West Library
1st-2nd Grades
2022-2023 Prairie Bud Nominees (JK-1st):
The Bear in My Family by Maya Tatsukawa
The Blue House by Pheobe Wahl
Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals by Katy S. Duffield
Every Night is Pizza Night by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Hello, Little One: A Monarch Butterfly Story by Zeena Pliska
If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall
My Hair is Magic! by M. L. Marroquin
Old Rock (Is Not Boring) by Deb Pilutti
Up on Bob by Mary Sullivan
What About Worms!? by Ryan T. Higgins
2022-2023 Prairie Bloom Nominees (2nd-3rd)
All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing by Chris Barton
All the Dear Little Animals by Ulf Nilsson and Eva Eriksson
A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story by Caren Stelson
A Hatful of Dragons: And More than 13.8 Billion Other Funny Poems by Vikram Madan
Hockey Night in Kenya by Danson Mutinda & Eric Walters
Jumbo by Chris Gall
Pea, Bee, & Jay: Stuck Together by Brian “Smitty” Smith
The Teachers March!: How Selma’s Teachers Changed History by Sandra Neil Wallace & Rich Wallace
Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us by Lauren Castillo
Yorick & Bones by Jeremy Tankard and Hermione Tankard
Ms. Case
My name is Rena Case and I have worked in West Elementary Library since 2002.
I live in Spearfish, have 4 daughters and several "grand-dogs".
Reading is something I enjoy so much and therefore, I work to instill that love of reading to the students at West.
Email: rcase@spearfish.k12.sd.us