Suggested Reading

Pre-K — Grade Four

Summer 2015

Picture Books

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Family StoriesBang When Sophie Gets Angry — Really, Really AngryBarbour Mr. WilliamsBean Building Our HouseBrowne Piggybook

What If. . .?Coffelt Fred Stays with Me!Dorros AbuelaFalconer Olivia (Series) Feiffer I Lost My BearHarrington The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar CountyHarvey Cecil the Pet GlacierHenkes Julius, Baby of the World (and others)Juster The Hello, Goodbye WindowLook Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese WeddingLum What! Cried Granny: an Almost Bedtime StoryLunde My Father’s Arms Are a BoatMacLachlan All the Places to LoveMora Pablo’s TreePolacco When Lightning Comes in a Jar (and others)Pak A Place to GrowRamsey Ruth and the Green BookRocco BlackoutRoegiers Take the timeRoot Big Momma Makes the WorldRylant When the Relatives CameSmith Grandpa Green Steig Spinky SulksStuve-Bodeen Elizabeti’s DollTchana Oh, No, Toto!Turner Through Moon and Stars and Night SkiesWalsh Living with Mom and Living with DadWillems Knuffle Bunny: a Cautionary Tale (Series)Williams A Chair for My Mother (Series)Woodson Pecan Pie Baby

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Picture BooksFriends and Neighbors

Barnett Extra YarnBest Shrinking VioletBlabey Pearl Barley and Charley ParsleyBlos Old HenryBregoli The Goat LadyChodos-Irvine Best Best FriendsEnglish Hot Day on Abbott AvenueFleming Gabriella’s SongHenkes Chester’s Way

Lily’s Purple Plastic PurseHowe Horace and Morris, But Mostly DoloresHoffman Amazing GraceJohnson Henry Hikes To Fitchburg (and others)Marshall George and Martha (Series)McDonnel The Monsters’ MonsterMuth Zen Shorts (Series)Napoli AlbertNunes The Last DragonPolacco Mrs. Katz and Tush (and others)Recorvits My Name is YoonRodman My Best FriendSchotter Captain Snap and the Children of Vinegar LaneSis MadlenkaStead A Sick Day for Amos McGeeSteig Amos and BorisTamar The Garden of HappinessTonatiuh Dear Primo: a Letter to My CousinWaber CourageWells YokoWoodson Each Kindness

Picture BooksImaginary Worlds

Becker JourneyCowan My Life with the WaveFleischman WeslandiaGraham April and Esme, Tooth FairiesGrey Traction Man Is HereJoyce Dinosaur Bob

The Leaf MenKlassen This Is Not My HatLehman The Red BookLionni FrederickMcLerran RoxaboxenSeibol Free LunchSteig The Amazing Bone

Sylvester and the Magic PebbleDr. De Soto

Van Allsburg The Garden of Abdul GasaziJumanji

Wiesner TuesdayJune 29, 1999

Wood The Flying Dragon Room

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Picture BooksExperiences Around the Globe

Andrews-Goebel The Pot That Juan BuiltBaker MirrorBuitrago Jimmy the Greatest!Castaneda Abuela’s WeaveCha Dia’s Story ClothChamberlain Mama Panya’s Pancakes: a Village Tale From KenyaCunnane Deep in the SaharaDiakite I Lost My Tooth in AfricaDominguez Maria Had a Little LlamaGeeslin How Nanita Learned to Make FlanGetz Floating HomeIsadora Old Mikamba Had a FarmKrishnaswammi MonsoonLeigh Learning to Swim in SwazilandLewin Sacred River

Top to Bottom Down UnderLondon Ali, Child of the DesertMollel My Rows and Piles of CoinsNye Sitti’s SecretOnyefulu Ogbo: Sharing Life in an African VillageRuurs My Librarian Is a CamelSay Tea With Milk (and others)Sisulu The Day GoGo Went to VoteSobol An Elephant in the BackyardTafolla Fiesta BabiesTsubakiyama Mei-Mei Loves the MorningVelasquez Grandma’s GiftWiesner Flotsam (and others)Williams Painted DreamsWinter Josefina

