strength and courage to survive in the Yukon wilderness despite both animal and human predators but eventually comes to make his peace with man. 240 pages. (JPB Lon)
Matthews, L.S.A Dog For Life. When John, who has a special ability to communicate with animals, finds that his dog, Mouse is scheduled to go to the pound, he and Mouse decide to run away and find his uncle who may be able to help them. 167 pages. (J Fic Mat)
Messner, Kate. Rescue on the Oregon Trail (1st in Ranger in Time series). Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue dog, except for the squirrels! One day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail. 125 pages (J Fic Mes)
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh. When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog’s real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. 144 pages. (J NEWBERY Nay)
O’Connor, Barbara. How to Steal a Dog. Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother’s calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer. 170 pages. (J FIC Oco)
Pennack, Daniel. Dog. Rescued from certain death by a kindly dog at the city dump, an abandoned puppy grows up fending for himself until he finds a home with a willful little girl. Could she be the mistress of his dreams? 182 pages. (J FIC Pen)
Pyron, Bobbie.A Dog’s Way Home. After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie Tam overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other. 321 pages. (J FIC Pyr)
Rawls, Wilson.Where the Red Fern Grows. A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart’s desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters. 212 pages. (J FIC and JPB Raw)
Russell, Christopher.Dogboy. In 1346, twelve-year-old Brind, an orphaned kennel boy raised with hunting dogs at an English manor, accompanies his master, along with half of the manor’s prized mastiffs, to France, where he must fend for himself when both his master and the dogs are lost at the decisive battle of Crecy. 259 pages. (J FIC Rus)
Seidler, Tor.Gully’s Travels. When his beloved owner falls in love with a woman who is allergic to long-haired dogs, Gulliver is given away to his doorman and the pooch’s wonderful life of leisure comes to a dramatic end after he moves in with his new owner’s family in their cramped home in Queens. 173 pages. (J FIC Sei)
Staples, Suzanne Fisher.The Green Dog: A Mostly True Story. During the summer before fifth grade, Suzanne, a daydreaming loner who likes to fish and walk through the woods, acquires a canine companion. Based on the author’s childhood in northeastern Pennsylvania. (J FIC Sta)
Tolan, Stephanie S.Listen. During her solitary convalescence from a crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild dog, and the arduous process of training him leads her to explore her feelings about her mother’s death two years earlier. 197 pages. (J FIC Tol)
Tolan, Stephanie S. Wishworks, Inc. When he is granted his wish for a dog from Wishworks, Inc., third-grader Max is disappointed to find that his new pet is nothing like the dog of his imagination. 146 pages. (J FIC Tol)
Voigt, Cynthia.The Rosie Stories. Rosie, a dog who loves to eat, waits for breakfast, gets into the garbage can for lunch, and joins the family in following along with an exercise video. 48 pages. (J FIC Voi)
Wallace, Bill.No Dogs Allowed! Twelve-year-old Kristina, still struggling to come to terms with the death of her beloved horse, finds it difficult to accept the new dog she receives for her birthday. (J FIC Wal)
Illustrated Literature
Dennis, Brian. Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle. Tells the true story of a mutt named Nubs, who was befriended by a marine on duty at the Iraqi border and became so devoted to the marine that he followed him on foot to his next post more than seventy miles away.
Jenkins, Emily. Skunkdog. Dumpling, a lonely dog with no sense of smell, moves with his family to the country and makes a new friend who takes some getting used to.
Kerby, Mona.Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch. In 1888, Owney, a stray terrier puppy, finds a home in the Albany, New York, post office and becomes its official mascot as he rides the mail train through the Adirondacks and beyond, criss-crossing the United States, into Canada and Mexico, and eventually traveling around the world by mail boat in 132 days.
Kimmel, Haven.Orville: A Dog Story. Chained alone in a barn by the couple he thought might give him a good home, a very ugly stray dog is miserable until a new neighbor moves in and he falls in love.
Manos, Helen.Samsara Dog. Traces a dog through various incarnations, including a tough stray, a working dog, and a family pet, as he learns what he must in each life.
Steig, Jeanne.Fleas! A cumulative tale in which Quantz, who is repaid in fleas for scratching a stray dog, makes a series of trades that turn one person’s burden into the next one’s joy and ultimately brings them all together for a circus performance.
Beginning Readers
Baker, Barbara. Digby and Kate. Six episodes in the friendship of Digby the dog and Kate the cat, who enjoy each other’s company even when they have their differences in such areas as catching a mouse or fixing lunch.
Brimer, Larry Dane. Firehouse Sal. Fire Companies 1, 2, 3, and 4 rush across town to Fire Company 5, where the firehouse dog is having puppies.
Buller, Laura.Amazing Dogs. From being our friends to rescuing trapped people, dogs can do it all. Discover all the incredible things dogs can do in “Amazing Dogs.”
Capucilli, Alyssa Satin.Biscuit. A little yellow dog wants one more thing before he’ll go to sleep. (Series)
Cassidy, Anne.Jasper and Jess. Jasper the dog and Jess the cat are enemies who growl and hiss at each other every day as Jasper chases Jess out of the garden, but the day Jess gets stuck on the roof, Jasper is the only one who can help her.
Long, Ethan. Pug. After seeing his friend Peg getting a walk outside in the snow Pug must be persistent to convince his master to take him out for a walk as well.
Meister, Cari.Guinness World Records: Daring Dogs. Contains world records about dogs.
Pilkey, Dav. Big Dog and Little Dog. Like most dogs, Big Dog and Little Dog go for walks, play in puddles, and snuggle up for a nap when they are sleepy, but sometimes they can be a bit mischievous, and downright silly.
Ries, Lori. Good Dog, Aggie! When Aggie the dog does not mind, Ben takes her to obedience school which ends in disaster, but while practicing at home one day Ben realizes what really motivates Aggie to mind.
Rylant, Cynthia.Henry and Mudge. Henry, feeling lonely on a street without any other children, finds companionship and love in a big dog named Mudge. (Series)
Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman.Nate the Great and the Big Sniff. Nate the Great follows the clues to find his lost dog, Sludge, in a department store. (Series)
Standiford, Natalie.The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto. Recounts the life of Balto, the sled dog who braved a snowstorm to deliver medicine to Nome, Alaska, during a 1925 diphtheria epidemic.
Wallace, Carol. One Nosy Pup. After moving to a new house, Poky the beagle befriends Charlie the hamster, who was accidentally left behind by the previous owners.
Zion, Gene.Harry and the Lady Next Door. Harry the dog goes to fantastic lengths to make his neighbor stop singing.
Non-Fiction
J 636.708 BueDog Scouts of America
J 636.73 HalMorris and Buddy: The Story of the First Seeing Eye Dog
J 811.54 ArcName That Dog! Puppy Poems from A to Z.
J 811.54 JohIt’s About Dogs
J 811.54 RosThe Hound Dog’s Haiku: And Other Poems for Dog Lovers.
J 811.6 CraDog Poems
Additional books about dogs can be found in the 636.7 section.
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Picture Books
Adams, Sarah. Dave & Violet.Violet’s friend Dave is a shy dragon who has trouble fitting in, but Violet stands by Dave and encourages him to meet new people.
Ashburn, Boni. Over at the Castle. In this variation on the folk song “Over the Meadow,” the occupants of a medieval castle spend their day spinning, cleaning, cooking, and dancing, until they receive a special surprise from their dragon neighbors.
Banks, Kate. Max’s Dragon. Max is looking for rhyming words (“Look what I found on the ground”) while his brothers play a game of croquet. These rhymes take on a life of their own as he imagines a dragon in the clouds.
Bar-el, Dan. Not Your Typical Dragon. When Crispin Blaze turns seven, he’s expected to breathe fire like all the other dragons. But instead of fire, he breathes a host of unusual things.
Brill, Calista. Little Wing Learns to Fly. When young dragon Little Wing flies too far away, he has to find a way back to his home and remember the dragon rules his mother taught him.
Deedy, Carmen Agra. The Library Dragon. Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school’s library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller.
Deedy, Carmen Agra. Return of the Library Dragon. Miss Lotta Scales, a dragon also known as Miss Lotty the librarian, wants to retire from taking care of the school’s library but will not willingly stand by and see her beloved books replaced by computers.
De Las Casas, Dianne. There’s a Dragon in the Library. After seeing a green-speckled reptile hatch from an egg one day after storytime, young Max tries to convince someone that there is a dragon in the library, growing ever larger as it eats books, but no one believes him.
De Paola,Tomie. The Knight and the Dragon. A knight who has never fought a dragon and an equally inexperienced dragon prepare to meet each other in battle.
DiPucchio, Kelly. Dragon was Terrible. When a dragon has a temper tantrum, no one can tame him, except for a little boy with a good book.
Docherty, Helen. The Storybook Knight. Ordered by his parents to tame a dragon, a gentle knight who prefers reading to fighting arms himself with a book.
Driscoll, Amanda. Duncan the Story Dragon. Duncan the Dragon loves to read–but he keeps accidentally lighting his book on fire. He wants to get to the end of his story, so he tries to find a friend to read to him.
Ehrlich, Amy. Baby Dragon.All day, Baby Dragon turns down other animals’ offers to go play or find a snack while he waits for his mother to return for him, but at nightfall, he agrees to go with Crocodile to find her.
Eversole, Robyn. East Dragon, West Dragon. East Dragon and West Dragon are suspicious of one another although they have never met, but when the western king is captured in the Eastern Kingdom and West Dragon goes to rescue him, they find they have much in common.
Falkenstern, Lisa. A Dragon Moves In. When Rabbit and Hedgehog bring home a newly-hatched dragon they all have a wonderful time together, but soon the dragon baby grows too big for their house.
Florian, Douglas. How to Draw a Dragon. Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text guide the reader in drawing scaly, knobby-kneed dragons that fly, play musical instruments, ride bicycles, and more.
Gassman, Julie. Do Not Bring your Dragon to the Library. A child brings a dragon to the library and learns a valuable lesson–libraries and dragons do not mix.
Gliori, Debi. Dragon’s Extraordinary Egg. A dragon finds an abandoned egg and lovingly raises the hatchling as her own, although Little One is very different from the baby dragons, and when disaster strikes it is the small, feathered hatchling that saves the day.
Gliori, Debi. The Trouble with Dragons. When dragons cut down too many trees, blow out too much hot air, and do other environmental damage, the future looks grim, but other animals advise them on how to mend their ways and save the planet.
Godin, Thelma Lynne. How to dress a dragon. A small child helps his reluctant, toddler-like dragon get dressed.
Gorbachev, Valeri. How to Be Friends with a Dragon. A girl tells her younger brother all of the rules he must follow in order to befriend a dragon.
Hodges, Margaret. Saint George and the Dragon. Retells the segment from Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land. (Caldecott Award, J 398.2 Hod)
Hoppe, Paul. The Woods.Various animals and monsters leer, gawp, and taunt a small boy, until the creatures are eventually revealed to be the boy’s own stuffed animals, seen scattered on his bedroom floor.
Joosse, Barbara M. Evermore Dragon. When a girl gets lost playing hide-and-seek with her dragon friend, the beast looks high and low to find her.
Joosse, Barbara M. Lovabye Dragon. When a lonely dragon follows a trail of princess tears, a beautiful friendship is born. They march and sing, roar and whisper, hide and seek, then settle into snug companionship at bedtime.
Julian, Sean. Sloppy Wants a Hug. Sloppy the dragon asks Dewdrop the sprite for a hug, but she says no for a reason she cannot remember.
Kirk, David. Oh So Brave Dragon. Dragon knows he is supposed to be brave and is ready to try out his fearsome roar, but when he hears something that scares him, he turns to his forest friends for help in finding the noise and renewing his courage.
Klostermann, Penny Parker. There Was an Old Dragon who Swallowed a Knight. In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a greedy, hungry dragon eventually learns moderation.
Knapman, Timothy. Guess What I Found in Dragon Wood. In this twist on the “boy finds lost pet” tale, a young dragon discovers a Benjamin in Dragonwood.
Knudsen, Michelle. Argus. Sallie’s class is supposed to be raising chicks as a science project, but although Argus, the large, green, scaly creature that hatches from her egg, causes all sorts of trouble she worries about him when he disappears.
Lehrhaupt, Adam. I Will Not Eat You. A dragon resists the urge to eat the animals that approach his cave.
Light, Steve. Have You Seen My Dragon? Invite young readers to practice counting to twenty while helping a small boy search the city for his pet dragon.
Long, Ethan. One Drowsy Dragon. As one dragon tries to take a nap, his ten little dragons, in increasing numbers, disturb his sleep by making milk shakes, screaming at scary movies, and playing loud games.
McKay, Hilary. There’s a Dragon Downstairs. Despite what her parents say and what she sees with her own eyes each time she checks, Sophie is still convinced that she hears a dragon each night. She’s determined to find it herself and gets a wonderful surprise when she finally does.
Morris, Jackie. Tell Me a Dragon. Children describe their dragons, which come in different shapes, sizes, and colors and have various talents and skills.
Pavey, Peter. One Dragon’s Dream. As a dragon dreams of turkeys, tigers, kangaroos, and seals, the reader can count the items hidden within the dream.
Ramos, Mario. I Am So Strong. When the big, bad wolf sees a baby dragon’s towering mother, he realizes that he is not really the strongest.
Robinson, Michelle. The Forgetful Knight. A forgetful narrator tries to tell the tale of a knight’s duel with a dragon, and remembers a very important thing along the way.
Rubin, Adam. Dragons Love Tacos. Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them anything with spicy salsa.
Rubin, Adam. Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel. When dragons run out of tacos, they travel back in time to get a fresh supply.
Saltzberg, Barney. Would You Rather be a Princess or a Dragon? Some little ones want to be princesses; others want to be dragons. The message of this book is that you can actually be both! There are lots of things you can be: a little wild, a little sweet. A little polite, a little troublesome. A little dainty, a little dragony.
Soman, David. The Amazing Adventures of Bumblebee Boy. As imaginary superhero Bumblebee Boy, Sam rejects his pesky little brother’s help in defeating pirates, dragons, and saber-toothed lions, but when Sam comes up against some scary aliens, he discovers the advantage of having a sidekick.
Thomas, Shelley Moore. This Book is not about Dragons. Something is chasing Mouse, who claims it is absolutely not a dragon.
Troupe, Thomas Kingsley. The Truth about Dragons. Describes the different world mythologies about dragons, including what they look like, where they live, and how they act towards humans, and presents famous tales and legends about dragons.
Wojtowycz, David. Elephant Joe, Brave Knight! Elephant Joe and Zebra Pete grab their armor and horses in order to retrieve the king’s crown from the Dark Knight.
Watley, Bruce. Clinton Gregory’s Secret. As the title suggests, Clinton Gregory has a secret. In fact, he has seven of them, one for every night of the week. As big as a couple of giants, or as small as a magical sea horse, as fierce as a triceratops or as unassuming as a nearsighted frog, each secret is as whimsical and mysterious as the next.
Yolen, Jane. Waking Dragons. In the morning, dragons wake up, tumble out of bed, and get ready to fly into the sky.
Fiction
D’Lacey, Chris. Last Dragon Chronicles series. When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career. (Series -1st book – The Fire Within) 340 pages. (J FIC D’La)
D’Lacey, Chris. The Erth Dragons series. Gabrial is a young dragon, anxious to both prove himself and also find his father who years ago was one of a Wearle of dragons who set out from their home planet and were never heard from again – and now he is part of a new Wearle that has come to Erth, but one of the other dragons has dark plans, and when war erupts between dragons and humans, Gabrial finds that his only ally is an unusual human boy called Ren. (Series – 1st book – The Wearle) 284 pages. (J FIC D’La)
Klimo, Kate. The Dragon in the Sock Drawer. Cousins Jesse and Daisy always knew they would have a magical adventure, but they are not prepared when the “thunder egg” Jesse has found turns out to be a dragon egg that is about to hatch. 159 pages. (J FIC Kli)
Lacey, Josh. The dragonsitter series. Disaster ensues when Eddie is asked to care for his uncle’s pet dragon while the latter takes a week-long vacation. 50+ pages. Level N (J FIC Lac)
Osborne, Mary Pope. Night of the Ninth Dragon. When a mysterious note invites them to Camelot, Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to the magical kingdom where they must find a lost dragon. (Part of the Magic Treehouse series. Merlin Mission #27) 121 pages. Level N. (J FIC Osb)
Sutherland, Tui. Wings of Fire series. Determined to end a generations-long war among the seven dragon tribes, a secret movement called the Talons of Peace draws on a prophecy that calls for a great sacrifice, compelling five appointed dragonets to fulfill a painful destiny against their will. (series – 1st book – The Dragonet Prophecy) 304 pages. (J FIC Sut)
Yep, Laurence. Dragon’s Guide series. Crusty dragon Miss Drake’s new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her “sketchlings” of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents. (series -1st book – A dragon’s guide to the care and feeding of humans) 152 pages. Level S. (J FIC Yep)
Illustrated Literature
Bernhardt, William. Princess Alice and the Dreadful Dragon. Princess Alice of the nation of Very-Mixed-Upolis discovers a dragon egg in the Great Marshmallow Fields and decides to raise the newly hatched creature herself, but his fiery breath proves to be a greater problem than expected.
Krause, Ute. Oscar and the Very Hungry Dragon. When it is time to feed the village’s dragon, the townspeople–being fresh out of princesses–send Oscar, a little boy with lots of culinary skills, who shows the dragon that a good meal does not need to include princesses or little boys.
Lacroix, Alexandre. Dragons: Father and Son. A young dragon named Drake is told by his father that he needs to burn down some houses in a nearby village to prove he is a real dragon, but when Drake gets there, he finds that his task is more complicated than it seems.
Niemann, Christoph. The Pet Dragon: A Story about Adventure, Friendship, and Chinese Characters. When Lin’s beloved pet dragon disappears, she searches for him far and wide until a witch helps her to reach the dragon’s new home. Introduces a different Chinese character on each step of Lin’s adventure.
Pringle, Laurence, P. Imagine a Dragon. Relates myths about dragons from different countries and from different time periods, including dragon lore from Egypt, Greece, England, and China.
Beginning Readers
Albee, Sarah. The Dragon’s Scales: A Math Reader. When a dragon threatens to disrupt the life of the townspeople, a little girl challenges the scaly creature to a math contest involving knowledge of weight.
George, Kallie. Spark. Spark is a little dragon with a big problem. He can’t control his fiery breath. Even practicing doesn’t help. Will Spark ever be able to tame his flame?
Hayes, Geoffrey. A Poor Excuse for a Dragon. When Fred the dragon leaves home, he learns that he is not very good at roaring or breathing fire, and swallowing people only makes him ill, but with help from a witch, a giant, and a wise boy he finds his true calling.
Hillert, Margaret. Dear Dragon’s Fun with Shapes. A boy and his pet dragon look at shapes such as squares, circles and triangles and then go outside to find shapes in nature and objects. (Series)
Loehr, Mallory. Dragon Egg. A dragon’s egg rolls out of its nest in a cave, continuing along a road, past a castle, and through a town, where it bumps against a rock and cracks.
Webster, Christy. Bath Party! Norville the dragon is covered in mud, but does not like baths, so Gina and Wally plan a bath party to get him clean.
West, Tracey. Future of the Time Dragon. Drake travels back in time to save a Dragon Master.
Non- Fiction
J 743.87 Ber. Bergin, Mark. Dragons – How to Draw.Provides instructions on drawing dragons, shows readers how to use perspective, and discusses tools and materials.
J 811.54 Pre. Prelutsky, Jack. The Dragons are Singing Tonight. A collection of poems about dragons, including “I’m an Amiable Dragon,” “If You Don’t Believe in Dragons,” and “A Dragon is in My Computer.”
J 808.81 Car. Carle, Eric. Eric Carle’s Dragons. Dragons & Other Creatures that Never Were. An illustrated collection of poems about dragons and other fantastic creatures by a variety of authors.
J 495.1 Li. Li, Jian. The Water Dragon: A Chinese Legend; Retold in English and Chinese.A little boy, Ah Bao sets off in search of the Water Dragon, to save his village from a mysterious drought. This edition contains both English and Chinese text.
J 398.2454 Pen. Penner, Lucille Recht. Dragons. Relates myths about dragons from different countries, including where they live, what they eat, and how they look, as well as how the myths may have developed.
J 398.2454 Hin. Hinds, Kathryn. Dragons. Explores the mythical and historical backgrounds of dragons, both in the East and the West.
Additional books about Dragons can be found at J 398.2454.
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Atwater, Richard. Mr. Popper’s Penguins. The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions. 138 pages. (J FIC Atw)
Avi. The End of the Beginning. Avon the snail and Edward, a take-charge ant, set off together on a journey to an undetermined destination in search of unspecified adventures. 143 pages. (J FIC Avi)
Baum, Frank, L. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas. 160 pages. (J FIC Bau)
Blume, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Peter faces the ultimate challenge: his two-year-old brother. 132 pages. (J FIC Blu)
Bond, Michael. A Bear Called Paddington. A very small bear found by Mr. and Mrs. Brown at Paddington station becomes one of the family. 132 pages. (J FIC Bon)
Cleary, Beverly. Ramona the Brave. Six-year-old Ramona struggles with a difficult teacher while her mother takes a new job. 189 pages. (J FIC Cle)
Clements, Andrew. Frindle.What’s a “frindle”? A boy tries to confuse his teacher by getting the class to use made-up words. 102 pages. (J FIC Cle)
Cowley, Joy. Snake and Lizard. Presents the adventures of Snake and Lizard, who, from their first meeting find themselves constantly arguing, but once they get to know each other, they realize they really do have many things in common. 85 pages. (J FIC Cow)
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy.Set in the Depression, this story about an African-American boy who has had a difficult life yet is still optimistic about his future is filled with humor and youthful wisdom. 245 pages. (J Newbery Cur)
DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. Ten-year old India describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big, ugly dog, Winn-Dixie. 182 pages. (JPB DiC)
Dahl Roald. The BFG. Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. 219 pages. (J FIC Dah)
Eager, Edward. Half-Magic. Adventure tales of four children who discover a magic coin that grants wishes by halves. 192 pages. (JPB Eag)
Fitzgerald, John Dennis. The Great Brain. Ten-year-old Tom Fitzgerald, alias “The Great Brain,” is the shrewdest con artist west of the Mississippi during the early 1900s. 175 pages. (JPB Fit)
Grahame, Kenneth. The Reluctant Dragon. The boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened villagers and especially St. George the dragon killer that there is no call for concern? (JIL Gra)
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside -Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger. 244 pages. (JPB Gra)
Henry, Marguerite. Misty of Chincoteague. Paul and his sister Maureen’s determination to own a pony from the herd on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among the ponies rounded up for the yearly auction. 173 pages. (JPB Hen)
Hughes, Ted. The Iron Giant. An invincible giant robot without a master stalks the land, devouring anything made of metal. 79 pages. (J FIC Hug)
Jansson, Tove. Finn Family Moomintroll. The delightful adventures of a family of trolls and their friends. 170 pages. (J FIC Jan)
King-Smith, Dick. A Mouse Called Wolf. Wolfgang Amadeus Mouse is a small creature with a big name who sings his way into the heart of his music-loving human housemate. 98 pages. (JPB Kin)
Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Four children open a magic wardrobe and fall into another world, where a lion is king and a wicked witch threatens the land with eternal winter. 189 pages. (J FIC Lew)
Lindgren, Astrid. Pippi Longstocking. Pippi’s high-spirited, good-natured hijinks cause as much trouble as fun, but she is a unique and lovable character. 160 pages. (J FIC Lin)
MacDonald, Betty Bard. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle uses humor and magic to teach the neighborhood children some much-needed lessons. 118 pages. (J FIC Macd)
Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger and their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. 161 pages. (J FIC Mil)
Norton, Mary. The Borrowers. Secretive and resourceful, the Borrowers live concealed in a house of full-sized humans, cleverly using items they “borrow.” 180 pages. (J FIC Nor)
Selden, George. The Cricket in Times Square. Chester the cricket arrives at a Times Square newsstand where he makes friends with a boy, a cat, and a mouse. 149 pages. (J FIC Sel)
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger. 221 pages. (J FIC Ste)
Tellegen, Toon. The Squirrel’s Birthday and Other Parties. A collection of nine short stories by Toon Tellegen that feature the whimsical adventures of animals learning about friendship, dancing, and having fun. 147 pages. (J FIC Tel)
White, E.B. The Trumpet of the Swan.Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter swan, finds himself far from his wilderness home when he determines to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet. 251 pages. (J FIC Whi)
White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web. Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that his is destined to be the farmer’s Christmas dinner, until his friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. 184 pages. (J FIC Whi)
White, E.B. Stuart Little. The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird that stayed for a few days in his family’s garden. 131 pages. (J FIC Whi)
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House in the Big Woods. A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father’s stories and singing, and share special occasions with relatives and neighbors. 237 pages. (J FIC Wil)
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Out of This World
A Fantasy Booklist: Grade 4th-6th
Alexander, Lloyd. Chronicles of Prydain. (Series of 5) Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doli—all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. #1-The Book of Three #2-The Black Cauldron #3-The Castle Llyr #4-Taran Wandered #5-The High King
Babbit, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting. The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older. (139 pgs.)
Baccalario, Pierdomenico. Ulysses Moore Series. (Series of 4-have first 2) After moving from London to an old mansion on the English coast, eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia discover that their new home has twisting tunnels, strange artifacts from around the world, and a mysterious, locked door. #1-The Door to Time #2-The Long Lost Map
Barrows, Annie. The Magic Half. Eleven-year-old Miri Gill feels left out in her family, which has two sets of twins and her, until she travels back in time to 1935 and discovers Molly, her own lost twin, and brings her back to the present day. (211 pgs.)
Bosch, Pseudonymous. The Bad Books. (Series of 3) Sequel Series to The Secret Series. Wrongly blamed for vandalism when words from his journal magically appear on a wall at school, Clay, who no
longer believes in magic, is sent to a camp for troubled kids where he encounters more magic than he ever thought possible. #1-Bad Magic #2-Bad Luck #3-Bad Luck
Bosch, Pseudonymous. The Secret Series. (Series of 5) Small vials of smelly ingredients, the diaries of a dead magician, and a secret story about immortality have two less-than-sociable kids on the hunt to solve a strange mystery, in a challenging middle reader filled with word-games, anagrams, and black-and-white illustrations throughout. #1-The Name of This Book is Secret #2-If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late #3-This Book is Not Good for You #4-This Isn’t What It Looks Like #5-You Have to Stop This
Buckley, Michael. The Sisters Grimm. (Series of 9) Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother whom they have always believed to be dead. #1-The Fairy-Tale Detectives #2-The Unusual Suspects #3-The Problem Child #4-Once Upon a Crime #5-Magic and Other
Misdemeanors #6-Tales From the Hood #7-The Everafter War #8-The Inside Story #9-The Council of Mirrors
Buckley-Archer, Linda. The Gideon Trilogy. (Series of 3) Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England, where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse. #1-Gideon the Cutpurse/The Time Travelers #2-The Time Thief #3-Time Quake
Carman, Patrick. Land of Elyon. (Series of 5) As twelve-year-old Alexa Daley begins to investigate the
mystery of what lies beyond the walls of the city of Bridewell, in which she is spending the summer, she discovers an ancient, evil enchantment that may forever change the land of Elyon. Prequel-Into the Mist #1-The Dark Hills Divide #2-Beyond the Valley of Thorns #3-The Tenth City #4-Stargazer
Collins, Suzanne. Underland Chronicles. (Series of 5) When Gregor and his little sister discover a strange underground city beneath their New York apartment, he becomes the unwilling participant in a conflict involving giant spiders, bats, cockroaches, rats, and humans. #1-Gregor the Overlander #2-Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane #3-Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods #4-Gregor and the Marks of Secret #5-Gregor and the Code of Claw
Cooper, Susan. The Dark is Rising. (Series of 5) Follow the story of William, an eleven-year-old boy who is the seventh son of a seventh son, as he searches for six magical amulets in order to save the world from the threatening evil of the Dark. #1-Over Sea, Under Stone #2-The Dark is Rising #3-Greenwitch #4-The Grey King #5-Silver on the Tree
Corder, Zizou. Lionboy Trilogy. (Series of 3) In the near future, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats sets out from London to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound
circus ship learning to train lions. #1-Lionboy #2-The Chase #3-The Truth
Cowell, Cressida. How to Train Your Dragon. (Series of 12 + 4 Novellas-have all in series and 1 novella) How to Train Your Dragon chronicles the adventures and misadventures of reluctant Viking hero Hiccup and his dragon, Toothless. #1-How to Train Your Dragon #2-How to Be a Pirate #3-How to Speak Dragonese #4-How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse #5-How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale #6-A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons #7-How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm #8-How to Break a Dragon’s Heart #9-How to Steal a
Dragon’s Sword #10-How to Seize a Dragon’s Jewel #11-How to Betray a Dragon’s Hero #12-How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury Novellas: #6.5-The Complete Book of Dragons: A Guide to Dragon Species
Delaney, Joseph. The Last Apprentice. (Series of 13 + 4 Novellas-have full series and 3 novellas) Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties. #1Revenge of the Witch #2-Curse of the Bane #3-Night of the Soul Stealer #4-Attack of the Fiend #5-Wrath of the Bloodeye
#6-Clash of the Demon #7-Rise of the Hunters #8-Rage of the Fallen #9-Grimalkin the Witch Assassin #10-Lure of the Dead #11-Slither #12-I am Alice #13-Fury of the Seventh Sun Novella’s: #6.5-A Coven of
Witches #7.5-The Ghost Prison
Dale, Anna. Magical Mischief. Mr. Hardbattle, aided by his friends Miss Quint and resourceful thirteen-year-old Arthur Goodenough, seeks a new home for all of the magic that has gone out of control and
taken over his bookshop and home. (296 pgs.)
Diterlizzi, Tony. The Search for WondLa. (Series of 3) Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve year-old human girl sets out on a journey
to find others like her. #1-The Search for WondLa #2-A Hero for WondLa #3-The Battle for Wondla
D’Lacey, Chris. The Last Dragon Chronicles. (Series of 7 + 1Guide) When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career #1-The Fire Within #2-Icefire #3-Fire Star #4-The Fire
Eternal #5-Dark Fire #6-Fire World #7-The Fire Ascending Guide: #7.5-Rain & Fire: A Companion to the Last Dragon Chronicles
Drake, Salamana. Dragonsdale. (Series of 2) Cara yearns to ride her beloved Skydancer, a rare Goldenbrow dragon, but her father refuses to permit her to fly and she must be content with mucking out
stalls and helping raise young dragons at the famed stud and training farm known as Dragonsdale.
#1-Dragonsdale #2-Riding the Storm
Duey, Kathleen. The Faeries’ Promise. (Series of 4) Alida the faerie, who was kidnapped before she could develop her flying and magical skills, and was confined to a room in a castle, patiently plans her escape–with the help of a human boy. #1-Silence and Stone #2-Following Magic #3-Wishes and Wings #4-The Full Moon
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself,
her parents, and the souls of three others. (162 pgs.)
Golding, Julia. Companions Quartet. (Series of 4) Upon moving to her aunt’s seaside home in the British Isles, Connie becomes part of a secret society that shelters mythical creatures, and must use her ability to communicate with these beings to protect them from evil and the incursions of humans. #1-Secret of Sirens #2-The Gorgon’s Gaze #3-Mines of Minotaur #4-The Chimera’s Curse
Grant, Holly. League of Beastly Dreadfuls (Series of 3) Moved to a former Victorian asylum by her two eccentric great aunts after her parents die in a tragic vacuum-cleaner accident, 11-year-old Anastasia befriends two mysterious brothers and begins to suspect her aunts are not who they claim to be. #1 – The League of Beastly Dreadfuls. #2 – The Dastardly Deed #3 – The Witch’s Glass
Grant, Michael. The Magnificent 12. (Series of 4) A seemingly average twelve- year-old learns that he is destined to gather a team of similarly gifted children to try to save the world from a nameless evil, which is threatening to reappear after having been imprisoned for three thousand years. #1-The Call #2-The Trap #3-The Key #4-The Power
Harrison, Michelle. 13 Treasures. (Series of 3 + Prequel) Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to stay with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the caretaker’s son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that Tanya’s life is in danger. Prequel-One Wish #1-13 Treasures #2-13 Curses #3-13 Secrets
Jacques, Brian. Redwall. (Series of 22) When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior. #1-Redwall #2-Mossflower #3-Mattimeo #4-Mariel of Redwall
#5-Salamandastron #6-Martin the Warrior #7-The Bell Maker #8-Outcast of Redwall #9-Pearls of Lutra #10-The Long Patrol #11-Marlfox #12-The Legend of Luke #13-Lord Brocktree #14-Taggerung #15-Triss
#16-Loamhedge #17-Rakkety Tam #18-High Rhulain #19-Eulalia #20-Doomwyte #21-The Sable Quean #22-The Rogue Crew
Juster, Norton. The Phantom Tollbooth. Milo, a young boy with little interest in anything, takes a trip
through the Phantom Tollbooth to the Lands Beyond where he meets an enchanting cast of characters that teaches him the importance of words, numbers, ideas, creativity, and enthusiasm for life. (279 pgs.)
Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted. In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her. (232 pgs.)
Lewis, C. S. The Chronicles of Narnia. (Series of 7) Four English children, Aslan, the noble lion, and the royal leaders of Narnia struggle against the magical forces of evil with magical creatures and epic battles. #1-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe #2-Prince Caspian #3-The Voyage of the Dawn Treader #4-The Silver Chair #5-The Horse and His Boy #6-The Magician’s Nephew #7-The Last Battle
McKinley, Robin. (Newbery) Damar Series. (Series of 2) Harry Crewe, an orphan girl bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is
kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers. #1-The Blue Sword (Newbery) #2-The Hero and the Crown
Meloy, Colin. Wildwood Chronicles. (Series of 3) Prue McKeel’s life is ordinary. At least until her brother is abducted by a murder of crows and taken to the Impassable Wilderness, a dense, tangled forest on the edge of Portland. No one’s ever gone in—or at least returned to tell of it. So begins an adventure that will take Prue and her friend Curtis deep into the Impassable Wilderness. #1-Wildwood #2-Under Wildwood #3-Wildwood Emporium
Myers, Edward. Storyteller. Jack, a seventeen-year-old storyteller, goes to the royal city seeking his fortune and soon attracts the attention of the grief- stricken king, his beautiful eldest daughter, and his cruel young son, and he attempts to help them–and the entire kingdom–through his stories. (283 pgs.)
Neff, Henry H. The Tapestry. (Series of 5 – have first 4) After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, twelve-year-old Max McDaniels becomes a student at Rowan Academy, where he trains in “mystics and combat” in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been kidnapping children like him. #1-The Hound of Rowan #2-The Second Siege #3-The Fiend and the Forge #4-The Maelstrom.
Nimmo, Jenny. Children of the Red King series (Series of 8). Charlie Bone’s life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking. His scheming aunts decide to send him to Bloor Academy, a school for geniuses where he uses his gifts to discover the truth despite all the dangers that lie ahead. #1 Midnight for Charlie Bone #2 The Time Twister #3 The Blue Boa #4 The Castle of Mirrors #5 Charlie Bone and the Hidden King #6 Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf #7 Charlie Bone and the Shadow #8 Charlie Bone and the Red Knight.
Norcliffe, James. The Boy Who Could Fly. Having grown up in a miserable home for abandoned children, a young boy jumps at the chance to exchange places with the mysterious, flying “loblolly boy,” but once he takes on this new identity, he discovers what a harsh price he must pay. (312 pgs.)
Paver, Michelle. Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. (Series of 6) Twelve-year-old Torak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans. #1-Wolf Brother #2-Spirit Walker #3-Soul Eater
#4-Outcast #5-Oath Breaker #6-Ghost Hunter
Prévost, Guillaume. The Book of Time. (Series of 3) Fourteen-year-old Sam Faulkner travels back in time to medieval Scotland, ancient Egypt, and Renaissance Bruges in search of his missing father. #1-The Book of Time #2-Gate of Days #3-The Circle of Gold
Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson and the Olympians. (Series of 5) After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a war between the
gods. #1-The Lightning Thief #2-The Sea of Monsters #3-The Titans Curse #4-The Battle of the Labyrinth #5-The Last Olympian
Sage, Angie. Septimus Heap. (Series of 7+ 2 Novellas – have full series and 1 novella) Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. That same night, the baby’s father, Silas Heap, comes across an abandoned child in the snow—a newborn girl with violet eyes. Who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to the Heaps’ beloved son Septimus? #1-Magyk #2-Flyte #3-Physic #4-Queste #5-Syren #6-Darke #7-Fyre
Novellas: #7.5-The Magykal Papers
Stone, Jeff. The Five Ancestors. (Series of 7) Five young warrior-monk brothers survive an insurrection
and must use the ancient arts to avenge their Grandmaster. #1-Tiger #2-Monkey #3-Snake #4-Crane
#5-Eagle #6-Mouse #7-Dragon
Stroud, Jonathan. The Bartimaeus Sequence. (Series of 3 + Prequel) Nathaniel, a magician’s apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace. #1-The Amulet of Samarkand #2-The Golem’s Eye #3-Ptolemy’s Gate Prequel-The Ring of Solomon
Ursu, Anne. Breadcrumbs. Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving
Jack’s life. (312 pgs.)
Ursu, Anne. The Cronus Chronicles. (Series of 3) After her cousin Zee arrives from England, 13-year-old Charlotte and he must set out to save humankind from denizens of the underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy named Phil. #1-The Shadow Thieves #2-The Siren Song #3-The Immortal Fire
Yep, Laurence. The Tiger’s Apprentice. (Series of 3) A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its
power to destroy the world. #1-The Tiger’s Apprentice #2-Tiger’’s Blood #3-Tiger Magic
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Picture Books
Alsdurf, Phyllis. It’s Milking Time. A young girl spends a day helping her father milk their cows, as she does throughout the year.
Beaumont, Karen. No Sleep for the Sheep! A sheep wants nothing but to go to sleep in the big red barn on the farm, but each time he closes his eyes, another animal moos or neighs or peeps to come in.
Bock, Lee. Oh, Crumps! The misadventure of a sleepy farmer as he agonizes over a mixed-up list of the coming day’s chores.
Bogan, Paulette. Lulu the Big Little Chick. When Lulu gets tired of being told she is too little to do things, she decides to go far, far away.
Clark, Leslie Ann. Peepsqueak! A baby chick named Peepsqueak does not listen to the advice of Big Brown Cow, Big Sheep, Yellow Duck, and Baby Bunny, and tries again and again unsuccessfully to fly, until Old Gray Goose gets involved.
Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type. When Farmer Brown’s cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
Czekaj, Jef. Oink-A-Doodle-Moo. In a barnyard, a pig whispers into a rooster’s ear, starting a game of “telephone” that goes horribly awry.
Dodd, Emma. Meow Said the Cow. A noisy rooster causes a disgruntled cat to cast a magic spell that creates confusion among the other farm animals.
Freedman, Deborah. Blue Chicken. An enterprising chicken attempts to help an artist paint the barnyard and accidentally turns the whole picture blue.
Gershator, Phillis. Moo, Moo, Brown Cow, Have You Any Milk? Through rhyming text, farm animals are asked if they have items needed to prepare for a snack and bedtime, such as wool for a blanket, down for a pillow, and milk to drink.
Golson, Terry Blonder. Tillie Lays an Egg. In search of the perfect place to lay her egg, Tillie the chicken leaves the barnyard and explores the farmhouse
Helakoski, Leslie. Big Chickens Fly the Coop. Four fearful chickens venture out to see the farmhouse, with humorous results.
Helakoski, Leslie. Big Chickens Go to Town. Having inadvertently traveled to the big city, four chickens are frightened by the strange noises, strange food, and strange animals they encounter.
Himmelman, John. Cows to the Rescue. After helping the Greenstalk family get to the county fair, the cows busy themselves finding solutions to many other problems that arise during the day.
Himmelman, John. Pigs to the Rescue. All week long the pigs help out around the farm in unexpected ways.
Huneck, Stephen. Sally Goes to the Farm. Sally, a black Labrador retriever, goes to a farm where she enjoys various activities.
Hutchins, Pat. Barn Dance! After Horse, Sheep, and Pig dance until they must lie down to rest, their little ones sneak out to continue the party.
Hutchins, Pat. Ten Red Apples. In rhyming verses, one animal after another neighs, moos, oinks, quacks and makes other appropriate sounds as each eats an apple from the farmer’s tree.
Joosse, Barbara, M. Higgledy-Piggledy Chicks. A hen keeps her seven new baby chicks safe, even though they like to go exploring. Includes brief information about chicks after the story.
Krilanovich, Nadia. Chicken, Chicken, Duck! Easy-to-read, rhythmic text about a group of farm animals, led by a tenacious duck, who play a noisy game together.
Krosoczka, Jarrett. Punk Farm. At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments to perform in a big concert as a rock band called Punk Farm.
Laminack, Lester L. Three Hens and a Peacock. When life on the Tucker farm is disrupted by the arrival of a peacock, whose shrieking and strutting bring many welcome visitors, the hens complain that they are doing all of the work until the hound suggests a trade.
Long, Loren. Otis. When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help.
Loupy, Christophe. Wiggles. Wiggles the puppy finds her curiosity getting her into all sorts of trouble as she explores the farm with her father.
McGee, Marni. The Noisy Farm. A farmer goes through his daily activities on the farm, accompanied by the sounds of animals and other things.
Minor, Wendell. My Farm Friends. Simple, rhyming text describes the characteristics of different farm animals. Includes “Farm friends fun facts” and books and websites for further reading.
Mortensen, Lori. Cindy Moo. After hearing the famous nursery rhyme, the Diddle herd decides it is impossible for a cow to jump over the moon, but Cindy Moo is determined to discover how it can be done.
Newton, Jill. Crash Bang Donkey! A donkey’s loud musical instruments annoy Farmer Gruff–until he discovers that the music keeps away the pesky crows that have been eating his corn crop.
Oller, Erika. The Cabbage Soup Solution. Elsie lives a simple life on a small farm, growing things that she sells to the green grocer, but one night half of her cabbages disappear and her cats, Fluff and Gordo, find the culprits and make them set things right.
Parish, Herman. Amelia Bedelia’s First Field Trip. Amelia Bedelia goes with her class to visit a farm, where her literal-mindedness causes confusion along with some laughs.
Ransom, Candice, F. Tractor Day. Simple rhyming text describes a child’s day spent riding on the tractor with Daddy at their small farm.
Regan, Dian Curtis. Barnyard Slam. Farm animals express themselves at a poetry slam hosted by Yo Mama Goose.
Sloat, Teri. Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep. Farmer Brown shears his sheep and has their wool made into yarn, but after they beg to have it back he knits the yarn into sweaters for them.
Spinelli, Eileen. Princess Pig. A pig believes herself to be a princess and behaves accordingly, but soon learns that being royalty has a price.
Spurr, Elizabeth. Farm Life. Rhymed descriptions of life on a farm introduce basic colors and the numbers one to ten.
Stiegemeyer, Julie. Gobble Gobble Crash: A Barnyard Counting Bash. A flock of clumsy turkeys disrupts a quiet night on the farm, but when the farmer threatens them, all the barnyard animals help the noisy birds hide.
Stoeke, Janet Morgan. The Loopy Coop Hens: Pip’s Trip. Pip tries to convince her fellow hens, Midge and Dot, to join her for a ride in the farmer’s truck, but she is the only one brave enough to climb inside.
Tafuri, Nancy. All Kinds of Kisses. Each barnyard animal has its favorite kind of kiss, but the best of all is a mother’s goodnight kiss.
Tafuri, Nancy. Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails. Questions and answers highlight some outstanding characteristics of farm animals, such as a chicken’s feathers and a horse’s mane.
Teague, Mark. Funny Farm. Cousin Edward visits Aunt Judy and Uncle Earl on their farm and tries to help with all of the chores.
Thompson, Lauren. Wee Little Chick.When the other barnyard animals comment on how tiny the littlest chick is, the proud little one peeps louder, stands taller, and runs faster than any of them.
Van Leeuwen, Jean. Chicken Soup. When they hear that Mrs. Farmer is making soup, all the frightenened chickens run for their lives, but Mr. Farmer finds Little Chickie, who has a bad cold, and he takes her to the kitchen for some nice hot vegetable soup.
Wild, Margaret. Nighty Night! Little lambs, chicks, ducks, and pigs change places and try other ways to delay going to bed.
Wilson, Karma. The Cow Loves Cookies. While all the other animals on the farm enjoy eating their regular food, the cow chooses to eat the one thing that she loves best.
Wilson, Karma. Hogwash! When his stubborn pigs refuse a sudsy cleaning, a determined farmer learns that mud baths can be just as fun.
Board Books
Beaton, Clare. Clare Beaton’s Farmyard Rhymes. Presents classic illustrated nursery rhymes with a farmyard theme.
Brown, James. Farm. Introduces farm animals, including pigs, cows, and horses, juxtaposing a simple image of each animal with folk-style art patterns.
Campbell, Rod. Farm Animals. Introduces animals found on a farm and the sounds they make.
Huneck, Stephen. Sally at the Farm.Sally visiting a barnyard, where she makes new friends, helps out, and frolics with an array of friendly animals.
Ryan, Jo. Farm. Learn all about life on the farm in this lift-the-flaps book.
Illustrated Literature
Cooper, Elisha. Farm.Describes the activities on a busy family farm from the spring when preparations for planting begin to the autumn when the cats grow winter coats and the cold rains begin to fall.
Gil, Carmen. Daisy. A good-natured, helpful donkey becomes a favorite of all the farm animals, until a beautiful, young, but arrogant colt arrives to replace the aging donkey.
Johnson, D. B. Four Legs Bad, Two Legs Good! While all of the other animals on a tumbledown farm wait on Farmer Orvie, a pig, who spends a great deal of time sleeping, an unhappy Duck decides that she would be a better farmer and sets out to convince Orvie.
Beginning Readers
Capucilli, Alyssa Satin. Biscuit’s Day at the Farm. Biscuit the dog meets hens, pigs, geese, and goats while visiting a farm.
Cazet, Denys. Elvis the Rooster Almost Goes to Heaven. Elvis the rooster thinks he has died when he fails to crow at the rising of the sun but the chickens find a way to restore his cluck.
Freeman, Martha. Mrs. Wow Never Wanted a Cow. When Mrs. Wow takes in a stray cow, her lazy dog and cat hope to train the new household member to catch mice and intimidate the mailman.
Grant, Judyann. Chicken Said, “Cluck!” Earl and Pearl do not want Chicken’s help in the garden, until a swarm of grasshoppers arrives and her true talent shines.
Houran, Lori Haskins. Busy Tractors, Busy Days.Tractors are busy machines. See the big jobs they do each day!
Lobel, Arnold. Small Pig.A small pig, who likes to wallow in good, soft mud, runs away when the fastidious farmer’s wife decides to clean the pigpen.
Nichols, Catherine. Good Morning, Farm! Describes a typical morning on a farm, from a rooster crowing to eating breakfast after finishing the chores.
Pipe, Jim. Farm Machines.In very simple language and photographs, describes farm machines. Includes quizzes and games
Rau, Dana Meachen. Corn Aplenty. Two children watch a local farmer grow a crop of corn and as the corn develops–from seed to harvest time–so does the friendship between the children and the farmer.
Taylor, Victoria. On The Farm.Introduces young readers to details of life on a farm, with pictures of the farmer and his family at work and the various animals, such as cows, horses, and pigs.
Non-fiction
J 629.225 Mez. Giant Tractors
J 630 Arl. Farm
J 630 Fla. Life in a Farming Community
J 630 Gib. Farming
J 630 Ros. Our Farm: Four Seasons with Five Kids on One Family’s Farm
J 631.37 Pet. Fantastic Farm Machines
J 636 Day. Farm Animals
Fiction
Calhoun, Dia. Eva of the Farm. Twelve-year-old Eva writes beautiful poems on the farm in Washington State that her family has owned for generations, but when money runs out and then her baby brother gets sick, the family faces foreclosure and the way of life she loves is threatened. 228 pages. (J FIC Cal)
Davies, Nicola. Welcome to Silver Street Farm. When Gemma, Meera, and Karl come across some ducklings and baby sheep, they decide to turn an abandoned train station into a farm in the middle of the city. Level N. 153 pages. (J FIC Dav)
Sherrard, Valerie. Tumbleweed Skies. Ellie’s grandmother doesn’t want her around the farm, but times are tough, and her salesman father can’t take her on the road. Ellie’s challenge is to break through her grandmother’s isolation and find kinship among strangers. 153 pages. (J FIC She)
Vischer, Frans. Jimmy Dabble. Jimmy Dabble lives a fairly mundane life on a farm with his extremely frugal and hardworking parents. Jimmy knows he’s not like his mom and dad, for one thing he is teaching the farm animals to sing. 149 pages. (J FIC Vis)
King-Smith, Dick. The Golden Goose. Farmer Skint and his family on Woebegone Farm have fallen on hard times, but their luck changes with the arrival of a special golden goose. 113 pages. (J FIC Kin)
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Picture Books
Anderson, Arlie. Neither. An animal judged to not belong or conform in the Land of This and That finds a happy home in the Land of All.
Arnold, Elana K. What Riley Wore. Gender-creative Riley knows just what to wear for every occasion during a busy week with family and friends.
Hall, Michael. Red, A Crayon’s Story. A blue crayon mistakenly labeled as “red” suffers an identity crisis. Almost everyone tries to “help” him be red, until a friend offers a new perspective.
