As a result of my love of reading, our classroom library has an ever expanding shelf of my favorite books.  

Below is a list, by author, of the books on our "Mr. L's Favorites"  shelf.  Click on the book or author to link to more information.

Tony Abbott

• Firegirl

• The Great Jeff

• Kringle

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court

Kwame Alexander

• The Crossover

• Rebound

• The Door of No Return

Kwame Alexander and James Patterson

• Becoming Muhammad Ali

John David Anderson

• Granted 

• Ms. Bixby’s Last Day

• Finding Orion

• One Last Shot

• Posted

• Stowaway

• Riley's Ghost

• Homebound

Laurie Halse Anderson

• Fever 1793

• Chains

• Forge

• Ashes

Kathi Appelt

• Maybe a Fox

• The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp

Katherine Applegate

• Wishtree

• Crenshaw

• The One and Only Ivan

• Home of the Brave

• Endling: The Last

• Endling: The First

• Endling: The Only

• The One and Only Bob

• Willodeen

• Odder

• The One and Only Ruby

• The One and Only Family

• Pocket Bear

Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko

• Dogtown

Jonathan Auxier

• Sweep: The Story of  Girl and Her Monster

• The Night Gardener

Avi

• The Book Without Words

• The Button War

• Loyalty

Natalie Babbit

• The Search for Delicious

• Tuck Everlasting

Kelly Barnhill

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon

• The Witch’s Boy

• The Mostly True Story of Jack

Joan Bauer

• Soar

Mira Bartok

• The Wonderling

Cassie Beasley

• Circus Mirandus

• Tumble and Blue

• The Bootlace Magician

Ali Benjamin

• The Thing About Jellyfish

• The Next Great Paulie Fink

Ann Braden

• The Benefits of Being an Octopus

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

• The War that Saved My Life

• The War I Finally Won

Rob Buyea

• Because of Mr. Terupt

• The Perfect Score

• What Comes Next

• The Daredevils

Betsy Byars

• The Summer of the Swans

Keith Calabrese

• A Drop of Hope

• Connect the Dots

Jack Cheng

• See You in the Cosmos

Melanie Conklin

• Counting Thyme

• Every Missing Piece

Leslie Connor

• The Truth as Told By Mason Buttle

• All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

• Waiting for Normal

• A Home for Goddesses and Dogs

• Anybody Here Seen Frenchie?

Pam Conrad

• Our House

Sharon Creech

• Saving Winslow

• Moo

• Love That Dog

• Hate That Cat

• The Wanderer

• Walk Two Moons

• One Time

Kate DiCamillo

• Flora and Ulysses

• The Magician's Elephant

• Because of Winn Dixie

• The Tiger Rising

• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 

• Raymie Nightengale

• Louisiana’s Way Home

• Beverly, Right Here

• The Beatryce Prophecy

Sharon Draper

• Out of My Mind

• Blended

• Out of My Heart

• Stella by Starlight

• Out of My Dreams

Lindsay  Eagar

• Hour of the Bees

• Race to the Bottom of the Sea

• The Bigfoot Files

• The Patron Thief of Bread

Dave Eggers

• The Lifters

• The Eyes and the Impossible

Eleanor Estes

• The Hundred Dresses

Lisa Fipps

• Starfish

• And Then, Boom

Ralph Fletcher

• Moving Day

Patricia Forde

• The List

• The Last Lie

Russell Freedman

• The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 

• Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship

Adam Gidwitz

• The Inquisitor’s Tale

• Max in the House of Spies

• Max in the Land of Lies

Dan Gemeinhart

• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

• Coyote Lost and Found

Lisa Graff

• Umbrella Summer

• Lost in the Sun

Nikki Grimes

• Garvey's Choice

• Words with Wings

• Planet Middle School

Dan Gutman

• Ted and Me

Karen Millwood Hargrave

• Julia and the Shark

Neil Patrick Harris

• The Magic Misfits

Donna Barba Higuera

• The  Last Cuentista

• Alebrijes

Alice Hoffman

• Nightbird

• When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

Kimberly Willis Holt

• Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel

Phillip Hoose

• Attucks! Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team that Awakened a City

