Click on the blue check out button to go to the book on Sora. If the book is available, it will say borrow. Click on borrow to check out the book. If the book is not available, it will say place hold. If you would like to place a hold on the book, click place hold and it will tell you when the book should be available.
Books that can be borrowed with your school account have HPS (Hicksville Public Schools), Nassau BOCES (BOCES), New York Reads (NYReads), or LI Students Read (LI Students Read) next to the word check out on the check out button.
Books that need to be borrowed with your Hicksville Public Library card have HPL (Hicksville Public Library) next to the word check out on the check out button.
Be sure to explore all of the eBooks and audiobooks available on Sora, and don't forget to check out the Hicksville Public Library for print books and other fun summer activities!
Fiction Suggestions
by Peter H. Reynolds
by Phyllis Root
Down by the marsh,
by the sleepy,
slimy marsh,
one duck
gets stuck in the muck . . .
by Adam Rubin
by P.D. Eastman
A baby bird goes in search of his mother in this hilarious Beginner Book edited by Dr. Seuss. When a mother bird's egg starts to jump, she hurries off to make sure she has something for her little one to eat. But as soon as she's gone, out pops the baby bird. He immediately sets off to find his mother, but not knowing what she looks like makes it a challenge. The little hatchling is determined to find his mother, even after meeting a kitten, a hen, a dog, and a Snort.
by Aaron Blabey
by Crockett Johnson
One evening Harold decides to go for a walk in the moonlight. Armed only with an oversize purple crayon, young Harold draws himself a landscape full of wonder and excitement.
by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
The city is a big, busy place for a little yellow puppy. From gazing at the tops of tall buildings to chasing pigeons across crowded sidewalks, there's so much to do! There are more people than Biscuit's ever seen before, too -- and so many new friends to make!
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
A told B,
and B told C,
“I’ll meet you at the
top of the coconut tree”
In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no—Chicka Chicka Boom! Boom!
by Adam Wallace
Do dinosaurs still walk among us? Sure, no one has seen one, but if alligators, whales, and even birds still exist, then dinosaurs must too, right? Join the daring How to Catch Kids as they try to wrangle a dinosaur in time for the school science fair and prove they're still around! Parents, young readers, dinosaur lovers, and educators alike will roar with laughter in this dinosaur picture book that blends STEAM concepts with hilarity and clever chaos. Do YOU have what it takes to pluck a prehistoric pal?
Duck! Rabbit!
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
From the award-winning team of author Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrator Tom Lichtenheld comes a clever take on the age-old optical illusion: is it a duck or a rabbit? Depends on how you look at it! Readers will find more than just Rosenthal's signature humor here; there's also a subtle lesson for kids who don't know when to let go of an argument.
Nonfiction Suggestions
by Emma Huddleston
by Kate Messner
Up in the garden, the world is full of green—leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt exists a busy world—earthworms dig, snakes hunt, skunks burrow—populated by all the creatures that make a garden their home.
by DK
DK Super Readers Pre-Level: Meet the Dinosaurs will introduce kids to a parade of different dinosaurs–allowing them to impress their friends with fun-to-say dinosaur names–and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for children ready to enter the riveting world of reading.
by Jerry Pallotta
by Amy McDonald
by Sandra Markle
What if you woke up one morning and you had sprouted a tail overnight? What If You Had An Animal Tail? -- the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series -- explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw that you had an animal tail! From a peacock's showstopping tail to a scorpion's dangerous stinger, discover what it would be like if you had one of these special tails -- and find out why your own tailbone is just the right one for you!
Other Book Suggestions
Are You Big? by Mo Willems
On the night before kindergarten by Rosemary Wells
Uncle elephant by Arnold Lobel
Red & green by Lois Ehlert
The adventures of Robo-Kid by Diane De Groat
The Pelican Can! by Toni Yuli
Uno Mas, One More by Sylvia Lopez
Big by Vashti Harrison