Loney, Andrea J. Bunnybear. Although Bunnybear was born a bear, he feels more like a bunny. He loves to bounce through the forest, wiggle his nose, and munch on strawberries. The other bears don’t understand him, and neither do the bunnies. Will Bunnybear ever find a friend who likes him just the way he is?
Love, Jessica. Julián is a Mermaid. While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he’s seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for his headdress. But what will Abuela think about the mess she makes — and even more importantly, what will she think about how Julián sees himself?
Underwood, Deborah. Ogilvy. When Ogilvy moves to a new town , he discovers that bunnies who wear dresses play ball and knit socks, and bunnies in sweaters make art and climb rocks, and Ogilvy must figure out a way to do it all.
Juvenile Illustrated Literature (JIL)
Phi, Bao. My Footprints. Upset after being bullied, Thuy, a Vietnamese American, pretends she is different creatures, including an especially strong, wonderful being made up of her two mothers and herself.
Parent & Teacher (P&T)
Gabriel, Dani. Sam. Based on a true story, this picture book is focused on the relationship between Sam and his sister, in whom he finally confides his gender identity, although his family knows him as “Isabel.”
Herthel, Jessica and Jazz Jennings. I am Jazz. Co-author Jazz Jennings tells her story of knowing from the time she was two that she was a girl in a boy’s body, and how her parents and teachers learned about gender identity and adjusted. Told in a picture book format.
Hoffman, Sarah and Ian. Jacob’s Room to Choose. A class navigates the confusion of how to decide who should use which bathroom. What if you’re wearing pants but the person on the sign is wearing a dress? The class comes up with their own signage including, “Everyone uses the bathroom” and “I have to pee so let me be.”
Thorn, Theresa. It Feels Good to Be Yourself. A straightforward exploration of gender identity, providing young readers and adults with the vocabulary to discuss the subject with sensitivity.
Walton, Jessica. Introducing Teddy. One day, while on the swings, Errol’s teddy bear reveals that he has always known that’s he’s a girl teddy and not a boy teddy, and would like to be known by a new name.
Fiction
Clarke, Cat. The Pants Project. A middle grade novel in which Liv, who considers himself a boy, takes on his school’s policy requiring the wearing of skirts.
Gino, Alex. George. George knows that deep down inside he is a girl. With the help of a friend, George comes up with a plan when the teacher won’t let her try out for the part of Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web.
Hennessey, M.G. The Other Boy. It becomes trickier for twelve-year-old Shane, who has managed to keep the fact that he is transgender a secret, to maintain the secret from other members of the baseball team in the locker room. Issues of who can be trusted to talk to will make this story relatable to many pre-teens and teens.
Picture Books on the Broader Topic of Self-acceptance
Hoffman, Mary. Amazing Grace. When Grace wishes to play the part of Peter Pan her classmates point out that Peter Pan was a boy, and that, in addition, he wasn’t Black. This book has been appreciated for years for its writing, illustrations and ability to inspire.
Lionni, Leo. Little Blue and Little Yellow. This story of friendship and acceptance is as touching today as it was when it was published in 1959. When Little Blue and Yellow become friends and thereby turn green, they are distressed to find that their parents don’t recognize them.
Lionni, Leo. Pezzetino. In this lovely, mosaic style picture book, Pezzetino (“little piece” in Italian) comes to understand he is his own self, and not a piece of sombody/something bigger.
Parr, Todd. It’s Okay to Be Different. Bright and appealing illustrations show all the different things it is okay to be.
Percival, Tom. Perfectly Norman. Young Norman finds that hiding his wings rather than having them is making him unhappy.
Small, David. Imogene’s Antlers. What will Imogene and her family do in response to her waking up with antlers one morning?
Graphic novel here is defined as a full-length story told in paneled, sequential, graphic format.
Grades – K-2
Bliss, Harry. Luke on the Loose. A young boy’s fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.
Cammuso, Frank. Otto’s Orange Day. After a genie fulfills Otto the cat’s wish by turning the whole world orange, Otto realizes that his favorite color is not the best color for everything.
Carré, Lilli. Tippy and the Night Parade. Follow Tippy on a nocturnal adventure through mist, up a mountain, down a hole and back home.
Coudray, Philippe. Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas! Benjamin Bear, accompanied by his faithful rabbit friend, continues to share his observations and questions about the world around him.
Davis, Eleanor. Flop to the Top! Wanda’s plan to make herself famous backfires when her floppy-faced dog starts drawing all the attention.
Eaton, Maxwell. The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Evil Penguin Plan. Two beavers thwart an evil plot by penguins who plan to turn Beaver Island into a frosty resort.
French, Renée. Barry’s Best Buddy. Polarhog takes his reluctant best friend on a walk while a surprise is brewing.
Hatke, Ben. Little Robot. When a girl finds a lost robot in the woods, they become fast friends, but she is in for an adventure when a much larger, menacing robot comes to retrieve it.
Hayes, Geoffrey. Benny and Penny in Lost and found! Penny the mouse tries to help her brother Benny find his favorite hat, but Benny warns her that he is in a bad mood.
Johnson, R. Kikuo. The Shark King: A Toon Book. In graphic novel format, retells the Hawaiian story of Nanaue, born of human mother and shark father, who struggles to find his place in a village of humans.
Liniers. The Big Wet Balloon. Matilda promises her little sister Clemmie an amazing weekend spent playing outside. But the weather’s rainy and Clemmie can’t bring her new balloon along. Matilda teaches Clemmie all the delights of a wet Saturday.
Liniers. Written and Drawn by Henrietta. When Henrietta’s mother gives her a box of colored pencils, she sets out to draw a terrifying and fantastic adventure.
Naujokaitis, Pranas T. The Totally Awesome Epic Quest of the Brave Boy Knight. A young boy and his furry friend, Butterscotch, as brave knights, battle a green monster that is destroying a princess’s kingdom, seek a hidden treasure, and patrol the kingdom.
Smith, Jeff. Little Mouse Gets Ready: A Toon Book. Little Mouse gets dressed to go to the barn with his mother, brothers, and sisters.
Spires, Ashley. Binky, License to Scratch. Binky the space cat and his team of space pets are unwillingly boarding at the vet’s office while their humans are away and plotting a daring escape only to stumble onto a secret alien plot to defeat the human race.
Sturm, James. Sleepless Knight. The Knight and his trusty horse Edward go on a camping trip, but the Knight cannot sleep when he discovers he has left his beloved teddy bear behind.
Venable, Colleen A. F. Hamster and Cheese. Sasspants, a guinea pig, reluctantly agrees to act as a private investigator when Hamisher the hamster begs for her help in discovering who is stealing sandwiches from the pet shop’s befuddled owner.
Grades – 3-5
Bell, Cece. El Deafo. The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her “superpower.”
Burks, James. Bird & Squirrel: On the Run! A happy-go-lucky Bird and a cautious acorn-collecting Squirrel become unlikely best friends when Squirrel loses his winter stash while saving Bird from Cat, prompting a zany road-trip adventure in search of warm weather and plentiful food.
Colossal, Eric. Rutabaga the Adventure Chef. Rutabaga and his magic cooking pot join three young adventurers on a culinary quest to defeat a dragon, discover new ingredients, and identify monsters to invite to, or eat for, dinner.
Dauvillier, Loïc. Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust. A grandmother shares the story of her experiences in WWII with her grandchild in this graphic novel for young reader.
Duffy, Chris. Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists. Presents seventeen fairy tales, including classics such as “Puss in Boots” and “Little Red Riding Hood” and more obscure tales such as “The Prince and the Tortoise.”
Guibert, Emmanuel. Ariol: Just a Donkey Like You and Me. Ariol is an everyday tween donkey with blue glasses who lives in the suburbs with his mom and dad, as well as a host of other animal friends and teachers.
Harrell, Rob. Monster on the Hill. In a fantastical England where each small town has a monster, the people of Stoker-on-Avon have to help their own, a depressed creature named Rayburn, become the monster he was born to be.
Hatke, Ben. Legends of Zita the Spacegirl. Zita is determined to find her way home to Earth, but her exploits have made her an intergalactic megastar, and as her true self is eclipsed by her public persona, she faces a robot doppelganger, and is unsure of who she can trust.
Holm, Jennifer L. Comics Squad: Recess! A collection of comics about every kid’s favorite school subject: recess.
Kibuishi, Kazu. Explorer: The Mystery Boxes. An anthology of short graphic works by such artists as Kazu Kibuishi, Dave Roman, and Raina Telgemeier, all on the theme of a mysterious box and the marvels, or mayhem, inside.
Maihack, Mike. Target Practice. Mysteriously zapped thousands of years into the future, a teenaged Cleopatra discovers that she is destined to save the galaxy, a prophecy that compels her to enroll in a high-tech school where she can learn modern subjects, alien languages, and combat fighting.
McCranie, Stephen. The Biggest, Bestest Time Ever! Fourth-grade genius Mal and his talking dog Chad shrink themselves to microscopic size and travel through time, but girls and the school bully present bigger challenges.
Nytra, David. The Secret of the Stone Frog: A Toon Graphic Novel. Siblings Leah and Alan wake one morning in the middle of an enchanted forest and encounter a strange and spectacular world filled with foppish lions, giant rabbits, and a talking stone frog for a guide.
O’Connor, George. Zeus: King of the Gods. Retells in graphic novel format stories from Greek mythology about the exploits of the young Zeus and how he rallied an army and overthrew his father, Kronos, to become king of the gods.
Rex, Michael. Fangbone! Third-Grade Barbarian. In order to protect the Big Toe of Drool, Fangbone the barbarian is sent to an alternate world, where he befriends Bill, a third-grader, and attends elementary school.
Shiga, Jason. Meanwhile. In this choose-your-own adventure graphic novel, a boy stumbles on the laboratory of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, and a doomsday machine.
Spiegelman, Nadja. Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure. After getting separated from his teacher, his classmates, and his trip partner during an outing to the Empire State Building, Pablo, the new kid in school, learns to navigate the New York City subway system as well as his own feelings towards making new friends and living in a big city.
Telgemeier, Raina. Sisters. In a semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Raina’s disappointing bond with a cranky, independent younger sister is further challenged by the arrival of a baby brother and an estrangement in their parents’ marriage.
Thompson, Craig. Space Dumplins. Violet Marlocke sets out with a group of misfit friends on an outer space mission to save her father who has gone missing during a hazardous job, leading them all into an adventure filled with aliens and spaceships.
Varon, Sara. Bake Sale. Cupcake runs a successful bakery with his best friend, Eggplant, but dreams of going abroad to meet his idol, Turkish Delight, who is the most famous pastry chef in the world.
Winick, Judd. Hilo: The Boy who Crashed to Earth. When a mysterious boy falls from the sky, friends D.J. and Gina must discover the secrets of his identity and help him save the world.
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A story that could really have happened in the past. The setting of historical fiction stories is usually real and drawn from history. Historical fiction sometimes contains actual historical persons, but the main characters tend to be fictional.
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Armstrong, Alan. W. Raleigh’s Page. 328 pages. (J FIC Abb)
Avi. Crispin: The Cross of Lead. 262 pages. Level W. (Newbery Avi)
Cushman, Karen. Catherine, Called Birdy. 169 pages. Level X (J FIC Cus)
Cushman, Karen. The Midwife’s Apprentice. 122 pages. Level X. (Newbery Cus)
De Angeli, Marguerite. The Door in the Wall. 120 pages. Level U. (Newbery DeA)
Russell, Christopher. Dogboy. 259 pages. (J FIC Dog)
Spradlin, Michael, P. The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail. 248 pages. (J FIC Spr)
Colonial Period
Carbone, Elisa Lynn. Blood on the River: James Town 1607. 237 pages. Level W. (J Fic Car)
Duey, Kathleen. Silence and Lily: 1773. 172 pages. (J Fic Due)
Hermes, Patricia. Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth’s Diary. My America series. 109 pages. (J FIC My A)
Hesse, Karen. Stowaway. 319 pages. Level W. (J FIC Hes)
Lasky, Kathryn. A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple. My America series. 173 pages. (J FIC Dea)
McDonald, Megan. Shadows in the Glasshouse. American Girl History Mystery series. 133 pages. (J FIC Ame)
Rose, Caroline Starr. Blue Birds. 393 pages. (J FIC Ros)
Speare, Elizabeth George. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. 249 pages. Level W (Newbery Spe)
American Revolution
Abbott, E.F. Sybil Ludington, Revolutionary War Rider. 184 pages. (J FIC Abb)
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains. 316 pages. Level Z. (J FIC And)
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. Jefferson’s Sons. 360 pages. (J FIC Bra)
Collier, James Lincoln. My Brother Sam is Dead. 216 pages. Level Y. (J FIC Col)
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. 256 pages. Level Z (Newbery For)
Gregory, Kristiana. The Winter of the Red Snow. Dear America series. 173 pages (J Fic Dea)
Mann, Jennifer Ann. Scar: A Revolutionary War Tale. 144 pages. (J FIC Man)
Pryor, Bonnie. Thomas in Danger. 170 pages. Level R (J FIC Pry)
Frontier and Pioneer Life
Avi. The Barn. 106 pages. Level T. (J FIC Avi)
Dalgliesh, Alice. The Courage of Sarah Noble. 52 pages. Level O. (J FIC Dal)
Dallas, Sandra. Hardscrabble. 240 pages. (J FIC Dal)
Duey, Kathleen. Katie and the Mustang. 135 pages. (series) (J FIC Due)
Giblin, James. The Boy Who Saved Cleveland. 64 pages. Level Q. (J FIC Gib)
Hermes, Patricia. Westward to Home: Joshua’s Diary. My America series. 108 pages. (J Fic My A)
Lassieur, Allison. Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters. 148 pages. (J FIC Iam)
MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall. 56 pages. Level R (Newbery MacL)
Mazer, Harry. My Brother Abe: Sally Lincoln’s Story. 202 pages. (J FIC Maz)
McMullan, Kate. As Far As I Can See: Meg’s Prairie Diary. My America series. 106 pages. (J Fic My A)
Murphy, Jim. My Face to the Wind: the Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher. Dear America series. 182
pages. Level W. (J Fic Dea)
Pearsall, Shelley. Crooked River. 249 pages. (J FIC Pea)
Speare, Elizabeth George. The Sign of the Beaver. 135 pages. Level T. (J FIC Spe)
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House in the Big Woods. Little House series. 230 pages. Level Q. (J FIC Wil)
Civil War Era
Abbott, E. F. John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy. 185 pages. (J FIC Abb)
Avi. Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor and the Merrimac: A Civil War Novel. 203 pages. (J FIC Avi)
Calkhoven, Laurie. Will at the Battle of Gettysburg. 230 pages. (J FIC Cal)
Gutman, Dan. Abner and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. 166 pages. Level T. (J FIC Gut)
Hahn, Mary Downing. Promises to the Dead. 202 pages. Level Y. (J FIC Hah)
Hart, Alison. Gabriel’s Horses. 161 pages. Level V. (J FIC Har)
Hesse, Karen. A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin. Dear America series. 169 pages. Level T. (J FIC Dea)
Hughes, Pat. Seeing the Elephant: A Story of the Civil War. 36 pages. (J FIC Hug)
Keith, Harold. Rifles for Watie. 332 pages. (NEWBERY Kei)
Miller, Bobbi. The Girls of Gettysburg. 151 pages. (J FIC Mil)
Murphy, Jim. Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier. My Name is America series. 173 pages. Level V. (J Fic Dea)
Myers, Laurie. Escape by Night. 120 pages. Level T. (J FIC Mye)
Nolen, Jerdine. Calico Girl. 164 pages. (J FIC Nol)
Parry, Rosanne. Last of the Name. 335 pages (J FIC Par)
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. 45 pages. Level V. (JIL Pol)
Rinaldi, Ann. Amelia’s War. 265 pages. (J FIC Rin)
Rinaldi, Ann. Come Juneteenth. 246 pages. (J FIC Rin)
Schwabach, Karen. The Storm Before Atlanta. 307 pages. (J FIC Sch)
Wait, Lea. Uncertain Glory. 203 pages. (J FIC Wai)
Wells, Rosemary. Red Moon at Sharpsburg. 236 pages. (J FIC Wel)
Wiechman, Kathy Cannon. Like a River: A Civil War Novel. 336 pages. (J FIC Wie)
Ylvisaker, Anne. The Curse of the Buttons. 227 pages. Level U. (J FIC Ylv)
U.S.A. and Other Countries – 19th Century
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Journey of Little Charlie. 234 pages. (J FIC cur)
Hopkinson, Deborah. The Great Trouble. 249 pages. Level X. (J FIC Hop)
McClure, Wendy. Wanderville. 211 pages. (J FIC McC)
Preus, Margi. West of the Moon. 213 pages. (J FIC Pre)
Pryor, Bonnie. The Iron Dragon: The Courageous Story of Lee Chin. 160 pages. (J FIC Pry)
Rose, Caroline Starr. May B. 231 pages. (J FIC Ros)
Early 20th Century – Miscellaneous women’s rights, factories, family life, influenza epidemic, etc.
Abbott, E.F. Nettie & Nellie Crook, Orphan Train Sisters. 161 pages. (J FIC Abb)
Avi. The Secret School. 153 pages. Level T. (J FIC Avi)
Hesse, Karen. Brooklyn Bridge: A Novel. 229 pages. Level U. (J FIC Hes)
Hopkinson, Deborah. Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906. 200 pages. Level T. (J FIC Hop)
Hurst, Carol Otis. You Come to Yokum. 137 pages. (J FIC Hur)
Jocelyn, Marthe. Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril and Romance. 281 pages. (J FIC Joc)
Kelly, Jacqueline. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. 340 pages. Level Y. (J FIC Kel)
Larson, Kirby. Hattie Big Sky. 289 pages. Level W. (J FIC Lar)
Levine, Gail Carson. Dave at Night. 281 pages. (J FIC Lev)
Moss, Jenny. Winnie’s War. 178 pages. Level V. (J FIC Mos)
Paterson, Katherine. Bread and Roses, Too. 275 pages. Level W. (J FIC Pat)
Porter, Tracey. Billy Creekmore. 305 pages. (J FIC Por)
Taylor, Sydney. All-of-a-Kind Family. 188 pages. Level Q. (J FIC Tay)
Winthrop, Elizabeth. Counting on Grace. 215 pages. Level W. (J FIC) Win
World War I 1914-1918
Boyne, John. Stay Where You Are and Then Leave. 245 pages. (J FIC Boy)
Dumon Tak. Soldier Bear. 145 pages. (J FIC Dum)
Hartnett, Sonya. The Silver Donkey. 266 pages. Level V. (J FIC Har)
Hart, Alison. Darling, Mercy Dog of World War I. 163 pages. (J FIC Har)
Jones, Elizabeth McDavid. The Night Flyers. History Mysteries Series. 148 pages. Level W (J FIC Ame)
McDonough, Yona Zeldis. The Doll Shop Downstairs. 118 pages. (FIC McD)
Great Depression
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. 245 pages. Level U (J NEWBERY Cur)
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Mighty Miss Malone. 307 pages. (J FIC Cur)
De Young, C. Coco. A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt. 105 pages. Level R. (J FIC DeY)
Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. 227 pages. Level X. (J NEWBERY Hes)
Peck, Richard. A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories. 148 pages. Level V. ( J FIC Pec)
Tubb, Kristin, O’Donnell. Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different. 214 pages. (J FIC Tub)
Vanderpool, Clare. Moon Over Manifest. 351 pages. Level U (J NEWBERY Van)
World War II 1939-1945
Ackerman, Karen. The Night Crossing. 53 pages. Level O. (J FIC Ack)
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. The Boy Who Dared. 202 pages. Level Y. (J FIC Bar)
Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. 215 pages. (J FIC Boy)
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. The War I Finally Won. 385 pages. (J FIC Bru)
Carelli, Anne O’Brien. Skylark and Wallcreeper. 398 pages. (J FIC Car)
Chapman, Fern Schumer. Is It Night or Day? 205 pages. Level X/Y. (J FIC Cha)
Dauvillier, Loic. Hidden. 76 pages. (J COMIC Dau)
Dennenberg, Barry. Journal of Ben Uchida. My Name is America series. 156 pages. (J FIC Den)
Erwin, Vicki Berger. Different Days. 270 pages. (J FIC Erw)
Glatstein, Jacob. Emil and Karl. 194 pages. Level Y. (J FIC Gla)
Gleitzman, Morris. Then. 198 pages. (J FIC Gle)
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Island War. 203 pages. (J FIC Gif)
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Lily’s Crossing. 180 pages. Level S. (J FIC Gif)
Gratz, Alan. Grenade. 270 pages. (J FIC Gra)
Hull, Nancy L. On Rough Seas. 261 pages. (J FIC Hull)
Hopkinson, Deborah. How I Became a Spy: A Mystery of WWII London. 264 pages. (J FIC Hop)
Klages, Ellen. The Green Glass Sea. 321 pages. (J FIC Kla)
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. 137 pages. Level U. (J NEWBERY Low)
Mazer, Harry. A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor. 104 pages. (J FIC Maz)
McAllister, Cameron. The Tin Snail. 274 pages. Level W. (J FIC McA)
McDonough, Yona Zeldis. The Bicycle Spy. 197 pages. (J FIC McD)
McDonough, Yona Zeldis. Courageous: A Novel of Dunkirk. 177 pages (J FIC McD)
McDonogh, Yona Zeldis. The Doll with the Yellow Star. 90 pages. (J FIC McD)
McSwigen, Marie. Snow Treasure. 196 pages. Level R. (J FIC McS)
Meyer, Susan. Black Radishes. 228 pages. (J FIC Mey)
Napoli, Donna Jo. Fire in the Hills. 215 pages. (J FIC Nap)
Osborne, Mary Pope. My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck. Dear America series (J Fic Dea] 185 pages. (J FIC Osb)
Preus, Margi. Shadow on the Mountain. 286 pages. (J FIC Pre)
Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk. Making Bombs for Hitler. 230 pages. (J FIC Skr)
Voorhoeve, Anne C. My family for the War. 402 pages. (J FIC Voo)
Wolf, Joan, M. Someone Named Eva. 200 pages. (J FIC Wol)
Yep, Laurence. Hiroshima. 56 pages. Level S. (J FIC Yep)
Civil Rights / Vietnam War Era
Burg, Shana. A Thousand Never Evers. 301 pages. Level W. (J FIC Bur)
Coleman, Evelyn. Freedom Train. 140 pages. (J FIC Col)
Dowell, Frances, O Roark. Shooting the Moon. 163 pages. Level T. (J FIC Dow)
Draper, Sharon M. Stella by Starlight. 320 pages. (J FIC Dra)
Jackson, Linda Williams. A Sky Full of Stars. 307 pages. (J Fic Jac)
Kerley, Barbara. Greetings from Planet Earth. 246 pages. (J FIC Ker)
Kidd, Ronald. Night on Fire. 264 pages. (J FIC Kid)
Levine, Kristin. The Lions of Little Rock. 298 pages. Level X (J FIC Lev)
Lynch, Chris. I Pledge Allegiance. 183 pages. Level Y (J FIC Lyn)
McKissack, Patricia C. A Friendship For Today. 172 pages. (J FIC McK)
Rodman, Mary Ann. Yankee Girl. 219 pages. Level Y (J FIC Rod)
Shabazz, Ilyasah. Betty Before X. 248 pages. (J FIC Sha)
Watts, Jeri Hannel. Kizzy Ann Stamps. 183 pages. Level T. (J FIC Wat)
Weaver, Lila Quintero. My Year in the Middle. 268 pages. (J FIC Wea)
Williams-Garcia, Rita. One Crazy Summer. 218 pages. Level W. (J FIC Wil)
6/1/18 CC
A story that could really have happened in the past. The setting of historical fiction stories is usually real and drawn from history. Historical fiction sometimes contains actual historical persons, but the main characters tend to be fictional.
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Armstrong, Alan. W. Raleigh’s Page. In the late 16th century, fifteen-year-old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia, where he helps to establish relations with the Indians. 328 pages. (J FIC Abb)
Avi. Crispin: The Cross of Lead. Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. 262 pages. Level W. (Newbery Avi)
Cushman, Karen. Catherine, Called Birdy. During her fourteenth year, in the year 1290, Catherine keeps a diary in which she details her family’s activities and conflicts, the life of their medieval English manor, and her own coming to maturity. 169 pages. Level X (J FIC Cus)
Cushman, Karen. The Midwife’s Apprentice. In a small village in medieval England, a young homeless girl acquires a home and a new career when she becomes the apprentice to a sharp-tempered midwife. 122 pages. Level X. (Newbery Cus)
De Angeli, Marguerite. The Door in the Wall. In England during the Middle Ages, a courageous young boy who suddenly loses the use of his legs is forced to learn how to deal with his new disability. 120 pages. Level U. (Newbery DeA)
Russell, Christopher. Dogboy. In 1346, twelve-year-old Brind, an orphaned kennel boy raised with hunting dogs at an English manor, accompanies his master, along with half of the manor’s prized mastiffs, to France, where he must fend for himself when both his master and the dogs are lost at a decisive battle. 259 pages. (J FIC Dog)
Spradlin, Michael, P. The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail. In 1191, fifteen-year-old Tristan, a youth of unknown origin raised in an English abbey, becomes a Templar Knight’s squire during the Third Crusade and soon finds himself on a mission to bring the Holy Grail to safety. 248 pages. (J FIC Spr)
Colonial Period
Carbone, Elisa Lynn. Blood on the River: James Town 1607. Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe. 237 pages. Level W. (J Fic Car)
Duey, Kathleen. Silence and Lily: 1773. In 1773, ten-year-old Silence longs to own a beautiful snow-white mare named Lily, but as tensions between the colonists and the British heat up, she fears she may lose Lily forever, especially when she stumbles upon a dangerous secret. 172 pages. (J Fic Due)
Hermes, Patricia. Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth’s Diary. My America series. Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home. 109 pages. (J FIC My)
Hesse, Karen. Stowaway. A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook. 319 pages. Level W. (J FIC Hes)
Lasky, Kathryn. A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple. Dear America series. A Pilgrim girl makes the dangerous journey on the Mayflower to a new world filled with promise and unexpected hardships. 173 pages. (J FIC Dea)
McDonald, Megan. Shadows in the Glasshouse. American Girl History Mystery series. While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glass maker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage. 133 pages. (J FIC Ame)
Rose, Caroline Starr. Blue Birds. As tensions rise between the English settlers and the Native peoples on Roanoke Island, twelve-year-old Alis forms an impossible friendship with a native girl named Kim. 393 pages. (J FIC Ros)
American Revolution
Abbott, E.F. Sybil Ludington, Revolutionary War Rider. In 1777, Sybil and her family believe the American colonies should be free from British control. Sybil’s father leads a regiment of New York militiamen, and everyone in the family is dedicated to the Patriot cause. Using spy tactics and codes, the Ludingtons gather intelligence. When British troops raid nearby Danbury, Connecticut, Sybil gallops through the night to call out her father’s men. But the journey is dangerous for a girl who’s all alone. With obstacles at every turn, will she make it in time to stop the British? 184 pages. (J FIC Abb)
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains. When Isabel’s owner dies at the start of the Revolution, a greedy nephew keeps Isabel and her younger sister enslaved and sells them to Loyalists in New York, where she is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots. 316 pages. Level Z. (J FIC And)
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. Jefferson’s Sons. A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson’s life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings. 360 pages. (J FIC Bra)
Collier, James Lincoln. My Brother Sam is Dead. When Sam Meeker leaves his home in Redding, Connecticut, a town loyal to the king, to fight with the rebel army, he places his family in a very difficult position. 216 pages. Level Y. (J FIC Col)
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. After injuring his hand, a silversmith’s apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. 256 pages. Level Z (Newbery For)
Gregory, Kristiana. The Winter of the Red Snow. Dear America series. Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British. 173 pages (J Fic Dea)
Mann, Jennifer Ann. Scar: A Revolutionary War Tale. 144 pages. (J FIC Man) Unable to enlist due to a childhood injury, Noah Daniels is forced to watch the Revolution from his farm in New York–until a raid on his settlement thrusts him into one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution, and ultimately, face to face with the enemy. 144 pgs. (J Fic Man)
Pryor, Bonnie. Thomas in Danger. Having lost their home when the Revolutionary War reached their part of rural Pennsylvania, Thomas and his family start a new life running an inn in Philadelphia, where Thomas finds new danger that takes him into captivity among the Iroquois. 170 pages. Level R (J FIC Pry)
Frontier and Pioneer Life
Avi. The Barn. In an effort to fulfill their dying father’s last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory. 106 pages. Level T. (J FIC Avi)
Dalgliesh, Alice. The Courage of Sarah Noble. Remembering her mother’s words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family. 52 pages. Level O. (J FIC Dal)
Dallas, Sandra. Hardscrabble.Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders. 240 pages. (J FIC Dal)
Duey, Kathleen. Katie and the Mustang. Orphaned nine-year-old Katie Rose is sent to live with the Stevenses, and her backbreaking toil is eased by the relationship she develops with a mustang Mr. Stevens brings home. 135 pages. (series) (J FIC Due)
Giblin, James. The Boy Who Saved Cleveland. During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone. 64 pages. Level Q. (J FIC Gib)
Hermes, Patricia. Westward to Home: Joshua’s Diary. My America series. In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family’s journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. Includes a historical note about westward migration. 108 pages. (J Fic My)
Lassieur, Allison. Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters. Hattie Jacobs and her family join the Great Exodus of 1879 in search of a better life in Kansas. 148 pages. (J FIC Iam)
MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall. When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. 56 pages. Level R (Newbery MacL)
Mazer, Harry. My Brother Abe: Sally Lincoln’s Story. Forced off their land in Kentucky in 1816, nine-year-old Sarah Lincoln, known as Sally, and her family, including younger brother Abe, move to the Indiana frontier. 202 pages. (J FIC Maz)
McMullan, Kate. As Far As I Can See: Meg’s Prairie Diary. My America series. In her diary for 1856, nine-year-old Meg describes the long, dangerous journey she and her younger brother make from Missouri to Kansas, as well as the new life they find there. 106 pages. (J Fic My A)
Murphy, Jim. My Face to the Wind: the Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher. Dear America series. Following her father’s death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher. 182 pages. Level W. (J Fic Dea)
Pearsall, Shelley. Crooked River. When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter’s father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town’s reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death. 249 pages. (J FIC Pea)
Speare, Elizabeth George. The Sign of the Beaver. Left alone to guard the family’s wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.135 pages. Level T. (J FIC Spe)
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House in the Big Woods. Little House series. A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father’s stories and singing, and share special occasions with relatives and neighbors. 230 pages. Level Q. (J FIC Wil)
Civil War Era
Abbott, E. F. John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy. A tale based on the life of the youngest drummer boy to participate in the Civil War describes how, at the age of 9, he ran away from his family to join the 3rd Ohio Union Regiment and served as a drummer boy before becoming the youngest soldier to serve in the war and returning home a hero. 185 pages. (J FIC Abb)
Avi. Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor and the Merrimac: A Civil War Novel. After his father is killed during the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Tom takes on a job to at the iron works to support his family, and finds himself a target of ruthless spies when he begins assisting with the ironclad ship the “Monitor.” 203 pages. (J FIC Avi)
Calkhoven, Laurie. Will at the Battle of Gettysburg. In 1863, twelve-year-old Will, who longs to be a drummer in the Union army, is stuck in his sleepy hometown of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but when the Union and Confederate armies meet right there in his town, he and his family are caught up in the fight. Includes historical notes, glossary, and a timeline of events. 230 pages. (J FIC Cal)
Gutman, Dan. Abner and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg. 166 pages. Level T. (J FIC Gut)
Hahn, Mary Downing. Promises to the Dead. When Jesse Sherman promises to take a dying slave girl’s small son safely to Baltimore, he embarks on a perilous journey that takes him to the darkest depths of humanity where only love, courage, and compassion will see him through, in an exciting novel set against the backdrop of the Civil War. 202 pages. Level Y. (J FIC Hah)
Hart, Alison. Gabriel’s Horses. In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey. 161 pages. Level V. (J FIC Har)
Hesse, Karen. A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin. Dear America series. In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father’s lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state. 169 pages. Level T. (J FIC Dea)
Hughes, Pat. Seeing the Elephant: A Story of the Civil War. Ten-year-old Izzie wants to join the war like his older brothers and go into battle against the Confederate Army, but when he meets a Rebel soldier in a hospital, he begins to see things differently. 36 pages. (J FIC Hug)
Keith, Harold. Rifles for Watie. A young farm boy joins the Union forces, becomes a scout, and thus temporarily part of Stand Watie’s Cherokee Rebels. 332 pages. (NEWBERY Kei)
Miller, Bobbi. The Girls of Gettysburg. Pickett’s Charge, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, is the climax of this Civil War adventure, told from the perspective of three girls: a Union loyalist, a free Black, and a girl from Virginia who disguised herself as a boy to fight in the Confederate Army. 151 pages. (J FIC Mil)
Murphy, Jim. Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier. My Name is America series. James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of “G” Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War. 173 pages. Level V. (J Fic Dea)
Myers, Laurie. Escape by Night. Tommy, the son of a Presbyterian minister in Augusta, Georgia, during the Civil War, must search his conscience to decide whether he should help a Yankee soldier escape and return home. Inspired by the early life of Woodrow Wilson. 120 pages. Level T. (J FIC Mye)
Nolen, Jerdine. Calico Girl. Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day. Includes historical notes. 164 pages. (J FIC Nol)
Parry, Rosanne. Last of the Name. In 1863, twelve-year-old Danny and his older sister Kathleen arrive in New York City to start a new life, but they soon find themselves navigating through the same prejudices and struggles they experienced in Ireland. 335 pages (J FIC Par)
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. 45 pages. Level V. (JIL Pol)
Rinaldi, Ann. Amelia’s War. When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town. 265 pages. (J FIC Rin)
Rinaldi, Ann. Come Juneteenth. Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation made them free. 246 pages. (J FIC Rin)
Schwabach, Karen. The Storm Before Atlanta. In 1863 northwestern Georgia, an unlikely alliance forms between ten-year-old New York drummer boy Jeremy, fourteen-year-old Confederate Charlie, and runaway slave Dulcie as they learn truths about the Civil War, slavery, and freedom. 307 pages. (J FIC Sch)
Wait, Lea. Uncertain Glory. Fourteen-year-old Joe Wood, growing up in Maine during the Civil War, tries to protect his friends, including finding his friend Owen, a young African American boy who has gone missing. 203 pages. (J FIC Wai)
Wells, Rosemary. Red Moon at Sharpsburg. As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn’t know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known. 236 pages. (J FIC Wel)
Wiechman, Kathy Cannon. Like a River: A Civil War Novel. Two Union soldiers, one too young to have properly enlisted, and the other a girl disguised as a boy, find themselves struggling through the rigors and horrors of war, from amputation to the Andersonville prison camp. 336 pages. (J FIC Wie)
Ylvisaker, Anne. The Curse of the Buttons. When the free state of Iowa is called to fight in the Civil War, eleven-year-old Ike hopes to tap the ingenuity of his fabled ancestors to sneak away and join the Iowa First in disguise as a drummer boy. 227 pages. Level U. (J FIC Ylv)
U.S.A. and Other Countries – 19th Century
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Journey of Little Charlie. When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap’n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him. 234 pages. (J FIC cur)
Hopkinson, Deborah. The Great Trouble. A tale set against a backdrop of the mid-19th-century London cholera epidemic follows the survival efforts of a young orphan who supports himself by selling scavenged items from a polluted River Thames and who helps a pioneering doctor identify the source of the virulent disease. 249 pages. Level X. (J FIC Hop)
McClure, Wendy. Wanderville. To escape rumored terrors in Kansas, New Yorkers Jack and Frances, eleven, and Frances’s brother Harold, seven, jump off an orphan train in 1899 and help new friend Alexander to build Wanderville, a safe place for homeless children. 211 pages. (J FIC McC)
Preus, Margi. West of the Moon. In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goat herder, dreams of joining her father in America. 213 pages. (J FIC Pre)
Pryor, Bonnie. The Iron Dragon: The Courageous Story of Lee Chin. In the mid-nineteenth century, teenager Lee Chin and his father leave China for California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where Lee defies his father’s wishes and saves money to free his younger sister from slavery in China, then brings her to join him in beginning a new life in America. Includes historical note about the Chinese who helped build the transcontinental railroad. 160 pages. (J FIC Pry)
Rose, Caroline Starr. May B. When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May, who suffers from dyslexia, from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier. 231 pages. (J FIC Ros)
Early 20th Century – Miscellaneous women’s rights, factories, family life, influenza epidemic, etc.
Abbott, E.F. Nettie & Nellie Crook, Orphan Train Sisters. A story based on the true experiences of orphan train twins Nettie and Nellie Crook describes how they were put on a train headed west after a mysterious separation from their parents in 1910 and unhappily placed with a family before being rescued and finding a forever home. 161 pages. (J FIC Abb)
Avi. The Secret School. In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly. 153 pages. Level T. (J FIC Avi)
Hesse, Karen. Brooklyn Bridge: A Novel. In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom’s life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge. 229 pages. Level U. (J FIC Hes)
Hopkinson, Deborah. Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906. Days after arriving in San Francisco from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan Nicholas Dray tries to help his new neighbors survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent fires. 200 pages. Level T. (J FIC Hop)
Hurst, Carol Otis. You Come to Yokum. Twelve-year-old Frank witnesses his mother’s struggles to muster support for women’s right to vote even as the family’s life is transformed by a year running a lodge in western Massachusetts in the early 1920s. 137 pages. (J FIC Hur)
Jocelyn, Marthe. Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril and Romance. In 1901, fourteen-year-old Mable Riley dreams of being a writer and having adventures while stuck in Perth County, Ontario, assisting her sister in teaching school and secretly becoming friends with a neighbor who holds scandalous opinions on women’s rights. 281 pages. (J FIC Joc)
Kelly, Jacqueline. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather. Together with her grandfather, Callie makes an important discovery. 340 pages. Level Y. (J FIC Kel)
Larson, Kirby. Hattie Big Sky. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie’s been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle’s homestead claim near Vida, Montana. With a stubborn stick-to-itiveness, Hattie faces frost, drought and blizzards. Despite many hardships, Hattie forges ahead, sharing her adventures with her friends–especially Charlie, fighting in France–through letters and articles for her hometown paper. 289 pages. Level W. (J FIC Lar)
Levine, Gail Carson. Dave at Night. When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance. 281 pages. (J FIC Lev)
Moss, Jenny. Winnie’s War. Living in the shadow of a Texas cemetery, twelve-year-old Winnie Grace struggles to keep the Spanish influenza of 1918 from touching her family–her coffin-building father, her troubled mother, and her two baby sisters. 178 pages. Level V. (J FIC Mos)
Paterson, Katherine. Bread and Roses, Too. Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. 275 pages. Level W. (J FIC Pat)
Porter, Tracey. Billy Creekmore. In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and uncle of whose existence he was previously unaware. He enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and his involvement with a union bring trouble. He then joins a circus in hopes of finding his father. 305 pages. (J FIC Por)
Taylor, Sydney. All-of-a-Kind Family. The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. 188 pages. Level Q. (J FIC Tay)
Winthrop, Elizabeth. Counting on Grace. Twelve year old Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave their Vermont school to work with their mother at a textile mill. They become young activists, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. 215 pages. Level W (J FIC Win)
World War I 1914-1918
Boyne, John. Stay Where You Are and Then Leave. Four years after Alfie Summerfield’s father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King’s Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock. 245 pages. (J FIC Boy)
Dumon Tak. Soldier Bear. An orphaned Syrian brown bear cub is adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II and serves for five years as their mischievous mascot in Iran and Italy; based on a true story. 145 pages. (J FIC Dum)
Hartnett, Sonya. The Silver Donkey. In France during World War I, four French children learn about honesty, loyalty, and courage from an English army deserter who tells them a series of stories related to his small, silver donkey charm. 266 pages. Level V. (J FIC Har)
Hart, Alison. Darling, Mercy Dog of World War I. In Cosham, England, in 1917, Darling, a mischievous collie, must leave the children who love her when she is chosen for training as a mercy dog, seeking out injured soldiers on the battlefield and leading medics to them. 163 pages. (J FIC Har)
Jones, Elizabeth McDavid. The Night Flyers. History Mysteries Series. In 1918, caring for her family’s homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy. 148 pages. Level W (J FIC Ame)
McDonough, Yona Zeldis. The Doll Shop Downstairs. Nine-year-old Anna and her sisters love to play with the dolls in their parents’ doll repair shop. But when World War I begins, an embargo on German-made goods-including the parts Papa needs to repair the dolls-threatens to put the family’s shop out of business. Fortunately, Anna has an idea that just might save the day. 118 pages. (FIC McD)
Great Depression
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Mighty Miss Malone. With love and determination befitting the “world’s greatest family,” twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression. 307 pages. (J FIC Cur)
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father–the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids 245 pages. Level U (J NEWBERY Cur)
De Young, C. Coco. A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt. Eleven-year-old Margo fulfills a class assignment by writing a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt asking for help to save her family’s home during the Great Depression. 105 pages. Level R. (J FIC DeY)
Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family’s wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. 227 pages. Level X. (J NEWBERY Hes)
Peck, Richard. A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories. A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. 148 pages. Level V. ( J FIC Pec)
Tubb, Kristin, O’Donnell. Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different. Autumn Winifred Oliver, an eleven-year-old girl living in Cades Cove, Eastern Tennessee, during the Depression, watches her grandfather as he tries to persuade his neighbors to back the proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but when they discover that the government representative is lying to them, Gramps becomes even more resourceful. Includes author’s note about the history of the park. 214 pages. (J FIC Tub)
Vanderpool, Clare. Moon Over Manifest. Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. 351 pages. Level U (J NEWBERY Van)
World War II 1939-1945
Ackerman, Karen. The Night Crossing. In 1938, having begun to feel the persecution that all Jews are experiencing in their Austrian city, Clara and her family escape over the mountains into Switzerland. 53 pages. Level O. (J FIC Ack)
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. The Boy Who Dared. In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people. 202 pages. Level Y. (J FIC Bar)
Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called “Out-With” in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. 215 pages. (J FIC Boy)
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. The War I Finally Won. As the frightening impact of World War II creeps closer and closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the home front. 385 pages. (J FIC Bru)
Carelli, Anne O’Brien. Skylark and Wallcreeper. While helping her granny Collette evacuate to a makeshift shelter in Brooklyn during Superstorm Sandy, Lily uncovers secrets of her grandmother’s past as a member of the French Resistance during WWII. 398 pages. (J FIC Car)
Chapman, Fern Schumer. Is It Night or Day? In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author’s mother’s experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II. 205 pages. Level X/Y. (J FIC Cha)
Dauvillier, Loic. Hidden. In this graphic novel, a little girl’s grandmother recounts her childhood as a young Jewish girl in Vichy France, being passed along and sheltered by a series of kind strangers until finally being reunited with her mother. 76 pages. (J COMIC Dau)
Dennenberg, Barry. Journal of Ben Uchida. My Name is America series. Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. 156 pages. (J FIC Dea)
Erwin, Vicki Berger. Different Days. Twelve-year-old Rosie is fiercely proud to be an American, and has a happy life with her family in their comfortable home in sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. Then, on the morning of December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor is bombed and everything changes. 270 pages. (J FIC Erw)
Glatstein, Jacob. Emil and Karl. In Vienna, Austria, in 1940, two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi occupation draw them even closer together as they fight to survive and escape together. 194 pages. Level Y. (J FIC Gla)
Gleitzman, Morris. Then. In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans. 198 pages. (J FIC Gle)
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Island War. In 1942 13-year-olds Izzy and Matt become trapped on an Japanese-occupied Aleutian island when the rest of the American population is evacuated and must survive on their own for the duration of World War II. 203 pages. (J FIC Gif)
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Lily’s Crossing. During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily’s friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently. 180 pages. Level S. (J FIC Gif)
Gratz, Alan. Grenade. On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle and the choice he makes then will change his life forever. 270 pages. (J FIC Gra)
Hull, Nancy L. On Rough Seas. In Dover, England in 1940, fourteen-year-old Alec Curtis wants nothing more than to go to sea, to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over the earlier drowning of his cousin and to help the war effort, but when he sneaks aboard a small boat going across the English Channel to Dunkirk, his experience changes him forever. 261 pages. (J FIC Hull)
Hopkinson, Deborah. How I Became a Spy: A Mystery of WWII London. In World War II London, a young spy named Bertie, his strong-willed American friend Eleanor, a Jewish refugee named David, and a dog called Little Roo try to prevent a double agent from giving secrets to the Nazis. 264 pages. (J FIC Hop)
Klages, Ellen. The Green Glass Sea. In 1943, eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan lives with her scientist father in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as he works on a top secret government program, and befriends an aspiring artist who is a misfit just like her. 321 pages. (J FIC Kla)
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. 137 pages. Level U. (J NEWBERY Low)
Mazer, Harry. A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor. While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell. 104 pages. (J FIC Maz)
McAllister, Cameron. The Tin Snail. A thirteen-year-old French boy tries to save his father’s job by inventing a special kind of car, but it isn’t easy–especially when the Nazis are planning to steal his design. 274 pages. Level W. (J FIC McA)
McDonough, Yona Zeldis. The Bicycle Spy. Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents’ bakery around Aucoin–then one day he discovers that itis not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in possession of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine. 197 pages. (J FIC McD)
McDonough, Yona Zeldis. Courageous: A Novel of Dunkirk. It is the end of May 1940, the British government has put out a call for fishing boats to help rescue the British soldiers trapped at Dunkerque and Aiden is the son of a fisherman with access to his father’s dory–his parents forbid him to go, but Aiden has already lost one brother to the war, and his other brother is somewhere over there with the British Expeditionary Force; so despite his fear of the ocean, he and his best friend Sally set out to rescue George and his fellow soldiers.177 pages (J FIC McD)
McDonogh, Yona Zeldis. The Doll with the Yellow Star. When France falls to Germany at the start of World War II, nine-year-old Claudine must leave her beloved parents and friends to stay with relatives in America, accompanied by her doll, Violette. 90 pages. (J FIC McD)
McSwigen, Marie. Snow Treasure. Based on a true story, this heroic tale, set in Norway during World War II, follows a group of courageous schoolchildren who outwit the invading Nazis by sledding thirteen tons of gold bricks down the mountain to a waiting ship, keeping their country’s treasure out of Nazi hands 196 pages. Level R. (J FIC McS)
Meyer, Susan. Black Radishes. Forced to leave his friends behind in Nazi-threatened 1940 Paris, Jewish youth Gustave relocates with his parents to a small country village where he learns about the occupation and meets a Catholic resistance fighter who offers to help them flee to America. 228 pages. (J FIC Mey)
Napoli, Donna Jo. Fire in the Hills. Upon returning to Italy, fourteen-year-old Roberto struggles to survive, first on his own, then as a member of the resistance, fighting against the Nazi occupiers while yearning to reach home safely and for an end to the war. 215 pages. (J FIC Nap)
Osborne, Mary Pope. My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck. Dear America series. Thirteen-year-old Madeline’s diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II while her father is away in the Navy. 185 pages. (J FIC Dea)
Preus, Margi. Shadow on the Mountain. In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy. 286 pages. (J FIC Pre)
Voorhoeve, Anne C. My Family for the War. Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland. 402 pages. (J FIC Voo)
Wolf, Joan, M. Someone Named Eva. From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as “proper Germans” for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history. 200 pages. (J FIC Wol)
Yep, Laurence. Hiroshima. Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens. 56 pages. Level S. (J FIC Yep)
Civil Rights / Vietnam War Era
Burg, Shana. A Thousand Never Evers. Set in the segregated south of rural Mississippi in 1963, the disappearance of her brother, family problems, and unfair treatment by the mayor sparks a young African-American girl to take action and lead a civil rights march in town with the hopes of getting much-needed answers, justice, and equality for the people she loves. 301 pages. Level W. (J FIC Bur)
Coleman, Evelyn. Freedom Train. Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason’s older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the “Nigras” their place. 140 pages. (J FIC Col)
Dowell, Frances, O Roark. Shooting the Moon. When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in. 163 pages. Level T. (J FIC Dow)
Kerley, Barbara. Greetings from Planet Earth. In 1977, as twelve-year-old Theo struggles with a science class project on space exploration, questions emerge about why his father never returned from Vietnam and why Theo’s mother has been keeping secrets for many years. 246 pages. (J FIC Ker)
Levine, Kristin. The Lions of Little Rock. In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism. 298 pages. Level X (J FIC Lev)
Lynch, Chris. I Pledge Allegiance. Enlisting as a group when one of them is drafted into the Vietnam War, best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck pledge their loyalty to one another before reporting to different branches of service. 183 pages. Level Y (J FIC Lyn)
McKissack, Patricia C. A Friendship For Today. In 1954, when desegregation comes to Kirkland, Missouri, ten-year-old Rosemary faces many changes and challenges at school and at home as her parents separate. 172 pages. (J FIC McK)
Rodman, Mary Ann. Yankee Girl. When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school. 219 pages. Level Y (J FIC Rod)
Watts, Jeri Hannel. Kizzy Ann Stamps. In 1963, as Kizzy Ann prepares for her first year at an integrated school, she worries about the color of her skin, the scar running from the corner of her right eye to the tip of her smile, and whether anyone at the white school will like her. She writes letters to her new teacher in a clear, insistent voice, stating her troubles and asking questions with startling honesty. The new teacher is supportive, but not everyone feels the same, so there is a lot to write about. 183 pages. Level T. (J FIC Wat)
Weaver, Lila Quintero. My Year in the Middle. At Lu Olivera’s school the white kids and black kids sit on different sides of the classroom while Lu just wants to get along with everyone, but growing racial tensions will not let Lu stay neutral about the racial divide in school. 268 pages. (J FIC Wea)
Williams-Garcia, Rita. One Crazy Summer. In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp. 218 pages. Level W. (J FIC Wil)
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Picture Books
Armstrong, Jennifer. Magnus at the Fire. When the Broadway Fire House acquires a motorized fire engine, Magnus the fire horse is not ready to retire.
