Book ideas...

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Kindergarten:

  1. A Busy Creature’s Day Eating by Mo Willems

  2. Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora

  3. All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold

  4. Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith

  5. We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

  6. Superheroes Are Everywhere by Kamala Harris

1st Grade:

  1. When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree by Jamie L. B. Deenihan

  2. The Princess and the Pit Stop by Tom Angleberger

  3. Dear Dragon: A Pen Pal Tale by Josh Funk

  4. It Came in the Mail by Ben Clanton

  5. I am not a Chair! by Ross Burach

2nd Grade:

  1. My Papi has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

  2. Giraffe Problems by Jory John

  3. The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke

  4. Fruit Bowl by Mark Hoffman

  5. Hey, Wall by Susan Verde

3rd Grade:

  1. Going Down Home With Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons

  2. How to Be a Lion by Ed Vere

  3. The One Day House by Julia Durango

  4. The Very Last Castle by Travis Jonker

  5. Friends and Foes: Poems About Us All by Douglas Florian

  6. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

4th Grade:

  1. Imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera

  2. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander

  3. I’m Trying to Love Math by Bethany Barton

  4. So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary D. Schmidt

  5. The House That Cleaned Itself: The True Story of Frances Gabe’s (Mostly) Marvelous Invention by Laura Dershewitz and Susan Romberg

  6. When You Trap A Tiger by Tae Keller

  7. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

  8. Things Seen from Above by Shelley Pearsall




5th Grade:

  1. Crossover by Kwame Alexander

  2. Holes by Louis Sachar

  3. Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan

  4. Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

  5. Booked by Kwame Alexander

  6. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

  7. The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

  8. When You Trap A Tiger by Tae Keller

  9. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

  10. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

  11. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

  12. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Middle and High School:

Virtual Book Tastings

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos- book Trailer


  1. Wonder by R.J. Palacio

  2. When You Trap A Tiger by Tae Keller (4th - 8th)

  3. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

  4. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

  5. Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson

  6. Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

  7. The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

  8. Class Act by Jerry Craft (4th-8th)

  9. Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly (7th-12th)

  10. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (7th-12th)

  11. Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (5th-12th)

  12. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (5th - 9th)

  13. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (5th - 9th)

  14. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (5th - 9th)

  15. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (5th - 9th)

  16. Holes by Louis Sachar (5th - 9th)







Fall Book Ideas:

The Apple Orchard Riddle by Margaret McNamara

In the Middle of Fall by Kevin Henkes

Fresh Fall Leaves by Betsy Franco

Johnny Appleseed Poem by Reeve Lindbergh

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves by Lucille Colandro

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara

The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown

Johnny Appleseed by Patricia Demuth