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Animal FriendsBlake Fledgling

Brown Mr. Tiger Goes Wild

Cannon Verdi

Carle A House for Hermit Crab

Cronin Diary of a Spider

DiCamillo Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken

Dubuc The Lion and the Bird

Dunrea Old Bear and His Cub

Egan The Trial of Cardigan Jones

Feiffer Bark, George

George Nutik, the Wolf Pup

Grey Three by the Sea

Hall I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat

Henkes Kitten’s First Full Moon (and others)Hills Rocket Writes a Story

Idle Flora and the Flamingo

Jenkins That New Animal

Kasza The Dog Who Cried Wolf

LaRochelle Moo!

Lester Hooway for Wodney Wat

Mathers When Aunt Mattie Got Her Wings

McCarty Hondo and Fabian (Series)

McDonnell Me...Jane

McFarland Widget

McLimans Gone Wild

Meddaugh Martha Speaks (Series)

Myers Black Cat

Park Xander’s Panda Party

Raschka A Ball for Daisy

Rathman Officer Buckle and Gloria

Seeger Dog and Bear

Teague Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters From Obedience School (Series)

Van Allsburg Two Bad Ants (and others)Wiesner Mr. Wuffles!

Willems Amanda & Her Alligator (and others)Yaccarino Deep in the JungleYates Dog Loves Books

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Picture BooksJust Plain Silly

Agee NothingAhlberg The Bravest Ever BearAverbeck Except IfBachelet My Cat, the Silliest Cat in the WorldBertrand Granite BabyBlack A Pig ParadeBroach When Dinosaurs Came with EverythingCalmenson Ollie’s School Day: A Yes-and-No BookChast Marco Goes to SchoolCoudray Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas!Cronin Click, Clack Moo: Cows That TypeEgielski BuzFreymann Fast FoodGehl One Big Pair of UnderwearGrossman Timothy Tunny Swallowed a BunnyHillenbrand Mother Goose Picture PuzzlesHimmelman Pigs to the RescueHoberman One of EachIsaacs Pancakes for Supper!Jeffers Once Upon an AlphabetKaplan Monsters Eat Whiny ChildrenLandstrom Boo and Baa Have Company (Series)Lehrhaupt Warning: Do Not Open This Book Munsch Mud PuddlePizzoli The Watermelon SeedScieszka The Stinky Cheese ManShannon Duck on a Bike

David Gets in Trouble (series)Stein Interrupting ChickenStoeke Minerva Louise (Series)Twohy OutfoxedWells Bunny MoneyWiesner Art and MaxWillems Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

Leonardo, the Terrible MonsterThat Is Not a Good Idea!

Yorinks The Invisible Man

Sports

Adler Babe and IBrowne Willy the WizardCline-Ransome Satchel PaigeCorey Players in PigtailsDay Frank and Ernest Play BallGiff Good Luck, Ronald Morgan!Greenfield For the Love of the GameHopkinson Girl Wonder: a Baseball Story in Nine InningsIsadora Nick Plays BallMartin Swish!Meshon Take Me Out to the YakyuNatti Ronald Morgan Goes to BatStauffacher Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea GibsonThayer Casey at the Bat: a Ballad of the Republic

Sung in the Year 1888Vernick Brothers at BatWelch Playing Right Field

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Picture BooksTimes Past

Cole Unspoken: A Story from the Underground RailroadCooney Hattie and the Wild WavesDrummond The FlyersFloca Lightship

LocomotiveGerstein Sparrow JackHall The Ox-Cart ManHarrington Going NorthHeide The House of WisdomHenderson Lugalbanda: the Boy Who Caught…Hest When Jessie Came Across the SeaHopkinson Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State BuildingHouston My Great Aunt ArizonaJohnson All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of

FreedomLevine Henry’s Freedom BoxMcClintock Adele & SimonMcCully The Bobbin GirlProvensen Klondike GoldRael What Zeesie Saw on Delancey StreetReynolds Back of the BusRocco Blizzard

Picture Books

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Folk and Fairy TalesSingle tales

Andersen The Nightingale (Pinkney) (and others)Artell Petite RougeBower The Shipwrecked SailorBrowne Me and YouCummings Anansi and the LizardDeedy Martina, the Beautiful CockroachDemi King Midas

The Hungry CoatDePaola Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story Diakite The Hunterman and the Crocodile (and others)Forest Stone SoupGerstein Carolinda Clatter!