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. The Perfect Pony. While searching for a sleek, fast, and spirited pony to own, a young girl comes to realize that the “perfect” pony is actually very different.
Cooper, Kelly. If a Horse had Words. When a boy frees a foal from a muddy hole a friendship between the two begins to blossom.
Doyle, Malachy. Horse.Illustrations and simple text describe the first year of a foal’s life, from his birth one warm spring night, through lazy summer days, to the next spring, when he is old enough to be bridled like his mother.
Egan, Tim. Roasted Peanuts. Sam the horse gets picked to be on the local baseball team, but unfortunately his friend Jackson the cat, despite being a good thrower, is not selected.
Galing, Ed. Tony. Tony, a large white horse, lovingly helps his driver deliver dairy products throughout town in the early morning hours.
Goble, Paul. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free. (Caldecott)
Haas, Jessie. Appaloosa Zebra, a Horse Lover’s Alphabet. Moving through the alphabet, a girl ponders the many different kinds of horses she will have when she gets older, from Appaloosa to zebra.
Haas, Jessie. Scamper and the Horse Show. Molly and her sister hope that their horse Scamper’s costume will win a blue ribbon in the horse show, but some unexpected rainfall changes the situation. Includes information on horse shows.
Haas, Jessie. Sugaring. Nora wants to find a way to give the horses a special treat for helping her grandfather and her gather sap to make maple syrup.
Jeffers, Susan. My Chincoteague Pony. Every summer on Chincoteague Island, there is an auction of ponies who have swum across the channel from Assateague, where ponies run free. If Julie works hard and saves her money all year, perhaps she can win the pony of her dreams, her very own Chincoteague pony.
Kalan, Elliott. Horse Meets Dog. When Horse and Dog meet, Dog thinks he has met a very big canine, Horse thinks he has come across a tiny little baby horse, and humorous confusion ensues.
Kumin, Maxine. Oh, Harry! Harry the Horse excels at calming skittish equines in Adams & Son’s show-horse barn, but he faces a different challenge when mischievous six-year-old Algernon Adams the Third arrives.
Lester, Alison. Noni the Pony. Introduces Noni the pony, who is friendly and funny and lives at Waratah Bay, where her best friends are Dave Dog and Coco the cat.
Marino, Gianna. If I had a Horse. A child imagines what it would be like to have a horse, from their common personality traits to embarking on new adventures.
Rash, Andy. Are You a Horse? When Roy gets a saddle for his birthday, he goes in search of a horse.
Yolen, Jane. Hush, Little Horsie. Rhyming text assures foals that their mothers are watching over them while they leap on a farm, frolic on a beach, gallop on a plain, and sleep in a stall.
Illustrated Literature
Bunting, Eve. Thunder horse. Relates the friendship and love between a little girl and the winged horse she receives as a gift.
Hubbard, Crystal. The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby: The Story of Jimmy Winkfield. A biography of Jimmy Winkfield, who battled racism and other obstacles on the road to becoming one of horseracing’s best jockeys and, in 1902, the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby.
MacLeod, Elizabeth. Bunny the Brave War Horse: Based on a True Story. A long-eared horse named Bunny proves himself invaluable as a war horse during World War I.
Markle, Sandra. Race the Wild Wind: A Story of the Sable Island Horses. A few horses, set free on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, soon become wild and, led by one fine stallion, find a way to survive.
McCully, Emily Arnold. Wonder horse. A fictionalized account of Bill “Doc” Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely.
Ransom, Candice, F. Pony Island. Rhyming text describes the origins of Chincoteague ponies and how they were rounded up and sold for the first time to pay for a new fire engine. Includes facts about the ponies, their home on Assateague island, and their relationship with the people of Chincoteague island.
Beginning Readers
Bang-Campbell, Monika. Little Rat Rides. Little Rat overcomes her fear and learns to ride a horse, just like her daddy did when he was young.
Guest, Elissa Haden. Iris and Walter and the Birthday Party. At Walter’s birthday party his guests are supposed to go for horseback rides, but his horse Rain has other plans on the day of the party.
Hapka, Cathy. Really Riding! Today is a special day for the Pony Scouts. It’s time for Meg and Annie’s first-ever riding lesson on Jill’s farm, followed by a Pony Scouts sleep-over!
Hapka, Cathy. Runaway Ponies! Staying with fellow Pony Scout Jill while her parents are away for the weekend, Meg looks forward to spending time with her friends and caring for Jill’s ponies until an unlatched stall leads to a dramatic rescue effort.
Long, Ethan. Dance, Dance, Dance!Horse and Buggy are best friends, but Horse likes to dance and Buggy doesn’t–until Horse shows him how to get down!
Meister, Cari. My Pony Jack. Easy-to-read, rhyming text follows Lacy as she spends a day with her pony, giving him exercise, grooming him, and feeding him oats and hay.
Ransom Candice, F. Rescue on the Outer Banks. Sam Deal and his horse, Ginger, help an African-American lifesaving crew rescue shipwreck victims off the coast of North Carolina in 1896.
Silverman, Erica. Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa. Cowgirl Kate and her cowhorse Cocoa, who is always hungry, count cows, share a story, and help each other fall asleep. (series)
Spinner, Stephanie. Paddywack. Paddywack. is a spunky pony who jumps, trots, and walks beautifully, as long as his rider remembers his treats.
Nonfiction
Horses and Ponies. 636.1 to J 636.19.
Horse Riding 798.2
Fiction
Amateau, Gigi. Chancey of the Maury River. After being abandoned, Chancey, an albino Appaloosa horse, finds a new home with Claire who needs him as much as he needs her, but as his eyesight deteriorates, he and Claire start anew as a therapeutic team. 246 pages. Level S. (J FIC Ama)
Bagnold, Enid. National Velvet. The timeless story of 14-year-old Velvet Brown, her beloved horse Pie, and their race for victory in the Grand National Steeplechase. 339 pages. Level X. (J FIC Bag)
Byars, Betsy Cromer. Little Horse. Little Horse falls into the stream and is swept away into a dangerous adventure and a new life. 45 pages. (J FIC Bya)
Duey, Kathleen. Katie and the Mustang. Orphaned nine-year-old Katie Rose is sent to live with the Stevenses, and her backbreaking toil is eased by the relationship she develops with a mustang Mr. Stevens brings home. 135 pages. Level T. (Series Hoofbeats) (J FIC Due)
Farley, Walter. Black Stallion. Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse destined to play an important part in his life. Upon rescue, their adventure continues in America. 197 pages. Level T. (series) (JPB Far)
Garlick, Nicholas. Storm Horse. Twelve-year-old Flip’s father dies so he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum. His only “friend’ is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl- until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea and discovers a new purpose in caring for his charge. 242 Pages. (J FIC Gar)
Gemeinhart, Dan. Some Kind of Courage. In 1890 Washington the only family Joseph Johnson has left is his half-wild Indian pony, Sarah, so when she is sold by a man who has no right to do so, he sets out to get her back–and he plans to let nothing stop him in his quest. 234 pages. (J FIC Gem)
George, Jessica Day. The Rose Legacy. Orphaned Anthea Cross hopes to finally find a home with her long-lost uncle, but after she learns that her uncle secretly breeds forbidden horses, she discovers that she is able to communicate with them. 263 pages. (Series Rose Legacy) (J FIC Geo)
Gregg, Stacy. The Princess and the Foal. When Queen Alia is killed in a tragic accident, Princess Haya is devastated. Knowing how unhappy she is and how much she loves horses, Haya’s father, King Hussein, gives her a special present: a foal of her very own. And this foal changes Princess Haya’s world completely. 263 pages. (J FIC Gre)
Haas, Jessie. Rescue. When Chess moves near Joni, their differing opinions have Joni defending her family’s farm, and she must find the courage to stand up to Chess when she decides to “rescue” the miniature horses from a nearby farm. (189 pages. (J FIC Has)
Henry, Marguerite. Misty of Chincoteague. The determination of Paul and his sister Maureen to own a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction. 173 pages. Level R. (JPB Hen)
Lasky, Kathryn. The Escape. Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world. When the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety. 219 pages. (Series Horses Of The Dawn) (J FIC Las)
Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty. A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. 199 pages. (J FIC Sew)
Smiley, Jane. Riding lessons. When Ellen meets Ned, a beautiful colt who hurt his leg on his way to becoming a racehorse, she becomes determined to behave at school and at home so she can have more time at the ranch. 183 pages. (J FIC Smi)
Smiley, Jane. The Georges and the Jewels. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family’s California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life. 232 pages. (Series The Horses of Oak Valley Ranch)(J FIC Smi)
6/2/18 CC
General Conduct
Picture books
Corderoy, Tracey. No! Once Otto learns the word “no” he will not stop saying it, but after a very bad day at school, Daddy finds a way to remind him of another special word.
Curtis, Jamie Lee. Big Words for Little People. A big sister teaches her younger siblings some important words, like “responsible,” “persevere,” and “respect.”
Kerascoet. I Walk With Vanessa: A Story about a Simple Act of Kindness. An elementary school girl witnesses the bullying of another girl, but she is not sure how to help.
Miller, Pat Zietlow. Be Kind. When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her dress, her classmate wants to make her feel better and ponders the different ways in which they can be kind.
Rueda, Claudia. No. It’s winter and little bear doesn’t want to go to sleep. He’d rather play, and he’s sure he won’t get cold outside, no matter how long the winter is, how deep the snow might get, or how hard the storm might blow. Until, that is, little bear finds himself all alone in a snowstorm.
Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth. The Kindness Quilt. Minna does a lot of thinking about her project to do something kind, make a picture about what she did, and share it with her classmates, but finally comes up with an idea that spreads to the whole school.
Wells, Rosemary. Time-Out for Sophie. Although Sophie wants to be helpful and good, sometimes she ignores her mother, father, and grandmother and must have a time-out.
Yolen, Jane. How Do Dinosaurs…. This series of books humorous discussing the right and wrong ways to handle situations in life (How do Dinosaurs Say I’m Mad, Go to School, etc.)
Parent & Teacher (P&T) section:
177.2 Ver – Verdick, Elizabeth. Words are Not for Hurting. Encourages toddlers and preschoolers to express themselves using helpful, not hurtful, words. Includes a note for parents and caregivers.
Ashman, Linda. Peace, Baby! Simple rhyming text encourages children to set aside anger and irritation and find peace within themselves, and with the world.
Boelts, Maribeth. A Bike Like Sergio’s. Envy and honesty are two topics that are sensitively treated in this story of Ruben, who wishes he and his family could afford a bike.
Kroll, Virginia L. Honest Ashley. When Ashley postpones a homework assignment until the last minute, she is tempted to pass off an old paper of her brother’s as her own.
Manners
Picture Books
Allen, Kathryn Madeline. This Little Piggy’s Book of Manners. Some little pigs remember their manners and others do not.
Cuyler, Margery. Please Say Please! Penguin’s Guide to Manners. Penguin teaches his animal friends how to behave when they are invited for dinner.
Demas, Corinne. Are Pirates Polite? In rhyming text, this story demonstrates that even pirates can be polite, and say “please” and “thank you.”
Deutsch, Georgiana. Perfectly Polite PenguinsPenguins are always polite. They say “please” and “thank you,” they wait their turn patiently, and they always help to clean up when playtime is over. But one day, Polly Penguin decides that being polite is boring. So she interrupts when others are talking, refuses to clean up, and makes a mess at the dinner table. Soon, all of the penguins copy Polly and lose their good manners, too! Can Polly help make things right again?
Finn, Carrie. Manners in Public. Why do you have to wait in line? What should you say when the waiter brings your food? Find out how you can use good manners in public.
Kelly, Mij. Achoo!This is the story of Suzy Sue and the fateful day when she went Achoo! The truth is she sneezes but doesn’t cover her mouth, which sends her animal friends into a frenzy. It’s time to teach Suzy Sue some manners. Have they thought of everything?
Sierra, Judy. Suppose You Meet a Dinosaur: A First Book of Manners. Illustrates basic polite behavior that one might need to use while grocery shopping at the same time as a dinosaur.
Parent & Teacher (P&T) section
Dewdney, Anna. Nobunny’s Perfect. Bunnies who slurp their juice, forget to say “please,” and bite their friends, learn about good manners.
Non-Fiction books about manners are located at J 395.
Sharing
Picture books
Anstee, Ashlyn. Hedge Hog! As the cold winter approaches, the grumpy hedgehog refuses to share his hedge with the garden animals looking for shelter, but he’s about to learn a valuable lesson about helping others.
Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta. The Mine-O-Saur. The greedy Mino-o-saur learns the hard way that he needs to share the toys in order to make friends.
Garland, Sally Anne. Share. Bunny discovers the value of sharing after an exasperating visit from her little cousin.
Ledyard, Stephanie Parsley. Pie is for Sharing. During a Fourth of July picnic, a group of children display how easy it is to share things, including a pie, a jump rope, and a hug.
Savadier, Elivia. Will Sheila Share? Nana helps teach her toddler granddaughter to share.
Parent & Teacher (P&T) section
Graves, Sue. Not Fair, Won’t Share. Contains a story designed to help children learn about sharing, and includes a section for parents featuring discussion questions and ideas for helping children understand what it means to be fair.
Mattern, Joanne. Do You Share? A simple book that explains how to share and why it is important.
Reiss, Mike. The Boy Who Wouldn’t Share. Edward, unwilling to share his toys with his sister, has a change of heart when she has something he wants.
Non-Fiction books about sharing are located at J 395.
Teasing
Picture books
Bang, Molly. When Sophie’s Feelings are Really, Really Hurt. Sophie’s feelings are hurt when the other children laugh at her painting of her favorite tree–but when she explains her painting everybody understands what she was trying to do.
Greco, Francesca. Cyril the Mandrill. An unusual monkey, teased because of his colorful markings, keeps to himself from summer through fall, but when the younger monkeys become bored in the winter, they begin to appreciate Cyril’s differences.
Soule, Jean Conder. Never Tease a Weasel. Illustrations and rhyming text present animals in silly situations, such as a pig in a wig and a moose drinking juice, along with a reminder not to tease.
Parent & Teacher (P&T) section:
Kroll, Virginia. Ryan Respects. Ryan thinks it is funny to call the slowest runner in his class “Doug the Slug,” until his older brother teases him for having a teddy bear.
Tantrums and Anger
Board books
Various Authors. Feet are Not for Kicking; Hands are Not for Hitting; Teeth are Not for Biting. These books in the Best Behavior series describe all the positive things you can do with your feet, hands, and teeth, and emphasize that they are not for hurting other people.
Picture books
Bang, Molly. When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really, Angry…. A young girl is upset and doesn’t know how to manage her anger but takes the time to cool off and regain her composure.
Crespo. J.P. and the Polka-Dotted Aliens. Pretending to be a monkey in outer space, J.P. is angered by two polka-dotted “aliens” who want to turn his rocket ship adventure into a fancy tea party.
Dewdney, Anna. Llama, Llama, Mad at Mama. A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.
Harris, Robie. The Day Leo said I Hate You! Leo, upset that he has been hearing the word “no” all day, lets three words slip out that he wishes he could take back.
Murphy, Stuart J. Percy Gets Upset. Mommy and Daddy help their son calm down and feel better when situations during the day make him angry.
Sakai, Komako. Mad at Mommy. A little rabbit is very angry at his mother, and he tells her the reasons why.
Snicket, Lemony. A horde of bees and a young boy race around town wreaking havoc on the townspeople.
Urban, Linda. Mouse Was Mad. Mouse struggles to find the right way to express his anger, modeling the behavior of Hare, Bear, Hedgehog, and Bobcat, only to discover that his own way may be the best way of all.
Waddell, Martin. The Super Hungry Dinosaur. Hal and his little dog, Billy, calmly deal with a dinosaur’s monstrous temper tantrum.
Weiss, Ellen. The Taming of Lola: A Shrew Story. Lola, a shrew, is famous all over West Meadow for her temper tantrums, but when her cousin Lester comes for a visit and gets special treatment just because he demands it, Lola begins to rethink her behavior.
Well, Rosemary. Miracle Melts Down. Traces the experiences of Miss Harmony’s alligator kindergartners, whose classmate throws disruptive temper tantrums.
Yolen, Jane. How Do Dinosaurs Say I’m Mad? Illustrations and rhyming text explore some of the things that dinosaurs might do when they are angry–and how they should control their tempers.
Parent & Teacher (P&T) section
152.47 Pat – Patterson, Colleen A. 1-2-3 A Calmer Me: Helping Children Cope when Emotions get out of Control. A young girl learns a technique for dealing with anger–and it works.
Murphy, Stuart J. Percy Gets Upset. Mommy and Daddy help their son calm down and feel better when situations during the day make him angry.
Non-Fiction books about anger are located at J 152.4.
4/13/20 CC
Picture Books
Bogart, Jo Ellen. Big and Small, Room for All. Compares the sizes of objects found in the natural world to each other, such as the size of the sun to the Earth and the size of a child to a kitten.
Cuyler, Margery. Guinea Pigs Add Up. Mr. Gilbert brings in a guinea pig as a class pet, but it looks so lonely he brings another, and before long the class is getting an unexpected lesson in addition–and a very full cage.
Fisher, Valorie. How High Can a Dinosaur Count? Fifteen miniature worlds, each showcasing a math problem.
Giganti, Paul. Each Orange Had Eight Slice. An illustrated introduction to counting and simple addition.
Harris, Robie H. Crash Boom: A Math Tale.Invites young readers to follow along as Elephant goes through the ups and downs of creating something new.
Jocelyn, Marthe. Same Same. An introduction to similarities groups together creatures and objects that have common characteristics, including such groupings as round things, things that fly, and things in water.
Long, Ethan. The Wing Wing Brothers Math Spectacular! The Wing Wing brothers spin plates, juggle pies, and reveal a magic box, all while delivering a math lesson on addition, subtraction, and number values.
Murphy, Stuart J. MathStart Series. Simple pictures books illustrating concepts such as time, multiplication and division.
Oliver, Carmen. Bears Make the Best Math Buddies. School age Adelaide explains to her teacher that Bear uses math every day to problem solve, making him the perfect math buddy.
Olson, K.C. Construction Countdown. Introduces numbers and subtraction as the reader counts construction equipment from ten to one.
Pinto, Sara. Apples & Oranges: Going Bananas with Pairs. Presents pairs of related items, such as an apple and an orange or a bicycle and a motorcycle, and asks why they are similar, while offering unexpected answers.
Schnitzlein, Danny. The Monster Who Did My Math. When a monster offers to help a boy who is afraid of numbers by doing his math homework, the boy eagerly signs a contract and agrees to pay later, but the first time he is asked to solve a problem in class and cannot, he realizes he has gotten no bargain.
Scieszka, Jon. Math Curse. When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
Stills, Caroline. Mice Mischief: Math Facts in Action. Ten circus mice show how the numbers from one to nine can add up to ten.
Tanco, Miguel. Count on Me. Lovely illustrations show how one little girl sees math all around her. End pages provide examples of certain math terms.
Van, Muon Thi. One is a Lot (Except When it’s Not). Describes how for certain things, depending on what is being counted, one is a lot, but two may be too much and sometimes zero is enough.
Watson, Annie. Is 2 a Lot? A mother addresses her toddler’s question, imagining various quantities of different objects during a car ride.
Beginning Readers
Brimner, Larry Dane. Monkey Math. Simple, rhyming text counts monkeys as they swing into a kitchen, enjoy a wild visit, and swing back out.
Gisler, David. Addition Annie. Addition Annie counts everything around her, from trees and knees to little peas.
Hulme, Joy N. Mary Clare Likes to Share. Mary Clare divides treats into halves, thirds, or other fractional parts to make sure that each of her friends or family members can enjoy an equal share.
Mishica, Clare. Here Comes the Parade. Clowns, marching bands, and other participants in a lively parade introduce the numbers from one to ten.
Children’s Fiction Books
Lichtman, Wendy. Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra. Tess has always loved math, and she uses mathematical concepts to help her understand things in her life, so she is dismayed to find out how much math – and life – can change in eighth grade.
Lubar, David. Numbed! When a robot at the math museum zaps their math skills, sixth-grader Logan and his mischievous friend, Benedict, must pass a series of math challenges to retrieve their knowledge.
McAnulty, Stacy. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl. A lightning strike made Lucy, twelve, a math genius but, after years of homeschooling, her grandmother enrolls her in middle school and she learns that life is more than numbers.
Mills, Claudia. Fractions = Trouble! While trying to decide on a science fair project, third-grader Wilson struggles with fractions and, much to his embarrassment, his parents sign him up to work with a math tutor.
Illustrated Literature
Campbell, Sarah C. Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature. Provides an introduction to Fibonacci numbers as revealed in the growing patterns of flower petals, pinecones, pineapple skins, and nautilus shells.
Einhorn, Edward. A Very Improbable Story: A Math Adventure. Waking up one morning to find a talking cat on his head, Ethan is informed that the cat will not leave until he – Ethan – wins a game of probability.
Ellis, Julie. Pythagoras and the Ratios. An ancient Greek boy, Pythagoras, helps his cousins produce pleasant music when he adjusts the mathematical ratios between the part of their pipes and lyres, knowledge he would later use to become a famous philosopher.
Horton, Joan. Math Attack! When arithmetic strain scrambles a student’s brain, no one in town is safe from the numbers that go flying out of the child’s head.
Neuschwander, Cindy. Sir Cumference and the Viking’s Map. As bungling bandits pursue them, cousins Radius and Per use coordinate geometry in their quest for treasure as they decode the map of the Viking warrior Xaxon Yellowbeard.
Reisberg, Joanne A. Zachary Zormer: Shape Transformer. Introduces three math concepts that seem like magic tricks in a short story about the rivalry between two boys.
Non-Fiction
J 510 Bar. Barton, Bethany. I’m Trying to Like Math. In a book for those who dislike mathematics, an alien explains the many areas in which math is used, including baking, music, navigation, and measurements.
J 510 Cle. Clemenson, Wendy. Treasure Hunt in the Jungle. Poses mathematical problems involved with a trek through the jungles of Peru in search of Inca treasure, as well as providing information on Peru, jungles, and the Incas.
J 510 Swi. Swinburne, Stephen R. What’s a Pair? What’s a Dozen? Introduces children to such number-related words as “single,” “couple,” and “dozen,” as well as to such prefixes as “uni-“, “bi-“, and “tri-“.
J 513 Cle. Clemenson, Wendy. Zookeeper for a Day. Poses mathematical problems involving zoos and zoo animals, as well as providing information about these subjects.
J 513 Dah. Dahl, Michael S. Eggs and Legs: Counting by Twos. Counting on a farm.
J 513 Tan. Tang, Greg. Math Potatoes: Mind Stretching Brain Food. Illustrated riddles introduce strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems using visual clues.
J 513.2 Adl. Adler, David A. You Can, Toucan, Math: Word Problem-Solving Fun. Math is made fun with the help of some colorful birds.
J 513.2 Adl. Adler, David A. Money Math: Addition and Subtraction. Introduces children to American currency values and the basics of adding and subtracting money.
J 513.2 Cle. Clements, Andrew. A Million Dots.Learn facts about numbers, and see one million dots!
J 513.2 Lee. Leedy, Loreen. Mission: Addition.Miss Prime and her animal students explore addition by finding many examples in the world around them.
J 513.2 Lee. Leedy, Loreen. Subtraction Action. Miss Prime and her animal students use subtraction to solve problems all over the school fair.
J 513.2 Nag. Nagda, Ann Whitehead. Panda Math: Learning About Subtraction From Hua Mei and Mei Shen. Follows the famous panda cubs born at the San Diego Zoo as they grow from tiny infants to massive adults, and teaches subtraction along the way.
J 513.2 Ove. Overdeck, Laura. Bedtime Math. The Truth Comes Out. In Bedtime Math, math and fun facts combine for one wacky and wild adventure! Now kids can discover the truth behind all their favorite things: marshmallows, Coca-Cola, astronaut ice cream, and more.
J 513.211 Dan. Danielson, Christopher. How many? A Different Kind of Counting Book. Written by a math educator, this innovative book encourages critical thinking and sparks memorable mathematical conversations.
J 513.211 Pis. Pistoia, Sara. Money. Introduces the concept of money along with the values of different coins.
J 513.211 Pis. Pistoia , Sara. Counting. Simple text describes the basics of counting and explains how to count in groups.
J 513.213 Lee. Leedy, Loreen. 2 x 2 = Boo: A Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories. Six funny math stories introduce the facts of multiplication from 0 to 5 and show readers how to make vampires disappear, turn one bag of candy into five bags of candy, and double a moose head.
J 513.214 Nag. Nagda, Ann Whitehead. Cheetah Math: Learning About Division From Baby Cheetahs. A story of how two baby cheetahs were raised from infancy at the San Diego Zoo is paralleled by how division was used in the daily activities needed to care for them.
J 513.26 Adl. Adler, David A. Fraction Fun. Hands-on activities and colorful illustrations provide an introduction to the concepts of math and problem solving for young readers through the presentation of fun and exciting fraction problems.
J 513.26 Lee. Leedy, Loreen. Fraction Action. In five delightful math stories, Ms. Prime instructs her class of young animals in fractions, in lessons that the students apply to real-life situations after school is over.
J 519.5092 Bec. Becker, Helaine. Lines, Bars and Circles: How William Playfair Invented Graphs. Introduces the unconventional life and achievements of engineer and economist William Playfair and describes how his creative expressions in math and science became the visual bar graphs and pie charts of today’s world.
J 641.501 McC. McCallum. Ann. Eat Your Math Homework: Recipes for Hungry Mind. Introduces recipes and fun math facts including, Fibonacci snack sticks, tessellating two-color brownies, and variable pizza pi.
J 745.5 Hol. Hollow, Michele C. Nifty Thrifty Math Crafts. Presents instructions for creating crafts related to mathematics, including an equilateral triangle picture frame, a dreamcatcher clock, and a roman numeral secret message.
J 793.74 Col. Colgan, Lynda. Mathemagic! Number Tricks. Math magic tricks are presented, emphasizing both the math behind the tricks, as well as trick performance tips.
J 811.54 Fra. Franco, Betsy. Mathematickles! A collection of poems written in the form of mathematical problems and grouped according to seasonal themes.
4/6/20 CC
Non Fiction
J 363.7387 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge.
J 507.8 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition.
J 551 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth.
J 551.552 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus: Inside a Hurricane.
J 567.91 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs.
J 595.799 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus: Inside a Beehive.
J 591.92 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor.
J 612 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body.
J 612.8 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses.
J 621.3 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip.
J 628.1 Col. Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks.
Paperback
Cole, Joanna. Amazing Magnetism.
Cole, Joanna. Butterfly Battle.
Cole, Joanna. Expedition Down Under.
Cole, Joanna. Food Chain Frenzy.
Cole, Joanna. The Giant Germ.
Cole, Joanna. The Great Shark Escape.
Cole, Joanna. Rocky Road Trip.
Cole, Joanna Space Explorers.
Beginning Reader
Brooke, Samantha. Glacier adventure. The Magic School Bus heads to Antarctica to learn about glaciers.
Fiction
Magic School Bus Rides Again Series
Anderson, AnnMarie. Satellite Space Mission.In another installment of The Magic School Bus Rides Again Branches series, Keesha will do whatever it takes to nail her space camp application. In her efforts to get the perfect picture on the class outer space field trip, she accidentally disrupts satellites in orbit.
Anderson, AnnMarie. Attack of the Plants. Next stop…The Magic School Bus heads to the Galapagos Islands to learn about invasive species! Seat belts, everyone! The class returns from summer break to find their beloved Ms. Frizzle has been promoted and her younger sister, Fiona Frizzle, is taking her place. But Arnold is worried. What if the new Ms. Frizzle makes a mess of things? His fears come true when she takes them on a field trip and everything goes wrong! Can Arnold find a way to make it right again?
Katschke, Judy. Sink or Swim. Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a trip to a Pacific Island, where the Magic School Bus provides them with individual submarines, and they learn about fish schools and the behavior of undersea animals–and try to avoid being eaten by a shark.
Katschke, Judy. Monster Power. Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a camping trip, but Arnold is worried about monsters, and sets out to create a “Monster Scaring Perimeter” powered by a generator to keep the lights on–and in the process the class learns about sources of clean energy (and maybe monsters).
Katschke, Judy. Carlos Gets the Sneezes. The class travels inside Carlos’ nose after he develops a mysterious illness.
Magic Tree House DVDs are located in the Children’s DVD section.
3/27/20 CC
Picture Books
Armstrong, Matthew. Jane & Mizmow. Jane and her best friend, a monster named Mizmow, are best friends in spite of their differences, and nothing can keep them apart.
Arnold, Caroline. The Terrible Hodag and the Animal Catchers. When animal catchers come to the forest looking for the scary-looking, but very kindly, Hodag, to to take him to a zoo, a group of lumberjacks must find a way to protect their friend.
Atteberry, Kevan. Bunnies!!! A monster searches everywhere to find the things he loves – bunnies!!!
Atteberry, Kevan. Puddles!!! While out for a walk with his friends, a monster becomes excited at the chance to jump in some puddles when it begins to rain.
Atteberry, Kevan. I Love You More than the Smell of Swamp Gas. A daddy and child monster hunt for skink in the woods while telling jokes about the creepy crawlies they see and exchanging reassurances of love.
Baker, Ken. Brave Little Monster. A little monster has trouble falling asleep one night because he fears little boys and girls are hiding under his bed and in his closet.
Balmes, Santi. I Will Fight Monsters for You. Two little girls – one human and the other a monster – are afraid to go to sleep for fear of what’s living under their beds.
Bee, William. Beware of the Frog. Sweet old Mrs. Collywobbles lives on the edge of a big, dark, scary wood, but has a pet frog to protect her from greedy goblins, smelly trolls, and hungry ogres.
Boyd, Colin. The Bath Monster. Every night, Jackson takes a bath to keep the Bath Monster away–a monster whose second favorite food is dirty bathwater–but when Jackson decides he no longer believes in the Bath Monster, he discovers what the monster’s first favorite food is.
Braun, Sebastien. Back to Bed, Ed! Ed the mouse will not sleep in his own bed, until eventually his exasperated and tired parents find a way to keep him from joining them in the middle of the night.
Cohen, Caron Lee. Broom, Zoom! One beautiful, starry night, a little witch wants to go for a ride on a broom but first she must help a little monster clean up a mess.
Cuyler, Margery. Monster Mess. A monster sneaks into a boy’s room and cleans up while the boy is asleep.
Dax, Eva. You Are Oh So Horribly Handsome! Gregor is strong, loud, and frighteningly fast, but when he worries that he might not be handsome with his rotten, crooked teeth and his stinky, cheesy feet, he decides to ask his family and friends.
Dodd, Emma. Best Bear. With the lights out, a boy feels safe from monster-shaped shadows, since none would dare come near him and his favorite teddy bear.
Docherty, Thomas. Big Scary Monster. Big Scary Monster learns some surprising things about himself when he goes down his mountain to find the creatures he has frightened away.
Dyer, Sarah. Mrs. Muffly’s Monster. Ordering dozens of eggs, hundreds of jars of jam, lots of pounds of butter, and more, the people around town begin to wonder what is going on in Mrs. Muffly’s house while rumors circulate that maybe a hungry monster is hiding in her cellar.
Emberley. Ed. Go Away, Big Green Monster! Die-cut pages through which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters.
Emberley, Rebecca. If You’re a Monster and You Know It. Monsters sing their own version of this popular song that encourages everyone to express their happiness through voice and movement.
Emberley, Rebecca. Ten Little Beasties. One by one, ten little monsters appear and then disappear from the page.
Emberley, Rebecca. There Was an Old Monster! In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a monster swallows ants, a lizard, a bat, and other creatures to try to cure a stomach ache than began when he swallowed a tick.
Ferrell, Sean. The Snurtch. Ruthie has a problem at school. It is the Snurtch. The Snurtch is a scribbly, grabby, rude monster who follows Ruthie around and gets her into all sorts of trouble. It seems Ruthie will never be rid of the Snurtch. But eventually, she realizes she’s not the only one… George has one too.
Fletcher, Tom. There’s a Monster in your Book. Encourages the reader to shake, tilt, and wiggle the book to remove the little monster inside, but once it is out, another problem arises.
Fredrickson, Lane. Monster Trouble! Although Winifred thinks the monsters who creep into her bedroom each night are cute, she cannot get any sleep and tries to scare them away.
Funke, Cornelia Caroline. The Wildest Brother. Ben is constantly swooping in to protect big sister Anna from imaginary ghosts and monsters. At night, in a soothing bit of reciprocation, Anna becomes the protector.
Gibala-Broxholm, Scott. Maddie’s Monster Dad. Maddie loves it when her father plays scary games with her, but when he is too busy with work she turns into a “Maddie Scientist” and builds herself a monster dad that she thinks will be more fun.
Gravel, Elise. I Want a Monster! After convincing her dad that she can take care of a pet monster, a young girl uses her monster guide to train and raise him.
Hicks, Barbara Jean. Jitterbug Jam. Grandpa Boo-Dad not only believes that Bobo has seen a pink-skinned boy with orange fur on his head hiding under the bed, he knows exactly how a little monster can scare off such a horrible creature.
Hodgkinson, Leigh. The Big Monster Snoreybook. While all the large monsters sleep a little monster records their snores for a special project.
Howie, Betsy. The Block Mess Monster. Calpurnia has tried to explain that the huge and scary monster that lives in her room does not want the room cleaned but her mother, who cannot see the monster, has a few ideas about how to make it go away.
Hutchins, Pat. Three-Star Billy. Billy, a bad-tempered little monster who does not want to be in nursery school, throws tantrums that only result in his teacher’s giving him praise and three stars.
Inkpen, Mick. Kipper’s Monster. While camping out in the woods, Kipper and Tiger encounter a horrendous “monster” which is not what it seems.
Jenkins, Emily. The Fun Book of Scary Stuff. A little boy tells his two dogs about all the things that scare him, including monsters, ghosts, witches and trolls.
John, Jory. Quit Calling Me a Monster! A young monster resents being called a monster.
Keller, Holly. Brave Horace. In the days before his friend George’s monster movie party, Horace prepares for the frightening events he expects will occur.
Kellogg, Steven. The Mysterious Tadpole. It soon becomes clear that Louis’s pet tadpole is not turning into an ordinary frog.
Kleven, Elisa. A Monster in the House. A boy listens to his new neighbor describe the monster that lives at her house, who screams when awakened, yells for food, spits up on everything, and sucks his toes.
Knudsen, Michelle. Marilyn’s Monster. Trying to be patient as one of the only kids in her class who has not been chosen by a pet monster, little Marilyn decides to search for her monster even though she is supposed to wait to let a monster choose her.
Koller, Jackie French. No Such Thing. A boy is afraid there is a monster under his bed, until he meets a monster who is afraid there is a boy above his bed.
Leuck, Laura. Jeepers Creepers: A Monstrous ABC. Twenty-six monsters go to school and learn their letters as each one’s name starts with another letter of the alphabet.
Light, Steve. Have You Seen My Monster? Invites young readers to identify shapes while helping a small girl search the fair for her pet monster.
Lindenbaum, Pija. When Owen’s Mom Breathed Fire. One morning, stress turns Owen’s mom into a fire-breathing, bug-eating dragon.
Mayer, Mercer. There’s Something in My Attic and There’s A Nightmare in My Closet. In each book a brave child deals with his or her nightmares by catching them.
McAllister, Angela. Yuck! That’s Not a Monster! As Mr. and Mrs. Monster’s three eggs begin to hatch, they happily welcome the first two ugly little monsters to come out, but are shocked and disappointed when they see what pops out of their last egg.
McCarty, Peter. Jeremy Draws a Monster. A young boy who spends most of his time alone in his bedroom makes new friends after the monster in his drawing becomes a monstrous nuisance.
McElligott, Matthew. Even Monsters Need Haircuts. At night under a full moon, a child operates a barber shop with a monstrous clientele.
Miranda, Anne. Monster Math. A counting book in which a little monster’s birthday party gets out of control.
Noll, Amanda. I Need My Monster. When Ethan checks under his bed for his monster – who is on vacation – he finds that without his monster’s familiar nightly scares Ethan doesn’t stand a chance of getting to sleep.
Noll, Amanda. Hey, That’s MY Monster! Ethan tries to help his toddler sister find her own bedtime monster.
OHora, Zachariah. The Not so Quiet Library. Oskar and and his bear Theodore must save the day when an angry monster barges into the library…and thinks it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet!
Pym, Tasha. Have You Ever Seen a Sneep? Rhyming text asks the reader if certain unusual–and unpleasant–creatures live nearby.
Regan, Dian Curtis. Monster Baby. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver are delighted to find a newborn baby on their doorstep one morning, but must learn to adapt when they discover that he is not like other babies.
Reidy, Jean. Time Out for Monsters! A little boy turns his “time out” into an adventure.
Richards, Dan. The Problem with Not Being Scared of Kids. A group of monsters want to make friends with kids, but the kids are afraid of them despite the monsters efforts to play, do crafts, and share with them.
Robinson, Mark. Vile: A Cautionary Tale for Little Monsters. At the School of Manners in Beastieville, monsters strive to get marks for bad behavior, be disruptive in class, and above all avoid being good.
Rosenbaum, Andria Warmflash. Big Sister, Little Monster. Lucy finds her little sister Mia an annoying little monster, but one day when she yells “Go away” Mia disappears into a world of monsters, who make Mia their queen–and it is up to Lucy to find her own inner monster and retrieve her sister.
Rosoff, Meg. Jumpy Jack & Googily. Jumpy Jack the snail is terrified that there are monsters around every corner despite the reassurances of his best friend, Googily.
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king. (In the Caldecott section)
Soman, David. The Monster Next Door. A boy has to find a way to resolve a neighborly dispute with the monster next door when the monster starts playing his tuba too loud.
Spinelli, Eileen. Wanda’s Monster. When Wanda fears that she has a monster in her closet, she takes her grandmother’s advice and begins to look at things from the monster’s point of view.
Stein, David Ezra. Monster Hug! Two rambunctious young monsters have an action-packed day together.
Stein, Mathilde. Monstersong. When Mommy invites the scary monsters from under the bed to sleep with her son, he thinks that the monsters would be much happier in her bed instead.
Stine, R.L. The Little Shop of Monsters. An illustrated, interactive story with a narrator who invites the reader to meet a vast array of pet monsters, such as the Yucky Mucky twins, and choose one to take home.
Thach, James Otis. A Child’s Guide to Common Household Monsters. A girl discovers that her house is full of friendly monsters who are more afraid of each other than she is of them.
Trapani, Iza. Gabe and Goon. Goon is the monster hiding in Gabe’s closet, but the trouble is he is a lot more afraid of children than Gabe is afraid of monsters.
Vernick, Audrey. Unlike Other Monsters. Zander is a monster. And monsters don’t have friends. But one day Zander meets Bird, and a strange thing happens. They start to spend some time together. Zander even tells Bird a secret no one else knows about. When another monster asks, “Is that your friend?” Zander says no…but is that true?
Vestergaard, Hope. What Do You Do – When a Monster Says Boo? Gives rhyming instructions for dealing with monsters.
Wheeler, Lisa. Boogie Knights. When the knights of the castle are awakened by the noise from the Madcap Monster Ball, they decide to join the party.
Wheeler, Lisa. Even Monsters Need to Sleep. Illustrations and rhyming text explain some of the things that different monsters do before they go to sleep.
Willems, Mo. Your Pal Mo Willems Presents Leonardo the Terrible Monster. Leonardo is supposed to be a terrible monster, but he’s just terrible at his monsterly craft.
Williams, C.K. A Not Scary Story about Big Scary Things. A little boy walking through an ordinary forest encounters an extraordinary monster.
Winthrop, Elizabeth. Maggie and the Monster. Maggie wants to get rid of the monster that visits her room every night and accepts her mother’s suggestion to simply ask the monster what it wants.
Zenz, Aaron. Monsters go Night-Night. Takes readers through the bedtime rituals of seven friendly monsters while making each step of the routine a guessing game!
Illustrated Literature
Dipucchio, Kelly S. Sipping Spiders Through a Straw: Campfire Songs for Monsters. Classic sing-along songs have been altered for optimal gross-out effect making them perfect for little monsters everywhere to sing around the campfire, and they include “Do Your Guts Hang Low” and “99 Bottles of Blood on the Wall.”
Fox, Mem. The Goblin and the Empty Chair. A goblin who for many years has been hiding himself so that he does not frighten anyone finally finds a family.
Juster, Norton. The Odious Ogre. Presents the story of an enormous, insatiable, and short-tempered Ogre, who terrorizes the countryside and dines on hapless townspeople before encountering a friendly young lady who uses innovative methods to stop him.
Rex, Michael. Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody. A young monster says goodnight to all of the other monsters in his bedroom.
Kaplan, Bruce Eric. Monsters Eat Whiny Children. Henry and Eve, having ignored their father’s warning, are kidnapped by monsters who eat whiny children, but while increasing numbers of monsters argue over how to prepare them, the siblings begin to play nicely. Includes a recipe for cucumber sandwiches.
Sierra, Judy. The Gruesome Guide to World Monsters. Provides illustrations and brief descriptions of monsters found in different parts of the world, including Bloody Mary, who pulls children into mirrors throughout North America, and the blood-sucking, water-dwelling Kappas of Japan.
Szobody, Michelle S. Beowulf: Grendel the Ghastly, Book One. An adaptation of the ancient poem describing the clash between Beowulf and Grendel, when despair meant defeat and only courage could win the day.
Beginning Readers
Keane, David. Monster School: First Day Frights. On his first day at a new school, Norm, a regular boy, has trouble fitting in with his monstrous classmates.
Roberts, Bethany. Ogre Eats Everything. May Belle and her friend Ogre have a good time as she teaches him how to plant and tend a garden, how to read, and what to do when feeling bored.
Van Leeuwen, Jean. Amanda Pig and the Awful, Scary Monster. Amanda the pig sees monsters at night, but her parents and her brother find different ways to convince her that there are no monsters.
Non-fiction
J 001.944 Bec. Becker, Helaine. Monster Science: Could Monsters Survive (and Thrive!) in the Real World? An examination of six fearsome creatures sets out to determine fact from fiction using scientific fact.
J 001.94 Ham. Hamiliton, Sue L. Monsters of Mystery. Looks at what is known about such unexplained creatures as the Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, and the Chupacabra.
J 001.944 Mil. Miller, Karen. Monsters and Water Beasts. The facts and fiction surrounding mythical creatures, including Big Foot, Moth Man, and mermaids, are explored in an illustrated presentation of scientific opinion, firsthand accounts, and tales of lore.
J 001.944 Ola, Orlander, Johen. A Field Guide to Monsters: Googly-Eyed Wart Floppers, Shadow-Casters, Toe-Eaters, and Other Creatures. Reports the habitat, diet, life-cycle, and other characteristics of a variety of unusual monsters, as observed and recorded by a monstrologist.
J 808.8 Bro. Brown, Marc. Scared Silly! A Book for the Brave. An illustrated collection of spooky stories, poems, and riddles including a humorous array of ghosts, monsters, ghouls, and witches.
J 811.54 Moo. Moore, Lillian. Beware, Take Care; Fun and Spooky Poems. Fifteen fun and spooky poems about monsters, dragons, ghosts, and other creatures.
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Picture Books
Aliki. We Are Best Friends. When Robert’s best friend Peter moves away, both are unhappy, but they learn that they can make new friends and still remain best friends.
Bagley, Jessixa. Before I Leave. Leaving her best friend is difficult for a young hedgehog whose family is moving, but everyone assures her that things will be alright.
BeakeLesley. Home Now. After the death of her parents, young Sieta goes to live with her Aunty on the other side of the mountains, but she is sad and lonely until she meets a young elephant who has also lost his family.
Crimi, Carolyn. The Louds Move In. When the Loud family moves into the neighborhood alongside Mr. Pitterpatter, Miss Shushermush, and Miss Meekerton, things begin to change.
Denise. Anika. Bella and Stella Come Home. A little girl tries to reassure her favorite doll when they move to a new, and very different, home.
Doughty. Rebecca. Oh No! Time to Go! A Book of Goodbyes. A young boy presents the different ways his family members and others say goodbye, then describes the worst goodbye he ever experienced.
Harper. Jessica. I Like Where I Am. The rhyming story of a six-year-old boy who is sad about moving to a new home but ends up being happy when he gets there.
Juster. Norton. Neville. When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
Krishnaswami. Umi. The Closet Ghosts. With help from Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, Anu finds a way to cope with going to a new school, living in a new home, and even dealing with the mischievous ghosts in her closet.
McCarthy, Jenna. Lola’s Rules for Friendship. Lola knows a lot about being a good friend and must put her skills to the test when her family moves to a new town and the only person she knows in her neighborhood is her big sister, Charlotte.
Moss, Peggy. One of Us. Roberta is welcomed by different groups on her first day at a new school, only to be told she does not fit in with them for some reason, but by the next day, members of each group have begun to see that they do not have to be alike in every way.
Rostoker-Gruber, Karen. Bandit. When Bandit’s family moves to a new house, the cat runs away and returns to the only home he knows, but after he is brought back, he understands that the new house is now home.
Siegel, Mark. Moving House. When Joey, Chloe, and their family are getting ready to move, their house decides it wants to go too.
Smith, Danna. A Brave Spaceboy. A little boy and his brother turn moving day into a grand adventure when they imagine that their new home is a trip to Mars where, after disembarking from their gadget-laden rocket, they encounter Martians!
Walker, Anna. Florette. When Mae’s family moves from the country to the city, she is sad to leave behind her beloved backyard garden but before long, she finds a way to start a new garden.
Watt, Melanie. Augustine. A penguin and his family move from the South to the North Pole.
Weston, Robert Paul. Sakura’s Cherry Blossoms. Moving from her native Japan to America, Sakura misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees under which they shared many happy hours, but a new friend and a springtime surprise help her adjust to her new home.
Zolotow, Charlotte. A Tiger Called Thomas. Thomas realizes being the new kid on the block isn’t too lonely after a special night of trick-or-treating.
Beginning Reader
Capucilli, Alyssa Satin. Biscuit and the Lost Teddy Bear. Whose teddy bear has Biscuit found?
Krensky, Stephen. We Just Moved! When a boy moves with his family to a bigger castle, he finds that some things about life in the new place are different, some things are the same, and he gets more comfortable the longer he is there.
Yoo, Paula. Lily’s New Home. Lily and her parents move to a new home in New York City. Everything is so new and different, which makes Lily even more homesick.
Fiction
Auch, Mary Jane. Wing Nut. When twelve-year-old Grady and his mother relocate yet again,they find work taking care of an elderly man, who teaches Grady about cars, birds, and what it means to have a home.
Barrett, Tracy. Cold in Summer. At the beginning of seventh grade, Ariadne moves to a Tennessee town near a former farming community under a man-made lake and meets the ghost of a girl from the past.
Bateson, Catherine. Stranded in Boringsville. Following her parents’ separation, twelve-year-old Rain moves with her mother to the country, where she befriends the unpopular boy who lives next door and also seeks a way to cope with her feelings toward her father and his new girlfriend.
Bauer, Marion Dane. The Secret of the Painted House. When her family moves from Chicago to the country, nine-year-old Emily is drawn to a mysterious playhouse she finds in the woods and soon meets its sad, lonely inhabitant.
Benedis-Grab, Daphne. Army Brats. When the Bailey family moves into an army base in Virginia there are a lot of adjustments to make; twelve-year-old Tom runs afoul of the base school bully, ten-year-old Charlotte finds herself trying too hard to make friends with the “cool” girls, and six-year-old Rosie is just being difficult as usual–but they come together to investigate a mysterious building full of weird cages, and uncover Fort Patrick’s secrets.
Benjamin, Ali. The Next Great Paulie Fink. A funny composite of emails, interviews, texts and first-person narration, this book shows seventh grader Caitlyn’s adjustment to a new, rural Vermont middle school.
Cheng, Andrea. Honeysuckle House. An all-American girl with Chinese ancestors and a new immigrant from China find little in common when they meet in their fourth grade classroom, but they are both missing their best friends and soon discover other connections.
Cheng, Andrea. The Key Collection. A ten-year-old boy in the Midwest misses his Chinese grandmother, who always lived next door until her health caused her to move.
Danziger, Paula. Amber Brown is Green with Envy. Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
Fleming, Candace. Lowji Discovers America. A nine-year-old East Indian boy tries to adjust to his new life in suburban America.
Friedman, Laurie B. Mallory on the Move. After moving to a new town, eight-year-old Mallory keeps throwing stones in the “Wishing Pond” but things will not go back to the way they were before, and she remains torn between old and new best friends.
Gantos, Jack. Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue. When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor.
Grimes, Nikki. Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel. Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood, but when she befriends a boy named Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home.
Hale, Marian. The Truth about Sparrows. Twelve-year-old Sadie promises that she will always be Wilma’s best friend when their families leaves drought-stricken Missouri in 1933, but once in Texas, Sadie learns that she must try to make a new home – and new friends, too.
