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Book Recommendations

Young Readers

• Home (Jeannie Baker)
• Baby Danced the Polka (Karen Beaumont, Jennifer Plecas)
• Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein (Don Brown)
• Guji Guji (Chih-Yuan Chen)
• The Neighborhood Mother Goose (Nine Crews)
• Hot Day on Abbott Avenue (Karen English, Javaka Steptoe)
• The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book (Lisa Ernst)
• Sidewalk Circus (Paul Fleischman, Kevin Hawkes)
• Where Is the Green Sheep? (Mem Fox, Judy Horacek)
• Kitten’s First Full Moon (Kevin Henkes)
• Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains (Deborah Hopkinson)
• Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains (Barbara Knutson)
• The Red Book (Barbara Lehman)
• Ruby Lu, Brave and True (Lenore Look, Anne Wilsdorf)
• Wow! City! (Robert Neubecker)
• If Not for the Cat (Jack Prelutsky, Ted Rand)
• Tiger on a Tree (Anushka Ravishankar)
• Lemons Are Not Red (Laura Vaccaro Seeger)
• Wild About Books (Judy Sierra, Marc Brown)
• Polar Bear Night (Lauren Thompson, Stephen Savage)
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Mo Willems)
• Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book (Christopher Wormell)

Middle Readers

• My Light (Molly Bang)
• César: ¡Sí, se puede! Yes, We Can! (Carmen Bernier-Grand, David Diaz)
• Millions (Frank Cottrell Boyce)
• The Crow-Girl (Bodil Bredsdorff, tr. Faith Ingwersen)
• The Big House (Caroly Coman, Rob Shepperson)
• Doodler Doodling (Rita Golden Gelman, Paul O. Zelinsky)
• Technically, It’s Not My Fault: Concrete Poems (John Grandits)
• What Is Goodbye? (Nikki Grimes, Raúl Colón)
• The People Could Fly: The Picture Book (Virginia Hamilton, Leo & Diane Dillon)
• The Cats in Krasinski Square (Karen Hesse, Wendy Watson)
• Merlin and the Making of the King (Margaret Hodges, Trina Schart Hyman)
• The Star of Kazan (Eve Ibbotson, Eva, Kevin Hawkes)
• Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril and Romance (Marthe Jocelyn)
• Walt Whitman: Words for America (Barbara Kerley, Brian Selznick)
• Sélavi, That Is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope (Youme Landowne)
• Fish: A Novel (L.S. Matthews)
• The Tarantula Scientist (Sy Montgomery, photo. Nic Bishop)
• Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Toni Morrison)
• Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen (Marissa Moss, C. F. Payne)
• The Little Gentleman (Philippa Pearce, Tom Pohrt)
• The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard (Gregory Rogers)
• Sequoyah: The Man Who Gave His People Writing (James Rumford)
• George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides(Rosalyn Schanzer)
• Science Verse (Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith)
• Ellington was not a Street (Ntozake Shange, Kadir Nelson)
• The Train of States (Peter Sís)
• Coming On Home Soon (Jacqueline Woodson, E. B. Lewis)

Older Readers

• The Fire-Eaters (David Almond)
• With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote (Ann Bausum)
• Al Capone Does My Shirts (Gennifer Choldenko)
• Daniel Half-Human and the Good Nazi (David Chotjewitz, tr. Doris Orgel)
• Bucking the Sarge (Christopher Paul Curtis)
• Boy O’Boy (Brian Doyle)
• Remember D-Day: The Plan, the Invasion, Survivor Stories (Ronald J. Drez)
• The Sea of Trolls (Nancy Farmer)
• The Oracle Betrayed (Catherine Fisher)
• The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights (Russell Freedman)
• The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (Phillip Hoose)
• Bird (Angela Johnson)
• Kira-Kira (Cynthia Kadohata)
• The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (E. L. Konigsburg)
• Heck, Superhero (Martine Leavitt)
• Indigo’s Star (Hilary McKay)
• A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 (Diane McWhorter)
• Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices (Walter Dean Myers)
• Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem (Marilyn Nelson)
• Is This Forever, Or What? Poems & Paintings from Texas (Naomi Shihab Nye)
• Airborn (Kenneth Oppel)
• The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts (Richard Peck)
• A Hat Full of Sky (Terry Pratchett)
• Becoming Naomi León (Pam Muñoz Ryan)
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Gary D. Schmidt)
• The Schwa Was Here (Neal Shusterman)
• The Shadows of Ghadames (Joëlle Stolz)
• So B. It: A Novel (Sarah Weeks)