The Seal MotherGrimm Rapunzel (Zelinsky)

Rumplestiltskin (Zelinsky)Hamilton The Girl Who Spun GoldHodges St. George and the Dragon (Hyman)Huck Princess FurballHutton Beauty and the Beast (and others)

The Nose TreeIsadora Hansel and Gretel

The Fisherman and His WifeIsaacs Dust DevilKajikawa Yoshi’s FeastKimmelman The Little Red Hen and the Passover MatzahLester John HenryMacDonald Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur!McDermott MonkeyOsborne Kate and the BeanstalkPerrault Puss in Boots (Marcellino)Pinkney The Lion & the Mouse

The Tortoise & the HareSan Souci The Talking EggsSteptoe Mufaro’s Beautiful DaughtersTaback Joseph Had a Little OvercoatYoung Monkey King

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Folk and Fairy TalesCollections

Divakaruni Grandma and the Great GourdDoherty Fairy Tales

The Famous Adventures of JackFleischman Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal...Hamilton The People Could Fly

Ring of TrickstersWhen Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing

Jaffrey Robi DobiLang The Rainbow Fairy TalesOsborne American Tall TalesVan Laan With a Whoop and a Holler: a Bushel of Lore

From Way Down SouthWormell Mice, Morals, & Monkey Business: Lively Lessons

From Aesop’s FablesYoung The Sons of the Dragon King

Picture Books

Families and FriendsIn an attempt to help select books at the right reading level, we have designated reading difficulty by the number of asterisks next to each title:*easiest, ***** most difficult

Birdsall The Penderwicks: a Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy (Series) ****

Blume Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Series)****Cameron Gloria’s Way****

The Stories That Julian Tells (Series)****Cleary Ramona (Series)****

Henry (Series)****Clements Jake Drake, Bully Buster (Series)***Creech Granny Torelli Makes Soup****Cutler Rats!****Dana Zucchini****Estes The Hundred Dresses***

The Moffats (Series)****Fowler Albertina the Practically Perfect**Gantos Rotten Ralph Helps Out (Series)**Goscinny Nicholas and the Gang (Series)****Graff Absolutely Almost*****Grimes The Road to Paris*****Gutman The Homework Machine (and others)**** Hannigan Ida B.****Harper Just Grace (Series)**Hartnett Sadie and Ratz**Henkes Penny and Her Marble (Series)**

The Year of Billy Miller***Holm The Fourteenth Goldfish****Howe Houndsley and Catina**Kent Kimchi & Calamari****Kerrin Martin Bridge Ready for Takeoff! (Series) ***King-Smith George Speaks (and others)***Kline Harry and the Horrible Slime (Series)***Krensky Lionel and His Friends**Kurtz Anna Was Here*****

Chapter Books

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Families and FriendsKuskin Families (Non-fiction)***Lagercrantz My Happy Life***Levy The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher****Lai Inside Out & Back Again*****Lin Year of the Dog****

Ling & Ting**Lobel Frog and Toad (Series)**Look Ruby Lu, Brave and True (Series)***Marsden The Golden-Threaded Dress****

Take Me with You****Martin Reign Reign*****Mason The Quigleys at Large (Series)****McDonald Judy Moody (Series)***McMullen Pearl and Wagner: Two Good Friends**Namioka Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear (Series)****Nordstrom The Secret Language****Palacio Wonder*****Pennypacker Clementine (Series)***Rhodes Ninth Ward*****Robinson The Best School Year Ever****Rockwell How to Eat Fried Worms***Rundell Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms****Shreve Joshua T. Bates in Trouble Again (Series)****Singh Younguncle Comes to Town***Spinelli Where I Live***Vail Daring to be Abigail*****Woodson Feathers*****

Chapter Books

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Imaginary WorldsArmstrong Whittington****