Hickey, Caroline. Cassie Was Here. After moving to a new neighborhood, eleven-year-old Bree’s long-forgotten imaginary playmate returns, to the dismay of her parents and brother, but the only other girl on the street is thirteen-year-old Cassie, whose behavior may lead to big trouble.
Kelly, Katy. Lucy Rose, Here’s the Thing About Me. Eight-year-old Lucy Rose keeps a diary of her first year in Washington, D.C., her home since her parents separation, where she spends time with her grandparents, makes new friends, and longs to convince her teacher to let her take care of the class pet during a holiday.
Klise, Kate. Deliver Us from Normal. Despite his own personal dramas and insecurities, middle-grader Charles Harrisong makes the best of a bad situation living in the not-so-normal town of Normal, but when his sister is treated cruelly by her fellow classmates while running for class president, Charlie is more than happy to leave the whole works behind and start anew.
Kadohata, Cynthia. A Place to Belong. Despite the terrible circumstances of having to move from their Los Angeles home to an internment camp then back to Japan in 1945, young Hanako still finds unexpected sources of solace and joy.
Lord, Bette. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
Nagda, Ann Whitehead. Meow Means Mischief. A stray kitten turns out to be the perfect way to help Rana make friends in her new school and to feel more comfortable with her grandparents, who are visiting from India while her parents are away.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Laugh Till You Cry. Thirteen years old and a budding comedian, Cody has little to laugh about after he and his mother move from California to Texas to help his sick grandmother and he finds himself framed by his jealous cousin for calling in bomb threats to their school.
Tucker, Laura. All the Greys on Greene Street. A mystery and family drama that includes a parent suffering from depression, this compelling story is set in the 1980’s SOHO art world and Fire Island and features twelve-year old Olympia (Ollie).
Walker, Melissa. Let’s Pretend we Never Met. Struggling to adapt when her family moves during the school year, Mattie makes friends with the girl next door during winter break only to confront unpopularity when she learns that her new friend is the weird girl in school who no one likes
Wynne-Jones, Tim. Rex Zero and the End of the World. In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world around him.
Yee, Lisa. So Totally Emily Ebers. In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents’ divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.
Non-fiction
Book about moving are located in the J 648.9 section.
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Picture Books
Comstock, Eric. Charlie Piechart and the Case of the Missing Pizza Slice. When a slice of pizza goes missing Charlie sets out to find who took the missing slice, questioning each suspect in turn.
Crossingham, John. Turn Off That Light! When his sleep is repeatedly interrupted by a mysterious someone who keeps turning the light on and off, an exasperated little hedgehog bumbles around before discovering that the reader is causing the light to change by turning pages.
Curtis, Jamie Lee. Where do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery. A child wonders about what happens to a balloon that is let go, as a parent would wonder about what might happen to a child once he leaves home.
Dean, Kimberly. Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes. Pete and his friends must solve a mystery when some of the cupcakes they have backed for a party go missing!
Falconer, Ian. Olivia…and the Missing Toy. When her best toy mysteriously disappears, Olivia the feisty pig is determined to find out who is responsible.
Judge, Chris. The Snow Beast. Beast has been robbed! And so has the whole village. Without tools the villagers can’t put on their legendary Winter Party, so Beast sets off to solve the mystery. Discovering that a stranded Snow Beast is behind the robbery, Beast has to decide whether to help this odd-looking stranger.
Latimer, Alex. Never Follow a Dinosaur. Sally and Joe are convinced that the mysterious footprints they have discovered must belong to a dinosaur.
Lazar, Tara. 7 Ate 9: The Untold Story. When 7 is accused of eating 9, worried 6 hires a detective to investigate.
Lazar, Tara. Way Past Bedtime. Little Joseph stays up way past bedtime and turns into a super-sleuth as he tries to solve the mystery of what happens after all the lights go out.
McLaren, Meg. Pigeon, P.I. A pigeon private eye captures a birdnapper with help from his feathered friends.
Mayer, Mercer. The Lost Dinosaur Bone. Little Critter’s class is going to the Critterville Museum of Natural History. They find out the dinosaur exhibit is closed because of a missing Triceratorops bone. Little Critter has an adventure solving the mystery of the lost dinosaur bone.
Olien, Jessica. Shark Detective! When Shark Detective finds a flier for a missing kitty, he sets out to discover what may have happened to the missing pet.
Patrick, Ella. Rapunzel Finds a Friend. Looking for a friend, Rapunzel, a lonely little girl, tries to fill her time with hobbies, but when she discovers mysterious footprints in the tower she finds a new opportunity to make a friend.
Ransom, Jeanie Franz. The Crown Affair: From the Files of a Hard-Boiled Detective. Just before the Mother Gooseland Games, hard-boiled detective Joe Dumpty is called upon to solve the mystery of what made Jack and Jill fall down the hill–and who took Jack’s prized crown after the fall.
Roberts, P.J. I Lost My Sock. When Fox loses his sock, he and Ox try to find out what happened to it.
Savage, Stephen. Supertruck. When the city is hit by a colossal snowstorm, only one superhero can save the day. But who is this mysterious hero, and why does he disappear once his job is done?
Smith, Elwood H. I Am Not a Pig in Underpants. A rhyming story in which a mysterious animal narrator challenges readers to figure out its identity by explaining which kinds of animal it is not.
Beginning Readers
Adler, David A. Bones Mystery. (Series) Young Detective Jeffrey Bones begins gathering clues when Mr. Green asks for his help finding the school bus he lost while shopping at the mall.
Adler, David A. Young Cam Jansen. (Series) When a baseball game is stopped because of a lost ball, Cam uses her photographic memory to find the ball.
Berenstain, Stan. The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone. The three Bear Detectives search for a dinosaur bone that is missing from the Bear Museum.
Bonsall, Crosby Newell. The Case of the Cat’s Meow. Snitch, Wizard, Skinny, and Tubby, “the same four young ‘private eyes’ who appeared in “The case of the hungry stranger” now solve the mystery of the puzzling disappearance of Snitch’s cat Mildred.
Brown, Jeff. Flat Stanley and the Missing Pumpkins. Working on his uncle’s farm in the fall, Flat Stanley searches for answers when pumpkins start to disappear right before the county fair.
Cushman, Doug. Dirk Bones. (Series) “Daily Tombs” newspaper reporter Dirk Bones, who also happens to be a skeleton, investigates when a family of ghosts fears that they are being haunted.
Cushman, Doug. Inspector Hopper. (Series) Inspector Hopper and his perpetually hungry assistant McBugg solve three mysteries for their insect friends.
Hood, Susan. Pup and Hound Catch a Thief. A broken bank, a missing locket — there seems to be a thief about! Pup and Hound set their sniffers to the ground on the trail of the prime suspect.
Jacobson, Jennifer. Andy Shane and the Barn Sale Mystery. After Andy hosts a barn sale to raise money for a case for Granny Webb’s binoculars, he realizes that they accidentally were sold, so with Dolores’s help they try to track down the missing binoculars.
Lewman, David. SpongeBob SquarePants: The Great Train Mystery. When Mr. Krabs gives SpongeBob the only key to the vault holding the Krabby Patty’s secret recipe, SpongeBob and Patrick must keep it safe, until it is stolen by a passenger on their train.
Lloyd, Jennifer. Murilla Gorilla, Jungle Detective. (Series) Jungle detective Murilla Gorilla has to find out who stole Ms. Chimpanzee’s muffins, and, even though Murilla appears to be disorganized and forgetful, she has a good idea about how to track down the thief.
Platt, Kin. Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe. Big Max, the world’s greatest detective, must travel to the land of Ah-Ah-Achoo to find the king’s missing pet giraffe.
Rylant, Cynthia. The High Rise Private Eyes. (Series) The High Rise Private Eyes, animal detectives, try to find the cat who stole their neighbor’s binoculars.
Rylant, Cynthia. Poppleton and Friends. Poppleton the pig goes to the beach, solves a lint mystery, and learns that friends are the secret to a long life.
Sharma, Marjorie Weinman. Nate the Great. (Series) When Annie tells him about her missing painting, Nate the Great and his trusted companion, Sam Spade, set out to investigate, gather clues, and solve the mystery.
Illustrated Literature
Callery, Sean. Hieroglyphs. A note written in hieroglyphics holds the clues to the museum’s missing golden cat statue; readers are invited to solve the code while learning about ancient Egypt.
Hancocks, Helen. William & the Missing Masterpiece. Debonair cat-detective William finds himself at the center of a mysterious theft when the Mona Cheesa is stolen from a Parisian gallery.
Paperback
Balaban, Mariah. Scooby-Doo! And the Thanksgiving Terror. When Mystery, Inc.’s float in Gladcash’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is endangered when one of the big parade balloons comes to life, Scooby-Doo and his friends search for clues to discover who is behind the threat to the parade.
Bergen, Lara. Sophie the Snoop. Sophie, trying to further her reputation as a super sleuth, gets in trouble while trying to locate missing items that belong to her classmates.
Bright, J. E. Scooby-Doo! The Case of the Cheese Thief. On a trip through Europe, Scooby-Doo and the gang encounter the mystery of the missing million-dollar mozzarella–and they need the reader’s help to solve the mystery and find the cheese.
Gelsey, James. Scooby-Doo! (Series) Scooby-Doo and his friends from Mystery, Inc. investigate when a frightening skateboarder appears at a skateboarding competition.
Harrison, Paula. The Rescue Princesses. (Series) When all the lions living around the palace disappear, Princess Lulu calls on her fellow Rescue Princesses to help her find the missing animals.
Keene, Carolyn. Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew. (Series) When eight-year-old Nancy is invited to a sleepover party with a dolls theme, the host’s doll goes missing and Nancy tries to solve her first case.
Paris, Harper. Greetings From Somewhere. (Series) Second graders Ethan and Ella are sad about moving away from their hometown to travel the world with their mom, a journalist, and dad, who will home school them, but before they go they have a mystery to solve.
Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman. Nate the Great. (Series) When Annie tells him about her missing painting, Nate the Great and his trusted companion, Sam Spade, set out to investigate, gather clues, and solve the mystery.
Fiction
Adler, David. Danny’s Doodles: The Squirting Donuts. (Series) Danny and Calvin decide to find out why their fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Cakel, is suddenly behaving very strangely by not only failing to enforce her many rules, but by violating some herself.
Angleberger, Tom. Inspector Flytrap. (Series) Hoping to become the greatest detective that ever grew, Inspector Flytrap, a Venus Flytrap, and his assistant, Nina the Goat, investigate “big deal” mysteries at an art museum, a cookie shop, and a garden.
Barkley, Callie. The Critter Club. (Series) During Spring Break, mystery lover Amy looks for clues to the disappearance of wealthy Ms. Sullivan’s Saint Bernard puppy.
Butler, Dori Hillestad. The Haunted Library. (Series) When his haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, Kaz befriends human Claire, who has the ability to see ghosts, and helps her investigate a haunting at the local library.
Cronin, Doreen. The Chicken Squad. (Series) When the squirrel Tail comes barreling into the chicken coop ranting about a round, shiny, green, big, scary thing in the yard, Dirt, Sweetie, Poppy, and Sugar investigate this strange object.
Cummings, Troy. Notebook of Doom: March of the Vanderpants. (Series) The Notebook of Doom is missing and Alexander and his fellow-monster hunters, Rip and Nikki, are convinced that the boss-monster has it; but is that monster the mysterious Principal Vanderpants, who is certainly behaving oddly, or someone else–and they need to figure that out quickly because a mistake could have deadly consequences for Stermont Elementary.
David, Erica. Anna & Elsa: The Great Ice Engine. (Series) When Kristoff and the ice harvesters challenge Oaken and his new invention to a friendly contest, Oaken, Elsa, and Anna become embroiled in a mystery involving a missing ice harvesting machine.
Hale, Shannon. The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate. (Series) The Princess in Black investigates when a monster disrupts her playdate with Princess Sneezewort, but she’ll need the help of her friend to catch the shapeshifting creature.
Herman, Gail. Ariel: the Shimmering Star Necklace. (Series) When her young friend, Laurel, mysteriously goes missing, Ariel reads Laurel’s diary entry about a secret new friend and is accompanied by Sebastian, Flounder, and Scuttle while following clues.
Kelly, David A. Ballpark Mysteries. (Series) Cousins Mike and Kate are at Boston’s Fenway Park when the Red Sox’s star hitter discovers that his lucky baseball bat has been stolen.
Lysiak, Hilde. Hilde Cracks the Case. (Series) Nine-year-old Hilde Lysiak is an aspiring reporter with her own newspaper, the Orange Street News, and she is investigating break-ins and missing baked goods–and with the help of Zeus, a little dog with a big bark, she intends to track down the thief whois trying to steal a win in the Bake-Off Bonanza, one of Selinsgrove’s biggest events.
Milway, Alex. Pigsticks and Harold and the Tuptown Thief. (Series) Pigsticks and Harold chase down a thief when the Spirit of Tuptown prize goes missing and other things around town start disappearing.
Sherry, Kevin. The Yeti Files. (Series) Blizz Richards is a caring boss, a family man, and an all around great guy who also happens to be a yeti, but when someone tries to prove the existence of his friend Bigfoot, Blizz and his team of cryptids work to help him stay hidden.
Styles, Walker. Rider Woofson: The Big Bad Woof. (Series) A new criminal in Pawston is stealing priceless works of art, but Rider, busy with an old friend, may not be able to prevent the theft of the Bona Lisa.
Tashjian, Janet. Marty Frye, Private Eye. (Series) Marty Frye, a seven-year-old who likes to read poetry and talk in rhymes, solves three separate mysteries for a classmate, a toy store owner, and his younger sister.
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Abbot, Tony. Goofballs. (Series) Long-time friends and fellow sleuths Jeff Bunter, Brian Rooney, Mara Lubin, and Kelly Smitts, collectively known as the Goofballs, investigate the disappearance of Thunder the pony in their town of Badger Point.
Adler, David A. Cam Jansen Adventure. (Series) A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds.
Brown, Marc Tolon. Arthur’s Mystery Envelope. It looks like trouble when the principal asks Arthur to take home a large envelope marked “confidential”.
Butler, Dori Hillestad. The Buddy Files. (Series) While searching for his mysteriously lost human family, Buddy the dog is adopted by another family and helps solve the mystery of their missing boy.
Draper, Sharon M. Clubhouse Mysteries. (Series) Ziggy and his friends form a clubhouse after someone vandalizes their basketball court, and they soon uncover a clue that may tell them who did it.
McDonald, Megan. Judy Moody, Girl Detective. When a puppy who is being trained as a police dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery, imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew.
Peterson, John Lawrence. The Littles and the Lost Children. Major Nick Little and a band of soldiers from Trash City come across a scary scene in the town dump– a tiny person’s camp has been attacked, and inside the tent are two tiny babies, but no parents. Did the big black bird outside the tent have anything to do with this mystery?
Preller, James. Jigsaw Jones Mystery. (Series) Second-grade detectives Jigsaw, Mila, and their friends follow clues to learn if a mummy will really rise from the dead on Halloween.
Richards, Kitty. Belle: The Mysterious Message. When Belle discovers a secret message hidden in one of the books in the Beast’s library, she teams with Lumiere and Chip to solve the mystery.
Roy, Ron. A-Z Mysteries. (Series) Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.
Roy, Ron. Calendar Mysteries. (Series) Seven-year-olds Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy make observations and gather clues that convince them that their older siblings, cousin, and animals have been captured by hungry space aliens.
Sobol, David. Encyclopedia Brown. (Series) Presents the essential facts of ten mysteries, giving the reader the opportunity to solve the cases before examining the boy detective’s solutions.
Stilton, Geronimo. Geronimo Stilton. (Series) Geronimo travels to Egypt to interview Professor Alrat Spitfur and learns the secret of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Mouse World.
Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The Boxcar Children Mysteries. (Series) The Boxcar Children investigate a mysterious ghost with a glowing pumpkin head at a friend’s farm.
Fiction
Asler, David A. Cam Jansen Adventure. (Series) A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds.
Behrens, Rebecca. Summer of Lost and Found. Nell is a city girl forced to spend her summer in Roanoke, North Carolina, but when she meets historical reenactor Ambrose, they explore for clues as to what really happened to the lost colonists, turning her once boring vacation into an adventure.
Benedis-Grab, Daphne. Army Brats. When the Bailey family moves into an army base in Virginia there are a lot of adjustments to make; twelve-year-old Tom runs afoul of the base school bully, ten-year-old Charlotte finds herself trying too hard to make friends with the “cool” girls, and six-year-old Rosie is just being difficult as usual–but they come together to investigate a mysterious building full of weird cages, and uncover Fort Patrick’s secrets.
Bertman, Jennifer Chambliss. Book Scavenger. (Series)Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily’s hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.
Brooks, Max. Minecraft: The Island. (Series) An official tie-in to the globally popular video game traces the story of a new hero stranded in the world of Minecraft who must survive a harsh environment while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious island.
Brown, Jennifer. Pennybaker School is Headed for Disaster. (Series) Thomas Fallgrout is a new student at Pennybaker Academy for the Uniquely Gifted where he his blamed for a missing statue so he teams up with his oddball friend Chip Mason to find it.
Deutsch, Stacia. Girls Who Code: The Friendship Code. (Series) Looking forward to joining the new coding club at school so that she can develop her app idea, Lucy is disappointed by the lukewarm reception she receives from the club’s other members, who work with her to decipher mysterious coding notes.
Eulberg, Elizabeth. The Great Shelby Holmes. (Series) Nine-year-old Shelby Holmes, the best detective in her Harlem neighborhood, and her new easy-going friend from downstairs, eleven-year-old John Watson, become partners in a dog-napping case.
Gibbs, Stuart. Funjungle. (Series) Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo’s star attraction–Henry the hippopotamus–is murdered.
Gibbs, Stuart. Moon Base Alpha. (Series) Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon’s most prominent doctors
Hirsch, Jeff. 39 Clues. (Series) Dan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the thirty-nine clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family’s power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family.
Kerr, Esme. The Girl with the Glass Bird. At Knight’s Haddon, a remote all-girls boarding school, feisty orphan Edie is assigned to spy on fragile, exotic Anastasia. Instead, the two become best friends–and discover a sinister mystery.
Korman, Gordon. Masterminds. (Series) A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment.
Korman, Gordon. Swindle. (Series) Luthor the Doberman, a former attack dog, has a good home with Savannah Drysdale, but every time a certain truck passes he goes into a frenzy, while Griffin Bing is caught up in trying to beat his rival, Darren Vader, at an invention contest.
Krosocska, Jarrett. Platypus Police Squad. (Series) Paired together after a veteran detective retires, platypus police squad members Rick Zengo, a hotshot rookie, and Corey O’Malley, a hard-nosed old-timer, struggle with their differences while tackling their first case involving a missing schoolteacher and a duffle bag filled with illegal fish.
LaReau, Kara. The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters: The Jolly Regina. (Series) Meet Jaundice and Kale Bland, two sisters who avoid excitement at any cost. One day, the Bland sisters are kidnapped by an all-female band of pirates. They’re unwillingly swept into a high-seas romp that might just lead to solving the mystery of what happened to their missing parents.
Messner, Kate. Ranger in Time. (Series) Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels–but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
Pastis, Stephan. Timmy Failure. (Series) Meet Timmy Failure, the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. And his lazy sidekick, total, a 1,500-pound polar bear.
Patterson, James. Treasure Hunters. (Series)Following clues left by their missing father, twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New York City with their siblings to finish the dangerous quest of their world-famous treasure-hunting parents
Pflugfelder, Bob. Nick & Tesla. (Series) After a series of robberies strike Half Moon Bay, sibling sleuths Nick and Tesla build robots out of household objects in order to catch the culprits.
Quinn, Spencer. Bowser and Birdie. (Series) Bowser is a mutt, just adopted by eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother, but when they all get home to Grammy’s bait and tackle shop in the bayou they discover that their prize stuffed marlin has been stolen–so Bowser decides to investigate, and things quickly become complicated and dangerous.
Riley, James. Story Thieves: The Stolen Chapters. (Series)Mysteries abound as memory-erased Owen Conners, boy magician Kiel Gnomenfoot, and their half-fictional friend Bethany confront secrets, stolen memories, hidden clues, surprising twists and endings, and some very familiar faces.
Rubin, Sarah. The Impossible Clue. When a scientist working on a top secret invisibility suit goes missing, Alice puts her detective skills to the test to determine if Dr. Lerner disappeared with help from his invention or more sinister means.
Scroggs, Kirk. Snoop Troop. (Series) Fifth-grade private eyes Logan and Gustavo use their doodling and detective skills to solve the mystery of a group of moles that have stolen the amusement park merry-go-round.
Snicket, Lemony. All the Wrong Questions. (Series) Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain’d By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
Spratt, R. A. Friday Barnes. (Series) A genius girl detective discovers her ultra exclusive boarding school is a hotbed of crime, from missing homework and stolen lemon tarts to a mysterious yeti haunting the school swamp
Stratford, Jordan. The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. (Series) Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world’s first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects.
Sutherland, Tai. The Menagerie. (Series) When twelve-year-old Logan Wilde wakes up to discover a baby griffin hiding under his bed, he suddenly finds himself thrown into a mystery involving his classmate Zoe Kahn and a magical menagerie right in the middle of his sleepy Wyoming town.
Whitby, Adele. Kate’s Story, 1914. Kate is thrilled when her English cousin Beth visits for her twelfth birthday, and they stumble upon a secret in Vendermeer Manor that may bring them closer to unraveling the family mystery that’s been hidden away for generations.
Thompson, Lisa. The Goldfish Boy. Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors’ doings from his window–but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child’s life…if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
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Balliett, Blue. Chasing Vermeer. When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
Buckley, Michael. The Sisters Grimm. (Series) Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother whom they have always believed to be dead.
Child, Lauren. Utterly Me, Clarice Bean. When someone steals the winner’s trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective.
Davies, Jacqueline. The Bell Bandit. Siblings Evan and Jessie must solve the mystery of a missing cherished family treasure while coming to terms with their beloved grandmother’s unsettling behavior.
Dixon, Franklin W. The Hardy Boys. (All New Series) Frank and Joe investigate mysteries.
Dowd, Siobhan. The London Eye Mystery. When Ted and Kat’s cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together–Ted with his brain that is “wired differently” and impatient Kat–to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
Korman, Gordon. Kidnapped. (Series) When Aiden’s sister, Meg, is kidnapped, he teams up with the FBI to try to find her by tracking down clues only a brother could recognize.
Marsh, Carole. Carole Marsh Mysteries. (Series) Mimi, Papa, Grant and Christina visit their pen pals in China and find themselves caught up in a mystery.
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
Van Drannan, Wendlin. Sammy Keyes. (Series) Thirteen-year-old Sammy’s penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the “seedy” hotel across the street from the seniors’ building where she is living with her grandmother.
Watkins, Steve. The Secret of Midway. When Anderson and his friends discover a trunk full of old military memorabilia, the ghost of a World War II sailor visits them, asking for help to solve a seventy-year old mystery.
Fiction
Bond, Gwenda. The Supernormal Sluething Service. (Series) After moving into the New Harmonia, a hotel that caters to such clientele as bigfeet, vampires, mermaids, and dragons, Stephen is accused of stealing a magical family heirloom and must work quickly to clear his name or face dire consequences.
Bosch, Pseudonymous. The Bad Books. (Series) Thirteen-year-old Clay, a boy who no longer believes in magic, tags graffiti on his classroom wall and, as punishment, is sent to a camp for wayward kids located on a volcanic island, where eccentric campmates abound, a ghost walks among the abandoned ruins of a mansion, and a dangerous force threatens to erupt with bad magic.
Broach, Elise. The Wolf Keepers. Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango lives in a zoo, spending her days taking note of the animals’ behaviors, then she meets runaway Tyler Briggs and together they investigate the wolves who are suddenly dying.
Child, Lauren. Ruby Redfort. (Series) Idolized by young mystery fan Clarice Bean, code-cracker and daring detective Ruby, accompanied by sidekick butler, Hitch, work for a secret crime-busting organization to stop nefarious villains.
Cleverly, Sophie. Scarlet and Ivy. (Series) When possessions and food start going missing at Rookwood Academy, suspect Scarlet launches an investigation with her twin sister, Ivy, that turns up old mysteries and new threats.
De la Cruz, Melissa. Descendants. (Series) Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney’s most evil villains search for a dragon’s eye–the key to true darkness and the villains’ only hope of escape.
Frederick, Heather Vogel. Yours Truly. When someone tries to sabotage the maple trees on her friend Franklin’s family farm, Truly Lovejoy rallies the Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes to investigate.
Gibbs, Stuart. Moon Base Alpha. Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon’s most prominent doctors.
Grabenstein, Chris. Welcome to Wonderland. (Series) P.T. and his friend Gloria must solve a mystery at the world’s wackiest motel: The Wonderland.
Hannigan, Kate. The Detectives Assistant.In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell’s own father.
Kirby, Matthew J. Dark Gravity Sequence. (Series) The Earth is in the grip of a new Ice Age, and when twelve-year-old Eleanor’s scientist mother disappears in the Arctic, Eleanor sets off on a dangerous journey to find her–and uncovers a mystery, a crime, and evidence that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.
Kline, Christina Baker. Orphan Train Girl: The Young Reader’s Edition of Orphan Train. Presents a young reader’s version of a story in which Molly, close to aging out of the foster care system, takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
Korman, Gordon. Masterminds. (Series) A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment.
McKay, Hilary. Binny Bewitched. When she takes money accidentally left behind at an ATM, a guilty Binny decides to return it but discovers it has gone missing, leading her to team up with her frenemy, Gareth, to figure out who might have taken it.
Milford, Kate. Greenglass House. (Series) At Greenglass House, a smuggler’s inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers’ adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook’s daughter, on an adventure.
Oliver, Lauren. Curiousity House. (Series) Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save to save their home, Dumfrey’s Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders.
Ponti, James. Framed! (Series) In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret help thwart the biggest art heist in United States history.
Salter, Charlotte. The Bone Snatcher. Stuck in a decaying mansion surrounded by sea monsters, Sophie Seacove’s only hope for escape is to find the mysterious Monster Box before the other inhabitants of the house get to her first.
Sands, Kevin. The Blackthorn Key. (Series) In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.
Savage, Melissa. Lemons. After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.
Stroud, Jonathan. Lockwood & Co. (Series) Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.
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Caldecott Winners Section (J CALDECOTT)
Floca Locomotive
In the summer of 1869, trains, crews and family travel together on America’s brand new transcontinental railroad.
Mosel The Funny Little Woman
While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures. She escapes and becomes the richest woman in Japan.
Rathmann Officer Buckle and Gloria
The children at Napville Elementary School ignore Officer Buckle’s safety tips until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him for his safety speeches.
Picture Books (Pic)
Agee Lion Lessons
Some kids take karate classes; why not lion lessons?
Agee The Wall in the Middle of the Book
Is that wall really keeping us safe? Are we really better off on this side of the wall?
Barrett Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers–until the weather takes a turn for the worse.
Brett Trouble with Trolls
While climbing Mt. Baldy, Treva outwits some trolls who want to steal her dog.
Bunting One Green Apple
While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks perfectly complements the other students’ red apples.
Cronin Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type (and others)
When Farmer Brown’s cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
Daywalt The Day the Crayons Came Home
One day, Duncan is happily coloring with his crayons when a stack of postcards arrives in the mail from his former crayons, each of which has run away or been left behind, and all of which want to come home.
Ernst The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers
The Gingerbread Girl, who once escaped the fox that devoured her brother, must now try to save from a similar fate the animal crackers she received as a birthday gift.
Flesher Alfred’s Nose
Even though everybody loves him as he is, Alfred, a French bulldog, finds it hard to accept his unusual looks, especially his nose.
Henkes Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Henkes Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.
Howe Horace and Morris But Mostly Dolores
Three mice friends learn that the best clubs include everyone.
Kellogg The Mysterious Tadpole
It soon becomes clear that Louis’s pet tadpole is not turning into an ordinary frog.
Leaf The Story of Ferdinand
Ferdinand the bull likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.
Lerman How to Raise Mom & Dad
A big sister tells her brother hints on how to raise Mom and Dad, including hints such as “leave the green veggies for them” and “tell them when they skip parts of a story.”
Lester Tacky the Penguin
Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
Munsch The Paper Bag Princess
A feminist fairy tale in a nice new edition.
Noble Jimmy’s Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash
Jimmy’s birthday party at SeaLand turns out to be a big splash when everyone ends up in the big tank.
Numeroff If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and others
Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child’s day.
Palatini Piggie Pie
Gritch the witch flies to Old MacDonald’s farm for some pigs to make a piggie pie, but when she arrives she can’t find a single porker.
Palatini Gorgonzola: a very stinkysaurus
When Gorgonzola the dinosaur learns that everyone runs from him to avoid his smell, rather than out of fear, he is grateful to the little bird who shows him how to brush his teeth and wash.
Polacco My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother
After losing running, climbing, throwing, and burping competitions to her obnoxious older brother, a young girl makes a wish on a falling star.
Proimos Patricia von Pleasantsquirrel
After failing to convince her parents that she is a princess, Patricia von Pleasantsquirrel leaves her moatless house in search of a “princessdom.”
Rex School’s First Day of School
Creative and heartwarming, this book lends itself to conversations with kids about seeing something from a different point of view.
Rosenthal Duck!Rabbit!
Two unseen characters argue about whether the creature they are looking at is a rabbit or a duck.
Schachner Skippyjon Jones
Skippyjon Jones, a Siamese cat with an uncanny imagination, pretends to battle el Blimpo Bumblebeeto Bandito–a giant bee–on behalf of the Mexican Chihuahuas it has been terrorizing.
Seuss The King’s Stilts
When the King’s stilts are stolen and hidden, and he can no longer enjoy his play hour, the whole kingdom is threatened with destruction until a page boy bravely saves the day.
Seuss The Lorax.
The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem.
Sheth Tiger in My Soup
Great illustrations complement the imaginations of a boy whose older sister refuses to read to him when serving him his lunch.
Squires The Gingerbread Cowboy
A freshly baked gingerbread cowboy escapes from the rancher’s wife’s kitchen and eludes his pursuers in this western United States version of the “Gingerbread Boy.”
Stanton This Book is Red
In this humorous concept book, readers are asked to question their logic for naming colors.
Van Wright When an Alien Meets a Swamp Monster
A chance encounter between two kids with very different outward appearances leads to mistaken identities, wild claims to skeptical parents and a friendship based on unexpected commonalities.
Waber Ira Sleeps Over
Ira is conflicted about what to bring to his first sleepover. Should he take his sister’s advice?
Williams The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her.
Willis Hippospotamus
When a hippopotamus discovers a spot on her bottom, it seems every creature in the jungle knows what it is and how to cure it.
Illustrated Literature (JIL)
Ahlberg Previously
The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. Includes Goldilocks, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack and Jill, The Frog Prince, Cinderella, and The Gingerbread Man.
Alexander How the Cat Swallowed Thunder
Warned not to get into his usual mischief, Mother Holly’s cat tries to tidy up all the mess he has made while she is away.
Brumbeau The Quiltmaker’s Gift
When a generous quiltmaker finally agrees to make a quilt for a greedy king but only under certain conditions, she causes him to undergo a change of heart.
Einhorn A Very Improbable Story: A Math Adventure
Waking up one morning to find a talking cat on his head, Ethan is informed that the cat will not leave until he, Ethan, wins a game of probability.
Kalman Looking at Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything
Attractive biographies of the presidents by the renowned New Yorker illustrator Maira Kalman.
Perkins Frank and Lucky Get Schooled
Accompany the inseparable Frank and his dog Lucky as they learn about subjects including biology and math while exploring their local surroundings.
Rex Nothing Rhymes with Orange
All the fruits gather together and enjoy a rhyming party, but poor Orange feels left out because he does not rhyme with anything–until Apple invents a new word.
Rex Pssst!
The animals at the zoo have some unusual requests for a little girl who goes to visit.
Fiction (J Fic)
Avi Best Shorts: Favorite Short Stories for Sharing
Featuring loyal pets, rogue waves, ghosts who use cell phones, and young people caught up in events beyond their control, these stories are written by some of the most entertaining and esteemed authors of children’s literature.
Brown Flat Stanley
After a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, he finds that being flat has its advantages.
Cameron The Stories Huey Tells (and others by Cameron)
It isn’t easy being Julian’s younger brother. When Huey has bad dreams, Julian says his are scarier. When Huey wants to study animal tracks, Julian says he’s too young. But Huey isn’t a baby. He’s an adventurer, a chef, a tracker, and a scout. And he’s about to show Julian—and the world—all that he can do.
DiCamillo Mercy Watson Fights Crime (and others)
Mercy the pig’s love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.
Hanlon Dory Fantasmagory series
Dory, the youngest in her family, is a girl with a very active imagination, and she spends the summer playing with her imaginary friend, pretending to be a dog, battling monsters, and generally driving her family nuts. Laugh out loud funny.
Lowry Gooney Bird Greene series
A humorous early realistic fiction series starring the likable Gooney Bird Greene. Chapters work well-as stand-alone stories.
Milne Eeyore Has a Birthday
Eeyore is sad because he thinks nobody remembered his birthday, until his party starts.
east act brave.
Pinkwater Larry books
Polar bear Larry eats 250 pound of ice cream. (Ice Cream Larry)
Sachar Wayside School stories — chapters
Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
Scieszka The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.
Non-fiction ( J Non-fic)
398.2095 Two Two of Everything
A poor old Chinese farmer finds a magic brass pot that doubles or duplicates whatever is placed inside it, but his efforts to make himself wealthy lead to unexpected complications.
398.21 Sal Epossumondas
A retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother’s instructions much too literally.
398.2452 Kim Anansi and the Talking Melon
A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.
398.2452 Ste Tops and Bottoms
Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
510.92 (Erdos) Hei The Boy Who Loved Math
A pleasingly illustrated biography of Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos, who had an unusual personality that may appeal to children.
811.4 (Horton) Tat The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
This is the true story of North Carolina slave George Moses Horton who taught himself to read and became the first African American poet to be published in the south.
Picture books
Appelt, Kathi. Brand-New Baby Blues. The arrival of a new little brother has his big sister singing the blues.
Ashman, Linda. When I Was King. A young boy describes how he is no longer “king” now that there is a new baby in the house, but then his family helps him enjoy the change.
Banks, Kate. This Baby. While waiting for it to be born, a young child wonders what its new sibling will be like.
Borden, Louise. Big Brothers Don’t Take Naps. Little brother Nick lists all the wonderful things his big brother does with him, preparing him to greet the new baby in the family.
Bradman, Tony. Daddy’s Lullaby. When a dad comes home late from work, he and the baby are the only ones awake.
Broach, Elise. What the No-Good Baby is Good For. Tired of all the trouble his no-good baby sister causes, John tells his mother the baby has to go and she agrees, but as John packs the baby’s suitcase, he realizes there are some things he likes about his sister, too.
Brown, Marc Tolon. Monkey: Not Ready for the Baby. Monkey is not ready to welcome a new baby to the family.
Bunting, Eve. Will It Be a Baby Brother? A little boy is certain that his expectant mother will give birth to a baby brother.
Bunting, Eve. You Were Loved before You Were Born. A mother shares with her child all the ways in which family members and friends were loving and welcoming before the child was even born.
Burningham, John. There’s Going to Be a Baby. A young boy imagines what life will be like when his new sibling arrives.
Child, Lauren. The New Small Person. Colorful illustrations show Elmore adapting to the ups and downs of life with a little brother.
Cole, Joanna. I’m a Big Brother. A simple book describing what a new baby is like and how a big brother can help.
Cole, Joanna. I’m a Big Sister. A simple book describing what a new baby is like and how a big sister can help.
Cote, Nancy. It’s All About Me! Tells in rhyme about a baby boy getting bigger, and welcoming one baby and then another into his family.
Crystal, Billy. I Already Know I Love You. A grandfather tells his soon-to-be-born grandchild all the things they’re going to do together.
Cuetara, Mittie. Baby Business. Twenty-four silly rhymes about babies doing everything from getting dressed to getting sick.
Cuneo, Deborah. Little Dragon and the New Baby. Can Little Dragon ever get used to the idea of being a big brother?
Cutler, Jane. Darcy and Gran Don’t Like Babies. Darcy and her grandmother discuss why they don’t like the new baby, although maybe deep down they do.
Dyer, Jane. Little Brown Bear and the Bundle of Joy. When Little Brown Bear learns that his parents are expecting “a bundle of joy,” he sets out to discover what that means and is not at all happy with what he learns.
Eaddy, Susan. Poppy’s Best Babies. At first Poppy is thrilled by her twin baby sisters, and delighted that her grandmother has come to help–but soon she finds that the two babies are taking up all the adult’s time and energy, and she starts to feel angry and neglected.
Feiffer, Kate. But I Wanted a Baby Brother! Oliver Keaton wants a baby brother more than anything but when he gets a baby sister instead; he sets out with his dog Chaplin to trade his sister for the perfect baby brother.
Fisher, Valorie. My Big Brother. Baby’s eye-view pictures of a wonderful big brother.
Fleming, Candace. Smile, Lily. The whole family tries to get Lily to stop crying, but only her big brother knows how.
Fleming, Candace. This is the Baby. Rhyming story of a baby who hates to get dressed.
Freedman, Claire. Oops-a-Daisy. As little Daisy Rabbit struggles to learn how to hop, her mother points out other baby animals having trouble with their lessons until Daisy realizes that everyone needs practice when trying something new.
Gliori, Debi. Mr. Bear’s New Baby. Mr. and Mrs. Bear and the other forest animals despair of ever getting Baby Bear to stop crying and go to sleep, but Small Bear knows just how to solve the problem.
Goodman, Joan E. Bernard Wants a Baby. Bernard the elephant wants one baby brother who doesn’t cry, but instead his family has triplets. At first they’re too much trouble, but Bernard decides they’re cute.
Gorbachev, Valeri. Shhh! A little boy tries to be quiet while his baby brother takes a nap.
Gregory, Valiska. Shirley’s Wonderful Baby. Shirley doesn’t like her baby brother very much, but when the babysitter thinks he’s revolting, Shirley begins to appreciate him.
Hall, Algy Craig. Fine as We Are. Little Frog was living happily with his mom on the pond until a multitude of new frog babies appeared in the pond and they all wanted to be just like their older sibling.
Harris, Robie H. Happy Birth Day. A mom remembers what the first day of her daughter’s life was like.
Harris, Robie H. Hi New Baby!A dad and his daughter remember what she did when the new baby came home. At first it made her nervous, but then she grew to like him.
Henkes, Kevin. Julius, the Baby of the World. Lily doesn’t like her little brother until her cousin insults him, and then she comes to his defense.
Henson, Heather. Angel Coming. A little girl waits for the angel, a Frontier Nursing Service midwife, who will bring her new baby brother or sister.
Henry, Steve. Nobody Asked Me. Bo was content to be an only cat, but after a while, he decides that having a brother is not so bad.
Hiatt, Fred. Baby Talk. Joey learns how to talk in baby language to his new baby brother.
Hill, Susanna Leonard. Not Yet, Rose.While impatiently waiting for the birth of a new baby brother or sister, Rose imagines the things they will do together and how her life will change.
Holt, Sharon. Did My Mother Do That? With the promise of hearing about the day she was born, Holly and her father first imagine the birth of several different animals, including chickens, kittens, and kangaroos.
Horse, Harry. Little Rabbit’s New Baby.Little Rabbit has looked forward to becoming a big brother, but when Mama brings home triplets, he quickly realizes that babies are not as much fun as he thought they would be.
Hosford, Kate. Mama’s Belly. A little girl expresses curiosity and excitement for the coming birth of her baby sister while her parents tenderly reassure her of love’s ability to expand with their growing family.
Huang, Rebecca. Bobo and the New Baby. When his owners bring a baby home, Bobo the dog competes for attention.
Hughes, Shirley. Olly and Me. Poems and anecdotes about a little girl and her baby brother Olly.
Jenkins, Emily. That New Animal. The lives of two dogs change after a new animal, a baby, comes to their house.
Kornell, Max. Bear with Me.A boy at first is angry when his parents suddenly welcome a giant bear named Gary into their family, but eventually he and Gary learn to get along.
Landolph, Diane Wright. What a Good Big Brother! Cameron is always ready to help when his baby sister cries, whether by handing wipes to his father during a diaper change or finding the nursing pillow for his mother, until one day, when no one else can stop Sadie’s tears, her big brother succeeds and gets a wonderful reward.
Lloyd-Jones, Sally. How to be a Baby. A big sister explains to her new baby sister all the advantages and disadvantages of being a baby.
Lobel, Gillian. Too Small for Honey Cake. Little Fox learns that his Daddy will love him even though there’s a new Baby Fox.
Lund, Deb. Tell Me My Story, Mama. A little girl wants to hear the story of when her mom was pregnant with her, and knows the new baby will have its own story too.
Mallery, Sydra. A Most Unusual Day. Caroline is anxious all day at school, nervous about her newly-adopted sister’s arrival from far away
MacLachlan, Patricia. Before You Came. A mother relates how she spent time before her child arrived, then passes on a gift of days paddling a red canoe, reading in a pillow-filled hammock until dark, and watching the moon rise at night.
McQuinn, Anna. Lola Reads to Leo. Lola reads storybooks to her new baby brother, Leo, and even though Mommy and Daddy are busy, they still have time to read to Lola at bedtime.
Novak, Matt. A Wish for You. A rhyming story with illustrations and simple text celebrating the addition of a child to a traditional family.
Newman, Marjorie. Just Like Me.At first Tom doesn’t like all the attention his new brother is getting, but then he realizes that the baby will get bigger, just like Tom did.
O’Keefe, Susan Heyboer. Baby Day. Rhymes telling of a baby’s day with his mom and dad.
Orlean, Susan. Lazy Little Loafers. While walking to school, lugging a heavy backpack through New York City one morning, a disgruntled child questions why babies are so lazy, spending their days on useless activities such as napping and babbling rather than getting jobs.
Patz, Nancy. Babies Can’t Eat Kimchee! A baby sister must wait to grow up before doing big sister things, such as ballet dancing and eating spicy Korean food.
Penfold, Alexandra. We are Brothers, We are Friends. A brother explains to his new baby brother all the fun adventures they will have together because they are brothers and friends.
Puttock, Simon. The Baby That Roared. When a little bundle appears on the Deer’s doorstep, Ms. Deer thinks her wish for a baby has come true while Mr. Deer is more wary, but the little one will not stop roaring and those who try to help keep disappearing.
Reiser, Lynn. My Baby & Me. Told in the voice of the big brother or sister ranging from two to four years in age, the relationship, bond, and responsibilities of an older sibling to the new baby in the family is celebrated through the love, understanding, and acts of kindness shared between the two.
Robberecht, Thierry. Back into Mommy’s Tummy.Jealous of her soon-to-be-born baby brother, a 5 year old girl wants to return to the security of her mommy’s “tummy,” but soon discovers that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.
Rock, Lois. Now We Have a Baby. Simple picture book tells what babies are like and why it’s so important to love them.
Rockwell, Lizzy. Hello Baby. A young boy describes how his baby sister grew in his mommy’s womb, and then tells about her first day home and how they took care of her.
Rodman, Mary Ann. Surprise Soup. When Kevie’s mother has a baby, Kevie, his older brother, and their father make soup for when the new baby comes home.
Romanova, Yelena. The Perfect Friend. Archie the dog wants a friend, but the new baby takes up everyone’s time. In the end, though, the baby is the perfect friend.
Saltzberg, Barney. Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for Baby? Although everyone else seems thrilled, Cornelius B. Mud is not happy with the arrival of his new sibling, especially since he is stealing all the attention and can’t do anything fun, but with time, Cornelius changes his tune and soon realizes that being a big brother can be quite special after all!
Schaefer, Lola M. One Special Day. An energetic and imaginative young boy becomes a big brother.
Sheldon, Annette. Big Sister Now. A little girl describes her transition from “the baby” to “the big sister.”
Shields, Gillian. When the World Was Waiting for You. Illustrations and simple rhyming text tell the story of a family anticipating the birth of a baby.
Shipton, Johnathon. Baby Baby Blah Blah Blah! When her parents tell her that they are expecting a baby, Emily sets to work on a list of pros and cons.
Simmons, Jane. Daisy and the Egg. A little duck waits for her mom’s new egg to hatch.
Sykes, Julie. Little Tiger’s Big Surprise. Little Tiger worries because all his friends have babies in their families, and he thinks they look like a lot of bother, but when he meets the new baby in his family, he decides it’s not so bad.
Tillman, Nancy. On the Night You Were Born. The moon, wind, rain, and a variety of animals celebrate the special occasion that is the birth of a child.
Walton, Rick. Baby’s First Year! In rhyming text, the milestones of Baby’s first year are celebrated.
Wigersma, Tanneke. Baby Brother. Mia writes a letter to grandmother with all the details of her cat having kittens, and by the way, her mother also had a baby boy.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Pecan Pie Baby. When Mama’s pregnancy draws attention away from Gia, she worries that the special bond they share will disappear forever once the baby is born.
Parent and Teacher
Danzig, Dianne. Babies Don’t Eat Pizza: A Big Kids’ Book about Baby Brothers and Baby Sisters. A straightforward, reassuring book aimed at children awaiting the arrival of a new baby in the family.
J P&T 306.875 Bar. Barber, Nicola. A New Baby Arrives.Mom is having a baby — Getting ready — Meeting the baby — Welcoming the baby — Sharing — Helping with the baby — Bath time — Naming the baby — First birthday — Baby words.
J P&T 306.875 Hew. Hewitt, Sally. Our New Baby. Case studies and helpful advice for kids about how to welcome a new baby brother or sister into their family.
306.875 Rus. Rusch, Elizabeth. Ready, Set … Baby! Anna and Oliver talk about all the things to expect when a new baby arrives in the family, including what the baby may look like, the sounds that a baby makes, how to entertain a baby, and why a baby may be awake in the middle of the night.
J 612.6 Coc. What’s Inside Your Tummy, Mommy? Uses life-size illustrations to show the growth and development of a baby inside the womb from the first month until birth.
8/3/18 CC
Picture books
Baker, Roberta. Olive’s Pirate Party. Olive worries that having her seventh-birthday pirate party at her Aunt Tiffany’s house will be a disappointment.
Bently, Peter. Captain Jack and the Pirates. When brave mariners Jack, Zack, and Caspar build a galleon then set off on an imaginary adventure at sea, they face pirates, a storm, and a shipwreck.
Bunting, Eve. Pirate Boy. As Colin imagines himself in a series of adventures beginning with joining a pirate crew, his mother assures him that she will always be there to help if he needs her.
Demas, Corinne. Are Pirates Polite? In rhyming text, this story demonstrates that even pirates can be polite, and say “please” and “thank you.
Duddle, Jonny. The Pirate Cruncher. A mysterious old pirate lures a group of rowdy sailors to an island with buried treasure, but there is a surprise awaiting them when they get there.
Faulkner, Matt. The Pirate Meets the Queen. When the son of notorious Irish pirate queen Granny O’Malley is captured by the English, Granny tries to meet with Queen Elizabeth I to negotiate for his freedom.
Funke, Cornelia Caroline. Pirate Girl. Ferocious Captain Firebeard thinks that he and his band of ruthless pirates rule the high seas. But Firebeard’s crew meet their match when they kidnap a girl named Molly.
Helquist, Brett. Roger, the Jolly Pirate. Roger was a lousy pirate because he knew very little about ships and never struck fear in the heart of any sailor, until one day when his shipmates were in grave danger while he was below decks baking a cake.
Kargman, Jill. Pirates & Princesses. Ivy and Fletch have been best friends since they were born but now, at age five, the boys in their kindergarten play Pirates at recess while the girls play Princesses, and the duo is split apart.
Leuck, Laura. I Love My Pirate Papa. A pirate’s son shares the things he loves about his father, including climbing the mast together to yell “Land ho” and sharing the booty when they find buried treasure.
Long, Melinda. How I Became a Pirate. Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.
Long, Melinda. Pirates Don’t Change Diapers. Braid Beard and his pirate crew return to retrieve the treasure they buried in Jeremy Jacob’s backyard, but first they must help calm his baby sister, Bonney Anne, whom they awoke from her nap.
Murray, Diana. Ned the Knitting Pirate. Ned is a pirate whose fondness for knitting annoys his captain – until one of Ned’s knitted blankets saves the ship from a sea monster.
Peet, Mal. The Treasure of Pirate Frank. A boy and his dog set sail in search of treasure, braving stormy seas, snowy mountains, and other challenging obstacles, before finally reaching the end of their quest for the treasure of Pirate Frank.
Prince, April Jones. Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates. While pirates Papa, Mama, and Baby are away from their seaworthy sloop, Goldenlocks comes aboard and makes herself useful.
Rex, Michael. You Can Do Anything, Daddy. After receiving assurances that his father would save him from increasingly dangerous and scary pirates, a boy reassures his father in return.
Rosenthal, Mark. Archie and the Pirates. When Archie the monkey finds himself on a strange island, he makes a multitude of new friends who help him defend their home from intruding pirates.
Smith, Danna. Pirate Nap: A Book of Colors. Two brothers use their imaginations to turn their surroundings – from a white bandana and yellow coins to a red blanket and even their baby sister, into a colorful pirate adventure before naptime.
Sobel, June. Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC. Having decided that R is not enough for them, a bumbling band of pirates sets sail on a quest to capture the rest of the alphabet.
Soman, David. The Amazing Adventures of Bumblebee Boy. As imaginary superhero Bumblebee Boy, Sam rejects his pesky little brother’s help in defeating pirates, dragons, and saber-toothed lions, but when Sam comes up against some scary aliens, he discovers the advantage of having a sidekick.