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

• Fish in a Tree

• One for the Murphy's

• Shouting at the Rain

Cynthia Kadohata

• The Thing About Luck

• Half a World Away

• A Place to Belong

• Saucy

Tae Keller

• When You Trap a Tiger

• Jennifer Chan is Not Alone

Erin Entrada Kelly

• You Go First

• Hello Universe

• The Land of Forgotten Girls

• Blackbird Fly

• Lalani of the Distant Sea

• We Dream of Space

• Those Kids From Fawn Creek

• The First State of Being

Lynne Kelly

• Song for a Whale

Liz Kessler

• When the World Was Ours

Kurt Kirchmeier

• The Absence of Sparrows

E.L. Konigsburg 

• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Gordon Korman 

• The Superteacher Project

Claire Legrand

• Some Kind of Happiness

• Foxheart

• The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

• Thornlight

Gail Carson Levine

• Ella Enchanted

David Levithan

• The Mysterious Disappearance of Aiden S. (as told to his brother)

Grace Lin

• The Year of the Dog

Natalie Lloyd

• Hummingbird

• The Witching Wind

Bette Bao Lord

• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Cynthia Lord

• Touch Blue

• Rules

Lois Lowry

• Gossamer

• The Silent Boy

• The Giver

• The Windeby Puzzle

• Tree, Table, Book

Kekla Magoon

• The Season of Styx Malone

Ann M. Martin

• Rain Reign

• On Christmas Eve

Jennifer Maschari

• The Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price

Wendy Mass

• A Mango Shaped Space

Stacy McAnulty

• The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

• The World Ends in April

Kate Messner

• Breakout

• Chirp

Gregory Mone

• Dangerous Waters

Gary Paulsen

• Hatchet

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

• Shiloh

Gregory Neri

• Tru and Nelle

• Tru and Nelle: A Christmas Tale

Scott O’Dell

• Island of the Blue Dolphins

Kenneth Oppel

• The Nest

• Silverwing

• Sunwing

• Firewing

• Inkling

• Bloom

• Hatch

• Thrive

• Ghostlight

R.J. Palacio

• Wonder

• Auggie and Me

• Pony

• White Bird: A Novel
  
  

Linda Sue Park

• A Long Walk to Water

Katherine Paterson

• Bridge to Terabithia

• The Same Stuff as Stars

Sara Pennypacker

• Pax

• Here in the Real World

• Pax: Journey Home

Rodman Philbrick

• The Young Man and the Sea

• Zane and the Hurricane

Sally Pla

• The Someday Birds

Ellen Raskin

• The Westing Game

Laura Resau

• The Lightning Queen

Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

• Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You

Jewell Parker Rhodes

• Sugar

• Ninth Ward

• Towers Falling

• Black Brother, BlackBrother

J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

• The Christmas Pig

Pam Munoz Ryan

• Riding Freedom

• The Dreamer

• Esperanza Rising

• Echo

• Mananaland

Brian Selznick

• The Marvels

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret

• Wonderstruck

• The Houdini Box

Lois Sepahban

• Paper Wishes

Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

• The Bletchley Riddle

Laura Shovan 

• The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

Holly Goldberg Sloan

• Counting by 7s

• The Elephant in the Room

• Short

Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer

• To Night Owl from Dogfish

Eileen Spinelli

• Where I Live

• Summerhouse Time

Jerry Spinelli

• Stargirl

• The Warden’s Daughter

• Maniac Magee

• Wringer

• Love, Stargirl

• Jake and Lily

Ali Standish 

• The Ethan I Was Before

Rebecca Stead

• When You Reach Me

• The List of Things That Will Not Change

Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass

• Bob

• The Lost Library

James Swanson

• Chasing Lincoln’s Killer

Lauren Tarshis

• Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree

• Emma Jean Lazarus Fell in Love

Maria Testa

• Becoming Joe Dimaggio

Jessica Townsend

• Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

• Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow

• Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

• Silverborn: The Mystery of Moorigan Crow

Anne Ursu

• The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy

Vince Vawter

• Paperboy

Jennifer Weiner

• The Littlest Bigfoot

• Little Bigfoot, Big City

Cao Wenxuan

• Bronze and Sunflower

Deborah Wiles

• Each Little Bird That Sings

Rita Williams-Garcia

• Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

• One Crazy Summer

• P.S. Be Eleven

• Gone Crazy in Alabama

Meg Wolitzer 

• The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman

Lauren Wolk

• Beyond the Bright Sea

• Wolf Hollow

• Echo Mountain

• My Own Lightning

Jacqueline Woodson

• Feathers

• Brown Girl Dreaming

• Before the Ever After

Kelly Yang

• Front Desk

• Three Keys

C. Coco De Young

• A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt

Lisa Yee

• Maizy Chen's Last Chance

Eugene Yelchin 

• Breaking Stalin’s Nose

Malala Yousafzai

• I am Malala