Sturges, Philemon. This Little Pirate. Two bands of pirates fight over a box, but when they raise the white flag and open the box together, they find a treasure to share.
Teague, Mark. The Pirate Jamboree. Pirates Blackbeard Johnson and his brothers, Eye-patch Sue, and others sail over to Peg Leg Jones’ for a happily chaotic pirate jamboree–until the S.S. Clean Your Room (otherwise known as Mrs. Jones) arrives and playtime is definitely over.
Winters, Kari-Lynn. Best Pirate. When Augusta the dog pirate accidentally destroys a treasure map and injures her first mate, she sets out for Crossbones Island without any guidance and must face the Tuna Lubbers’ crew of pirate cats that is also searching for treasure.
Illustrated Literature
Harrison, David L. Pirates. In 20 poems, this book tells the true stories of what a pirate’s life was really like.
Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta. The Pirate Princess. Tired of the royal life, Princess Bea boards a pirate ship and sets out for adventure on the high seas but soon finds she is not good at swabbing decks, cooking in the galley, or keeping watch from the crow’s nest.
Kimmel, Eric A. Blackbeard’s Last Fight. In 1718, off the coast of North Carolina, a young cabin boy assists in the final capture and execution of Blackbeard the pirate.
Winstanley, Nicola. The Pirate’s Bed. Separated from the smelly feet and scratchy wool of a pirate’s ship by a great storm, a ship’s bed floats in the water, making friends with gulls and dolphins and basking in the sun before realizing that something is missing.
Beginning Readers
Cannon, A.E. Let the Good Times Roll with Pirate Pete. Pirate Pete and Pirate Joe visit the Pirate Queen and have fun playing games and going to Disco Dan’s House of Pins until it is bedtime and the Pirate Queen becomes just their mother once again.
Delacre, Lulu. Rafi and Rosi: Pirates! Rafi and Rosi, two curious tree frogs, explore Puerto Rico’s El Morro Fort, where they pretend to be pirates in battle, find pirate treasure, and discover a haunted sentry box.
Kann, Victoria. Pinkalicious and the Pirates. When Pinkalicious and Peter go to the hidden cove to meet their friend Aqua, a mini-mermaid, they see pirates instead.
Laurence, Daniel. Captain and Matey Set Sail. Despite their frequent disagreements, two pirates share many adventures.
Lock, Deborah. Pirate Attack! Provides an overview of pirates, describing how they lived, the ships they lived on, and the weapons they used.
Scarry, Richard. Pie Rats Ahoy! Uncle Willy uses a clever disguise to save his boat from a gang of pirates and make Busytown Bay safe again.
Fiction
Bailey, Linda. Seven Dead Pirates. When painfully shy Lewis and his family move into his great-grandfather’s dilapidated seaside mansion, he discovers he’s sharing his room with seven rowdy pirate ghosts, who expect Lewis to help them retake their ship, now stored in a local museum.
Bondor-Stone, Annabeth. The Pirate Who’s Afraid of Everything.Shivers, the pirate who’s afraid of everything, battles a giant squid, discovers hidden treasures, and gets pooped on by a pigeon to save his parents from the clutches of evil.
Funke, Cornelia Caroline. The Pirate Pig. On Butterfly Island, sailor Stout Sam and his deckhand Pip must rescue their treasure-sniffing pig from nasty pirate Barracuda Bill.
Kidd, Rob. The Coming Storm. (Series) Teenage stowaway Jack Sparrow and his band of hoodlums are on a mission to find the legendary Sword of Cortes which will grant them unimaginable power, but first they have to survive the power of the sea, vicious pirates, and ancient curses. (JPB Kid)
LaReau, Kara. The Jolly Regina. Meet Jaundice and Kale Bland, two sisters who avoid excitement at any cost. One day, the Bland sisters are kidnapped by an all-female band of pirates. They’re unwillingly swept into a high-seas romp that might just lead to solving the mystery of what happened to their missing parents.
Mabbitt, Will. The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones. Mabel Jones finds herself aboard the Feroshus Maggot – a ship crewed by the strangest bunch of pirates you’d (never) want to meet. She then has to find pieces of an X-shaped puzzle that in her hands could be her ticket home, but in the hands of Captain Split, they’d give him the power to assemble a pirate militia to take over London!
Meisel, Peter. Stinky Spike the Pirate Dog. When Spike finds himself adrift at sea he is rescued by a crew of surly pirates, who spend their days hunting for treasure. Spike knows that he was meant to sniff out treasure, but his sense of smell leads him to some unusual treasure.
Pryor, Bonnie. Captain Hannah Pritchard: The Hunt for Pirate Gold. Still disguised as a boy, now-seventeen-year-old Hannah Pritchard and her crew aboard the ship Hannah carry out missions for the Continental navy while searching for lost pirate treasure and trying to evade an evil pirate captain.
Schulz, Heidi. The Pirate Code. Fresh off her victory over the Neverland crocodile, Jocelyn Hook and her pirate crew hunt for Captain Hook’s hidden treasure.
Schulz, Heidi. Hook’s Revenge. Captain Hook’s swashbuckling daughter must avenge her infamous father’s death at the jaws of the Neverland crocodile.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate’s fortune.
Non-Fiction
Non-fiction books about pirates are located in the J 910.45 section.
Picture Books
Allen, Joy. Princess Party. A princess can be pretty in pink, green or red, in jeans or a dress, with either boots or high heels, defend her castle or dance at the ball, because she is an incredible girl.
Allen, Joy. Princess Palooza. Six imaginative little girls spend a day having fun together at a princess-themed playground.
Andrews, Julie. The Very Fairy Princess. Despite her scabby knees and dirty fingernails, Geraldine knows that she is a princess inside and shows it through her behavior at home and in school.
Auch, Mary Jane. The Princess and the Pizza. An out-of-work princess applies to become the bride of Prince Drupert, but first she must pass several tests, including a cooking contest.
Bateman, Teresa. The Princesses Have a Ball. In this rhyming update of the fairy tale of the “Twelve Dancing Princesses,” twelve princesses wear out their shoes playing basketball.
Beaton, Kate. The Princess and the Pony. Princess Pinecone would like a real war horse for her birthday, instead of which she gets a plump, cute pony – but sometimes cuteness can be a kind of weapon, especially in a fight with dodgeballs and spitballs and hairballs and squareballs.
Bone, Jeffrey. Not Every Princess. Activities are listed that are stereotypically, but not always, attributed to princesses, fairies, pirates, superheroes, and more. Readers are encouraged to imagine what one could be, despite others’ expectations.
Brownlee, Sophia Grace. Tea Time with Sophia Grace and Rosie. Cousins Sophia Grace and Rosie plan a princess tea party, with invitations and costumes.
Calvert, Pam. Princess Peepers. When the other princesses make fun of her for wearing glasses, Princess Peepers vows to go without, but after several mishaps – one of which is especially coincidental – she admits that she really does need them if she wants to see.
Clarkson, Stephanie. Sleeping Cinderella and other Princess Mix-ups. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel are all unhappy, but when they decide to switch places for a day each discovers what she likes – and what she can change – about her own life.
Coh, Smiljana. Princesses on the Run. Feeling bored despite having pretty dresses, trendy toys, and a friendly elephant companion, Princess Antonia decides to run away and shares an unexpected adventure with friends Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.
Coyle, Carmela LaVigna. Do Princesses Really Kiss Frogs?A young girl takes a hike with her father, asking many questions along the way about what princesses do.
Cuyler, Margery. Princess Bess Gets Dressed. A fashionably dressed princess reveals her favorite clothes at the end of a busy day.
Dale, Penny. Princess, Princess. A young princess and her friends sleep under the spell of a fairy she forgot to invite to her birthday party, until someone comes along to awaken them.
Edwards, Pamela Duncan. Princess Pigtoria and the Pea. To make her pigsty of a palace picturesque again, penniless Princess Pigtoria tries to get the pompous porker Prince Proudfoot to propose marriage.
Emmett, Johnathon. The Princess and the Pig. When a new baby princess accidentally changes places with a piglet, both of their lives are forever changed.
Falconer, Ian. Olivia and the Fairy Princesses.Olivia is having an identity crisis! There are too many ruffly, sparkly princesses around these days, and Olivia has had quite enough. She needs to stand out! She has to be special! What will she be? Join Olivia on a hilarious quest for individuality in this latest book of the OLIVIA series, and rest assured, you won’t find THIS pig in pink!”
Gow, Nancy. Ten Big Toes and a Prince’s Nose. A lovely princess with enormous feet and a charming prince with a huge nose meet on a ski lift and, while their flaws are hidden, fall in love.
Greenawalt, Kelly. Princess Truly in my Magical, Sparkling Curls. When Princess Truly believes in herself, her curls begin to shine and can magically transport her to the distant past, on an underwater adventure, or to Mars.
Hart, Caryl. The Princess and the Giant. When Princess Sophie cannot get any sleep because of the noisy giant above her, she climbs a beanstalk to see if she can solve the problem.
Heide, Florence Parry. Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated). Princess Hyacinth is bored and unhappy sitting in her palace every day because, unless she is weighed down by specially-made clothes, she will float away, but her days are made brighter when kite-flying Boy stops to say hello.
Heos, Bridget. Who Wants to be a Princess? What it was really like to be a medieval princess.
Hoffman, Mary. Princess Grace. Grace wants to participate in her community festival’s princess float, but first she must decide what sort of a princess she wants to be–from an African princess in kente cloth robes to a floaty pink fairy tale princess.
Holabird, Katharine. Angelina and the Princess. Angelina is too sick to dance well during the tryouts for the lead in the “Princess of Mouseland” ballet, but when the leading ballerina sprains her foot, Angelina is ready to prove she is still the best dancer of all.
Howland, Naomi. Princess Says Goodnight. Rhyming text presents what a princess might do between leaving the ball and saying goodnight.
Joosse, Barbara M. Lovabye Dragon. When a lonely dragon follows a trail of princess tears, a beautiful friendship is born. They march and sing, roar and whisper, hide and seek, then settle into snug companionship at bedtime.
Kann, Victoria. Pinkalicious. A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
Kargman, Jill. Pirates & Princesses. Ivy and Fletch have been best friends since they were born but now, at age five, the boys in their kindergarten play Pirates at recess while the girls play Princesses, and the duo is split apart.
Katz, Karen. Princess Baby. A little girl wants to be called by her “real” name, Princess Baby, instead of the other nicknames her parents have for her. (Board Book)
Kleven, Elisa. The Paper Princess. A little girl makes a picture of a princess that comes to life and is carried off by the wind.
Kuipers, Alice. Violet and Victor Write the Most Fabulous Fairy Tale. Twins Violet and Victor write a fairy tale together, with Violet contributing a castle, a princess, and unicorns and Victor adding a fairy tale-hating witch and a bevy of Australian animals.
Lum, Kate. Princesses Are Not Just Pretty. When Princesses Mellie, Allie, and Libby begin to argue about which princess is the prettiest, they decide to hold a contest. But of course, the girls get side-tracked helping others on their way to the contest leaving Princess Mellie as the muddiest, Princess Allie as the yuckiest, and Princess Libby as the drippiest. But due to their kindness, the princesses win in the end.
Mayhew, James. Ella Bella Ballerina and Cinderella. After ballet class, Ella Bella listens to the music from the Cinderella ballet and is transported into the story.
McKenzie, Heath. My Rules for being a Pretty Princess. When a girl who wants nothing more than to be a pretty princess finds out exactly what that entails, she rewrites the rules to suit her style.
Miura, Taro. The Big Princess. When the king and queen find a very tiny princess in their garden, they adopt her and make a bed for her from a feather, but the girl begins to grow so much that she needs a new bed every night, and eventually gets too big for the castle itself.
Orr, Wendy. The Princess and Her Panther. A brave princess and a panther who tries to be brave cross the desert together and settle into a red silk tent, in which they listen to “leaf-snakes,” an “owl-witch,” and other frightening creatures until the princess frightens them away.
Portis, Antoinette. Princess Super Kitty. Maggie, a little girl with a huge imagination, becomes a cat, a superhero, a princess, and more in the course of a day.
Redmond, E.S. The Unruly Queen. Minerva Von Vyle has had fifty-two nannies in fifty-two weeks due to her terrible behavior, but when nanny number fifty-three offers to crown her the “Unruly Queen,” Minerva begins to have some doubts.
Sauer, Tammi. Princess in Training. Viola is a skateboarding, karate-chopping, moat-diving princess, to the distress of her parents, and so she accepts an invitation to Princess Camp, hoping to become the “darling of her kingdom.”
Schneider, Josh. Princess Sparkle-Heart gets a Makeover. Amelia and her best friend, Princess Sparkle-Heart, do almost everything together, so when the Princess suffers an accident, Amelia’s mother puts her sewing box to good use and makes the doll better than ever.
Wilson, Henrik. The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas. Prince Henrik makes a plan to find a wife who is nothing like his royal brother’s wife, who he thinks is too sensitive.
Beginning Readers
Andersen/Blackaby. The Princess and the Pea. By feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds, a girl proves that she is a real princess.
Benton, Lynne. The Sad Princess. The princess is so sad that no one can cheer her up, until two naughty monkeys come to the palace.
Disney Princesses. Various Titles. A collection of books featuring the Disney princesses.
Kann, Victoria. The Royal Tea Party (Pinkalicious).Pinkalicious throws a tea party to celebrate her crowning of Goldie as Princess Goldilicious, but when Peter has ideas of his own; the perfect party could be in jeopardy.
Illustrated Literature
Alley, Zoe B. There’s a Princess in the Palace. Cinderella, Snow White, and three other well-known princesses share a surprising connection in these fairy tale retellings presented in comic book format.
Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta. The Pirate Princess. Tired of the royal life, Princess Bea boards a pirate ship and sets out for adventure on the high seas but soon finds she is not good at swabbing decks, cooking in the galley, or keeping watch from the crow’s nest.
Don’t Kiss the Frog! Princess Stories with Attitude. Puts a twist on the classic fairy tale through a collection of six stories that features an array of spunky princesses who aren’t as eager to find a prince as they are to face down dragons and deal with whatever dangers come their way using their clever minds, quick wit, and unquestionable courage.
French, Vivian. The Most Wonderful Thing in the World. A retelling of a fairy tale follows a young man who becomes a princess’ unlikely suitor when the king and queen issue a decree that whoever presents them with the most wonderful thing in the world will win their daughter’s hand in marriage.
Gravett, Emily. Spells. A small green frog’s hilarious misadventures as he looks for his princess.
Lechermeier, Phillippe. The Secret Lives of Princesses. Exposes the hidden lives of such lesser-known figures as Princess Molly Coddle, Princess Miss Hap, and Princess Anne Phibian, revealing where they live, what they whisper about, and what sorts of pets they own.
Martin, Rafe. The Storytelling Princess. Having survived a shipwreck, a princess tries to tell a prince a story whose ending he does not know and thus qualify for his hand in marriage.
Noyes, Deborah. Red Butterfly: How a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk Out of China. In long-ago China, as a young princess prepares to leave her parents’ kingdom to travel to far-off Khotan where she is to marry the king, she decides to surreptitiously take with her a precious reminder of home.
Ray, Jane. The Apple-Pip Princess. In a land that has stood barren, parched by drought and ravaged by frosts since the Queen’s death, the King sets his three daughters the task of making the kingdom bloom again, and discovers that sometimes the smallest things can make the biggest difference.
Sorensen, Margot. Ambrose and the Princess. At Christmastime, Ambrose the mouse hides in unhappy Princess Eleanor’s silken purse, hoping to discover what will make her happy.
Strauss, Linda Leopold. The Princess Gown. If the wedding dress young Hanna’s family is making is not chosen for the princess, they will go to the poor house but thanks to Hanna’s sharp eyes and artistic ability, her father stands a very good chance of becoming Embroiderer to the Princess.
Thurber, James. Many Moons. Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore’s wish for the moon.
Non-Fiction
Traditional princess tales are located in the non-fiction section between J 398.2 and J 398.24.
J 305.5 Lee. Lee, Sally. Princes and Princesses.
J 940.0992 Bre. Brewster, Hugh. To be a Princess: The Fascinating Lives of Real Princesses.
J 940.0992 Wil. Wilding, Valerie. Real Princesses: An Inside Look at Royal Life.
J 942.085 (Diana) Lab. Labrecque, Ellen. Who was Princess Diana?
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Picture Books
Balouch, Kristen. The Little, Little Girl with the Big, Big Voice. A little girl with a very loud voice has trouble finding a jungle friend to play with, until at last, she meets the one jungle animal whose roar is louder than hers!
Brett, Jan. The Umbrella. Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss seeing them even though they have an adventure with his umbrella.
Broach, Elise. Gumption! When Peter goes on an African adventure with his beloved Uncle Nigel, who hopes to spot a rare gorilla, the oblivious Nigel urges Peter on by telling him to have gumption, while Peter keeps his eyes open and uses his ingenuity.
Carle, Eric. “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” Said the Sloth. Challenged by the other jungle animals for its seemingly lazy ways, a sloth living in a tree explains the many advantages of his slow and peaceful existence.
Cherry, Lynne. The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest. The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.
Derrick, David G. I’m the Scariest Thing in the Jungle. A bengal tiger cub and little crocodile vie for bragging rights about who is the scariest animal in their Indian jungle.
Donaldson, Julia. Where’s My Mom? A butterfly tries to help a lost young monkey find its mother in the jungle, meeting many different animals along the way.
Freedman, Claire. Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones. As night falls in the jungle, all sorts of animals settle down to sleep.
Jan. Way Up High in a Tall Green Tree. A girl climbs a tree in the rainforest saying goodnight to all the creatures, but it is really her bunkbed as she settles down with all her stuffed animals.
Kim, Han-Min. Tiptoe Tapirs. Tapir and Little Tapir are the quietest creatures in a very noisy jungle, but when a leopard is threatened by a hunter they teach him how to move with a very soft step, and the other animals follow suit.
Krebs, Laurie. We’re Roaming in the Rainforest: An Amazon Adventure. Rhyming verse describes the activities of many of the creatures that inhabit the Amazon rainforest. Includes facts about the animals in the book and about the Amazon River and rainforest.
McKee, David. Elmer and the Monster. There is pandemonium in the jungle. A strange roaring sounds sends the animals stampeding, convinced it’s a monster. But all is not as it seems. Only Elmer the patchwork elephant is brave enough to investigate, and what he discovers comes as quite a surprise.
McMullan, Kate. Mama’s Kisses. A mother panda bear, elephant, leopard and orangutan follow their rambunctious little ones through the jungle as they try to corral them for bedtime.
Mitchell, Susan K. The Rainforest Grew All Around. Imaginations will soar from the forest floor, up through the canopy and back down again, following the circle of life in this clever adaptation of the song The Green Grass Grew All Around.
Murguia, Bethany Deeney. Cockatoo, Too. When two cockatoos meet two other cockatoos and two toucans, all the birds of the jungle put on tutus to find out if they can can-can.
Parachini, Jodie. The Snake who Said Shhh. When little Seth the snake is born he cannot bear the noises that all the jungle animals make, and when his mother urges him to speak, the only thing he wants to say is “Shhh.”
Robinson, Michele. What to do if an Elephant Stands on Your Foot. Advises the reader on how to handle encounters with various animals in the jungle, where a mistake while avoiding one can attract the attention of another.
Sandall, Ellie. Follow Me! After they wake up, a group of lemurs follow their leader on a trek through the jungle and find things to munch, climb, hunt, chase, scare, and race.
Smith, Lane. There is a TRIBE of KIDS. Simple text follows a young boy and the many animals he meets on his adventure through the jungle.
Beginning Readers
Berger, Laura. Diego Saves a Butterfly. Diego and Baby Jaguar help a Blue Morpho butterfly return to the rain forest, in a book where pictures replace specific words.
Bergen, Laura. The Rainforest Race. Today is the Rainforest Race! The winner will get a big, blue ribbon. Who will win the race?
Cazet, Denys. The Shrunken Head. As Barney continues to recover from the chicken pox, Grandpa tells him the story of how Dr. Storkmeyer’s head was shrunk during a jungle expedition.
Dorling. Jungle Animals. Introduces animals that live in the jungle, discussing how they move, find food, and different physical characteristics.
Johanasen, Heather. About the Rain Forest. Offers side-by-side text for adult and child, as well as photographs of the rain forest and its plants and inhabitants, including lemurs, marmosets, and water lilies.
Lewin, Ted. Can You See Me? Various rain forest animals show how their camouflage helps them blend into their environment.
Lloyd, Jennifer. Murilla Gorilla, Jungle Detective. Jungle detective Murilla Gorilla has to find out who stole Ms. Chimpanzee’s muffins, and, even though Murilla appears to be disorganized and forgetful, she has a good idea about how to track down the thief.
Matthews, Rupert. Rain Forest Explorer. Zoe, an adventurous young explorer, traces her journey through the Amazon to her Uncle Renaldo’s rain forest research station, a trip on which she learns about the various people and animals who call the region home.
Pipe, Jim. Jungle Animals. Illustrates the different types of animals that live in the jungle, such as a lion, gorilla, elephant, monkey, snake, and parrot.
Fiction
Breitrose, Prudence. Mouse Mission. When a timber company threatens to cut down the rainforest on the island of Marisco, Megan’s mom leads the effort to save it, with the help of the Mouse Nation. The mission takes the family (and mice) to England, where the trail leads to a duke’s palacefull of dangerous humans–and helpful British mice.
Disney. The Jungle Book. The adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by animals in the Indian jungle.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story. Presents three adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle, including “Mowgli’s brothers,” Kaa’s hunting,” and “Tiger! Tiger!”
London, C. Alexander. We Dine with Cannibals. All eleven-year-old twins Oliver and Celia Navel want to do is watch television, but their explorer father takes them in search of El Dorado, the Lost City of Gold, and their long-lost mother.
Mikaelsen, Ben. Jungle of Bones. When sullen teenager Dylan Barstow is caught joyriding in a stolen car he is sent to his ex-Marine uncle for the summer, but soon they are on the way to Papua New Guinea in search of a World War II fighter plane and Dylan discovers that defiance is not asurvival skill when you are lost in a jungle.
Probst, Jeff. Stranded. (Series)Trapped for eleven days on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter and Vanessa must venture deeper into the jungles of the island, where they discover a secret and find danger at every turn.
Westerfeld, Scott. Horizon. When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds–the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.
Nonfiction
A large selection of Non-Fiction about the Rain Forest and Jungle can be found in the following locations:
574.5264
577.34
578.734
591.734
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Great books to try if you liked…..
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
I Spy by Jean Marzollo
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell.
Wonder by R.J Palacio.
If you liked … Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Angleberger, Tom. Origami Yoda. (Series – 1st book is The Strange Case of Origami Yoda) Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. (J FIC Ang)
Amato, Mary. Our Teacher is a Vampire and Other (not) True Stories. A notebook that is passed from student to student around a classroom becomes a repository for wild rumors, heartfelt confessions, and creative writing and helps the students cope when their teacher has medical emergency and they must cope with a rigid substitute as they worry about their beloved teacher and her family. (J FIC Ama)
Barnet, Mac. The Terrible Two. When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local, mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen. (J FIC Bar)
Benton, Jim. Dear Dumb Diary. (Series – 1st book is Let’s Pretend this Never Happened). In her diary, middle school student Jamie Kelly describes her life at home and at school, including her attempts to triumph over her nemesis, the beautiful and popular Angeline. (J FIC Ben)
Benton, Kim. Franny K. Stein. (Series – 1st book is Lunch Walks among Us). Franny K. Stein is a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky and creepy, but when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments with fitting in–which works until a monster erupts from the trashcan. (J FIC Ben)
Cammuso, Frank. Knights of the Lunch Table. (Series – 1st book is The Dodgeball Chronicles) Arnie opens a mysterious locker at Camelot Middle School and ends up in a dodgeball game with the school bullies. (J COMIC Cam)
Child, Lauren. Clarice Bean. (Series – 1st book is Utterly Me, Clarice Bean) A girl describes the hectic life she leads among the members of her large family, and her search for a little peace and quiet. (J FIC Bea)
Clements, Andrew. Frindle. When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher’s love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. (J FIC Cle)
Fields, Bryan W. Lunchbox and the Aliens.Lunchbox is an ordinary basset hound until he is abducted by aliens, zapped by a mental enhancer, and sent back to convert Earth’s garbage into food–a task that would be easier if he had opposable thumbs, or at least tentacles. (J FIC Fie)
Greenwald, Tom. Charlie Joe Jackson (Series – 1st book is Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading).Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far. (J FIC Gre)
Griffiths, Andy. The 13-Story Treehouse. Follows the efforts of Andy and Terry to meet a latest book deadline despite numerous distractions in their sophisticated tree house home, including flying cats, giant bananas, and sea monsters pretending to be mermaids. (J FIC Gri)
Guibert, Emmanuel. Sardine in Outer Space. The Chief Executive Officer of the universe, Supermuscleman, is training all children to obey him. Only the space pirates aboard their ship the Huckleberry–Sardine, her cousin Louie, and her Uncle Yellow–can outwit him and his wicked plan. (J COMIC Gui)
Gutman, Dan. My Weird School.(Series – 1st book is Miss Daisy is Crazy) Miss Daisy’s unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J. (J FIC and JPB Gut)
Hale, Bruce. Prince of Underwhere. When Zeke, his twin sister Stephanie, their neighbor Hector, and Hector’s cat Fitz slide into the world of Underwhere, Zeke is hailed as a prince who will, according to an ancient prophecy, free the Undies from the evil UnderLord’s rule by finding and destroying his throne (J FIC Hal)
Holm, Jennifer. Babymouse. (Series – 1st book is Queen of the World). An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for an invitation to the most popular girl’s slumber party. (J COMIC Hol)
Holm, Jennifer. Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf: A Year told Through Stuff.The first year of middle school can be exciting, or scary, just ask Ginny. (J FIC Hol)
Ignatow, Amy. The Popularity Papers (Series – 1st book is Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang)Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook. (J FIC Ign).
Kerrin, Jessica Scott. Martin Bridge (Series – 1st book is Ready for Takeoff) In three short stories, Martin develops a crush on his new bus driver, takes care of his friend’s hamster with tragic results, and participates in a rocket exhibition that threatens a friendship. (J FIC Ker)
Klise, Kate. Regarding the Fountain. When the principal asks a fifth-grader to write a letter regarding the purchase of a new drinking fountain for their school, he finds that all sorts of chaos results. (J Fic and JPB Kli)
Mack, Jeff. Clueless McGee. (Series – 1st book is Clueless McGee) Through a series of letters to his father, a private investigator, fifth-grader PJ “Clueless” McGee tells of his efforts to discover who stole macaroni and cheese from the school cafeteria. (J FIC Mac)
McDonald, Megan. Stink. (Series – 1st book is The Incredible Shrinking Kid). The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents’ Day at school. (J Fic McD)
Nelson, Peter. Herbert’s Wormhole. When almost-sixth-grader Alex, a video game fanatic, is forced on a “playdate” with his neighbor Herbert, an inventor, the two travel to the twenty-second century and face off against aliens, who are not as beneficent as most people think. (J FIC Nel)
Pastis, Stephen. Timmy Failure. (Series – 1st book is Mistakes Were Made) Meet Timmy Failure, the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. And his lazy sidekick, total, a 1,500-pound polar bear. (J FIC Pas).
Paulsen, Gary. Lawn Boy.Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business. (J FIC Pau)
Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate. (Series – 1st book is In a Class by Himself) Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement. (J FIC Pei).
Pennypacker, Sara. Clementine. (Series 1st book is Clementine) While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building. (J FIC Pen)
Pennypacker, Sara. Stuart’s Cape and Stuart Goes to School. Worried about his first day at a new school, eight-year-old Stuart wears his magic cape and hopes that it will help him. (J FIC Pen).
Pichon, Liz. Tom Gates.(Series – 1st book is Brilliant World of Tom Gates) Irritating his teachers with his lack of focus and creative excuses, Tom Gates spends his time drawing pictures and writing down observations about everything from his grumpy sister and annoying classmate to an unsatisfying camping trip. (J FIC Pic)
Potter, Helen. Otis Dooda. (Series – 1st book is Strange but True) Everyday, nine-year-old Otis Dooda confronts a series of zany changes when his father’s new job prompts the family’s move to a New York City apartment, where Otis is cursed by a guy in a potted plant in their apartment building lobby and has to team up with a new friend and a gassy miniature horse to break the curse. (J FIC Pot)
Russel, Rachel Renee. Dork Diaries. (Series – 1st book Dork diaries: Tales from a Not-so-Fabulous Life) Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group. (J FIC Rus)
Sachar, Louis. Wayside School (Series – 1st book is Sideways Stories) Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. (JPB Sac)
Smallcomb, Pam. The Last Burp of Mac McGerp.Mac McGerp, winner of the Best Burper first prize at the Tri-county Fair, and his good friend, Lido, try to figure out how to deal with the new repressive school principal. (J FIC Sma)
Sonnenblick, Jordan. Dodger and Me. Miserable because his only friend moved away and he has once again caused his baseball team to lose a game, fifth-grader Willy Ryan’s life suddenly becomes a lot more interesting when he finds Dodger, a furry, blue chimpanzee that only he can see, and he has to decide what he really wishes for in life. (J FIC Son)
Stadler, Alexander. Julian Rodriguez. (Series – 1st book Julian Rodriguez. Episode 1. Trash Crisis on Earth) Eight-year-old Julian Rodriguez escapes from the crisis of the moment (being sent to his room for not taking out the trash) by imagining he is a space warrior. (J FIC Sta)
Trine, Greg. Melvin Beederman. (Series – 1st book is The Curse of the Bologna Sandwich) After graduating from the superhero academy, Melvin Beederman heads for Los Angeles, where he unexpectedly teams up with Candace Brinkwater, school play actress, to nab the evil McNasty Brothers. (J FIC and JPB Tri)
Trueit, Trudi. Secrets of a Lab Rat. (Series – 1st book is No Girls Allowed (Dogs OK)) Fearless nine-year-old “Scab” McNally tries to get his twin sister’s help in convincing their parents to let them get a dog, but when he embarrasses her in school with a particularly obnoxious invention, it looks like he has lost her cooperation forever. (J FIC Tru)
Whybrow, Ian. Little Wolf. (Series – 1st book is Little Wolf’s Book of Badness) Little Wolf has been behaving too courteously, so his parents send him to his uncle’s Big Bad Wolf school to learn to be a proper wolf. (J FIC Why)
Winkler Henry. Hank Zipzer. (Series – 1st book is Niagara Falls, or Does It?) Fourth-graders Hank, Ashley, and Frankie are excitedly preparing for a magic show at the Rock ‘N Bowl when Hank’s creative alternative to an English essay lands him in detention and grounded the week of the show. (J FIC and JPB Win)
If you liked…I Spy Series by Jean Marzollo
Rhyming text invites the reader to find hidden objects.
Chedru, Delphine. Spot It! Find the Hidden Creatures. (J PICTURE Che)
Michael Garland. Super Snow Day: Seek and Find. (J PICTURE Gar)
Hanford, Martin. Where’s Waldo? (J PBK Han) (Located on back wall by picture books)
Marks, Jennifer. School Times: A Spot-it Challenge. (J PICTURE Mar)
Steiner, Joan. “Look Alikes” series. (J PICTURE Ste)
If you liked…Captain Underpants by Dave Pilkey
When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
Applegate, Katherine. Roscoe Riley (Series – 1st book is Never Glue Your friends to Chairs) When the first-graders’ bee antennae would not stay on their heads and the drummers would not stay in their seats for the open house play, Roscoe decides to help by using the “don’t-you-dare” glue. (J FIC & JPB App)
Benton, Jim. Franny K. Stein. (Series – 1st book Lunch Walks Among Us) Franny K. Stein is a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky and creepy, but when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments with fitting in–which works until a monster erupts from the trashcan. (J Fic & JPB Ben)
Boniface, William. Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy. (Series – 1st book is The Hero Revealed). Ordinary Boy, the only resident of Superopolis without a superpower, uncovers and foils a sinister plot to destroy the town. (J FIC Bon)
Bruel, Nick. Bad Kitty. (Series – 1st book is called Bad Kitty) When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad. (J FIC Bru)
Guibert, Emmanuel. Sardine in Outer Space. (Series – 1st book is Sardine in Outer Space) The Chief Executive Officer of the universe, Supermuscleman, is training all children to obey him. Only the space pirates aboard their ship the Huckleberry–Sardine, her cousin Louie, and her Uncle Yellow–can outwit him and his wicked plan. (J COMIC Gui)
Kirby, Stan. Captain Awesome. (Series – 1st book Captain Awesome to the Rescue) When second-grader Eugene and his family move to a new neighborhood and he starts at a new school, he has a chance to bring out his superhero alter ego, Captain Awesome, to find the kidnapped class hamster. (J FIC Kir)
Krosoczka, Jarrett. Lunch Lady. (Series – 1st book Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Institute) The school lunch lady is a secret crime fighter who uncovers an evil plot to replace all the popular teachers with robots. (J COMIC Kro)
Scroggs, Kirk. Wiley and Grampa’s Creature Features. (Series – 1st book is Dracula vs. Grampa at the Monster Truck Spectacular.) When Grampa and Wiley sneak out of the house on a stormy Halloween night to attend Colonel Dracula’s Monster Truck Spectacular, they run into trouble from which only Gramma and an F5 tornado can save them. (J FIC Scr)
Simon, Francesca. Horrid Henry (Series – 1st book Horrid Henry) Horrid Henry causes his brother Perfect Peter all sorts of problems when he behaves properly for a change, upstages Peter at a dance recital, plays pirates, and goes on a camping trip. (J FIC Sim)
Stilton, Geronimo. Geronimo Stilton (Series – 1st book Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye) When Geronimo’s sister, Thea, discovers an old, mysterious map showing a secret treasure hidden on a faraway island, the gang of the “Rodent’s gazette” is dragged into a treasure hunt. (J FIC and J PBK Sti)
Trine, Greg. Melvin Beederman, Superhero. (Series – 1st book The Curse of the Bologna Sandwich) After graduating from the superhero academy, Melvin Beederman heads for Los Angeles, where he unexpectedly teams up with Candace Brinkwater, school play actress, to nab the evil McNasty Brothers. (J Fic & JPB Tri)
If you liked…Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan.
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Abbott, Tony. Copernicus Legacy. (Series – 1st book The Forbidden Stone.) Wade, Lily, Darrell, and Becca fly from Texas to Germany for the funeral of an old family friend. But instead of just paying their respects, they wind up on a dangerous, mind-blowing quest to unlock an ancient, guarded secret that could destroy the fate of the world. (J FIC Abb)
Armstong, Kelley. Loki’s Wolves. Matt Thorsen is a direct descendent of the order-keeping god Thor, and his classmates Fen and Laurie Brekke are descendants of the trickster god Loki. When Ragnarok–the apocalypse–threatens, the human descendants of the gods must fight monsters to stop the end of the world. (J FIC Arm)
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl (Series – 1st book is Artemis Fowl) When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll. (YA PBK Col)
Collins, Suzanne. Underland Chronicles. (Series – 1st book is Gregor the Overlander). When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. (J FIC Col)
DasGupta, Sayantani. The Serpent’s Secret. (Series, 1st book). Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary 6th grader in Parsippany, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen. Soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying) and cute princes, and somehow she must sort it out, find her parents, and save the world.
Fletcher, Charlie. Stoneheart Trilogy. (Series – 1st book is Stoneheart) When twelve-year-old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, England, he falls into a parallel dimension where he must battle ancient “live” statues and solve a dangerous riddle. (J FIC Fle)
Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart. (Series – 1st book is Inkheart) Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. (J FIC Fun)
Harris, Joanne. Runemarks. Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world. (YA FIC Har)
Hennessy, Carolyn. Mythic Misadventures. (Series – 1st book is Pandora Gets Angry) As Pandy, Iole, and Homer travel to Baghdad to seek another deadly evil–rage–they face a lethal sandstorm and worse, while Alcie is aided by Persephone, the queen of the underworld. (J FIC Hen)
Holub, Joan. Goddess Girls. (Series- 1st book is Athena the Brain) Athena learns that she is a goddess when she is summoned to Mount Olympus by her father, Zeus, and she must quickly adjust to her new status, make friends with the other godboys and goddessgirls, and catch up with all the studies she missed while attending mortal school. (JPB Hol)
Holub, Joan. Heroes in Training. (Series – 1st book is Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom) When ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped, he discovers he can defend himself with a magical thunderbolt. (J FIC Hol)
McMullan, Kate. Myth-o-Mania. (Series – 1st book is Have a Hot Time, Hades!) Think you know the real story behind the Greek myths? Think again.(JPB & J FIC McM)
Michael, Livi. City of Dogs. Jenny, a mysterious dog, shows up on Sam’s birthday and pulls many of the other dogs in the neighborhood into her quest to prevent the destruction of the world. (J FIC Mic)
O’Hearn, Kate. Pegasus. (Series – 1st book is The Flame of Olympus) Reborn as the Flame, thirteen-year-old Emily has saved Olympus from destruction but when the gruesome Nirads begin a new invasion, Emily and her friends become entangled in the conflict as old grudges are unearthed and new enemies are discovered. (J Fic O’He)
Scott, Michael. Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. (Series – 1st book is The Alchemyst) While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life. (YA FIC Sco)
Hunter, Erin. Warriors. (Series – 1st book is Into the Wild) As prophesied, a young house cat becomes an apprentice warrior in a clan of wild cats, where he faces many dangers and treachery both within and outside of his new clan. (J FIC & JPB Hun)
Ursu, Anne. Cronus Chronicles (Series – 1st book is The Shadow Thieves) After her cousin Zee arrives from England, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and he must set out to save humankind from denizens of the underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy named Phil. (J FIC Urs)
Yancey, Richard. Alfred Kropp. (Series – 1st book is The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp) by (book 1 of series) (YA Fic) Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil. (YAPB Yan)
Yep, Lawrence. City Trilogy. (Series – 1st book is City of Fire) Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian island created by magic, where they enlist the help of volcano goddess Pele in an attempt to stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the universe. (J FIC Yep)
If you liked … Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
Aiken, Joan. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Surrounded by villains of the first order, brave Bonnie and gentle cousin Sylvia conquer all obstacles in this Victorian melodrama. (J FIC Aik)
Alexander, Lloyd. Chronicles of Prydain. (Series – 1st book is The book of Three) Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil. (J FIC Ale)
Collins, Suzanne. Underland Chronicles. (Series – 1st book is Gregor the Overlander). When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. (J FIC Col)
Cooper, Susan. The Dark is Rising. (Series – 1st book is Over Sea, Under Stone) Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur. (J FIC Coo)
Downer, Ann. Hatching Magic. When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right. (J FIC Dow)
Flanagan, John. The Ranger’s Apprentice (Series – 1st book is The Ruins of Gorlan) When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger. (J FIC & JPB Fla)
Fletcher, Charlie. Stoneheart Trilogy. (Series – 1st book is Stoneheart) When twelve-year-old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, England, he falls into a parallel dimension where he must battle ancient “live” statues and solve a dangerous riddle. (J FIC Fle)
Gliori, Debi. Pure Dead Magic. (Series 1st book is Pure Dead Magic) When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and a giant tarantula use magic and actual trips through the Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle. (J FIC Gli)
Ibbotson, Eva. The Secret of Platform 13. Odge Gribble, a young hag, accompanies an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on their mission through a magical tunnel from their Island to London to rescue their King and Queen’s son who had been stolen as an infant. (J FIC Ibb)
Jones, Diana Wynne. Howl’s Moving Castle. Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl. (JPB Jon)
Juster, Norton. The Phantom Tollbooth. Milo, a young boy with little interest in anything, takes a trip through the Phantom Tollbooth to the Lands Beyond where he meets an enchanting cast of characters that teaches him the importance of words, numbers, ideas, creativity, and enthusiasm for life. (J FIC & JPB Jus)
Khan, Joshua. Shadow Magic. Thorn, a boy sold into slavery who must serve the royalty of Castle Gloom for a year and a day to earn his freedom, and Lilith Shadow, the 13-year-old ruler of Gehenna, who is forbidden to practice the magic that is her heritage, join forces to solve the murders taking place in Gehenna. (J FIC Kha)
Littlewood, Kathryn. Bliss. Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss wants to work magic in her family’s bakery as her parents do, but when they are called away and Rose and her siblings are left in charge, the magic goes awry and a beautiful stranger tries to talk Rose into giving her the BlissCookery Booke.
Mould, Chris. Something Wickedly Weird. (Series – 1st book The Wooden Mile) Eleven-year-old Stanley Buggle, happily anticipating a long summer vacation in the house he inherits from his great-uncle, discovers, soon after arriving in the seemingly peaceful village of Crampton Rock, that along with the house he has also inherited some sinister neighbors, a talking stuffed fish, and a host of mysteries surrounding his great-uncle’s death. (J FIC Mou)
Nimmo, Jenny. Children of the Red King. (Series – 1st book is Midnight for Charlie Bone) Charlie Bone’s life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking. (J FIC Nim)
Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson & The Olympians. (Series -1st book is The Lighting Thief). After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. (J FIC & JPB Rio)
Rodda, Emily. Fairy Realm. (Series – 1st book is The Charm Bracelet) by When Jessie searches for her ill grandmother’s missing charm bracelet, she is led to a magical world and finds she has a reason and right to be there. (J FIC Rod)
Sage, Angie. Septimus Heap. (Series 1st book is Magyk) After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412–pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier. (J FIC & JPB Sag)
Sanderson, Brandon. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. (Series – 1st book is Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians) by On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization. (J FIC San)
Stewart, Paul. Far Flung Adventures. (Series- 1st book is Fergus Crane) Nine-year-old Fergus Crane’s life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbors, and helping with his mother’s work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure. (J FIC Ste)
Townsend, Jessica. Nevermoor. (Series- 1st book is The Trials of Morrigan Crow) A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society (J FIC Tow)
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return. (J FIC Tol)
Vernon, Ursula. Dragonbreath. Danny Dragonbreath and his friend Wendell get an up-close underwater tour of the Sargasso Sea from Danny’s sea-serpent cousin, encountering giant squid and mako sharks and learning about standing up to bullies in the process.
If you liked … A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
Angleberger, Tom. Horton Halfpott, or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor, or, The Loosening of M’Lady Luggertuck’s Corset. Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady’s affections. (J FIC Ang)
Soup, Cuthbert. A Whole Nother Story. Ethan Cheeseman and his children, ages eight, twelve, and fourteen, hope to settle in a nice small town, at least long enough to complete work on a time machine, but spies and government agents have been pursuing them for two years and are about to catch up. (J FIC Sou)
Weiner, Ellie. The Templeton Twins. (Series – 1st book is The Templeton Twins Have an Idea) Abigail and John, the Templeton twins, and their dog Cassie, foil a pair of inept kidnappers intent on stealing one of their father’s newest inventions. (J FIC Wei)
Wood, Maryrose. Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place. (Series 1st book is The Mysterious Howling) Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball. (J FIC Woo)
If you liked … The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart.
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
Balliett, Blue. Chasing Vermeer. When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. (J FIC & JPB Blu)
Berlin, Eric. The Puzzling World of Winston Breen (Series 1st book is The Puzzling World of Winston Breen) Puzzle-crazy, twelve-year-old Winston and his ten-year-old sister Katie find themselves involved in a dangerous mystery involving a hidden ring. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text. (J FIC Ber)
Bosch, Pseudonymous. Secret.(Series – 1st book is The Name of This Book is Secret) Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality. (J FIC Bos)
Broach, Elise. Shakespeare’s Secret. Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school. (J FIC Bro)
Feldman, Jody. The Gollywhopper Games (Series – 1st book The Gollywhopper Games) Twelve-year-old Gil Goodson competes against thousands of other children at extraordinary puzzles, stunts, and more in hopes of a fresh start for his family, which has been ostracized since his father was falsely accused of embezzling from Golly Toy and Game Company. (J FIC Fel)
Forester, Victoria. The Girl Who Could Fly. When homeschooled farm girl Piper McCloud reveals her ability to fly, she is quickly taken to a secret government facility to be trained with other exceptional children, but she soon realizes that something is very wrong and begins working with brilliant and wealthy Conrad to escape. (J FIC For)
Hulme, John. The Glitch in Sleep. When twelve-year-old Becker Drane is recruited by The Seems, a parallel universe that runs everything in The World, he must fix a disastrous glitch in the Department of Sleep that threatens the ability of everyone to ever fall asleep again. (J FIC Hul)
Konigsberg, E. L. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. (JPB & J NEWBERY Kon)
Miller, Kirsten. Kiki Strike. (Series- 1st book is Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City) Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world. (J FIC Mil)
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. (JPB & J NEWBERY Ras)
Riordan, Rick. The 39 Clues. (Series 1st book is The Maze of Bones) by Dan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the thirty-nine clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family’s power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family. (J FIC Thi)
Stanley, Diane. The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy. Eighth-grader Franny and her friends investigate why most of the students at their exclusive boarding school are brilliant, beautiful, and perfectly behaved. (J FIC Sta)
Walden, Mark. H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education (Series – 1st book is H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education) Swept away to a hidden academy for training budding evil geniuses, Otto, a brilliant orphan, Wing, a sensitive warrior, Laura, a shy computer specialist, and Shelby, an infamous jewel thief, plot to beat the odds and escape the prison known as H.I.V.E. (J FIC Wal)
If you liked…Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell.
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
Barshaw, Ruth McNally. Ellie McDoodle. (Series – 1st book is Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel) Eleven-year-old Ellie McDoodle illustrates her sketchbook with chronicles of her adventures and mishaps while camping with her cousins, aunt, and uncle. (J FIC Bar)
Becker, Suzy. Kate the Great: Except When She’s Not. Fifth-grader Kate faces a challenge when her mother asks her to be especially nice to Nora, a classmate and fellow flute player who is sometimes mean. (J FIC Bec)
Benton, Jim. Dear Dumb Diary. (Series – 1st book is Let’s pretend This Never Happened). In her diary, middle school student Jamie Kelly describes her life at home and at school, including her attempts to triumph over her nemesis, the beautiful and popular Angeline. (J FIC Ben)
Holm, Jennifer L. Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff. The first year of middle school can be exciting, or scary, just ask Ginny. (J FIC Hol)
Ignatow, Amy. The Popularity Papers (Series – 1st book is Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang)Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook. (J FIC Ign).
Kinney, Jeff. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Series -1st book is Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal) Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship. (J FIC Kin)
McDonald, Megan. The Sisters Club. In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, including their long line of actor ancestors, creative family dinners, toe marshmallows, swearing in Shakespeare, and the Sisters Club. (J FIC Mcd)
Moss, Marissa. Amelia’s Notebook. (Series – 1st book is Amelia’s Notebook) The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl’s notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one. (J FIC Mos)
If you liked….Wonder by R.J. Palacio.
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Abbott, Tony. Firegirl. A middle school boy’s life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital. (J FIC Abb)
Angleberger, Tom. Origami Yoda. (Series – 1st book is The Strange Case of Origami Yoda) Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. (J FIC Ang)
Davis, Mandy. Superstar. Enrolling in public school after years of homeschooling, Lester, a mildly autistic fifth-grader, struggles to adapt and manage symptoms before becoming eager to win a science fair, discovering an unexpected truth along the way. (J FIC Dav)
Gantos, Jack. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired. (JPB Gan)
Graff, Lisa. Absolutely Almost. Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself. (J FIC Gra)
Palacio, R. J. Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories. These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie’s oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie’s new friend at school (J FIC Pal)
Spinelli, Jerry. Loser. Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Donald Zinkoff’s optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself. (J FIC Spi)
Yee, Lisa. Warp Speed. Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly-feared. (J Fic Yee)
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Abbott, Tony. The Great Jeff. Thirteen-year-old Jeff’s life spirals downward into homelessness after his alcoholic mother loses her job.
Adler, David. Cam Jansen. (Series)A series of books following the exploits of a fifth grade female detective named Jennifer “Cam” Jansen and her best friend Eric. Nicknamed Cam for her photographic memory, the protagonist closes her eyes and says “click” at various points in a story, mimicking the noise of a camera while memorizing a scene in front of her. She later recalls these scenes to aid in solving a mystery.
Alexander, Kwame. The Crossover. Newbery Award Winner.This novel in verse follows the experiences of twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan, who struggle with challenges on and off the court while their father ignores his declining health.
Alpine, Rachele. You Throw Like a Girl. Staying at her grandmother’s house while her father is deployed overseas, Gabby is disappointed when the girl’s softball season is cancelled, a situation that forces her to choose between fighting to get on the boys’ team and competing in a beauty pageant.
Angleberger, Tom. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future.
Bauer, Joan. Soar. Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
Blume, Judy. Blubber. Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it’s like when she, too, becomes a target.
Blume, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Peter, who is tired of having to keep mischievous two-year-old Fudge out of trouble, discovers that his pet turtle is missing.
Cheng, Jack. See You in the Cosmos. Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space.
Child, Lauren. Clarice Bean Spells Trouble. (Series)Clarice Bean, aspiring actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she attempts to help a friend in need by following the rules of the fictional, “exceptionordinarily” spy, Ruby Redfort.
Clarke, Cat. The Pants Project. Eleven-year-old Liv fights to change the middle school dress code requiring girls to wear a skirt and, along the way, finds the courage to tell his moms he is meant to be a boy.
Cleary, Beverly. Dear Mr. Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever.
Cleary, Beverly. Ramona. (Series)Ramona Quimby has a knack for getting into trouble, whether it’s dropping out of kindergarten, squeezing a tube of toothpaste down a sink, or cracking a hard-boiled egg on her head to show off (only to find her mom forgot to boil it).
Clements, Andrew. Lunch Money. Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
Connor, Leslie. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook. Born and raised in a prison where is mother is incarcerated, Perry T. Cook is taken to live with a foster family, where he feels trapped and out of place, and works to find a way to be reunited with his mother.
Creech, Sharon. Moo. Follows the efforts of twelve-year-old Reena, who has recently moved to rural Maine, to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow.
Dahl, Roald. Danny, Champion of the World. A motherless boy, who lives in a gypsy caravan behind his father’s filling station, records the adventures he shares with his beloved parent.
Davies, Jacqueline. The Lemonade War. (Series)Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn one hundred dollars.
Dee, Barbara. Star-Crossed. When Mattie is cast as Romeo in an eighth-grade play, she is confused to find herself increasingly attracted to Gemma, a new classmate who is playing Juliet.
DiCamillo, Kate. Raymie Nightingale. Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet the Spy. Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.
Gerber, Alyson. Focused. Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to notice and make fun of her. When her worried parents take her to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD.
Graff, Lisa. The Great Treehouse War. Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
Kelly, Lynne. Song for a Whale. Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris’s plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
King, Wesley. OCDaniel. A thirteen-year-old boy’s life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything.
Kinney, Jeff. Diary of a Wimpy Kid. (Series) Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Kline, Christina Baker. Orphan Train Girl. Presents a young reader’s version of a story in which Molly, close to aging out of the foster care system, takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
Korman, Gordon. Slacker. When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming–but before he knows it other kids are takingit seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or not.
Lowry. Gooney Bird. (Series)There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot t-shirt and tutu on another?
Lupica, Mike. Last Man Out. Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
Marcionette, Jake. Just Jake. (Series) Jake and his family have moved to a new state and now Jake must start at the bottom of the social ladder, but he is determined to make friends and get back on top with his box of “kid cards.”
McDonald, Megan. Judy Moody. (Series) Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.
O’Connor, Barbara. Wish. A story about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers that family doesn’t always have to be related–they are simply people who love you for who you are.
O’Connor, Jane. Nancy Clancy. (Series) This is a series of chapter books that feature an older Nancy Clancy from the Fancy Nancy series. She is now in third grade and she and her friend Bree fancy themselves detectives, like their fictional hero, Nancy Drew.
Palacio, R.J. Wonder. Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates.
Patterson, James. Jacky Ha-Ha. Twelve-year-old Jacky “Ha-Ha” Hart is a class clown with a penchant for pranking–and when she’s required to act in the school play to appease her frustrated teachers, she must conquer her stutter.
Pennypacker, Sara. Clementine. Armed with attitude, individuality, and a penchant for disaster, Clementine, a wonderfully wacky girl who is the inventor of the world’s first pair of bologna glasses, makes her first appearance in this hilarious chapter book.
Pennypacker, Sara. Pax. After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back.
Pla, Sally J. The Someday Birds. Charlie, twelve, who has autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, must endure a cross-country trip with his siblings and a strange babysitter to visit their father, who will undergo brain surgery.
Ramée, Lisa. A Good Kind of Trouble. After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.
Russell, Rachael Renee. Misadventures of Max Crumbly. (Series) Questioning his resolve to attend public school after being homeschooled when he is targeted by a bully, Max aspires to become like his favorite comic book heroes and finds an unexpected opportunity to be the hero his middle school needs.
Sacher, Louis. Holes. Newbery Award Winner. As further evidence of his family’s bad fortune attributed to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a horrible correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Sloan, Holly Goldberg. Short. Very short for her age, Julia grows into her sense of self while playing a munchkin in a summer regional theater production of The Wizard of Oz.
Standiford, Natalie. The Only Girl in School. In a story told in letters, when Claire’s best friend moves away just before the start of fifth grade, Claire becomes the only girl in her tiny island elementary school–and suddenly boys she has been friends with her whole life turn into resentful, bullying strangers.
Stone, Phoebe. Paris for Two. Twelve-year-old Petunia is used to living in the shadow of her fourteen-year-old half-sister, Ava, their mother’s favorite, but now that the whole family has moved to Paris for a year, Pet finds herself stepping into the light, making new friends, uncovering secrets, and, inspired by the classic French dolls she has found, revealing an unexpected talent for designing dresses–and her beautiful sister does not take it well.
Sumner, Jamie. Roll With It. Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer’s Disease.
Weeks, Sarah. Save Me a Seat. Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems–but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Harbor Me. When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they’re together, it’s safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world.
Yang, Kelly. Front Desk. Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang’s parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them.
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Picture Books
Balmes, Santi. I Will Fight Monsters for You. Two little girls–one human and the other a monster–are afraid to go to sleep for fear of what’s living under their beds.
Berenstain, Stan. The Berenstain Bears Go on a Ghost Walk. (Holiday) Papa Bear is enthused about preparing for Bear Country School’s Halloween Ghost Walk, but learns that “one person’s fun is another person’s nightmare.”
Bruel, Nick. Bad Kitty, Scaredy-Cat. (Holiday) Bad Kitty is frightened by the creatures on Halloween, but when she sees all the holiday treats she decides to be a very bad kitty and chases the scary creatures away.
Docherty, Thomas. Big Scary Monster. Big Scary Monster is one misunderstood beastie. He loves to jump out and surprise his friends, but he’s not mean, really. Yet when his friends start hiding from him, he decides to look for new creatures to frighten, only to wind up finding out he’s a bit of a scaredy-cat himself!
Galbraith, Kathryn Osebold. Boo, Bunny! (Holiday) Two small bunnies face their fears while trick-or-treating on Halloween night.
Jenkins, Emily. The Fun Book of Scary Stuff. A little boy tells his two dogs about all the things that scare him.
Shae, Bob. The Scariest Book Ever. (Holiday) This is the scariest book ever! Or so claims its melodramatic ghost narrator. You can go ahead and turn the page, but don’t expect him to come with you. He is a big scaredy-cat!
Taylor, Sean. I Want to Be in a Scary Story. Monster wants to be in a scary story, so the narrator provides a story with scary forests, spooky houses, ghosts, and witches.
Wilson, Karma. Bear Feels Scared. Bear’s animal friends come to his rescue when he becomes lost and frightened in the woods.
Beginning Readers
Cushman, Doug. Dirk Bones and the Mystery of the Haunted House. (Series) “Daily Tombs” newspaper reporter Dirk Bones, who also happens to be a skeleton, investigates when a family of ghosts fears that they are being haunted.
Cazet, Denys. Minnie and Moo and the Haunted Sweater. (Series) Minnie and Moo want to give special presents to the Farmer for his birthday, but something goes awry when Moo knits him a sweater.
Schwartz, Alvin. In a Dark, Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories. Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries.
Thiesing, Lisa. A Dark and Noisy Night: A Silly Thriller with Peggy the Pig. (Holiday) Seeing things at the window and hearing creaks on the staircase, Peggy the Pig is quite frightened when she hears a knock at the door.
VanLeeuwen, Jean. Amanda the Pig and the Awful Scary Monster. Amanda the pig sees monsters at night, but her parents and her brother find different ways to convince her that there are no monsters.
Fiction
Adler, David A. Cam Jansen and the Ghostly Mystery. Cam uses her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost.
Alllison, Jennifer. Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator. (Series) During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion’s boarded-up tower.
Arnold, Louise. Golden & Grey. (Series) When the television show “Exceedingly Haunted Homes of England” hears rumors of ghosts at Tom Golden’s school, he and his “invisible friends” must track down some ghosts that have turned visible in order to restore the balance between the ghost and human worlds.
Buckley, Michael. The Sisters Grimm. (Series) Two sisters, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, are sent to live with their eccentric grandmother and discover that the characters in many old folktales are real.
Delaney, Joseph. The Last Apprentice. (Series) Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from “ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties.”
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Gutman, Dan. Miss Mary is Scary! When a British student-teacher arrives, A. J. and his friends wonder if her all-black clothing and love of blood sausage mark her as a vampire, while Mr. Granite simply hopes her musician-boyfriend will stay away long enough for a math lesson.
Harper, Suzanne. The Unseen World of Poppy Malone. (Series) Eleven-year-old Poppy’s parents are paranormal investigators who have never actually found anything, but that may change when they move to Austin, Texas, and Poppy meets a goblin in the attic of their new house.
Polacco, Patricia. The Graves Family. When the spooky Graves family moves to town and tries to fit in with the “normal” residents of Union City, everyone is in for a few surprises.
Half. Half-Minute Horrors. An anthology of very short, scary stories by an assortment of authors and illustrators including Chris Raschka, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos, and Lane Smith.
San Souci, Robert. Haunted Houses. Presents ten horror tales about various types of haunted houses, including a mansion with a pirate looking for his head, a dollhouse inhabited by a ghost, and a vacation house with people-eating spiders.
Non-Fiction
001 – 001.95 UFO’s, Mysteries, Monsters.
398.2 – 398.469 Legends, Folktales, Fairy Tales, Myths
808 – 808.8 Poetry, Rhymes and How to Write
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Picture Books
Duffield, Katy. Aliens Get the Sniffles Too! When Little Alien is sick, Mama and Daddy alien use an arsenal of lunar decongestants and meteor showers to make him feel a little better.
Gall, Chris. NanoBots. A young inventor accidentally creates a group of tiny robots that employ their unique abilities and teamwork to become incredibly useful–and maybe even change the world. Includes author’s note on the science and uses of nano-robotics.
Grey, Mini. Toys in Space. A group of toys, left out at night for the first time, begins to be afraid but the WonderDoll distracts them by weaving a story of lost toys, space travel, and a strange alien.
McCanna, Tim. Bitty Bot. All of the bots in Botsburg are powering down for the night…but Bitty Bot isn’t tired! Bitty decides to build a rocket and go on a space adventure instead of going to sleep.
Scieszka, Jon. Robot Zot! On a mission to conquer planet Earth, tiny but fearless Robot Zot and his mechanical sidekick leave a path of destruction as they battle kitchen appliances.
Timmers, Leo. Franky. Sam is sure that robots live on a faraway planet, but when his parents don’t believe him, he builds his own robot, Franky, and Franky is soon visited by some unexpected guests.
Van Dusen, Chris. Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit. Randy Riley, a science genius who loves baseball but is not very good at it, needs to use both his interests to save his town from a giant fireball that is heading their way.
Beginning Readers
Angry Birds. Angry Birds. (Series)
Arnold, Ted. Fly Guy and the Alienzz. Buzz is filming a movie about aliens from Outer Space, who capture Fly Guy and Buzz Boy–and our two heroes must outsmart the aliens, with some help from Dragon Dude and Fly Girl.
Cazat, Denys. Minnie and Moo and the Potato from Planet X. Minnie and Moo come to the aid of a visitor from outer space.
Cushman, Doug. Space Cat. When Space Cat and Earl the robot encounter trouble with their space ship, they crash-land on an alien planet to search for more fuel.
LEGO. LEGO. (Series)
Star Wars. Star Wars. (Series)
Wrecks, Billy. I am Baymax. Baymax explains who he is and how he and his friends fight the evil Yokai in the city of San Fransokyo.
Children’s Fiction
Ball, Nate. Alien in My Pocket. (Series) Fourth-grader Zack McGee’s life is turned upside-down when Amp, a tiny alien, crash-lands in his bedroom, then causes trouble at school while trying to get parts to repair his spaceship.
Benton, Jim. Franny K. Stein. (Series) Franny K. Stein is a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky and creepy, but when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments with fitting in–which works until a monster erupts from the trashcan.
Clark, Henry. What We Found in the Sofa and How it Saved the World. Finding a rare zucchini-colored crayon leads twelve-year-old River Monroe and his friends on an adventure with their eccentric neighbor to save Earth from invading interstellar storm troopers.
Dashner, James. Infinity Ring. (Series) Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks–a mutiny on the Santa María–to correct history and defeat the SQ.
DuPrau, Jeanne. The City of Ember. (Series) In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Emerson, Kevin. Chronicle of the Dark Star. (Series) While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.
Farmer, Nancy. The House of the Scorpion. (Series) In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrthn, the 140-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Forester, Victoria. The Boy Who Knew Everything. In the wake of a prophecy that says they have the power to bring about great change, genius Conrad Harrington III teams up with Piper McCloud, the girl who could fly, to try to save the world and themselves.
Gibbs, Stuart. Moon Base Alpha. (Series) In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he is faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan who communicates with him telepathically from afar–and who is hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth.
Gravel, Elise. Olga and the Smelly Thing from Nowhere. Discovering a smelly creature in her garbage can that she names after herself, Olga befriends and studies the eccentric Olgamus using the scientific method, the practices of Jane Goodall, and other scientific concepts.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. The Missing. (Series) When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Under Their Skin. (Series) Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and most important, why their lives are in danger.
Holm, Jennifer L. The Fourteenth Goldfish. Ellie’s scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager–which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
Hopper, Ada. The DATA Set. (Series) Three second-graders who love science get thrown in a wild spiral of adventures after meeting their reclusive neighbor, Dr. Gustav Bunsen. When Dr. Bunsen’s growth ray hits a crate of animal figurines, the toys not only start growing, but also come to life.
Hughes, Ted. The Iron Giant. The fearsome iron giant becomes a hero when he challenges a huge space monster.
Kloepfer, John. Galaxy’s Most Wanted. (Series) When thirteen-year-old Kevin Brewer and his camp buddies summon an alien to earth, they know they’ll win a blue ribbon in the science competition–but they don’t expect to find themselves in the middle of an interstellar war.
Korman, Gordon. Masterminds. (Series) A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment.
L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. (Newbery) (Series) Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg’s father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Lowry, Lois. The Giver. (Newbery) (Series) Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Mass, Wendy. Pi in the Sky. Joss, the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe, must team up with a human girl to re-create Earth, when the planet is accidentally erased from existence.
Sanders, Ted. The Box and the Dragonfly. Horace F. Andrews, armed with a strange wooden box, and Chloe Burke, wearing a mysterious dragonfly pendant, become entangled in a secret and ancient society striving to protect powerful devices from the evil Riven.
Scieszka, Jon. Frank Einstein. (Series) In his Grandpa Al’s garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
Searles, Rachel. The Lost Planet. Waking up on a distant planet, Chase Garrety is horrified to learn that he has no memory of his life and finds himself under the protection of a mysterious benefactor who requires him to complete an important mission before time runs out.
Service, Pamela F. Alien Agent. (Series) While at a resort on a vacation trip his uncle won, Zack begins wondering if his cousin has been telling the truth for years–that he really is an alien prince sent to Earth for protection, and who is now being chased by enemy aliens disguised as bald, fat men.
Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me. (Newbery) As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, “The $20,000 Pyramid,” a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Tobin, Paul. Genius Factor. (Series) Sixth-grade genius Nate Bannister, with his talking car Betsy and super-powered pets Bosper the Scottish terrier and Sir William the gull, teams up with his friend Delphine to stop the Red Death Tea Society from unleashing angry bees on the city of Polt.
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Beginner Readers
A large selection of Star Wars Beginning Readers can be found shelved under the author “Star Wars”.
Children’s Paperbacks
A large selection of Star Wars Paperbacks can be found shelved under the author “Star Wars”.
Children’s Fiction
A large selection of Star Wars Fiction can be found shelved under the author “Star Wars”.
Children’s Nonfiction
A large selection of Star Wars Non-Fiction can be found shelved in sections 791.4372 through 791.4375.
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Fiction
Andrews, Jan. Rude Stories.A collection of international stories–originating from such places as Japan, Canada, Africa and Eastern Europe–all share a sense of irreverence and a taste for bodily functions, loud noises, and bad manners.
Atwater, Richard. Mr. Popper’s Penguins.The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.
Benton, Jim. Franny K Stein: Mad Scientist. (Series) Franny K. Stein is a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky and creepy, but when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments with fitting in–which works until a monster erupts from the trashcan.
Bruel, Nick. Bad Kitty. (Series) When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad.
Burnham, Molly B. Teddy Mars. (Series) Ten-year-old Teddy Mars seeks to stand apart from his six siblings, none of whom could be called “normal,” by earning a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Child, Lauren. Clarice Bean. (Series) A girl describes the hectic life she leads among the members of her large family, and her search for a little peace and quiet.
Cleary, Beverly. Ramona. (Series) Beesus’ biggest problem is her 4 year old sister Ramona. Even though Beezus knows sisters are supposed to love each other, with a sister like Ramona, it seems impossible.
Cowell, Cressida. How to Train Your Dragon. (Series) Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.
Cronin, Doreen. Chicken Squad. (Series) When the squirrel Tail comes barreling into the chicken coop ranting about a round, shiny, green, big, scary thing in the yard, Dirt, Sweetie, Poppy, and Sugar investigate this strange object.
Dougherty, John. Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face. (Series) Stinkbomb and his sister, Ketchup-Face, with help from King Toothbrush Weasel, go on an adventure to recover the stolen contents of their piggybank from a gang of rascally badgers.
Doyle, Bill. The Prizewinners of Piedmont Place. (Series) Eleven-year-old Cal must convince his lovably wacky family to compete in a contest where the winners are granted twenty minutes to grab anything from King Wonder’s world-famous shop.
Foley, Lizzie K. Remarkable.Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable’s School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable’s most beloved inhabitant–a skittish lake monster named Lucky.
Graff, Lisa. The Great Treehouse War.Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
Griffiths, Andy. Treehouse. (Series) Follows the efforts of Andy and Terry to meet a latest book deadline despite numerous distractions in their sophisticated tree house home, including flying cats, giant bananas, and sea monsters pretending to be mermaids.
Gutman, Dan. My Weird School. (Series) Miss Daisy’s unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.
Hamburg, Jennifer. Hazy Bloom. (Series) When third-grader Hazel “Hazy” Bloom begins having visions of trouble that will come within twenty-four hours, she finds that this mysterious power provides her the ability to make things worse.
Holm, Jennifer L. and Matthew Holm. Babymouse. (Series) An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for an invitation to the most popular girl’s slumber party.
Korman, Gordon. Maxx Comedy: The Funniest Kid in America.Eleven-year-old Max Carmody has wanted to be a stand-up comedian since he was five, so when a contest is held to find the “world’s funniest kid,” he goes through all kinds of craziness to win.
LaReau, Kara. The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters. (Series) Meet Jaundice and Kale Bland, two sisters who avoid excitement at any cost. One day, the Bland sisters are kidnapped by an all-female band of pirates. They’re unwillingly swept into a high-seas romp that might just lead to solving the mystery of what happened to their missing parents
Lee, Honest and Matthew J. Gilbert. Classroom 13. (Series) Unlucky teacher Ms. Linda LaCrosse wins the lottery and shares her winnings with her class. The students fulfill their dreams with their newfound wealth, but they soon learn that winning the lottery is not all that lucky.
Look, Lenore. Alvin Ho. (Series) A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.
McDonald, Megan. Judy Moody. (Series) Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.
Parisi, Mark. Marty Pants. (Series)When Marty finds a cryptic message that claims he is being observed by aliens, Marty attempts to head off this threat to Earth, find his missing cat, and get his homework turned in on time, with help of his best friends.
Paulsen, Gary. Mudshark.Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school’s best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
Pierce, Lincoln. Big Nate. (Series) Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants. (Series) When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
Pilkey, Dav. Ricky Ricotta’s Robot. (Series) Ricky Ricotta, a small mouse, is being bullied at school, but when he rescues a powerful robot from its evil creator, he acquires a friend and protector–and saves the city from Dr. Stinky.
Pounder, Sibeal. Witch Wars. (Series) When Fran the Fabulous Fairy turns up in Tiga Whicabim’s shed to tell her she’s a witch, Tiga doesn’t believe her. Or at least not until Fran points out that TIGA WHICABIM is actually an anagram of I AM A BIG WITCH and magics her away down the drainpipes to compete in Witch Wars – the competition to crown the next Top Witch of Ritzy City.
Riley, Andy. King Flashypants. (Series) Nine-year-old King Edwin is loved by his people, but when he runs out of money evil Emperor Nurbison sees it as a chance to sieze control of Edwinland.
Salisbury. Graham. Calvin Coconut. (Series) Nine-year-old Calvin catches the attention of the school bully on the day before he starts fourth grade, while at home, the unfriendly, fifteen-year-old daughter of his mother’s best friend has taken over his room.
Skye, Obert. The Creature from my Closet. (Series) Twelve-year-old Rob has stuffed his closet with old laboratory experiments, unread books, and more, and when a creature emerges from that chaos causing a great deal of trouble, Rob has to do such horrible things as visit a library and speak at a school assembly to set things right again.
Trueit, Trudi Strain. Secrets of a Lab Rat. (Series) Fearless nine-year-old “Scab” McNally tries to get his twin sister’s help in convincing their parents to let them get a dog, but when he embarrasses her in school with a particularly obnoxious invention, it looks like he has lost her cooperation forever.
Vernon, Ursula. Hamster Princess.Never a conventional princess, Harriet becomes an adventurer after learning she is cursed to fall into a deep sleep on her twelfth birthday, but after two years of slaying ogres, cliff-diving, and more with her riding quail, Mumfrey, things go awry at home and she must seek a prince to set things right.
Walliams, David. Grandpa’s Great Escape.Twelve year old Jack’s grandpa lives in a rest home and often mistakes Jack for his World War II squadron commander, but when grandpa wants to escape his boring situation, Jack has to decide how he will help him.
Weeks, Sarah. Oggie Cooder. (Series) Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone’s best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show, but he soon learns the perils of being a celebrity–and having a neighbor girl as his manager.
Winkler, Henry. Hank Zipzer. (Series) Fourth-graders Hank, Ashley, and Frankie are excitedly preparing for a magic show at the Rock ‘N Bowl when Hank’s creative alternative to an English essay lands him in detention and grounded the week of the show.
Winkler, Henry and Lin Oliver. Here’s Hank. (Series) Hoping to land the lead in the class play, Hank freezes during his audition and is only able to buzz like a fly, inspiring his teacher to create a special role for him as a silent bookmark that saves the show when a rival suffers an attack of stage fright.
Non-Fiction
A large selection of joke and riddle books can be found in Juvenile Non-Fiction section 793.735.
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Fiction
Donnelly, Rebecca. How to Stage a Catastrophe.Seventh-grader Sidney Camazzola plans to be the director of the Juicebox Theater one day, but for now, he has a great idea–extortion–for keeping the theater open.
Korman, Gordon. The Chicken Doesn’t Skate. Wild things happen at the South Middle School when Milo’s science project, Henrietta the chicken, becomes the hockey team’s mascot and their only chance for a winning season.
Kootstra, Kara. Jay Versus the Saxaphone of Doom.Sixth-grader Jay loves hockey and deals with the difficulties of playing with a bullying classmate, but he is unprepared for learning how to play the saxophone.
Kowitt, Holly. The Principal’s Underwear is Missing. Becca, a sixth-grade nobody, and Selfie, the eighth-grade glamour queen, must team up to stop the disaster of a lifetime.
McGeddon, R. Disaster Diaries. (Series) When their eccentric science teacher’s zany experiment goes awry, Sam, Arty and Emmie are challenged to combine their unique skills to save the community of Sitting Duck from a zombie apocalypse.
Patterson, James. I Funny. (Series) Resolving to become the world’s greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he entersa local comedy contest.
Patterson, James. Middle School. (Series)When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, “Leo the Silent,” to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school’s code of conduct.
Pinkwater, Daniel Manus. Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story.Upon moving to Hoboken, New Jersey, a boy convinces his two new friends to help him track down the mysterious phantom who stole his bicycle, as well as Arthur Bobowicz, owner of a giant chicken that once terrorized local citizens.
Raschka, Christopher. The Doorman’s Repose.Some of us look up at those craggy, mysterious apartment buildings found in the posher parts of New York City and wonder what goes on inside. The Doorman’s Repose collects ten stories of the doings of 777 Garden Avenue, one of the craggiest.
Sanderson, Brendon. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. (Series)On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
Snicket, Lemony. A Series of Unfortunate Events. (Series)After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Never before has a tale of three likeable and unfortunate children been quite so enchanting, or quite so uproariously unhappy.
Swallow, Gerry. Magnificent Tales of Misadventure. (Series) When ill-mannered, eleven-year-old Elspeth Pule awakens in a strange forest where nursery rhyme character dwell, she must both learn compassion and teach the merits of a good temper tantrum in order to return home.
Tobin, Paul. Genius Factor. (Series)Socially awkward fifth-grade genius Nate Bannister recruits his classmate Delphine to help him reverse one of his many experiments (a dinosaur-sized, invisible cat) while foiling the schemes of the world’s most dastardly organization, the Red Death Tea Society.
Non-Fiction
A large selection of joke and riddle books can be found in Juvenile Non-Fiction section 793.735.
Picture Books
Aston, Dianna Hutts. Mama Outside, Mama Inside. Two mothers–a human and a bird–prepare for the birth of their babies while living very close to each other.
Cuyler, Margery. Guinea Pigs Add Up. Mr. Gilbert brings in a guinea pig as a class pet, but it looks so lonely he brings another, and before long the class is getting an unexpected lesson in addition–and a very full cage.
Harris, Robie H.Happy Birth Day.A mother tells her child about its first day of life from the moment of birth through the end of the birth day.
Heller, Ruth. Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones. A pictorial introduction to the animals that lay eggs, including chickens as well as other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals.
Holt, Sharon. Did My Mother Do That? With the promise of hearing about the day she was born, Holly and her father first imagine the birth of several different animals, including chickens, kittens, and kangaroos.
Lund, Deb. Tell Me My Story, Mama. As they look forward to the arrival of a new baby, a mother tells her young daughter of the time when they waited for her to be born.
Na, Il Sung. A Book of Babies. While baby animals are born–some with fur and some with scales, some with lots of brothers and sisters, some with none–a curious duck watches.
Tillman, Nancy. On the Night You Were Born. The moon, wind, rain, and a variety of animals celebrate the special occasion that is the birth of a child.
Children’s Nonfiction
612.6 Brown, Laurene Krasny. What’s the Big Secret? Talking About Sex with Girls and Boys.Written specifically for parents who are having trouble talking to their children about sex, this humorously illustrated book contains basic information children need to know and answers to tough questions about sex and the human body.
612.6 Cole, Babette. Mommy Laid an Egg! Or, Where Do Babies Come From?In a series of zany diagrams, the children show the adults exactly where babies come from. The offbeat illustrations are accompanied by a text that is short, simple, and anything but predictable. This is a funny book that will delight, entertain, and educate the entire family.
612.6 Harris, Robie H. It’s Not the Stork: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends. Young children are curious about almost everything, especially their bodies. And young children are not afraid to ask questions. What makes me a girl? What makes me a boy? Why are some parts of girls’ and boys’ bodies the same and why are some parts different? How was I made? Where do babies come from? Is it true that a stork brings babies to mommies and daddies?
612.6 Harris, Robie H. It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health. Geared toward children entering puberty. Updated scientific and medical information about reproduction, birth control, abortion, sexual abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases. Also includes information on gender identity and online safety.
612.6 Harris, Robie H. It’s So Amazing: A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth Babies and Families. Fun, accurate, comic-book-style artwork and a clear, lively text that reflects the interests of children age seven and up in how things work, while giving them a healthy understanding of their bodies.
612.6 Harris, Robie H. What’s In There? All About Before You Were Born. Gus and Nellie have some exciting news: there’s going to be a baby in their family! Combining accessible, humorous, and accurate illustrations; conversations between the two siblings; and a factual text, here is the ideal book to help young children understand that the way a growing baby develops inside a woman’s body, and how a baby is born, are both perfectly normal and totally wonderful.
612.6 Kemp, Kristen. Healthy Sexuality. This book discusses aspects of sexuality, including gender characteristics, changing emotions during puberty, birth control, and sexually transmitted diseases.
612.6 Roberts, Jillian. Where Do Babies Come From? Our First Talk About Birth. An engaging introduction for very young children to the basic facts of life in a way that is gentle, age-appropriate and accessible. Q&A format, with questions posed in the child’s voice and answers starting simply and becoming gradually more in-depth, allows the adult to guide the conversation to a natural and satisfying conclusion.
612.6 Saltz, Gail. Amazing You: Getting Smart About Your Private Parts. A picture book designed especially for young children who are becoming sexually aware but aren’t ready to learn about sexual intercourse. Written with warmth and honesty, this book presents clear and age-appropriate information about reproduction, birth, and the difference between girls’ and boys’ bodies.
612.6 Saltz, Gail. Changing You: A Guide to Body Changes and Sexuality.In a reassuring and honest companion to Amazing You, the author helps elementary school-age children better understand body changes, reproduction, and emerging sexuality.
612.6 Silverberg, Cory. What Makes a Baby? Geared to readers from preschool to age eight.A twenty-first century children’s picture book about conception, gestation, and birth, which reflects the reality of our modern time by being inclusive of all kinds of kids, adults, and families, regardless of how many people were involved, their orientation, gender and other identity, or family composition.
Childcare/Education Books
612.6 Cocovini, Abby. What’s Inside Your Tummy, Mommy? This is the perfect book for introducing a young child to the concept of how babies grow. Every month the life-size drawings give parent and child a fantastic opportunity to explore how big the baby is in comparison to everyday objects, along with providing information about the umbilical cord, the womb, and the baby’s developments each month.
612.6 Cole, Joanna. Asking About Sex and Growing Up: A Question and Answer Book for Kids This reassuring guide uses a question-and-answer format to offer straightforward information on a wide variety of subjects that often concern and mystify young people, including physical changes in puberty, masturbation, birth control, pregnancy, homosexuality, and STDs.
612.6 Jones, Stanton L. The Story of Me. It’s never too early to begin giving a practical understanding of his or her unique, beautiful body – and why God designed it to be exactly the way it is. For ages 3-5.
618.2 Butler, Dori Hillestad. My Mom’s Having a Baby.Elizabeth’s mom is having a baby, and the whole family is involved. Elizabeth learns all about the baby’s development, and she traces his growth, month by month. She learns how the baby got inside Mom, too. Finally the big day comes Mom and Dad head off to the hospital, and soon there’s a brand-new little person in the family
649.65 Stark, Patty. Sex is More Than a Plumbing Lesson: A Parent’s Guide to Sexuality Education for Infants Through the Teen Years. Written to assist parents who want to teach their kids about human sexuality but who aren’t sure how to go about it. It addresses such issues as: becoming comfortable in your role as a sex educator; helping kids feel good about their bodies.
4/20/18 JC
Book suggestions for children beginning to read chapter books.
All books are available from our library.
Digital formats may also be available. If they are, the abbreviations are:
O/LA = Overdrive/Libby audiobook
O/LE = Overdrive/Libby e-book
HA = Hoopla audiobook
HE = Hoopla e-book
HV = Hoopla video
F = Freading e-book
XE = Axis 360 e-book
| Author | Title | Digital Formats Available |
| Ahn | Pug Pals series | |
| Allenby | Timo Goes Camping | |
| Applegate | Roscoe Riley Rules series | F, HE |
| Arnold | Starla Jean | XE |
| Bardhan-Quallen | Caveboy is Bored! | |
| Barkley | Critter Club series | O/LE |
| Birney | Humphrey’s Tiny Tales series | |
| Bond | Pig & Goose and the First Day of Spring | HE |
| Bradman | After Happily Ever After series | |
| Bruel | Bad Kitty series | O/LA, XE |
| Brown | Flat Stanley series | F, O/LE, HE, HA |
| Byars | Boo’s Dinosaur and Boo’s Surprise | HA |
| Calmenson | The Adventures of Allie and Amy | |
| Cummins | The Binder of Doom series | |
| DiCamillo | Mercy Watson series | O/LE, O/LA, HE |
| Elliott | Unicorn Diaries series | XE |
| Fang | Layla and the Bots | |
| Gay | Princess Pistachio series | |
| Gif | Mysteries on Zoo Lane series | |
| Glass | Sparkleton series | |
| Goodner | Kondo & Kezumi | |
| Greene | Princess Posey series | O/LA HA |
| Haas | Bramble and Maggie series | |
| Hale | Princess in Black series | O/LE, XE |
| Hocking | Sydney & Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World | XE |
| Holub | Athena & the Magic Land | |
| Howe | Pinky and Rex series | HA |
| Hughes | Digby O’Day series | |
| Jacobs | Mack Rhino | |
| Kirby | Super Turbo series | |
| Krulik | Project Droid series | HE |
| LaReau | The Infamous Ratsos series | |
| May | Diary of a Pug series | |
| Maker | Craftily Ever After series | |
| McDonald | Judy Moody and Friends series | HE, O/LE, XE |
| McDonald | Stink series | O/L E, O/LA, HE, XE |
| McKay | Lulu series | F |
| Miedoso | Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series | |
| Milway | Pigsticks and Harold series | |
| Montgomery | Milo & Jazz Mysteries series | |
| Newton | Alien Next Door series | XE |
| O’Neill | Annie and Simon series | |
| O’Ryan | Galaxy Zack series | HE |
| Pinkwater | Mrs. Noodlekugel series | HE |
| Potter | Piper Green and the Fairy Tree series | |
| Quinn | Kingdom of Wrenly series | |
| Redmond | Bug Blonsky series | |
| Roland | Monkey Me series | |
| Roth | Beep and Bob series | |
| Sanderson | Unicorns of the Secret Stable series | HE, XE |
| Snyder | Charlie & Mouse series | O/LE, HE, HA |
| Stier | A Dog’s Day series | F, HE, HA |
| Styles | The Big Bad Woof | |
| Tashjian | Marty Frye Private Eye series | |
| Walters | Batcat and the Seven Squirrels | HE |
| West | Mia Mayhem is a Superhero |
All books are available from our library.
Digital formats may also be available. If they are, the abbreviations are:
O/LA = Overdrive/Libby audiobook
O/LE = Overdrive/Libby e-book
HA = Hoopla audiobook
HE = Hoopla e-book
HV = Hoopla video
F = Freading e-book
XE = Axis 360 e-book
| Author | Title | Digital Formats Available |
| Arnold | Fly Guy Series | O/LA, O/LE, HA, HV, XE |
| Awdry | Thomas & Friends Series | O/LE, HE |
| Barton | Mighty Truck Series | HE |
| Berenstain | Berenstain Bears Series | O/LA, O/LE, HA, F, XE |
| Biggs | Everything Goes Series | |
| Capucilli | Biscuit Series | O/LA, O/LE, HA, HE, F, XE |
| Carle | Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? | |
| Carle | Little Cloud | |
| Carle | The Very Busy Spider | |
| Catrow | Max Spaniel Series | |
| Cazet | Elvis the Rooster Series | |
| Cronin | Click, Clack Series | O/LA, HA, HV |
| Day | Carl and the Baby Duck | |
| Dean | Pete the Cat Series | O/LA, O/LE, HE, F. XE |
| DePaola | Andy & Sandy Series | |
| Dotlich | Digger the Dinosaur | HA, F |
| Driscoll | I Want to be Series | HE. XE |
| Drummond | Charlie the Ranch Dog Series | O/LA, HE, F |
| Eastman | Are You My Mother? | O/LE |
| Eastman | Big Dog … Little Dog | O/LE |
| Fenske | A Pig, a Fox and a Box | |
| Foreman | Deadly Dinosaurs | |
| Garland | Fish Had a Wish | |
| Garton | Otter Series | HA, HE, XE |
| George | Duck, Duck, Dinosaur | HE |
| George | Spark | |
| Gilman | Dixie Series | HA, HE, F |
| Grant | Chicken Said, “Cluck!” | |
| Griffiths | The Cat on the Mat is Fat | |
| Henkes | Birds | |
| Henkes | Kitten’s First Full Moon | O/LA |
| Henkes | Penny Series | O/LA, F, XE |
| Hillert | Dear Dragon Series | O/LE, HE |
| Hoff | Danny and the Dinosaur Series | O/LA |
| Holub | Itty Bitty Kitty : Firehouse Fun | HA, HE |
| Horvath | Build, Dogs, Build Series | HA, HE |
| Iacolina | Frances Dances | |
| Ingalls | Tip and Tucker Series | HE |
| Johnson | A Picture for Harold’s Room | |
| Kann | Pinkalicious Series | O/LA, HA, HE, XE |
| Karlin | The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat | HA, HE, F |
| Light | Louise Loves Bake Sales | HE |
| Lobel | Frog and Toad Series | O/LA, O/LE, HA, HE. F |
| Lobel | Small Pig | O/LA |
| Long | Dance, Dance, Dance | |
| Long | Horse & Buggy Series | |
| Lucas | Dancing Dinos Go to School | |
| Mayer | Little Critters Series | HE, F |
| McMullen | Pearl and Wagner series | |
| McPhail | Big Brown Bear Series | |
| Michalak | Joe and Sparky Series | |
| Minarik | Cat and Dog | |
| O’Connor | Fancy Nancy Series | O/LA, HA, HE, F, XE |
| O’Connor | Lulu and the Witch Baby | HE |
| Parish | Amelia Bedelia Series | O/LA, O/LE, HA, HE, F, XE |
| Penn | The Kissing Hand | O/LE |
| Perkins | Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb | |
| Pierce | Jack and Jill and T-Ball Bill | |
| Pilkey | Big Dog and Little Dog | O/LE |
| Riley | Axel the Truck Series | O/LA, HA, HE, F |
| Rohmann | My Friend Rabbit | |
| Rosen | We’re Going on a Bear Hunt | |
| Rylant | Annie and Snowball Series | |
| Rylant | Mr. Putter and Tabby Series | O/LE, O/LE, HE, F |
| Scarry | Richard Scarry’s Chuckle With Huckle! | |
| Schaefer | Loose Tooth | |
| Schaefer | Mittens Series | HA, HE, F |
| Schaefer | Monkey and Elephant | |
| Schmidt | Back to Dog-Gone School | |
| Scotton | Splat the Cat Series | O/LA, HA, HE, F, XE |
| Suen | Robot and Rico Series | F |
| Thomas | My Friends Make Me Happy! | |
| Thomas | My Toothbrush is Missing! | |
| Unstead | Little Dolphin | |
| Walker-Hodge | Surprise Puppy! | |
| Wiley | Fox and Crow Are Not Friends | O/LE |
| Wilhelm | Lunch Box Bully | |
| Willems | Elephant & Piggie Series | |
| Young | Digger and Daisy Series | HE |
All books are available from our library.
Digital formats may also be available. If they are, the abbreviations are:
O/LA = Overdrive/Libby audiobook
O/LE = Overdrive/Libby e-book
HA = Hoopla audiobook
HE = Hoopla e-book
HV = Hoopla video
F = Freading e-book
XE = Axis 360 e-book
| Author | Title | Digital Formats Available |
| Adler | Bones Series | |
| Adler | Mo Jackson Series | |
| Adler | Young Cam Jansen Series | |
| Albee | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| Allard | Miss Nelson Series | |
| Amstel | Sybil Ludington’s Midnight Ride | HE |
| Archer | Big Bad Wolf | HE, F |
| Barrett | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | |
| Bechtold | Buster the Very Shy Dog Series | |
| Bove | I Wish I Was a Gorilla | HE |
| Bridewell | Clifford Series | |
| Brill | Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express | HE |
| Brown | Beyond the Dinosaurs: Monsters of the Air and Sea | HE, F |
| Brown | Flat Stanley Series | |
| Buller | Amazing Dogs | |
| Buller | The Great Panda Tale | |
| Bunting | Frog and Friends Series | HE |
| Burton | The Little House | |
| Butler | King and Kayla Series | HE |
| Caple | Duck & Company | |
| Cazet | Elvis the Rooster Series | |
| Cazet | Minnie and Moo Series | HA |
| Chaconas | Cork & Fuzz Series | |
| Cronin | Click, Clack, Moo Series | |
| Cronin | Diary of a Worm | |
| Danziger | A is for Amber Series | O/LA |
| De Groat | Gilbert Series | F |
| DiCamillo | Mercy Watson Series | |
| Dizzy | Dizzy Dinosaurs: Silly Dino Poems | |
| Dorling | Knights and Castles | |
| Dorling | Wild Baby Animals | |
| Egan | Dodsworth Series | |
| Feder | Spooky Friends | |
| Figley | The Schoolchildren’s Blizzard | HE |
| Foreman | Shark Reef | |
| Galdone | The Little Red Hen | |
| Gantos | Rotten Ralph Series | |
| Gilman | Dixie | |
| Greene | Princess Posey Series | |
| Guest | Iris and Walter Series | |
| Guinness | Guinness World Records Series | HE, F |
| Gutman | My Weird School I Can Read Series | O/LA, O/LE, HA, HE, F |
| Gutman | Rappy Series | |
| Haas | Bramble and Maggie Series | |
| Haberman | You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You Series | |
| Hall | The Apple Pie Tree | |
| Hayes | A Poor Excuse for a Dragon | |
| Henkes | Penny Series | O/LA, F |
| Hoff | Danny and the Dinosaur Series | |
| Holub | Do Not Open! : The Story of Pandora’s Box | |
| Horowitz | Big Surprise in the Bug Tank | |
| Howe | Houndsley and Catina | |
| Johnson | Harold and the Purple Crayon | |
| Kimmelman | In the Doghouse: An Emma and Bo Story | |
| Kline | Horrible Harry Series | |
| Kvasnosky | Zelda and Ivy Series | |
| Lin | Ling & Ting Series | HA |
| Little | Emma’s Strange Pet | |
| Lobel | Frog and Toad Series | |
| Lobel | Grasshopper on the Road | |
| Lobel | Uncle Elephant | |
| London | Froggy Series | |
| Lord | Hot Rod Hamster Series | |
| McDonald | Ant & Honey Bee: A Pair of Friends in Winter | |
| McDonald | Judy Moody/Judy Moody and Friends Series | |
| McDonald | Stink Series | |
| McMullan | Pearl and Wagner Series | |
| Michalak | Joe and Sparky Series | |
| Minarik | Little Bear Series | HE |
| Moser | Squirrel’s Fun Day | |
| Murphy | Babe Ruth Saves Baseball | |
| Nolan | Bradford Street Buddies Series | HE |
| O’Connor | Fancy Nancy Series | |
| O’Connor | Lulu Goes to Witch School | HE, F |
| Park | Junie B. Jones Series | |
| Perkins | Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb | |
| Ransom | The Night of the Hurricane’s Fury | HE |
| Rathmann | Officer Buckle and Gloria | |
| Rylant | Annie and Snowball Series | |
| Rylant | Henry and Mudge Series | O/LA |
| Rylant | The High-Rise Private Eyes Series | |
| Rylant | Mr. Putter and Tabby Series | |
| Schaefer | Monkey and Elephant Series | |
| Schneider | Tales for Very Picky Eaters | O/LA |
| Scotton | Splat the Cat Series | |
| Sharmat | Nate the Great Series | |
| Silverman | Lana’s World Series | HE |
| Standiford | The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto | |
| Star | Star Wars Series | O/LE, HE |
| Van Leeuwen | Amanda Pig Series | |
| Van Leeuwen | Oliver and Amanda Series | |
| Walker | Jackie Robinson | HE |
| Walker | Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter | HE |
| Winters | Pete & Gabby: The Bears Go to Town | HE, F |
| Zion | Harry Series |
All books are available from our library.
Digital formats may also be available. If they are, the abbreviations are:
O/LA = Overdrive/Libby audiobook
O/LE = Overdrive/Libby e-book
HA = Hoopla audiobook
HE = Hoopla e-book
HV = Hoopla video
F = Freading e-book
XE = Axis 360 e-book
| Author | Title | Digital Formats Available |
| Adderson | Jasper John Dooley series | HE |
| Adler | Cam Jansen series | O/LA, HA |
| Amato | Lucy McGee series | XE |
| Angleberger | Didi Dodo, Future Spy series | HE, HA, F |
| Atinkuke | Too Small Tola | XE |
| Auch | I Was a Third Grade Science Project | |
| Barrows | Ivy and Bean series | HE, HA, O/LE, O/LA, XE |
| Beaty | Questioneers (chapter books) series | HE, HA, O/LE, F |
| Bentley | The Case of the Nibbled Pizza | |
| Benton | Franny K. Stein series | HA |
| Bernstein | Warren and Dragon series | |
| Broach | Masterpiece Adventures series | |
| Brown | Flat Stanley series | HE, HA, OL/E, F |
| Cheng | Anna Wang series | HE, XE |
| Colton | Jasper & Scruff series | |
| Cox | Third Grade Pet | |
| Cronin | The Chicken Squad series | O/LA |
| DiCamillo | Tales From Deckawoo Drive series | OL/E |
| Elliott | Owl Diaries series | O/LE, XE |
| Fagan | Wolfie & Fly series | |
| French | My Dad the Dragon | F, HE |
| Friedman | Mallory series | HA, HE, O/LE, O/LA |
| Gay | Princess Pistachio series | |
| George | Heartwood Hotel series | |
| Green | Adventures of Sophie Mouse series | |
| Hanlon | Dory Fantasmagory series | HA, O/LA |
| Hapka | Astronaut Girl : Journey to the Moon | |
| Hicks | Gym Shorts series | |
| Hiranandani | Phoebe G. Green series | |
| Jennings | Definitely Dominguita series | XE |
| Kelly | Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet series | |
| Kelly | Ballpark Mysteries series | |
| Kent | Ella and Owen series | |
| King-Smith | Ace, the Very Important Pig | |
| Kline | Horrible Harry series | O/LA, HA |
| Kuipers | Polly Diamond series | HE |
| Lia | The Secret Time Machine and the Gerkin Switcheroo | HA |
| Look | Alvin Ho series | O/LE |
| Lupica | The Zach & Zoe Mysteries series | |
| Lyons | Jada Jones series | HA |
| Lysiak | Hilde Cracks the Case series | |
| Mag | Magic School Bus Rides Again series | |
| McDonald | Judy Moody series | HE, O/LE, XE |
| Napoli | Sly the Sleuth series | |
| Osborne | Magic Tree House series | O/LE, O/LA, XE |
| Park | Junie B. Jones series | O/LE, O/LA |
| Pennypacker | Clementine series | HA |
| Rissi | Anna Banana series | O/LE, HE |
| Sachar | Marvin Redpost series | O/LE |
| Sheinmel | Magic on the Map series | |
| Soderberg | Puppy Pirates series | |
| Tsang | Sam Wu series | F, XE |
| Van Velde | Squirrel in the Museum | |
| Voake | Daisy Dawson series | |
| Watson | Trouble at Table 5 series | F, HE, HA |
| West | Dragon Masters series | HA, XE |
| Winkler | Here’s Hank series | |
| Wunsch | Miranda and Maude series | HE, F |
| Yee | Mouse and Mole series | F, HE, HA, O/LE, O/LA |
| Zemke | Bea Garcia series |
All books are available from our library.
Digital formats may also be available. If they are, the abbreviations are:
O/LA = Overdrive/Libby audiobook
O/LE = Overdrive/Libby e-book
HA = Hoopla audiobook
HE = Hoopla e-book
HV = Hoopla video
F = Freading e-book
XE = Axis 360 e-book
| Author | Title | Digital Formats Available |
| Alexander | The Library of Ever (Series) | O/LA |
| Applegate | The One and Only Ivan (Newbery Medal) | O/LA O/LE HA |
| Anderson | The Girl Who Speaks Bear | |
| Atwater | Mr. Popper’s Penguins | O/LE HE F |
| Avi | Ragweed & Poppy | HA |
| Bachmann | Cinders & Sparrows | XE |
| Banks | Middle School Bites (Series) | |
| Barrows | The Best of Iggy | |
| Biberdorf | Kate the Chemist (Series) | XE |
| Bilan | Asha and the Spirit Bird | HA |
| Bradley | Midnight at the Barclay Hotel | |
| Brown | The Wild Robot | O/LA O/LE |
| Burgan | Nazi Prison Camp Escape | HA |
| Butler | Otto P. Nudd | |
| Callaghan | Saltwater Secrets | |
| Cameron | Maybe a Mermaid | HA |
| Cerbantes | Lety Out Loud | |
| Chari | The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel | XE |
| Cleary | Ramona (Series) | O/LA O/LE HA HE F |
| Crimi | Weird Little Robots | HA |
| Day | The Sea in Winter | XE |
| De La Cruz | High School Musical: The Road Trip | |
| DiCamillo | Flora & Ulysses (Newbery Medal) | O/LA O/LE HE |
| DiTerlizzi | Kenny & the Book of Beasts | |
| Dominguez | Stella Diaz Dreams Big | XE |
| Downing | When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie | |
| Ecton | The Great Pet Heist | |
| Faber | Pony on the Twelfth Floor | |
| Farrant | Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror | |
| Ferruolo | Ruby in the Sky | |
| Gidwitz | Unicorn Rescue Society (Series) | |
| Gilligan | King of the Mole People | |
| Henderson | The Magic in Changing Your Stars | F |
| Higuera | Lupe Wong Won’t Dance | HA HE XE |
| Holt | The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas | XE |
| Hutchison | Night of the Living Ted (Series) | |
| Kadarusman | Music for Tigers | |
| Kadohata | Saucy | O/LE |
| Kelly | Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey | O/LA O/LE XE |
| Kelly | Song for a Whale | XE |
| Kim | Stand Up, Yumi Chung! | |
| Klimo | The Dog Diaries (Series) | |
| Korman | Unplugged | O/LA O/LE XE |
| Lai | Fly on the Wall | XE |
| LaReau | The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters (Series) | HA HE F |
| Lindgren | Pippi Longstocking (Series) | O/LA |
| Lundquist | The Carnival of Wishes & Dreams | |
| Magras | Mad Wolf’s Daughter (Series) | |
| Mass & Stead | Bob | O/LA O/LE XE |
| McCullough | A Field Guide to Getting Lost | HA |
| Meriano | Love Sugar Magic (Series) | HA HE F XE |
| Mlynowski | Whatever After (Series) | O/LE HA XE |
| Moses | Kingston and the Magician’s Lost and Found | XE |
| Park | The One Thing You’d Save | XE |
| Peirce | Max & the Midknights (Series) | O/LA O/LE XE |
| Repino | Spark and the League of Ursus | HA |
| Reynolds | The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter | HA XE |
| Rinker | The Dare Sisters | |
| Rodgers | Freaky Friday | O/LA |
| Savage | Karma Moon: Ghost Hunter | XE |
| Selden | The Cricket in Times Square | O/LA |
| Slavin | Odd Gods (Series) | HE F XE |
| Spinelli | Jake and Lily | |
| Swanson | Cookie Chronicles (Series) | XE |
| Taylor | All-of-a-Kind Family (Series) | O/LA O/LE HA |
| Tidhar | The Candy Mafia | HE |
| Villanueva | Sugar and Spite | |
| Wallace | Bump | XE |
| Watson | Ways to Make Sunshine | O/LE XE |
| White | Charlotte’s Web | O/LA O/LE |
| Wiley | The Nerviest Girl in the World | |
| Winkler | Hank Zipzer (Series) | O/LA |
| Woods | Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things | |
| Youssef | The Magical Reality of Nadia | XE |
All books are available from our library.
Digital formats may also be available. If they are, the abbreviations are:
O/LA = Overdrive/Libby audiobook
O/LE = Overdrive/Libby e-book
HA = Hoopla audiobook
HE = Hoopla e-book
HV = Hoopla video
F = Freading e-book
XE = Axis 360 e-book
| Author | Title | Digital Formats Available |
| Albus | A Place to Hang the Moon | XE |
| Allen | Twinchantment (Series) | HE |
| Alston | Amari and the Night Brothers | XE O/LE |
| Anderson | One Last Shot | HA |
| Applebaum | The Middler | HA |
| Armstrong | A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying (Series) | |
| Aster | Curse of the Night Witch | HE F |
| Babbitt | Tuck Everlasting | O/LA O/LE |
| Baldwin | Beginners Welcome | HA HE F |
| Barnett | Mac B., Kid Spy (Series) | HA XE |
| Bell | The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club (Series) | |
| Benko | Unicorn Quest (Series) | |
| Berk | Camp Murderface | HA |
| Brallier | The Last Kids on Earth (Series) | O/LA O/LE XE |
| Buckley | Finniverse (Series) | XE |
| Bunce | Premeditated Myrtle | HE F |
| Burt | Cleo Porter and the Body Electric | XE |
| Buyea | Because of Mr. Terupt (Series) | O/LA O/LE HA |
| Calonita | Fairy Tale Reform School (Series) | O/LE HA HE F |
| Cameron | A Dog-Friendly Town | |
| Carr | 365 Days to Alaska | HE F |
| Carter | Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor | HA XE |
| Chadda | City of the Plague God | HE XE |
| Clark | What We Found in the Corn Maze and How It Saved a Dragon | |
| Colfer | The Land of Stories (Series) | O/LA O/LE |
| Cordova | The Way to Rio Luna | |
| Craft | New Kid (Newbery) | O/LA O/LE HA HE XE |
| Cuevas | The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez | HA XE |
| Dahl | Matilda | O/LA O/LE |
| DasGupta | Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond (Series) | HA XE |
| de la Cruz | Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy | HA XE |
| Fagan | Nightingale | |
| Farqui | A Thousand Questions | XE |
| Fipps | Starfish | XE |
| Fitzhugh | Harriet the Spy | O/LA O/LE |
| Gaiman | Odd and the Frost Giants | O/LA O/LE HA HE F |
| Gertler | Many Points of Me | XE |
| Giles | The Last Last-Day-of-Summer (Series) | HA |
| Grabenstein | Mr. Lemoncello’s Library (Series) | O/LA O/LE XE |
| Gray | The Amelia Six | |
| Hackney | Forever Glimmer Creek | |
| Haydu | One Jar of Magic | XE |
| Holm | The Lion of Mars | O/LE XE |
| Hunt | Fish in a Tree | O/LA O/LE |
| Kacer | Heroe’s Quartet (Series) | |
| Kadohata | The Thing About Luck | HA |
| Kadono | Kiki’s Delivery Service | |
| Kassner | The Forest of Stars | HA |
| Kastner | Emil and the Detectives | HE F |
| Kear | Foreverland | |
| Keller | When You Trap a Tiger (Newbery) | O/LE XE |
| Kendall | The True Definition of Neva Beane | HA |
| Kessler | Emily Windsnap (Series) | O/LA O/LE XE |
| Kim | The Last Fallen Star | HE HA |
| King | Sara and the Search for Normal | |
| Konigsburg | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Newbery) | OL/E |
| Lawson | How to Save a Queendom | |
| L’Engle | A Wrinkle in Time (Newbery) (Series) | O/LA O/LE XE |
| Lesperance | The Nightmare Thief | HE F |
| Lewis | The Chronicles of Narnia (Series) | O/LA O/LE HA HE F |
| Lockette | Atty at Law | HE |
| Lukoff | Too Bright to See | O/LE XE |
| Maberry | Don’t Turn Off the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz… | |
| Maggs | Con Quest! | |
| Mass | The Candymakers | O/LE HA |
| Matejek-Morris | My Ex-Imaginary Friend | HE |
| Mclachlan | The Land of Roar | |
| McMann | The Unwanteds (Series) | O/LA O/LE HA XE |
| Medina | Merci Suárez Changes Gears (Newbery) | O/LE XE |
| Merritt | No Place for Monsters | |
| Norton | The Borrowers (Series) | O/LE HE F |
| O’Brien | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Newbery) | O/LA |
| Okorafor | Ikenga | HA |
| Palacio | Wonder | O/LA O/LE |
| Paterson | Bridge to Terabithia (Newbery) | O/LA O/LE HA HE F |
| Patron | The Higher Power of Lucky (Newbery) | O/LA |
| Patterson | Middle School Novels (Series) | O/LA O/LE XE |
| Philbrick | Wild River | HA |
| Pinkney | Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It | XE |
| Pray | Jonesy Flux | F |
| Rosenberg | Not Your All-American Girl | HA |
| Royce | Root Magic | XE |
| Ryan | Mañanaland | HA XE |
| Sachar | Holes (Newbery) | O/LA O/LE |
| Saeed (J FIC Sup) | Diana and the Island of No Return | |
| Schlitz | Amber & Clay | XE |
| Schrefer | Lost Rainforest (Series) | HA HE F |
| Scott | Do You Know Me? | HA |
| Selfors | Braver: A Wombat’s Tale | HA |
| Smith | Bye-Bye, Blue Creek | |
| Smith | Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids | XE |
| Stoddard | Bea is for Blended | |
| Thomas | The Last Rabbit | XE |
| Tubb | Zeus, Dog of Chaos | HA |
| Turley | The Last Tree Town | |
| Urban | Almost There and Almost Not | |
| Ventrella | Hello, Future Me | HA |
| Williams-Garcia | One Crazy Summer | O/LA O/LE HA HE F |
| Yep | The Tiger’s Apprentice (Series) | XE |
| Zaczek | Martin McLean, Middle School Queen | HA F |
All books are available from our library.
Digital formats may also be available. If they are, the abbreviations are:
O/LA = Overdrive/Libby audiobook
O/LE = Overdrive/Libby e-book
HA = Hoopla audiobook
HE = Hoopla e-book
HV = Hoopla video
F = Freading e-book
XE = Axis 360 e-book
| Author | Title | Digital Formats Available |
| Anders | Once Upon a Unicorn | |
| Atkinson | Fly Back, Agnes | HE |
| Auxier | The Night Gardener: A Scary Story | O/LE, HE, F |
| Bagnold | National Velvet | HE, F |
| Barry | Starcatchers series (Peter and the Starcatchers) | O/LE, HE |
| Benjamin | The Next Great Paulie Fink | |
| Bishop | Things You Can’t Say | |
| Booraem | Small Persons with Wings | |
| Brody | Better You Than Me | |
| Burnford | The Incredible Journey | O/LA |
| Butler | The Truth About Truman School | HE |
| Calejo | Charlie Hernandez & the League of Shadows | XE |
| Cervantes | The Storm Runner | HE |
| Chewins | The Turnaway Girls | |
| Choldenko | Al Capone Does My Shirts | O/LE, O/LA |
| Colbert | The Only Black Girls in Town | XE |
| Colfer | Tale of Magic series (A Tale of Magic) | O/LE, O/LA |
| Craft | New Kid (Newbery) | XE, F, HE, HA, O/LE, O/LA |
| D’Lacey | Dragon Chronicles series (The Fire Within) | |
| D’Lacey | Unicorne Files series (A Dark Inheritance) | |
| Dilloway | Summer of a Thousand Pies | HE, F |
| Dowd | The London Eye Mystery | O/LE |
| Draper | Blended | O/LE, O/LA |
| Durst | Catalyst | |
| Edge | Penelope Tredwell Mysteries series (Twelve Minutes to Midnight) | HE, F |
| Flanagan | Ranger’s Apprentice series (The Ruins of Gorlan) | O/LE |
| Funke | The Thief Lord | O/LA |
| Gaiman | The Graveyard Book (Newbery) | O/LE, O/LE, HE. HA, F |
| Gallicano | Sam London Adventure series (Guardians of the Gryphon’s Claw) | |
| Gephart | In Your Shoes | |
| Gordon | Tunnels series (Tunnels) | |
| Gratz | Ground Zero | HA |
| Gratz | Refugee | O/LE, O/LA, HA |
| Haddix | Greystone Secrets series (The Strangers) | O/LE, XE |
| Hardstaff | The Executioner’s Daughter | HE |
| Hesse | Brooklyn Bridge: A Novel | O/LA |
| Hiaasen | Hoot | O/LE, O/LA |
| Horvath | Pine Island Home | |
| Hunter | Seekers series (The Quest Begins) | O/LA, F, HE, HA |
| Jacobson | The Dollar Kids | |
| John | Mascot | HA, HE |
| Jones | House of Many Ways | HE, F |
| Juster | The Phantom Tollbooth | O/LE, O/LA |
| Kraatz | Space Runners series (The Moon Platoon) | HA, HE |
| Lee | Dragon Pearl | O/LE, O/LA, HE, XE |
| Levine | Ogre Enchanted | HA |
| Levy | Seventh Grade Vs. the Galaxy | HE |
| London | The Call of the Wild | O/LE, O/LA, HE, HA, F |
| Macusi | Camelot Code series (The Once and Future Geek) | |
| McMann | Unwanted Quests series (Dragon Captives) | XE |
| Medina | Merci Suarez Can’t Dance | XE |
| Meloy | Wildwood series (Wildwood) | O/LA, HE, HA, F |
| Morris | Squint | HE, HA |
| Mulligan | Trash | O/LE, O/LA |
| Napoli | In a Flash | XE |
| O’Shaugnessy | The Lonely Heart of Maybelline Lane | |
| Park | Prairie Lotus | XE |
| Parry | A Wolf Called Wander | O/LE, O/LA, HA, XE |
| Parry | Last of the Name | HE |
| Patron | The Higher Power of Lucky (Newbery) | O/LA |
| Peacock | The Boy Sherlock Holmes series (Eye of the Crow–paperback) | |
| Polisner and Baskin | Seven Clues to Home | |
| Roberts | Nikki on the Line | |
| Ryan | Echo | O/LE, O/LA |
| Sands | Blackthorn Key Adventure (The Blackthorn Key) | |
| Schlitz | Splendors and Glooms | HE |
| Schwab | Cassidy Blake (City of Ghosts) | HA |
| Starmer | The Riverman trilogy (The Riverman) | HA |
| Stead | The List of Things That Will Not Change | O/LE, XE |
| Stevenson | Lizzie Flying Solo | HE, HA, F |
| Stevenson | Treasure Island | O/LE, O/LA, HE, HA, F |
| Stewart | The Mysterious Benedict Society series (The Mysterious Benedict Society) | O/LE, O/LA, XE |
| Strange | Our Castle by the Sea | HA |
| Stroud | Lockwood & Co. series (The Screaming Staircase) | O/LA |
| Tolkien | The Hobbit | O/LE, O/LA, HE, HA |
| Townsend | Nevermoor series (The Trials of Morrigan Crow) | O/LA |
| Walters | Elephant Secret | HA |
| Welford | What Not to Do if You Turn Invisible | HA |
| Wolkenstein | Turtle Boy | XE |
| Woodson | Before the Ever After | XE |
| Yee | Warp Speed | O/LE |
| Yelchin | Breaking Stalin’s Nose | HA |
All books are available from our library.
Digital formats may also be available. If they are, the abbreviations are:
O/LA = Overdrive/Libby audiobook
O/LE = Overdrive/Libby e-book
HA = Hoopla audiobook
HE = Hoopla e-book
HV = Hoopla video
F = Freading e-book
| Author | Title | Digital Formats Available |
| Adeyemi | Children of Blood and Bone | O/LE, O/LA, HA |
| Adler | That Way Madness Lies | |
| Anderson | Speak | O/LE, O/LA |
| Andrews | Me, Earl and the Dying Girl | O/LE, O/LA, HE, F |
| Aveyard | Red Queen (series) | O/LE, O/LA, HA |
| Bauer | Hope Was Here | O/LA |
| Brashares | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (series) | O/LE, O/LA |
| Bray | A Great and Terrible Beauty | O/LE, O/LA |
| Cabot | Princess Diaries (series) | O/LE, O/LA, H/E, F |
| Cass | The Selection (series) | O/LE, O/LA, HA |
| Colfer | Artemis Fowl (series) | O/LE, O/LA, HE |
| Collins | The Hunger Games Trilogy | O/LE, O/LA, HE, HA |
| Cooney | The Face on the Milk Carton | O/LE, HA |
| Cormier | The Chocolate War | O/LA, HA |
| Dessen | Keeping the Moon | O/LE , HA |
| Donnelly | Deep Blue (series) | HE |
| Feinstein | The Walk On | HA |
| Garber | Caraval | OL/E, O/LA, HA |
| Han | To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (series) | O/LE, O/LA, HA |
| Hinton | The Outsiders | O/LE, O/LA |
| Horowitz | Alex Rider (series) | O/LA, HA |
| Hur | The Forest of Stolen Girls | |
| Inzana | Ichiro (graphic novel) | HE |
| Kinsella | Finding Audrey | O/LE, O/LA |
| Lee | Luck of the Titanic | |
| Lockhart | We Were Liars | O/LE. O/LA |
| Lu | Legend (series) | O/LE, O/LA |
| Meyer | Cinder (series) | O/LE, O/LA, HA |
| Murphy | Dumplin’ | O/LE, O/LA, HE, HA, F |
| Patterson | Maximum Ride (series) | O/LE, O/LA |
| Picoult | Between the Lines | O/LE, O/LA, HA |
| Pullman | The Golden Compass (series) | O/LE, O/LA |
| Scott | The Alchemyst | O/LE, O/LA |
| Sepetys | Salt to the Sea: A Novel | O/LE, O/LA |
| Shusterman | Scythe | O/LE, HA |
| Thomas | The Hate U Give | O/LE, O/LA, HE, HA, F |
| Thomas | Lost in the Never Woods | |
| Tolkien | Lord of the Rings Trilogy | O/LE, O/LA, HA |
| Turk | The Other Side of Perfect | |
| West | Sunkissed | |
| Westerfeld | Uglies (series) | O/LE |
| Yoon | Everything, Everything | O/LE, O/LA |
Leveling sources: Fountas and Pinnell, Scholastic, and Booksource
Edmonds. The Matchlock Gun. (P) In 1756, during the French and Indian War, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient Spanish gun his father had given him.
Brink. Caddie Woodlawn. (R) The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Fleischman. The Whipping Boy. (R) A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall. (R)When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
Naylor. Shiloh. (R) When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog’s real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Sorensen. Miracles on Maple Hill. (R) After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly’s family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other.
Coatsworth. The Cat Who Went to Heaven. (S) In ancient Japan, a struggling artist is angered when his housekeeper brings home a tiny white cat he can barely afford to feed. But when the village’s head priest commissions a painting of the Buddha for a healthy sum, the artist softens toward the animal he believes has brought him luck.
Konisburg. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. (S) Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Armstrong. Sounder. (T) Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young African-American boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and enjoying the companionship of his devoted dog Sounder.
Kadohata. Kira-Kira. (T) Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia. (T) Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie’s house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief.
Blos. A Gathering of Days. (U) The journal of a 14-year-old girl in 1831, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father’s remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
Byars. The Summer of the Swan. (U) Sara’s life has always flowed smoothly, like the gliding swans on the lake, until her little brother Charlie disappears. Then Sara is forced to see her life in a whole new way.
Curtis. Bud, Not Buddy. (U) Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father–the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
De Angeli. The Door in the Wall. (U) The crippled son of a powerful nobleman in fourteenth-century England sets out to prove his courage and his right to be recognized by the King.
DiCamillo. The Tale of Despereaux. (U) The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
Enright. Thimble Summer. (U) A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet’s father. Garnet can’t help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman, for the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in many different ways.
Estes. Ginger Pye. (U)The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
Field. Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. (U) Hitty is a doll of great charm and character, and her memoirs reveal her delightful personality. Hitty, or Mehitable as she was really named, was made in the early 1800s for Phoebe Preble, a little girl from Maine. This is the story of Hitty’s years with Phoebe, and the many that follow in the life of a well-loved doll.
George. Julie of the Wolves. (U) While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Konigsburg. The View from Saturday. (U) Four students develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
Krumgold. Onion John. (U) The friendship between Andy and the elderly Onion John–an immigrant handyman–becomes strained when Andy’s father tries to change the old man’s ways.
Lowry. Number the Stars. (U) In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Park. A Single Shard. (U) Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters’ village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. When Min takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated until he finds obstacles in his path.
Speare. The Bronze Bow. (U) A young Jewish rebel is filled with hatred for the Romans and a desire to avenge his parents’ deaths until Jesus teaches him love and understanding of others.
Vanderpool. Moon Over Manifest. (U) Jumping off a train in Kansas to learn more about her father’s exciting past, Abilene Tucker is initially disappointed by the run-down Depression town she encounters before finding a hidden box of mementos and letters that mention a spy who played an important role in the town’s secret history.
Wojciechowska. Shadow of a Bull. (U) Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father’s shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
305.896 Yates. Amos Fortune, Free Man. (V) The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
973.7 (Lincoln) Freedman. Lincoln: a Photobiography. (V) A collection of period photographs and prints, and a sampler of Lincoln’s writings provide an incisive study of the boyhood, marriage, professional life, political career, and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln.
O’Brien. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. (V) An inquisitive mouse becomes involved in an intrigue when she discovers her late husband had been held captive at a strange laboratory.
O’Dell. Island of the Blue Dolphins. (V) Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Peck. A Year Down Yonder. (V) During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
Raskin. The Westing Game. (V) This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings!
Sachar. Holes. (V) Stanley Yelnats is sent away to a boys’ detention center where the warden instructs the boys to “build character” by digging holes everyday, but it doesn’t take long for Stanley to figure out that the warden is up to something, and he decides to figure out what it is.
Avi. Crispin: The Cross of Lead. (W) After being accused of a crime, thirteen-year-old Crispin becomes a wanted man and so must use a new identity and keep on the run in order to stay alive, in a suspenseful middle reader set in fourteenth-century England.
Creech. Walk Two Moons. (W) After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother’s route and Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Hawes. The Dark Frigate. (W) In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
L’Engle. A Wrinkle in Time. (W) Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg’s father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. When the children learn that Mr. Murry has been captured by the Dark Thing, they time travel to Camazotz, where they must face the leader IT in the ultimate battle between good and evil.
Lewis. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze. (W) In the 1920s, a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother, where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
Patron. The Higher Power of Lucky. (W) Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Rylant. Missing May. (W) After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
Speare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. (W) Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives’ stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, and on occasion, her young sailor friend Nat. But when Kit’s friendship with the “witch” is discovered, Kit is faced with suspicion, fear, and anger. She herself is accused of witchcraft!
Spinelli. Maniac Magee. (W) Jeffrey Lionel “Maniac” Magee might have lived a normal life if a trolley accident hadn’t made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run-and not just run away, but run. And this is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.
Stead. When You Reach Me. (W) As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, “The $20,000 Pyramid,” a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. (W) Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the racism of the KKK as they embark on a cross-burning rampage, before she fully understands the importance her family attributes to having land of their own.
Alexander. The High King. (X) In this final part of the chronicle of Prydain, the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero.
Cooper. The Grey King. (X) There is a Welsh legend about a harp of gold, hidden within a certain hill, that will be found by a boy and a white dog with silver eyes — a dog that can see the wind. Will Stanton knew nothing of this when he came to Wales to recover from a severe illness. But when he met Bran, the strange boy who owned a white dog, he began to remember. For Will is the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to saving the world from the forces of evil, the Dark.
Cushman. The Midwife’s Apprentice. (X) In a small village in medieval England, a young homeless girl acquires a home and a new career when she becomes the apprentice to a sharp-tempered midwife.
Hamilton. M.C. Higgins, The Great. (X) As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
Hesse. Out of the Dust. (X) In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family’s wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Lofting. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. (X) Doctor Dolittle, the man who can talk to the animals, and nine year old Tommy Stubbins head out on the high seas for the mysterious, floating, Spidermonkey Island, surviving a terrible shipwreck and many other dangers in search of Long Arrow, a missing naturalist and the Great Glass Sea Snail.
Paterson. Jacob I Have Loved. (X) Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise’s friends, their parents’ love, her dreams for the future. For once in her life, Louise wants to be the special one. But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is . . . and find a way to make a place for herself outside her sister’s shadow.
Sperry. Call It Courage. (X) Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
Voigt. Dicey’s Song. (X) Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
527 (Bowditch) Latham. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch. (Y) After finding a way to teach the ship’s crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into “The American Practical Navigator,” also known as the “Sailors’ Bible.”A fictionalized look at Nathaniel Bowditch and how his knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, ships, and the sea led him to become a brilliant navigator.
Fox. The Slave Dancer. (Y) Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Gantos. Dead End in Norvelt. (Y) Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is “grounded for life” by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack’s way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore – typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town.
Lowry. The Giver. (Y) This haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.
Trevino. I, Juan de Pareja. (Y) Although Juan is a slave, a friendship develops between him and his benevolent master, the great Spanish artist Velazques, who secretly teaches him to paint.
812 Schlitz. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village. (Z) A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
813.4 (Alcott) Meigs. Invincible Louisa. (Z) Biography tracing the fascinating life of Louisa May Alcott from her happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston to her success as a writer of such classics as Little women.
Alexander. The Crossover. (Z) “With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m delivering,” announces dread-locked 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he’s got mad beats, too, that tell his family’s story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood.
Forbes. Johnny Tremain. (Z) After injuring his hand, a silversmith’s apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Kelly. The Trumpeter of Krakow. (Z) A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy’s memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.
Krumgold. … and now Miguel. (Z) This is the story of a twelve-year-old Miguel Chavez, who yearns in his heart to go with the men of his family on a long and hard sheep drive to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains–until his prayer is finally answered, with a disturbing and dangerous exchange.
McKinley. The Hero and the Crown. (Z) Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the Blue Sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.
12/02/2019 JC
| Title | Author | F&P Level | Call Number |
| I Like My Bike | Ferrari | A | JE Fer |
| I Can Run | Head | A | JE Hea |
| What I See | Keller | A | JE Kel |
| I Hug | McPhail | A | JE McP |
| I See a Cat | Meisel | A | Mei |
| What Can I Be? | Meister | A | JE Mei |
| Autumn Leaves | Saunders-Smith | A | JE Sau |
| Anno’s Counting Book | Anno | A | PIC Ann |
| Do You Want to Be My Friend? | Carle | A | PIC Car |
| Uh-Oh! | Crum | A | PIC Cru |
| Count and See | Hoban | A | PIC Hob |
| A Boy, A Dog, A Frog and a Friend | Mayer | A | PIC May |
| Daisy Gets Lost | Raschka | A | PIC Ras |
| Have You Seen My Duckling? | Tafuri | A | PIC Taf |
| I Like the Farm | Rotner | A | J 636 Rot |
JE = Beginning reader books
PIC = Picture books
2/24/20 MCA
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Cats! | Brimner | B | JE Bri |
| Silly Sally | Franco | B | JE Fra |
| Fast Slow | Gordon | B | JE Gor |
| I Am Mad! | Hood | B | JE Hoo |
| Field Day | Jones | B | JE Jon |
| My Dog Likes Me | Kalman | B | JE Kal |
| My Funny Cat | Kalman | B | JE Kal |
| A Lunch with Punch | Kittinger | B | JE Kit |
| Going to the Beach | Kittinger | B | JE Kit |
| Dress Up | Leonard | B | JE Leo |
| Get the Ball, Slim | Leonard | B | JE Leo |
| I Like Mess | Leonard | B | JE Leo |
| Game Day | Meister | B | JE Mei |
| Have You Seen My Cat? | Carle | B | PIC Car |
| Ollie | Dunrea | B | PIC Dun |
| Growing Vegetable Soup | Ehlert | B | PIC Ehl |
| Have You Seen My Duckling? | Tafuri | B | PIC Taf |
| Let’s Go Visiting | Williams | B | PIC Wil |
| Hide and Seek | Yee | B | PIC Yee |
| Hoptoad | Yolen | B | PIC Yol |
JE = Beginning reader books
PIC = Picture books
12/3/19 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Raindrops | Brimner | C | JE Bri |
| Being Me | Broski | C | JE Bro |
| Shadows | Calvert | C | JE Cal |
| Fall Leaves | Curry | C | JE Cur |
| Pancakes, Crackers & Pizza | Eberts | C | JE Ebe |
| Going to Grandma’s Farm | Franco | C | JE Fra |
| Silly Sally | Franco | C | JE Fra |
| All Kinds of Kids | Gardeski | C | JE Gar |
| Scat, Cats! | Holub | C | JE Hol |
| Old Mo | Hsu | C | JE Hsu |
| Balls | Jones | C | JE Jon |
| Can It Fly? | Kalman | C | JE Kal |
| When I Am Happy | Kalman | C | JE Kal |
| One Smart Fish | Manivong | C | JE Man |
| Bugs! | McKissack | C | JE McK |
| A New Roof | Meister | C | JE Mei |
| See Pip Point | Milgrim | C | JE Mil |
| Where is Max? | Pearson | C | JE Pea |
| Joshua James Likes Trucks | Petrie | C | JE Pet |
| A Halloween Mask for Monster | Mueller | C | JHOLF Mue |
| Gossie & Gertie | Dunrea | C | PIC Dun |
| Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? | Martin | C | PIC Mar |
| Yo! Yes? | Raschka | C | PIC Ras |
| It Looked Like Spilt Milk | Shaw | C | PIC Sha |
| Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails | Tafuri | C | PIC Taf |
| I Went Walking | Williams | C | PIC Wil |
JE = Beginning reader books
JHOL = Children’s holiday books
PIC = Picture books
12/3/19 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Bears in the Night | Berenstain | D | JE Ber |
| Sid and Sam | Buck | D | JE Buc |
| All Kinds of Kids | Gardeski | D | JE Gar |
| The Chick and the Duckling | Ginsburg | D | JE Gin |
| Hi, Clouds | Greene | D | JE Gre |
| Dirty Larry | Hamsa | D | JE Ham |
| Fast-Draw Freddie | Hamsa | D | JE Ham |
| There is a Town | Herman | D | JE Her |
| Balls | Jones | D | JE Jon |
| Today is a Great Day! | Kalman | D | JE Kal |
| Sam’s Ball | Lindgren | D | JE Lin |
| Sam’s Cookie | Lindgren | D | JE LIn |
| Tiny the Snow Dog | Meister | D | JE Mei |
| Bears, Bears, Everywhere | Milios | D | JE Mil |
| The Shape of Me and Other Stuff | Seuss | D | JE Seu |
| Paul the Pitcher | Sharp | D | JE Sha |
| Sleepy Dog, Wake Up! | Ziefert | D | JE Zie |
| Pumpkin Heads | Minor | D | JHOLF Min |
| My Car | Barton | D | PIC Bar |
| From Head to Toe | Carle | D | PIC Car |
| School Bus | Crews | D | PIC Cre/BB Cre |
| Feathers for Lunch | Ehlert | D | PIC Ehl |
| Flora’s Blanket | Gliori | D | PIC Gli |
| Sit, Truman | Harper | D | PIC Har |
JE = Beginning reader books
JHOL = Children’s holiday books
PIC = Picture books
12/3/19 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Vote! | Christelow | E | J 324.973 Chr |
| Inside, Outside, Upside down | Berenstain | E | JE Ber |
| Oh, Cats! | Buck | E | JE Buc |
| The Big Box | Clammer | E | JE Cla |
| One Is Enough | Cook | E | JE Coo |
| Go, Dog, Go | Eastman | E | JE Eas |
| Hi, Clouds | Greene | E | JE Gre |
| A House for Little Red | Hillert | E | JE Hil |
| Circus Fun | Hillert | E | JE Hil |
| Dear Dragon series | Hillert | E/F | JE Hil |
| Little Cowboy and the Big Cowboy | Hillert | E | JE Hil |
| The Yellow Boat | Hillert | E | JE Hil |
| Nice Wheels | Hooks | E | JE Hoo |
| Are You Like Me? | Kalman | E | JE Kal |
| Sam Goes to School | Labatt | E | JE Lab |
| Garbage Trucks | Lindeen | E | JE Lin |
| Dragon Egg | Loehr | E | JE Loe |
| Pig Has a Plan | Long | E | JE Lon |
| I Love Cats | Matthias | E | JE Mat |
| Who is Coming? | McKissack | E | JE McK |
| When Tiny Was Tiny | Meister | E | JE Mei |
| Just Like Me | Neasi | E | JE Nea |
| The Nose Book | Perkins | E | JE Per |
| Puppy Mudge Wants to Play | Rylant | E | JE Ryl |
| The Foot Book | Seuss | E | JE Seu |
| Eat Your Peas, Louise | Snow | E | JE Sno |
| Surprise Puppy! | Walker-Hodge | E | JE Wal |
| Merry Christmas, Dear Dragon | Hillert | E | JHOLF Hil |
| Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? | Carle | E | PIC Car |
| Today Is Monday | Carle | E | PIC Car |
| Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed | Christelow | E | PIC Chr |
| Fly! | Edwards | E | PIC Edw |
| Down on the Farm | Kutner | E | PIC Kutner |
| What Mommies Do Best/What Daddies Do Best | Numeroff | E | PIC Num |
| No Nap! Yes Nap! | Palatini | E | PIC Pal |
J 000.00 = Numbered books are in the J non-fiction section
JE = Beginning reader books
JHOL = Children’s holiday books
PIC = Picture books
12/3/19 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Brave Mary | Brimner | F | JE Bri |
| Firehouse Sal | Brimner | F | JE Bri |
| Biscuit series | Capucilli | F | JE Cap |
| Amazing Animals | Franco | F | JE Fra |
| Dear Dragon Series | Hillert | E/F | JE Hil |
| The Yellow Boat | Hillert | F | JE Hil |
| Up, Up and Away | Hillert | F | JE Hil |
| Who Goes to School? | Hillert | F | JE Hil |
| Drop It, Rocket! | Hills | F | JE Hil |
| Rocket’s 100th Day of School | Hills | F | JE Hil |
| Look! I Can Read! | Hood | F | JE Hoo |
| Body Talk | Kalman | F | JE Kal |
| Reptile Rap | Kalman | F | JE Kal |
| Big Brown Bear | McPhail | F | JE McP |
| The Teeny Tiny Woman | O’Connor | F | JE O’Co |
| Loose Tooth | Schaefer | F | JE Sch |
| Always Be Safe | Schulz | F | JE Sch |
| Hooray For Snail | Stadler | F | JE Sta |
| Baa-Choo! | Weeks | F | JE Wee |
| The Turnip | Ziefert | F | JE Zie |
| Silly Little Goose! | Tafuri | F | JF Taf |
| Just Like Daddy | Asch | F | PIC Asc |
| Mama Cat Has Three Kittens | Fleming | F | PIC Fle |
| What Mommies Do Best/What Daddies Do Best | Numeroff | F | PIC Num |
| Not a Box | Portis | F | PIC Por |
| No, David! | Shannon | F | PIC Sha |
| What the Sun Sees; What the Moon Sees | Tafuri | F | PIC Taf |
| What Will Fat Cat Sit On? | Thomas | F | PIC Tho |
| Read to Your Bunny | Wells | F | PIC Wel |
JCOMIC = J Comic books
JE = Beginning reader books
JF = Children’s fiction
JHOL = Children’s holiday books
PIC = Picture books
12/3/19 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Kitten’s First Full Moon | Henkes | G | J Cald Hen |
| Dinosaurs Don’t, Dinosaurs Do | Bjorkman | G | JE Bjo |
| Mine’s the Best | Bonsall | G | JE Bon |
| A Dog for Each Day | Bowdish | G | JE Bow |
| Biscuit Wins a Prize | Capucilli | G | JE Cap |
| Carl and the Baby Duck | Day | G | JE Day |
| Digger the Dinosaur and the Cake Mistake | Dotlich | G | JE Dot |
| Addition Annie | Gisler | G | JE Gis |
| Chicken Said “Cluck!” | Grant | G | JE Gra |
| The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat | Karlin | G | JE Kar |
| Dancing Dinos Go to School | Lucas | G | JE Luc |
| Big Rigs | Manolis | G | JE Man |
| I’m A Caterpillar | Marzollo | G | JE Mar |
| The Teeny, Tiny Woman | O’Connor | G | JE OCo |
| Corn Aplenty | Rau | G | JE Rau |
| Mittens (series) | Schaefer | G | JE Sch |
| Snow Games: A Robot and Rico Story | Suen | G | JE Sue |
| Buzz Said the Bee | Lewison | G | JE Lew |
| A Big Guy Took My Ball (Elephant and Piggie) | Willems | G | JE Wil |
| I Really Like Slop! (Elephant and Piggie) | Willems | G | JE Wil |
| There Is a Bird on Your Head! (Elephant and Piggie) | Willems | G | JE Wil |
| Each Peach Pear Plum | Ahlberg | G | PIC Ahl |
| Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs | Barton | G | PIC Bar |
| I Like Myself! | Beaumont | G | PIC Bea |
| The Snowman and the Snowdog | Briggs | G | PIC Bri |
| Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? | Carle | G | PIC Car |
| Freight Train | Crews | G | PIC Cre |
| Click, Clack, Splish, Splash | Cronin | G | PIC Cro |
| Brand-New Pencils, Brand-New Books | DeGroat | G | PIC DeG |
| Ruby in Her Own Time | Emmett | G | PIC Emm |
| Zoo Looking | Fox | G | PIC Fox |
| Chu’s Day | Gaiman | G | PIC Gai |
| Birds | Henkes | G | PIC Hen |
| Titch | Hutchins | G | PIC Hut |
| The Carrot Seed | Kraus | G | PIC Kra |
| Dim Sum for Everyone! | Lin | G | PIC Lin |
| Sheep in a Jeep | Shaw | G | PIC Sha |
| A Hat for Minerva Louise | Stoeke | G | PIC Sto |
| The Deep Blue Sea: A Book of Colors | Wood | G | PIC Woo |
| Tracks in the Snow | Yee | G | PIC Yee |
J Cald = Caldecott Award books
JE = Beginning reader books
PIC = Picture books
12/3/19 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Let’s Read About…Martin Luther King | Baker | H | J B 305.896 (King) Bak |
| Florence Nightingale | Alexander | H | J B 610.73 (Nightingale) Ale |
| My Friend Rabbit | Rohmann | H | CALD Roh |
| Fly Guy (series) | Arnold | H/I | JE Arn |
| Old Hat, New Hat | Berenstain | H | JE Ber |
| Elvis the Rooster Almost Goes to Heaven | Cazet | H | JE Caz |
| Brave Norman: A True Story | Clements | H | JE Cle |
| Pete the Cat: Scuba Cat | Dean | H | JE Dea |
| A Pig, a Fox and a Box | Fenske | H | JE Fen |
| Danny and the Dinosaur Go to Camp | Hoff | H | JE Hof |
| Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur | Hoff | H | JE Hof |
| Sammy the Seal | Hoff | H | JE Hof |
| The Pizza That We Made | Holub | H | JE Hol |
| A Picture for Harold’s Room | Johnson | H | JE Joh |
| Put Me in the Zoo | Lopshire | H | JE Lop |
| Ant & Honey Bee: A Pair of Friends in Winter | McDonald | H | JE McD |
| A Kiss for Little Bear | Minarik | H | JE Min |
| Zoom! Boom! Bully | Scieszka | H | JE Sci |
| Should I Share my Ice Cream? | Willems | H | JE Wil |
| Morris the Moose | Wiseman | H | JE Wis |
| We Are Best Friends | Aliki | H | PIC Ali |
| Oh My Baby, Little One | Appelt | H | PIC App |
| We’re Going on a Lion Hunt | Axtell | H | PIC Axt |
| Goodnight Moon | Brown | H | PIC Bro |
| Growing Vegetable Soup | Ehlert | H | PIC Ehl |
| Bark, George | Feiffer | H | PIC Fei |
| Time to Sleep | Fleming | H | PIC Fle |
| And Then It’s Spring | Fogliano | H | PIC Fog |
| Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse | George | H | PIC Geo |
| Bailey Goes Camping | Henkes | H | PIC Hen |
| Whose Mouse Are You? | Kraus | H | PIC Kra |
| Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? | Martin | H | PIC Mar |
| Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal Habitats | Na | H | PIC Na |
| Dogs Don’t Wear Sneakers | Numeroff | H | PIC Num |
| If You Give a Pig a Party | Numeroff | H | PIC Num |
| The Family Book | Parr | H | PIC Par |
| Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle | Raschka | H | PIC Ras |
| Sheep Blast Off! | Shaw | H | PIC Sha |
| Dinosaur Roar! | Stickland | H | PIC Sti |
| Bear Wants More | Wilson | H | PIC Wil |
J B 000.00 = J non-fiction biography section
CALD = Caldecott Award winner
JE = Beginning reader books
PIC = Picture books
12/3/19 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| My First Kwanzaa Book | Chocolate | I | J 394.268 Cho |
| Should Charlotte Share? Being a Good Friend | Rissman | I | J 395 Ris |
| The Teeny, Tiny Woman : A Ghost Story | Galdone | I | J 398.21 Gal |
| Joe on the Go | Anderson | I | JE And |
| Fly Guy (series) | Arnold | H/I | JE Arn |
| Who’s Afraid of the Dark? | Bonsall | I | JE Bon |
| Max Spaniel: Funny Lunch, and Dinosaur Hunt | Catrow | I | JE Cat |
| Are You My Mother? | Eastman | I | JE Eas |
| Big Dog, Little Dog | Eastman | I | JE Eas |
| Fish Had a Wish | Garland | I | JE Gar |
| The Cat on the Mat is Flat | Griffiths | I | JE Gri |
| Penny and her Song | Henkes | I | JE Hen |
| Grizzwold | Hoff | I | JE Hof |
| Where’s Lulu? | Hooks | I | JE Hoo |
| Tuckerbean at Big Bone Bowl | Kalz | I | JE Kal |
| Small Pig | Lobel | I | JE Lob |
| Messy Bessey | McKissack | I | JE McK |
| Max and Zoe (series) | Sateren | I | JE Sat |
| In a People House | Seuss | I | JE Seu |
| Morris the Moose | Wiseman | I | JE Wis |
| We’re in Big Trouble,Blackboard Bear | Alexander | I | PIC Ale |
| White Rabbit’s Colors | Baker | I | PIC Bak |
| Little Cloud | Carle | I | PIC Car |
| The Very Busy Spider | Carle | I | PIC Car |
| No Good in Art | Cohen | I | PIC Coh |
| When Will I Read? | Cohen | I | PIC Coh |
| Maisy Learns to Swim | Cousins | I | PIC Cou |
| Ten Black Dots | Crew | I | PIC Cre |
| Angus and the Cat | Flack | I | PIC Fla |
| Chu’s First Day of School | Gaiman | I | PIC Gai |
| Henny Penny | Galdone | I | PIC Gal |
| Jump, Frog, Jump! | Kalan | I | PIC Kal |
| Geraldine’s Big Snow | Keller | I | PIC Kel |
| Keisha Ann Can! | Kirk | I | PIC Kir |
| Leo the Late Bloomer | Kraus | I | PIC Kra |
| A Color of His Own | Lionni | I | PIC Lio |
| Monk Camps Out | McCully | I | PIC McC |
| There’s a Nightmare in My Closet | Mayer | I | PIC Mey |
| The Kissing Hand | Penn | I | PIC Pen |
| The Little Engine That Could | Piper | I | PIC Pip |
| Apples and Pumpkins | Rockwell | I | PIC Roc |
| We’re Going on a Bear Hunt | Rosen | I | PIC Ros |
| My Love For You All Year Round | Roth | I | PIC Rot |
| Noisy Nora | Wells | I | PIC Wel |
| Timothy Goes to School | Wells | I | PIC Wel |
| The Little mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Hungry Bear | Wood | I | PIC Woo |
| The Napping House | Wood | I | PIC Woo |
| How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? | Yolen | I | PIC Yol |
J 000.00 = Numbered books are in the non-fiction section
JE = Beginning reader books
PIC = Picture books
12/3/19 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Autumn | Saunders-Smith | J | J 508.2 Sau |
| Drummer Hoff | Emberley | J | J CALD Emb |
| The Snowy Day | Keats | J | J CALD Kea |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Sendak | J | J CALD Sen |
| Benjamin Bear (series) | Coudray | J | J COM Cou |
| Little Mouse Gets Ready: A Toon Book | Smith | J | J COM Smi |
| Bones and the Dinosaur Mystery (series) | Adler | J | JE Adl |
| Young Cam Jansen series | Adler | J | JE Adl |
| The Dragon’s Scales: A Math Reader | Albee | J | JE Alb |
| And I Mean It, Stanley | Bonsall | J | JE Bon |
| Who’s a Pest? | Bonsall | J | JE Bon |
| My Brother, Ant | Byars | J | JE Bya |
| Marigold and Grandma on the Town | Calmenson | J | JE Cal |
| Minnie and Moo series | Cazet | J | JE Caz |
| Cork & Fuzz series | Chaconas | J | JE Cha |
| Dolores and the Big Fire | Clements | J | JE Cle |
| Aunt Eater series | Cushman | J | JE Cus |
| The Best Nest | Eastman | J | JE Eas |
| Dixie | Gilman | J | JE Gil |
| Iris and Walter series | Guest | J | JE Gue |
| Porcupine’s Pajama Party | Harshman | J | JE Har |
| Danny and the Dinosaur | Hoff | J | JE Hof |
| Andy Shane and the Barn Sale Mystery | Jacobson | J | JE Jac |
| Pinkalicious: Cherry Blossom | Kann | J | JE Kan |
| Last One In is a Rotten Egg | Kessler | J | JE Kes |
| Emma’s Strange Pet | Little | J | JE Lit |
| Mouse Soup | Lobel | J | JE Lob |
| Uncle Elephant | Lobel | J | JE Lob |
| Rabbit’s Birthday Kite | MacDonald | J | JE Macd |
| Gus and Grandpa (series) | Mills | J | JE Mil |
| Little Bear (series) | Minarik | J | JE Min |
| Newt | Novak | J | JE Nov |
| Fancy Nancy series | O’Connor | J | JE O’Co |
| LuLu Goes to Witch School | O’Connor | J | JE O’Co |
| No More Monsters for Me | Parish | J | JE Par |
| Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb | Perkins | J | JE Per |
| Annie and Snowball and the Cozy Nest | Rylant | J | JE Ryl |
| Henry & Mudge series | Rylant | J | JE Ryl |
| Mr. Putter and Tabby series | Rylant | J | JE Ryl |
| Poppleton series | Rylant | J | JE Ryl |
| In a Dark Dark Room | Scheartz | J | JE Sch |
| Splat the Cat Sings Flat | Scotton | J | JE Sco |
| Great Day for Up | Dr. Seuss | J | JE Seu |
| Green Eggs and Ham | Seuss | J | JE Seu |
| Hop on Pop | Seuss | J | JE Seu |
| I Can Read with my Eyes Shut | Seuss | J | JE Seu |
| I Wish That I Had Duck Feet | Seuss | J | JE Seu |
| Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! | Seuss | J | JE Seu |
| The Cat in the Hat | Seuss | J | JE Seu |
| The Shape of Me and Other Stuff | Seuss | J | JE Seu |
| Wacky Wednesday | Seuss | J | JE Seu |
| Detective Dinosaur | Skofield | J | JE Sko |
| Wizard and Wart at Sea | Smith | J | JE Smi |
| Morris Goes to School | Wiseman | J | JE Wis |
| Harry and the Lady Next Door | Zion | J | JE Zio |
| Don’t be My Valentine: A Classroom Mystery | Lexau | J | J HOL Lex |
| Christmas in the Big Woods | Wilder | J | J HOL Wil |
| Clifford series | Bridwell | J | PIC/JPB Bri |
| Monkey: Not Ready for Kindergarten | Brown | J | PIC Bro |
| The Grouchy Ladybug | Carle | J | PIC Car |
| The Very Hungry Catapillar | Carle | J | PIC Car |
| Rory the Dinosaur Wants a Pet | Climo | J | PIC Cli |
| First Grade Takes a Test | Cohen | J | PIC Coh |
| See You in Second Grade | Cohen | J | PIC Coh |
| Starring First Grade | Cohen | J | PIC Coh |
| Jamberry | Dengen | J | PIC Den |
| Duncan the Story Dragon | Driscoll | J | PIC Dri |
| Boy + Bot | Dyckman | J | PIC Dyc |
| Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf | Ehlert | J | PIC Ehl |
| Ask Mr. Bear | Flack | J | PIC Fla |
| The Little Red Hen | Galdone | J | PIC Gal |
| Room For Bear | Gavin | J | PIC Gav |
| The Night World | Gerstein | J | PIC Ger |
| Good Morning Chick | Ginsburg | J | PIC Gin |
| Amazing Grace | Hoffman | J | PIC Hof |
| The Rain Puddle | Holl | J | PIC Hol |
| Peter’s Chair | Keats | J | PIC Kea |
| A Dog Wearing Shoes | Ko | J | PIC Ko |
| Herman the Helper | Kraus | J | PIC Kra |
| Inch by Inch | Lionni | J | PIC Lio |
| Little Blue and Little Yellow | Lionni | J | PIC Lio |
| Froggy gets Dressed | London | J | PIC Lon |
| Froggy Learns to Swim | London | J | PIC Lon |
| Let’s Go, Froggy! | London | J | PIC Lon |
| The Wonderful Things You Will Be | Martin | J | PIC Mar |
| There’s An Alligator Under My Bed | Mayer | J | PIC May |
| There’s Something in My Attic | Mayer | J | PIC May |
| Give Me Half | Murphy | J | PIC Mur |
| Curious George and the Pizza | Rey | J | PIC Rey |
| Curious George Goes to the Hospital | Rey | J | PIC Rey |
| A Kitten Tale | Rohmann | J | PIC Roh |
| Little Bird Takes a Bath | Russo | J | PIC Rus |
| Spectacular Spots | Stockdale | J | PIC Sto |
| The Good-Bye Book | Viorst | J | PIC Vio |
| Bunny Money | Wells | J | PIC Wel |
| Going to Town | Wilder | J | PIC Wil |
| The Deer in the Wood | Wilder | J | PIC Wil |
J 000.00 = J Non-fiction section
J CALD = Caldecott Award books
J COM = Children’s comic section
JE = Beginning reader books
J HOL = Children’s holiday books
PIC = Picture books
12/3/2019 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| You Can’t Smell a Flower With Your Ear | Cole | K | J 612.8 Col |
| Madeline’s Rescue | Bemelmans | K | J CALD Bem |
| Frog Went A-Courtin’ | Langstaff | K | J CALD Lan |
| Benny and Penny (series) | Hayes | K | J COM Hay |
| Little Mouse Gets Ready: A Toon Book | Smith | K | J COM Smi |
| Buster, The Very Shy Dog | Bechtold | K | JE Bec |
| Piggle | Bonsall | K | JE Bon |
| The Case of the Cat’s Meow | Bonsall | K | JE Bon |
| Nice New Neighbors | Brandenberg | K | JE Bra |
| Wagon Wheels | Brenner | K | JE Bre |
| The Golly Sisters (series) | Byars | K | JE Bya |
| Duck & Company | Caple | K | JE Cap |
| Bully Trouble | Cole | K | JE Col |
| Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown | Danziger | K | JE Dan |
| It’s Justin Time, Amber Brown | Danziger | K | JE Dan |
| Dinosaur Dinners | Davis | K | JE Dav |
| A Bargain For Frances | Hoban | K | JE Hob |
| Arthur (series) | Hoban | K | JE Hob |
| Houndsley and Catina (series) | Howe | K | JE How |
| Andy Shane (series) | Jacobson | K | JE Jac |
| In the Doghouse: An Emma and Bo Story | Kimmelman | K | JE Kim |
| Lionel (series) | Krensky | K | JE Kre |
| Zelda and Ivy (series) | Kvasnosky | K | JE Kva |
| Snowshoe Thompson | Levinson | K | JE Lev |
| Ling & Ting (series) | Lin | K | JE Lin |
| Frog and Toad (series) | Lobel | K | JE Lob |
| Messy Bessey’s Closet | McKissack | K | JE McK |
| No Fighting, No Biting! | Minarik | K | JE Min |
| Squirrel’s Fun Day | Moser | K | JE Mos |
| Lulu Goes to Witch School | O’Connor | K | JE O’Co |
| Molly the Brave and Me | O’Connor | K | JE OCo |
| Dinosaur Time | Parish | K | JE Par |
| The Outside Dog | Pomerantz | K | JE Pom |
| Dear Tooth Fairy | Ruelle | K | JE Rue |
| The High-Rise Private Eyes (series) | Rylant | K | JE Ryl |
| Monkey and Elephant (series) | Schaefer | K | JE Sch |
| Hooper Humperdink–? Not him! | Seuss | K | JE Seu |
| One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish | Seuss | K | JE Seu |
| Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? | Seuss | K | JE Seu |
| The Tooth Book | Seuss | K | JE Seu |
| Nate the Great… (series) | Sharmat | K | JE Sha |
| Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Spring Babies | Silverman | K | JE Sil |
| Paddywack | Spinner | K | JE Spi |
| Tales of Oliver Pig | Van Leeuwen | K | JE Van |
| Commander Toad (series) | Yolen | K | JE Yol |
| Mercy Watson series | DiCamillo | K | JF DiC |
| Princess Posey series | Greene | K | JF Gre |
| Bramble and Maggie (series) | Haas | K | JF Haa |
| Horrible Harry series | Kline | K | JF Kli |
| Annie and Simon | O’Neill | K | JF O’Ne |
| The Peanut Butter Gang | Siracusa | K | JF Sir |
| It’s Halloween | Prelutsky | K | J HOL 811 Pre |
| Clifford’s Christmas | Bridwell | K | J HOL Bri |
| Aunt Eater’s Mystery Christmas | Cushman | K | J HOL Cus |
| Silly Tilly’s Valentine | Hoban | K | J HOL Hob |
| Orca Song | Armour | K | PIC Arm |
| Madeline | Bemelmans | K | PIC Bem |
| Franklin Goes to School | Bourgeois | K | PIC Bou |
| Stone Soup, an Old Tale | Brown | K | PIC Bro |
| Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type | Cronin | K | PIC Cro |
| Diary of a Worm | Cronin | K | PIC Cro |
| Wolfie the Bunny | Dyckman | K | PIC Dyc |
| A Pocket for Corduroy | Freeman | K | PIC Fre |
| Corduroy | Freeman | K | PIC Fre |
| The Apple Pie Tree | Hall | K | PIC Hal |
| Frances (series) | Hoban | K | PIC Hob |
| The Surprise Party | Hutchins | K | PIC Hut |
| Harold and the Purple Crayon | Johnson | K | PIC Joh |
| Princess Baby, Night-Night | Katz | K | PIC Kat |
| I Will Never Get a Star on Mrs. Benson’s Blackboard | Mann | K | PIC Man |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Martin | K | PIC Mar |
| Budgie & Boo | McPhail | K | PIC McP |
| Drawing Lessons From a Bear | McPhail | K | PIC McP |
| The Story of Ferdinand | Leaf | K | PIC Lea |
| If You Give a Moose a Muffin | Numeroff | K | PIC Num |
| If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | Numeroff | K | PIC Num |
| The Goodbye Book | Parr | K | PIC Par |
| Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? | Sayres | K | PIC Say |
| How Much Is A Million? | Schwartz | K | PIC Sch |
| Frog Prince, Continued | Scieszka | K | PIC Sci |
| Imogene’s Antlers | Small | K | PIC Sma |
| Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise | Taylor | K | PIC Tay |
| Felix Stands Tall | Wells | K | PIC Wel |
| Seven Blind Mice | Young | K | PIC You |
J 000.00 = Numbered books are in the non-fiction section
J CALD = Caldecott Award winner
J COM = J Comic books
JE = Beginning reader books
JF = Children’s fiction
J HOL = Children’s holiday books
PIC = Picture books
12/3/19 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Non-fiction books: | |||
| I’ll Haunt You! : Meet a Ghost | Knudsen | L | J 133.1 Knu |
| Anansi the Spider: A Tale From the Ashanti | McDermott | L | J 398.2096 McD |
| Biographies/Autobiographies: | |||
| Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King | Marzollo | L | J B 305.896 (King) Mar |
| Newbery/Caldecott books: | |||
| Song and Dance Man | Ackerman | L | J CALD Ack |
| Make Way for Ducklings | McCloskey | L | J CALD McC |
| Officer Buckle and Gloria | Rathmann | L | J CALD Rat |
| Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night | Spier | L | J CALD Spi |
| The Biggest Bear | Ward | L | J CALD War |
| Beginning Readers: | |||
| A Birthday for Bear | Becker | L | JE Bec |
| What A Trip, Amber Brown | Danziger | L | JE Dan |
| Dodsworth (series) | Egan | L | JE Ega |
| Spooky Friends | Feder | L | JE Fed |
| The Schoolchildren’s Blizzard | Figley | L | JE Fig |
| Truman the Dog (My Furry Foster Family) | Florence | L | JE Flo |
| Grasshopper on the Road | Lobel | L | JE Lob |
| Ant & Honey Bee: A Pair of Friends in Winter | McDonald | L | JE McD |
| Joe and Sparky (series) | Michalak | L | JE Mic |
| Backyard Camp-Out | Nolan | L | JE Nol |
| Amelia Bedelia (series) | Parish | L | JE Par |
| Piper Green and the Fairy Tree: Too Much Good Luck | Potter | L | JE Pot |
| Dr. Seuss’s ABC | Seuss | L | JE Seu |
| One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish | Seuss | L | JE Seu |
| There’s a Wocket in my Pocket! | Seuss | L | JE Seu |
| The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto | Standiford | L | JE Sta |
| Amanda Pig (series) | Van Leeuwen | L | JE Van |
| Tales of Oliver Pig | Van Leeuwen | L | JE Van |
| Oliver & Amanda and the Big Snow | Van Leeuwen | L | JE Van |
| Children’s Fiction: | |||
| Cam Jansen (series) | Adler | L | JF Adl |
| Monkeys and the Universe | Banks | L | JF Ban |
| Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover | Bell | L | JF Bel |
| Ava Tree and the Wishes Three | Betancourt | L | JF Bet |
| After Happily Ever After (series) | Bradman | L | JF Bra |
| The Dog that Pitched a No-Hitter & Dog That Stole Football Plays | Christopher | L | JF Chr |
| Annabel the Actress Starring in Gorilla My Dreams | Conford | L | JF Con |
| Pig Pickin’ | Greene | L | JF Gre |
| The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde (Princess in Black #3) | Hale | L | JF Hal |
| The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation (Princess in Black #4) | Hale | L | JF Hal |
| Pinky and Rex (series) | Howe | L | JF How |
| Digby O’Day in the Fast Lane | Hughes | L | JF Hug |
| Poppy the Pirate Dog and the Missing Treasure | Kessler | L | JF Kes |
| Horrible Harry (series) | Kline | L | JF Kli |
| Song Lee (series) | Kline | L | JF Kli |
| The Show Must Go On! | Klise | L | JF Kli |
| Grin and Bear It | Landry | L | JF Lan |
| Judy Moody and friends (series) | McDonald | L/M | JF McD |
| How Oliver Olson Changed the World | Mills | L | JF Mil |
| Milo & Jazz Mysteries series | Montgomery | L | JF Mon |
| Sly the Sleuth and the Pet Mysteries | Napoli | L | JF Nap |
| Mrs. Noodlekugel (series) | Pinkwater | L | JF Pin |
| Piper Green and the Fairy Tree | Potter | L | JF Pot |
| Marvin Redpost: Alone in His Teacher’s House | Sachar | L | JF Sac |
| Maybelle Goes to School & Maybelle and the Haunted Cupcake | Speck | L | JF Spe |
| Tooter Pepperday | Spinelli | L | JF Spi |
| Mouse and Mole (series) | Yee | L | JF Yee |
| Holiday books: | |||
| The Twelve Days of Christmas | Phan | L | JHOL 782.42 Twe |
| Oliver and Amanda’s Halloween | VanLeewen | L | JHOLF Van |
| Illustrated Literature: | |||
| Me…Jane | McDonnell | L | JIL McD |
| Paperbacks: | |||
| Annabel the Actress Starring in Gorilla My Dreams | Conford | L | JPB Con |
| Pee Wee Scouts series | Delton | L | JPB Del |
| The Dragons of Blueland | Gannett | L | JPB Gan |
| Horrible Harry in Room 2B | Kline | L | JPB Kli |
| Cafeteria Lady from the Black Lagoon | Thaler | L | JPB Tha |
| Picture books: | |||
| Miss Nelson (series) | Allard | L | PIC All |
| Happy Birthday Moon | Asch | L | PIC Asc |
| The Adventures of Taxi Dog | Barracca | L | PIC Bar |
| Rufus the Writer | Bram | L | PIC Bra |
| Arthur Meets the President | Brown | L | PIC Bro |
| Katy and the Big Snow | Burton | L | PIC Bur |
| The Truth About My Unbelievable Summer | Cali | L | PIC Cal |
| Cinderella’s Stepsister and the Big Bad Wolf | Carey | L | PIC Car |
| The Tiny Seed | Carle | L | PIC Car |
| I Love You, Blue Kangaroo! | Chichester Clark | L | PIC Chi |
| It Takes a Village | Cowen-Fletcher | L | PIC Cow |
| 100th Day Worries | Cuyer | L | PIC Cuy |
| Is Your Mama a Llama? | Guarino | L | PIC Gua |
| Duck & Goose | Hills | L | PIC Hil |
| R Is for Rocket | Hills | L | PIC Hil |
| Mama, Do You Love Me? | Joosse | L | PIC Joo |
| The Three Pig Sisters | Kim | L | PIC Kim |
| Owl and the Pussycat | Lear | L | PIC Lea |
| Froggy Goes to School | London | L | PIC Lon |
| Happy in our Skin | Manushkin | L | PIC Man |
| George and Martha (series) | Marshall | L | PIC Mar |
| Thank You and Good Night | McDonnell | L | PIC McD |
| A Guide to Sisters | Metcalf | L | PIC Met |
| The Paper Bag Princess | Munsch | L | PIC Mun |
| This is My Dollhouse | Potter | L | PIC Pot |
| Gregory, the Terrible Eater | Sharmat | L | PIC Sha |
| Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep! | Tarpley | L | PIC Tar |
| Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move | Viorst | L | PIC Vio |
J 000.00 = J Non-fiction section
J B 000.00 = J Non-fiction biography section
J CALD = Caldecott Award winner
JE = Beginning reader books
JF = Children’s fiction
J HOL = Children’s holiday books
JIL = Children’s illustrated literature
JPB = Children’s paperback
PIC = Picture books
12/3/2019 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number | |
| Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message | Swamp | M | J 299.74 Swa | |
| Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale From West Africa | McDermott | M | J 398.2452 McD | |
| Koko’s Kitten | Patterson | M | J 599.884 Pat | |
| Picture Book of Florence Nightingale | Adler | M | J B 610.73 (Nightingale) Adl | |
| Picture Book of Christopher Columbus | Adler | M | J B 970.015 (Columbus) Adl | |
| Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln | Adler | M | J B 973.7 (Lincoln) Adl | |
| The Little House | Burton | M | J CALD Bur | |
| The Big Snow | Hader | M | J CALD Had | |
| A Story, a Story:An African Tale | Haley | M | J CALD Hal | |
| The Big Wet Balloon | Liniers | M | J COMIC Lin | |
| Abe Lincoln’s Hat | Brenner | M | JE Bre | |
| Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express | Brill | M | JE Bri | |
| The Night the Chimneys Fell | Figley | M | JE Fig | |
| A Poor Excuse for a Dragon | Hayes | M | JE Hay | |
| You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Fables to Read Together | Hoberman | M | JE Hob | |
| Big Surprise in the Bug Tank | Horowitz | M | JE Hor | |
| Amazing Armadillos | McKerley | M | JE McK | |
| Pearl and Wagner: Two Good Friends | McMullan | M | JE McM | |
| The Day of the Black Blizzard | Ransom | M | JE Ran | |
| The Night of the Hurricane’s Fury | Ransom | M | JE Ran | |
| Boston Coffee Party | Rappaport | M | JE Rap | |
| The Crazy Case of Missing Thunder (Goofball series) | Abbot | M | JF Abb | |
| Five Stories (Sprout Street Neighbors) | Alter | M | JF Alt | |
| Howie Bowles, Secret Agent | Banks | M | JF Ban | |
| Critter Club series | Barkley | M | JF Bar | |
| Ivy + Bean series | Barrows | M | JF Bar | |
| The Red Ghost | Bauer | M | JF Bau | |
| Freckle Juice | Blume | M | JF Blu | |
| One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo | Blume | M | JF Blu | |
| The Pain and the Great One series | Blume | M | JF Blu | |
| Buster’s Dino Dilemma | Brown | M | JF Bro | |
| Flat Stanley | Brown | M | JF Bro | |
| Lola Levine and the Vacation Dream | Brown | M | JF Bro | |
| Lola Levine Is Not Mean! | Brown | M | JF Bro | |
| Seven Treasure Hunts | Byars | M | JF Bya | |
| Centerfield Ballhawk | Christopher | M | JF Chr | |
| New Peach Street Mudders series | Christopher | M | JF Chr | |
| Spy on third Base | Christopher | M | JF Chr | |
| Zero’s Slider | Christopher | M | JF Chr | |
| Molly’s Pilgrim | Cohen | M | JF Coh | |
| Miss Rumphius | Cooney | M | JF Coo | |
| Bink and Gollie series | DiCamillo | M | JF DiC | |
| Leroy Ninker Saddles Up | DiCamillo | M | JF DiC | |
| My Father’s Dragon | Gannett | M | JF Gan | |
| Digby O’Day and the Great Diamond Robbery | Hughes | M | JF Hug | |
| Mighty Monty | Hurwitz | M | JF Hur | |
| Sophie Series | King-Smith | M | JF Kin | |
| The Twin Giants | King-Smith | M | JF Kin | |
| Buck’s Tooth | Kredensor | M | JF Kre | |
| Judy Moody series | McDonald | M | JF McD | |
| Judy Moody and Friends | McDonald | L/M | JF McD | |
| The Stink series | McDonald | M | JF McD | |
| Fractions = Trouble! | Mills | M | JF Mil | |
| Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey | Milway | M | JF Mil | |
| Bad to the Bone | Nolan | M | JF Nol | |
| Home on the Range (Down Girl and Sit series) | Nolan | M | JF Nol | |
| The Annoying Crush (Galaxy Zack #9) | O’Ryan | M | JF O’Ry | |
| The Magic Tree House series | Osborne | M/N | JF Osb | |
| Junie B. Jones Series | Park | M | JF Par | |
| Jigsaw Jones Mystery series | Preller | M | JF Pre | |
| Marvin Redpost series | Sachar | M | JF Sac | |
| Stuey Lewis Against All Odds | Schoenberg | M | JF Sch | |
| Wolf Pie | Seabrooke | M | JF Sea | |
| Claude series | Smith | M | JF Smi | |
| Charlie & Mouse & Grumpy | Snyder | M | JF Sny | |
| Puppy Pirates series | Soderberg | M | JF Sod | |
| X Marks the Spot | Szpirglas | M | JF Szp | |
| Skye Above | Walters | M | JF Wal | |
| Beany and the Meany | Wojciechowski | M | JF Woj | |
| Madeline’s Christmas | Bemelmans | M | J HOL Bem | |
| The Bear’s Christmas | Berenstain | M | J HOL Ber | |
| Biggest Pumpkin Ever | Kroll | M | J HOL Kro | |
| The Wishbone Wish (Judy Moody & Stink) | McDonald | M | J HOL McD | |
| Too Many Tamales | Soto | M | J HOL Sot | |
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Seuss | M | J HOL Seu | |
| Waiting for the Biblioburro | Brown | M | JIL Bro | |
| Ketzel, The Cat Who Composed | Newman | M | JIL New | |
| Heckedy Peg | Wood | M | JIL Woo | |
| Arthur’s Mystery Envelope | Brown | M | JPB Bro | |
| Helen Keller | Davidson | M | JPB Dav | |
| Elmer and the Dragon | Gannett | M | JPB Gan | |
| Rip Roaring Russell | Hurwitz | M | JPB Hur | |
| Snake Alarm | Krailing | M | JPB Kra | |
| Magic Tree House Series | Osborne | M/N | JPB Osb | |
| The Littles | Peterson | M | JPB Pet | |
| Happy Birthday, Moon | Asch | M | PIC Asc | |
| Henry Wants More! | Ashman | M | PIC Ash | |
| Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Barrett | M | PIC Bar | |
| Honey…Honey…Lion! | Brett | M | PIC Bre | |
| The Mitten | Brett | M | PIC Bre | |
| Trouble with Trolls | Brett | M | PIC Bre | |
| Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Burton | M | PIC Bur | |
| The Bear’s Sea Escape | Chaud | M | PIC Cha | |
| Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type | Cronin | M | PIC Cro | |
| Strega Nona: An Original Tale | dePaola | M | PIC DeP | |
| City Green | DiSalvo | M | PIC DiS | |
| Everybody Cooks Rice | Dooley | M | PIC Doo | |
| Patchwork Quilt | Flournoy | M | PIC Flo | |
| Little Toot | Gramatky | M/N | PIC Gra | |
| The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon | Grey | M | PIC Gre | |
| Come on, Rain | Hesse | M | PIC Hes | |
| Boundless Grace | Hoffman | M | PIC Hof | |
| Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money | Jenkins | M | PIC Jen | |
| Move! | Jenkins | M | PIC Jen | |
| Toys Meet Snow | Jenkins | M | PIC Jen | |
| Stay! | Latimer | M | PIC Lat | |
| Sam and the Tigers | Lester | M | PIC Les | |
| Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse | Lionni | M | PIC Lio | |
| An Extraordinary Egg | Lionni | M | PIC Lio | |
| Rose in My Garden | Lobel | M | PIC Lob | |
| Blueberries for Sal | McCloskey | M | PIC McC | |
| Lentil | McCloskey | M | PIC McC | |
| The Family Tree | McPhail | M | PIC McP | |
| Mango, Abuela, and Me | Medina | M | PIC Med | |
| Sophie’s Squash | Miller | M | PIC Mil | |
| If the Dinosaurs Came Back | Most | M | PIC Mos | |
| Thunder Cake | Polacco | M | PIC Pol | |
| Chicken Soup with Rice | Sendak | M | PIC Sen | |
| And To Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street | Seuss | M | PIC Seu | |
| Happy Birthday to You! | Seuss | M | PIC Seu | |
| Horton Hatches The Egg | Seuss | M | PIC Seu | |
| Hunches in Bunches | Seuss | M | PIC Seu | |
| If I Ran the Zoo | Seuss | M | PIC Seu | |
| Thidwick, The Big-Hearted Moose | Seuss | M | PIC Seu | |
| What Was I Scared of? | Seuss | M | PIC Seu | |
| Little Red hen makes a Pizza | Sturges | M | PIC Stu | |
| Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Viorst | M | PIC Vio | |
| Ira Sleeps Over | Waber | M | PIC Wab | |
| Pirate’s Lullaby | Wessels | M | PIC Wes | |
| A Chair for My Mother | Williams | M | PIC Wil | |
| William’s Doll | Zolotow | M | PIC Zol |
J 000.00 = J non-fiction section
J B 000.00 = J non-fiction biography section
JCALD = Caldecott Award winner
JCOMIC = J Comic books
JE = Beginning reader books
JF = Children’s fiction
JHOL = Children’s holiday books
JIL = Children’s illustrated literature
JPB = Children’s paperback
PIC = Picture books
12/3/19 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call number |
| Can We Help? | Ancona | N | J 170 Anc |
| Supermarket | Krull | N | J 381.148 Kru |
| Tikki Tikki Tembo | Mosel | N | J 398.2095 Mos |
| The Man Who Tricked a Ghost | Yep | N | J 398.2095 Yep |
| Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale | Steptoe | N | J 398.2096 Ste |
| Rumpelstiltskin | Zelinsky | N | J 398.21 Zel |
| Town Mouse, Country Mouse | Brett | N | J 398.2452 Bre |
| Buffalo Woman | Goble | N | J 398.2452 Gob |
| Sod Houses on the Great Plains | Rounds | N | J 978 Rou |
| Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln: the Story of the Gettysburg Address | Fritz | N | J B 973.7 (Lincoln) Fri |
| Picture Book of John F. Kennedy | Adler | N | J B 973.922 (Kennedy) Adl |
| Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | Goble | N | J CALD Gob |
| Ox-cart Man | Hall | N | J CALD Hal |
| Fables | Lobel | N | J CALD Lob |
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Steig | N | J CALD Ste |
| Polar Express | Van Allsburg | N | J CALD Van |
| Booker T. Washington | Amper | N | JE Amp |
| Sybil Ludington’s Midnight Ride | Amstel | N | JE Ams |
| Stars and Galaxies | Buckley | N | JE Buc |
| Rescue on the Outer Banks | Ransom | N | JE Ran |
| Johnny Appleseed | Swain | N | JE Swa |
| Survival in the Snow | Wadsworth | N | JE Wad |
| Parachuting Hamsters and Andy Russell | Adler | N | JF Adl |
| I Was a Third Grade Science Project | Auch | N | JF Auc |
| Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist, Series | Benton | N | JF Ben |
| Lyttle Lies Series | Berger | N | JF Ber |
| Cat Diaries | Byars | N | JF Bya |
| Spunky Tells All | Cameron | N | JF Cam |
| The Stories Huey Tells | Cameron | N | JF Cam |
| Return of the Home Run Kid | Christopher | N | JF Chr |
| Third Grade Pet | Cox | N | JF Cox |
| Chicken Squad Series | Cronin | N | JF Cro |
| Notebook of Doom Series | Cummings | N | JF Cum |
| The Enormous Crocodile | Dahl | N | JF Dah |
| The Magic Finger | Dahl | N | JF Dah |
| Amber Brown Series | Danziger | N | JF Dan |
| 26 Fairmount Avenue | DePaola | N | JF DeP |
| Tales from Deckawoo Drive Series | DiCamillo | N | JF DiC |
| Mouse Scouts Series | Dillard | N | JF Dil |
| A Boy in the Doghouse | Duffey | N | JF Duf |
| Hey, New Kid | Duffey | N | JF Duf |
| Nikki & Deja (series) | English | N | JF Eng |
| Mango & Bambang the Not-a-Pig | Faber | N | JF Fab |
| The Pirate Pig | Funke | N | JF Fun |
| Shark in School | Giff | N | JF Gif |
| Sophie Hartley and the Facts of Life | Greene | N | JF Gre |
| Gym Shorts Series | Hicks | N | JF Hic |
| Piper Reed (series) | Holt | N | JF Hol |
| Busybody Nora | Hurwitz | N | JF Hur |
| “E” is for Elisa (series) | Hurwitz | N | JF Hur |
| Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer | Jones | N | JF Jon |
| Ballpark Mysteries series | Kelly | N | JF Kel |
| MVP Series | Kelly | N | JF Kel |
| Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig | King-Smith | N | JF Kin |
| Mr. Potter’s Pet | King-Smith | N | JF Kin |
| Fairy Mom and Me Series | Kinsella | N | JF Kin |
| Herbie Jones and the Class Gift | Kline | N | JF Kli |
| Polly Diamond and the Super Stunning Spectacular School Fair | Kuipers | N | JF Kui |
| The Dragonsitter Series | Lacey | N | JF Lac |
| The Mammoth Academy Series | Layton | N | JF Lay |
| Catwings Series | LeGuin | N | JF LeG |
| Gooney Bird Series | Lowry | N | JF Low |
| Lulu Series | McKay | N | JF McK |
| Rainbow Street Shelter Series | Orr | N | JF Orr |
| The Magic Tree House series | Osborne | N/M | JF Osb |
| Princess Angelica, Camp Catastrophe (Orca Echoes) | Polak | N | JF Pol |
| A to Z Mysteries Series | Roy | N | JF Roy |
| Marvin Redpost Series | Sachar | N | JF Sac |
| Time Warp Trio | Scieszka | N | JF Sci |
| Robert and the Great Pepperoni | Seuling | N | JF Seu |
| Horrid Henry Series | Simon | N | JF Sim |
| Lost at Sea (Puppy Pirates #7) | Soderberg | N | JF Sod |
| Daisy Dawson Series | Voake | N | JF Voa |
| Hooey Higgins Series | Voake | N | JF Voa |
| Don’t Call Me Beanhead! | Wojciechowski | N | JF Woj |
| Stories Julian Tells Series | Cameron | N | JPB Cam |
| How to be Cool in the Third Grade | Duffy | N | JPB Duf |
| Zack Files Series | Greenburg | N | JPB Gre |
| Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion | Kline | N | JPB Kli |
| A to Z Mysteries Series | Roy | N | JPB Roy |
| The Librarian from the Black Lagoon | Thaler | N | JPB Tha |
| Stellaluna | Cannon | N | PIC Can |
| It Takes a Village | Cowen-Fletcher | N | PIC Cow |
| New Kid in Town | Freedman | N | PIC Fre |
| Millions of Cats | Gag | N | PIC Gag |
| Johnny Appleseed | Kellogg | N | PIC Kel |
| Jimmy’s Boa and the Big Splash | Noble | N | PIC Nob |
| Chicken Sunday | Polacco | N | PIC Pol |
| Daisy-Head Mayzie | Seuss | N | PIC Seu |
| Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? | Seuss | N | PIC Seu |
| Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book | Seuss | N | PIC Seu |
| Horton Hears a Who! | Seuss | N | PIC Seu |
| McElligot’s Pool | Seuss | N | PIC Seu |
| On Beyond Zebra | Seuss | N | PIC Seu |
| The Sneetches and Other Stories | Seuss | N | PIC Seu |
| The Giving Tree | Silverstein | N | PIC Sil |
| The Amazing Bone | Steig | N | PIC Ste |
| The Flying Dragon Room | Wood | N | PIC Woo |
J 000.00 = J Non-fiction section
J B 000.00 = J Non-fiction biography section
JCALD = Caldecott Award winner
JE = Beginning reader books
JF = Children’s fiction
JPB = Children’s paperback
PIC = Picture books
12/3/2019 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Can People Count on Me? | Nelson | O | J 179.9 Nel |
| Abiyoyo | Seeger | O | J 398.2 See |
| The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush | dePaola | O | J 398.2097 DeP |
| Her Seven Brothers | Goble | O | J 398.2097 Gob |
| The Legend of the Bluebonnet | dePaola | O | J 398.24 DeP |
| Borreguita and the coyote : a Tale from Ayutla, Mexico | Aardema | O | J 398.2452 Bor |
| Mad Scientist Academy Series | McElligott | O | J 567.9 McE |
| Tell Me, Tree: All About Trees for Kids | Gibbons | O | J 582.16 Gib |
| They Just Know | Yardi | O | J 591.5 Yar |
| Bats | Gibbons | O | J 599.4 Gib |
| Beacons of Light: Lighthouses | Gibbons | O | J 623.894 Gib |
| Where Did My Clothes Come From? | Butterworth | O | J 677 But |
| Sports Legends | Jenner | O | J 796.092 Jen |
| Bobsledding and the Luge | Brimner | O | J 796.95 Bri |
| Ode to a Commode: Concrete Poems | Cleary | O | J 811.54 Cle |
| Knights in Shining Armor | Gibbons | O | J 940.1 Gib |
| The Netherlands | Dahl | O | J 949.2 Dah |
| Mexico | Dahl | O | J 972 Dah |
| Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad | Brill | O | J 973.7115 Bri |
| The Watcher | Winter | O | J B 599.8844 (Goodall) Win |
| Young Mozart | Isadora | O | J B 780.92 (Mozart) Isa |
| A Picture Book of Jesse Owens | Adler | O | J B 796.426 (Owens) Adl |
| Best Wishes | Rylant | O | J B 813.5 Ryl |
| Beatrix Potter | Wallner | O | J B 823.9 (Potter) Wal |
| True Stories about Abraham Lincoln | Gross | O | J B 973.7 (Lincoln) Gro |
| Chanticleer and the Fox | Chaucer | O | J CALD Cha |
| Time of Wonder | McCloskey | O | J CALD McC |
| Sam, Bangs and Moonshine | Ness | O | J CALD Nes |
| Song of the Swallows | Politil | O | J CALD Pol |
| Owl Moon | Yolen | O | J CALD Yol |
| Dear Santa, Love, Rachel Rosenstein | Peet | O | J Hol Pee |
| Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter | Walker | O | JE Wal |
| Robo-Dodo Rumble | Angleberger | O | JF Ang |
| Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters | Beaty | O | JF Bea |
| Humphrey Series | Birney | O | JF Bir |
| My Last Best Friend | Bowe | O | JF Bow |
| My New Best Friend | Bowe | O | JF Bow |
| Julian, Dream Doctor | Cameron | O | JF Cam |
| The Stories Huey Tells | Cameron | O | JF Cam |
| Not For Sale | Cassidy | O | JF Cas |
| Henry Huggins | Cleary | O | JF Cle |
| Muggie Maggie | Cleary | O | JF Cle |
| Ralph S. Mouse | Cleary | O | JF Cle |
| Ramona (series) | Cleary | O | JF Cle |
| Ribsy | Cleary | O | JF Cle |
| Runaway Ralph | Cleary | O | JF Cle |
| The Mouse and the Motorcycle | Cleary | O | JF Cle |
| The Courage of Sarah Noble | Dalgliesh | O | JF Dal |
| Amber Brown Series | Danziger | O | JF Dan |
| Dessert First | Durand | O | JF Dur |
| Just Desserts | Durand | O | JF Dur |
| Mallory (series) | Friedman | O | JF Fri |
| My Weird School (series) | Gutman | O | JF Gut |
| Charlie Bumpers Series | Harley | O | JF Har |
| Just Grace (series) | Harper | O | JF Har |
| Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights | Hughes | O | JF Hug |
| Class President | Hurwitz | O | JF Hur |
| Just Desserts Club | Hurwitz | O | JF Hur |
| Pee Wee & Plush | Hurwitz | O | JF Hur |
| Pee-Wee’s Tale | Hurwitz | O | JF Hur |
| Ballpark Mysteries Super Special Series | Kelly | O | JF Kel |
| A Mouse Called Wolf | King-Smith | O | JF Kin |
| Harriet’s Hare | King-Smith | O | JF Kin |
| Mr. Ape | King-Smith | O | JF Kin |
| Smasher | King-Smith | O | JF Kin |
| Three-Ring Rascals (series) | Klise | O | JF Kli |
| Mindy Kim and the Lunar New Year Parade | Lee | O | JF Lee |
| Pippi Longstocking (series) | Lindgren | O | JF Lin |
| Looniverse series | Lubar | O | JF Lub |
| Key Hunters Series | Luper | O | JF Lup |
| Hilde Cracks the Case Series | Lysiak | O | JF Lys |
| Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (series) | MacDonald | O | JF MacD |
| Space Taxi Series | Mass | O | JF Mas |
| Goldie Blox Rules the School! (Goldie Blox and the Gearheads) | McAnulty | O | JF McA |
| The Unwanteds Quests series | McMann | O | JF McM |
| Nancy Clancy (series) | O’Connor | O | JF O’Co |
| Louise Trapeze (series) | Ostow | O | JF Ost |
| Clementine (series) | Pennypacker | O | JF Pen |
| Happily Ever After | Quindlen | O | JF Qui |
| Monkey Me (series) | Roland | O | JF Rol |
| Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet | Salisbury | O | JF Sal |
| Magic On the Map (Let’s Mooove! #1) | Sheinmel | O | JF She |
| The Amazing Life of Azaleah Lane (Azaleah Lane) | Smith | O | JF Smi |
| Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie | Sternberg | O | JF Ste |
| Bagels the dog series | Stuchner | O | JF Stu |
| Sam Wu Series | Tsang | O | JF Tsa |
| Pet Rescue Adventures series | Webb | O/P | JF Web |
| Here’s Hank (series) | Winkler | O | JF Win |
| Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box | Bandy | O | JIL Ban |
| Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx | Winter | O | JIL Win |
| Roscoe Riley Rules series | Applegate | O | JPB App |
| Pony Pals series | Betancourt | O | JPB Bet |
| My Weird School series | Gutman | O | JPB Gut |
| Baseball Fever | Hurwitz | O | JPB Hur |
| The Baby-Sitters Club series | Martin | O | JPB Mar |
| The Boxcar Children series | Warner | O | JPB War |
| If I Ran the Circus | Seuss | O | PIC Seu |
| Yertle The Turtle and Other Stories | Seuss | O | PIC Seu |
J 000.00 = J non-fiction section
J B 000.00 = J non-fiction biography section
JPB = Children’s paperback
J CALD = Caldecott Award winner
JE = Beginning reader books
JF = Children’s fiction
J HOL = Children’s holiday books
JIL = Illustrated Literature
PIC = Picture books
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| The Seven Chinese Brothers | Mahy | P | J 398.2095 Mah |
| Village of Round and Square Houses | Grifalconi | P | J 398.2096 Gri |
| The Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition | Cole | P | J 507.8 Col |
| The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth | Cole | P | J 551 Col |
| The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane | Cole | P | J 551.552 Col |
| Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs! | Kudlinski | P | J 567.9 Kud |
| The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs | Cole | P | J 567.91 Col |
| The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive | Cole | P | J 585.799 Col |
| The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor | Cole | P | J 591.92 Col |
| The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body | Cole | P | J 612 Col |
| The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses | Cole | P | J 612.8 Col |
| The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip | Cole | P | J 621.3 Col |
| Magic School Bus at the Waterworks | Cole | P | J 628.1 Col |
| Bow-Tie Pasta: Acrostic Poems | Cleary | P | J 811.54 Cle |
| Mammalabilia | Florian | P | J 811.54 Flo |
| The Seminole Indians | Lund | P | J 970.3 (Seminole) Lun |
| Book of Black Heroes from A to Z | Hudson | P | J 973.0496 Hud |
| On the Mayflower | Waters | P | J 974.48 Wat |
| Amelia Earhart: Pioneer In the Sky | Parlin | P | J B 629.1309 (Earhart) Par |
| Pablo Picasso | Lowery | P | J B 759.6 (Picasso) Low |
| Gwen Torrence | Stewart | P | J B 796.42 (Torrence) Ste |
| A picture book of Harriet Tubman | Adler | P | J B 973.7115 (Tubman) Adl |
| Anne Elizabeth’s Diary: A Young Artist’s True Story | Rector | P | J B 974.71 (Rector) Rec |
| Mirette on the High Wire | McCully | P | J CALD McC |
| Grandfather’s Journey | Say | P | J CALD Say |
| The Wild Christmas Reindeer | Brett | P | J HOL Bre |
| The Matchlock Gun | Edmonds | P | J NEWB Edm |
| Aunt Clara Brown: Official Pioneer | Lowery | P | JE Low |
| Willie McLean and the Civil War Surrender | Ransom | P | JE Ran |
| Sojourner Truth | Swain | P | JE Swa |
| Good Crooks Series | Amato | P | JF Ama |
| Ellie McDoodle Series | Barshaw | P | JF Bar |
| Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants (The Questioneers #2) | Beaty | P | JF Bea |
| The Star Thief | Becker | P | JF Bec |
| Bad Kitty series | Bruel | P | JF Bru |
| Ghoulia Book Series | Cantini | P | JF Can |
| Kid Who Hit Only Homers | Christopher | P | JF Chr |
| Ellen Tebbits | Cleary | P | JF Cle |
| Ivy | Coville | P | JF Cov |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | Dahl | P | JF Dah |
| Super Fly Series | Doodler | P | JF Doo |
| The Rabbits Rebellion | Dorfman | P | JF Dor |
| The Hundred Dresses | Estes | P | JF Est |
| Mallory Series | Friedman | P | JF Fri |
| Stone Fox | Gardiner | P | JF Gar |
| Abigail Iris Series | Glatt | P | JF Gla |
| Where in the World is the Perfect Family | Hest | P | JF Hes |
| The Last Polar Bears | Horse | P | JF Hor |
| Little Rhino (series) | Howard | P | JF How |
| Return to Howliday Inn | Howe | P | JF How |
| Fourth-Grade Fuss | Hurwitz | P | JF Hur |
| The School Mouse | King-Smith | P | JF Kin |
| Princess DisGrace Series | Kuenzler | P | JF Kue |
| The Unlucky Lottery Winners of Classroom 13 | Lee | P | JF Lee |
| Fire at The Triangle Factory | Littlefield | P | JF Lit |
| Alvin Ho series | Look | P | JF Loo |
| All About Sam | Lowry | P | JF Low |
| Attaboy, Sam | Lowry | P | JF Low |
| 100 Days and 99 Nights | Madison | P | JF Mad |
| Freddie Mole, Lion Tamer | McCall Smith | P | JF McC |
| Real Pigeons Fight Crime #1 | McDonald | P | JF McD |
| Magic Tree House Series | Osborne | P | JF Osb |
| The Adventures of Captain Underpants Series | Pilkey | P | JF Pil |
| Big Idea Gang Series | Preller | P | JF Pre |
| Cakes in Space | Reeve | P | JF Ree |
| Pugs of the Frozen North | Reeve | P | JF Ree |
| Anna, Banana Series | Rissi | P | JF Ris |
| The Best School Year Ever | Robinson | P | JF Rob |
| Gooseberry Park | Rylant | P | JF Ryl |
| Sideways Stories Series | Sachar | P | JF Sac |
| Time Warp Trio series | Scieszka | P | JF Sci |
| Anna Maria’s Gift | Shefelman | P | JF She |
| Encyclopedia Brown (series) | Sobol | P | JF Sob |
| S.W.I.T.C.H. Series | Sparks | P | JF Spa |
| Cody and the Fountain of Happiness | Springstubb | P | JF Spr |
| Pet Rescue Adventures series | Webb | O/P | JF Web |
| Castle in the Attic Series | Winthrop | P | JF Win |
| Banana Pants! (Miranda and Maude #2) | Wunsch | P | JF Wun |
| The Princess and the Absolutely NOT a Princess | Wunsch | P | JF Wun |
| Jackrabbit McCabe & The Electric Telegraph | Rozier | P | JIL Roz |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | Dahl | P | JPB Dah |
| Amazing Athletes series | Fishman | P/Q | JPB Fis |
| Time Warp Trio series | Scieszka | P | JPB Sci |
| You Choose: Scooby Doo Series | Sutton | P | JPB Sco & JF Sco |
| Beatrix Potter & The Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig | Hopkinson | P | PIC Hop |
| Tar Beach | Ringgold | P | PIC Rin |
| Bartholomew and the Oobleck | Seuss | P | PIC Seu |
| Oh, The Places You’ll Go! | Seuss | P | PIC Seu |
| The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins | Seuss | P | PIC Seu |
| The Butter Battle Book | Seuss | P | PIC Seu |
| The King’s Stilts | Seuss | P | PIC Seu |
| The Lorax | Seuss | P | PIC Seu |
| The Storm Book | Zolotow | P | PIC Zol |
J 000.00 = J non-fiction section
J B 000.00 = J non-fiction biography section
JPB = Children’s paperback
JCALD = Caldecott Award winner
JNEWB = Newbery Award winner
JE = Beginning reader books
JF = Children’s fiction
JHOL = Children’s holiday books
JIL = Children’s illustrated literature
PIC = Picture books
12/3/2019 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| The Girl in the Golden Bower | Yolen | Q | J 398.2 Yol |
| All About Owls | Arnosky | Q | J 598.97 Arn |
| Outside and Inside Kangaroos | Markle | Q | J 599.22 Mar |
| All About Deer | Arnosky | Q | J 599.65 Arn |
| Exploring the Titanic | Ballard | Q | J 910.45 Bal |
| Finding the Titanic | Ballard | Q | J 910.45 Bal |
| If You Lived in Colonial Times | McGovern | Q | J 974.02 McG |
| Sarah Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl | Waters | Q | J 974.402 Wat |
| Who Was Helen Keller? | Thompson | Q | J B 371.91 (Keller) Tho |
| Who was Johnny Appleseed? | Holub | Q | J B 634.11 (Chapman) Hol |
| Wilma unlimited : how Wilma Rudolph became the world’s fastest woman | Krull | Q | J B 796.42 (Rudolph) Kru |
| Always Room for One More | Leodhas | Q | J CALD Leo |
| Many Moons | Thurber | Q | J CALD Thu |
| Samantha’s Surprise | American Girls | Q | J HOL Ame |
| Felicity’s Surprise | American Girls | Q | J HOL Ame |
| Josefina’s Surprise | American Girls | Q | J HOL Ame |
| Molly’s Surprise | American Girls | Q | J HOL Ame |
| The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Robinson | Q | J HOL Rob |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw | Cleary | Q | J NEWB Cle |
| Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf | Almond | Q | JF Alm |
| American Girls Collection series | American Girls Collection | Q | JF Ame |
| Mr. Popper’s Penguins | Atwater | Q | JF Atw |
| A beginning, a muddle, and an end : the right way to write writing | Avi | Q | JF Avi |
| The end of the beginning : being the adventures of a small snail (and an even smaller ant) | Avi | Q | JF Avi |
| Sisters 8 Series | Baratz-Logsted | Q | JF Bar |
| Brixton Brothers Series | Barnett | Q | JF Bar |
| Ellie McDoodle Series | Barshaw | Q | JF Bar |
| Humphrey Series | Birney | Q | JF Bir |
| Fudge-a-Mania | Blume | Q | JF Blu |
| Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Blume | Q | JF Blu |
| Fred Bowen Sports Story Series | Bowen | Q | JF Bow |
| Field Trip Mysteries series | Brezenoff | Q | JF Bre |
| Roosevelt Banks: Good-Kid-In-Training (One Elm Books) | Calkhoven | Q | JF Cal |
| Return of the Home Run Kid | Christopher | Q | JF Chr |
| Undercover Tailback | Christopher | Q | JF Chr |
| My Invisible Sister | Colin | Q | JF Col |
| James and the Giant Peach | Dahl | Q | JF Dah |
| Manatee Rescue | Davies | Q | JF Dav |
| The Case of the Missing Cat | Erickson | Q | JF Eri |
| Ben Franklin’s in my Bathroom! | Fleming | Q | JF Fle |
| My Dad the Dragon | French | Q | JF Fre |
| Ghosthunters series | Funke | Q | JF Fun |
| Ruffleclaw | Funke | Q | JF Fun |
| There’s an Owl in the Shower | George | Q | JF Geo |
| Emma Dilemma Series | Hermes | Q | JF Her |
| Heroes in Training Series | Holub | Q | JF Hol |
| Bunnicula Series | Howe | Q | JF How |
| Unusual Chickens Series | Jones | Q | JF Jon |
| Disaster Strikes (series) | Kennedy | Q | JF Ken |
| The Year of the Rat | Lin | Q | JF Lin |
| Betsy-Tacy | Lovelace | Q | JF Lov |
| Anastasia | Lowry | Q | JF Low |
| Bless This Mouse | Lowry | Q | JF Low |
| Fairies Hate Ponies (Xander and the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns) | Manning | Q | JF Man |
| Who Turned Off the Colors? (Xander and the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns) | Manning | Q | JF Man |
| Homer Price | McCloskey | Q | JF McC |
| Scraps of Time Series | McKissack | Q | JF McK |
| Lottie Lipton Adventure Series | Metcalf | Q | JF Met |
| Rumblewicks Diary Series | Oram | Q | JF Ora |
| Timmy Failure Series | Pastis | Q | JF Pas |
| Yeti Files Series | Sherry | Q | JF She |
| Nina Soni, Former Best Friend | Sheth | Q | JF She |
| Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge | Shreve | Q | JF Shr |
| Mr. Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets (Mr. Penguin Series) | Smith | Q | JF Smi |
| Mr. Penguin and the Lost Treasure | Smith | Q | JF Smi |
| Another Day as Emily | Spinelli | Q | JF Spi |
| STAT Series | Stoudemire | Q | JF Sto |
| I Survived… Series | Tarshis | Q | JF Tar |
| All-of-a-Kind Family | Taylor | Q | JF Tay |
| The Runaway Princess | Troianowski | Q | JF Tro |
| Pie | Weeks | Q | JF Wee |
| Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories | Wells | Q | JF Wel |
| The Trumpet of the Swan | White | Q | JF Whi |
| Little House series | Wilder | Q | JF Wil |
| The Velveteen Rabbit: or How Toys Became Real | Williams | Q | JF Wil |
| Animal Ark Series | Baglio | Q | JPB Bag |
| Superfudge | Blume | Q | JPB Blu |
| The #1 Sports Series for Kids | Christopher | Q | JPB Chr |
| the New Matt Christopher Sports Library Series | Christopher | Q | JPB Chr |
| Aliens Ate My Homework | Coville | Q | JPB Cov |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | Dahl | Q | JPB Dah |
| Amazing Athletes Series | Fishman | P/Q | JPB Fis |
| Bunnicula Series | Howe | Q | JPB How |
| Around the World in 80 Mysteries series | Marsh | Q | JPB Mar |
| Dragon Slayers Academy Series | McMullan | Q | JPB McM |
| Soup | Peck | Q | JPB Pec |
| A – Z Mystery Series | Roy | Q | JPB Roy |
| Help! I’m Trapped in My Teacher’s Body | Strasser | Q | JPB Str |
| Little House in the Highlands | Wiley | Q | JPB Wil |
| The Reluctant Dragon | Grahame | Q | JIL Gra |
JPB = Children’s paperback
JCALD = Caldecott Award winner
JNEWB = Newbery Award winner
JF = Children’s fiction
JHOL = Children’s holiday books
JIL = Children’s illustrated literature
PIC = Picture books
J 000.00 = J non-fiction section
J B 000.00 = J non-fiction biography section
12/5/2019 JC
| Title | Author | Level | Call Number |
| Finding Out About Hydropower | Doeden | R | J 621.2 Doe |
| Finding Out About Wind Energy | Doeden | R | J 621.45 Doe |
| The Beatles | Venezia | R | J 784.54092 (Beatles) Ven |
| The Alligator’s Smile and Other Poems | Yolen | R | J 811.54 Yol |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March Toward Freedom | Hakim | R | J B 305.896 (King) Hak |
| My Dream of Martin Luther King | Ringgold | R | J B 305.896 (King) Rin |
| Chocolate by Hershey: A Story about Milton S. Hershey | Burford | R | J B 338.7664 (Hershey) Bur |
| Who Was Albert Einstein? | Brallier | R | J B 530.092 (Einstein) Bra |
| Who Was Amelia Earhart? | Jerome | R | J B 629.1309 (Earhart) Jer |
| Georgia O’Keeffe | Venezia | R | J B 759.13 (O’Keeffe) Ven |
| Paul Cezanne | Venezia | R | J B 759.4 (Cezanne) Ven |
| Henri Matisse | Venezia | R | J B 759.4 (Matisse) Ven |
| Monet | Venezia | R | J B 759.4 (Monet) Ven |
| Pierre Auguste Renoir | Venezia | R | J B 759.4 (Renoir) Ven |
| Botticelli | Venezia | R | J B 759.5 (Botticelli) Ven |
| Francisco Goya | Venezia | R | J B 759.6 (Goya) Ven |
| Picasso | Venezia | R | J B 759.6 (Picasso) Ven |
| Frida Kahlo | Venezia | R | J B 759.972 (Kahlo) Ven |
| Diego Rivera | Venezia | R | J B 759.972 (Rivera) Ven |
| Leonard Bernstein | Venezia | R | J B 780.92 (Bernstein) Ven |
| Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Venezia | R | J B 780.92 (Tchaikovsky) Ven |
| Who is Maria Tallchief? | Gourley | R | J B 792.809 (Tallchief) Gou |
| Who Was Harry Houdini? | Sutherland | R | J B 793.8 (Houdini) Sut |
| It Came From Ohio!: My Life as a Writer | Stine | R | J B 813.54 (Stine) Sti |
| Who Was Marco Polo? | Holub | R | J B 950.2 (Polo) Hol |
| Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial Patriots | Millender | R | J B 973.3 (Attucks) Mil |
| George Washington: A Picture Book Biography | Giblin | R | J B 973.41 (Washington) Gib |
| Who Was Sacagawea? | Fradin | R | J B 973.46 (Sacagawea) Fra |
| Who Was Abraham Lincoln? | Pascal | R | J B 973.7 (Lincoln) Pas |
| Who Was Harriet Tubman? | McDonough | R | J B 973.7115 (Tubman) McD |
| Pocahontas : Princess of the New World | Krull | R | J B 975.5 (Pocahontas) Kru |
| Jumanji | Van Allsburg | R | J CALD Van |
| Children of Christmas: Stories for the Season | Rylant | R | J HOL Ryl |
| Caddie Woodlawn | Brink | R | J NEWB Bri |
| The Whipping Boy | Fleischman | R | J NEWB Fle |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | MacLachlan | R | J NEWB MacL |
| Shiloh | Naylor | R | J NEWB Nay |
| Miracles on Maple Hill | Sorensen | R | J NEWB Sor |
| Tia Lola Stories Series | Alvarez | R | JF Alv |
| Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball | Anderson | R | JF And |
| A Boy Called Bat | Arnold | R | JF Arn |
| The Indian in the Cupboard | Banks | R | JF Ban |
| The Mystery of the Cupboard | Banks | R | JF Ban |
| Iggie’s House | Blume | R | JF Blu |
| Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great | Blume | R | JF Blu |
| Sports Story Series | Bowen | R | JF Bow |
| How Lunchbox Jones saved me from robots, traitors, and Missy the Cruel | Brown | R | JF Bro |
| The Family Under the Bridge | Carlson | R | JF Car |
| One-Third Nerd | Choldenko | R | JF Cho |
| Fighting Tackle | Christopher | R | JF |