Alexander The Book of Three (Series) (and others)***** Atwater Mr. Popper’s Penguin****

Avi Ragweed****

Bellairs The Eyes of the Killer Robot (Series)*****

Cameron The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet****

Cooper Over Sea, Under Stone (Series)*****

Coville The Monsters of Morley Manor*****

Dahl Fantastic Mr. Fox***

DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux*****

DiTerlizzi The Spiderwick Cronicles (Series)***

Dowell Falling In****

Eager Half Magic (Series)*****

Edwards The Last Really Great Whangdoodle****

Enright The Saturdays (Series)****

Epstein The Familiars*****

Gannet My Father’s Dragon (Series)***

Gardner Into the Woods (Series)****

Gidwitz In a Glass Grimmly*****

Gray Falcon’s Egg****

Grove The Glass Sentence*****

Hale The Princess in Black**

Ibbotson Which Witch?****

Jonell Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat****

Konigsburg Jennifer, Hecate, William McKinley, and Me***

L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time (Series)*****

Lin Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Series)****

Lindgren Pippi Longstocking (Series)****

Martin The Doll Family (Series)*****

Messenger The Land of Neverbelieve****

Napoli Gracie: the Pixie of the Puddle***

O’Brien Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Series)*****

Pullman The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (and others)**** Saunders The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop****

Seidler The Revenge of Randall Reese-Rat*****

Thurber The Thirteen Clocks****

Winthrop The Castle in the Attic*****

Yolen Commander Toad and the Voyage Home (Series)**

Chapter Books

Animal StoriesAngus Soldier Dog*****Applegate The One and Only IvanAtwater Mr. Popper’s Penguins****Avi Poppy and Rye (Series)*****Byars Tornado***Dana Zucchini****Delaney Bird Brain Amos***DiCamillo Because of Winn Dixie****Clements Brave Norman**Estes Ginger Pye****Gardiner Stone Fox***Haas Runaway Radish**Henry Misty of Chincoteague****Howe Bunnicula (Series)****King-Smith Lady Lollipop (and others)***

The Nine Lives of Aristotle***The Three Terrible Trins***

Lexau Go Away, Dog *Livingstone Harley**Naylor Shiloh (Series)****Nolan Down Girl and Sit: On the Road (Series)***O’Connor On the Road to Mr. Mineo’s****Miles The Sky is Falling*Porte Harry’s Pony**Richter The Cat...****Rylant Henry and Mudge (Series)*Selden A Cricket in Times Square (Series)****Van Laan Busy, Busy Moose**

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Chapter Books

Chapter Books

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Mystery and AdventureAnderson Whales on Stilts (Series)****Bellairs The House with a Clock in Its Walls (Series)*****Benchley A Ghost Named Fred*Blakemore The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill*****Bosch The Name of This Book Is Secret (Series)****Boston An Enemy at Green Knowe (Series)*****Bredsdorff Eidi (Series)*****Brooks Freddy the Detective (Series)****Dahl Danny the Champion of the World*****DiCamillo The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane***Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy*****Greene Owen Foote, Frontiersman***Hale The Big Nap: From the Tattered Casebook

of Chet Gecko (Series)****Hoobler The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn****Ibbotson The Star of Kazan*****

The Abominables*****Konigsburg From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E.

Frankweiler*****London An Accidental Adventure*****Maguire Seven Spiders Spinning (Series)****Mahy Blood and Thunder Adventures on

Hurricane Peak*****Myers Three Swords for Granada***O’Connor The Fantastic Secret of Owen Juster****Schlitz Splendors and Glooms*****Scieszka Me Oh Maya (Time Warp Series)****Selznick The Invention of Hugo Cabret*****

Wonderstruck*****Sharmat Nate the Great and the Big Sniff (Series)**Snicket Who Could That Be at This Hour?*****Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society (Series)*****Van Draanen Shredderman: Secret Identity (Series)****Wynne-Jones Rex Zero and the End of the World (Series)*****Winterfeld Detectives in Togas (Series)****Wright The Dollhouse Murders (Series)*****

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Chapter Books

Times PastAvi Abigail Takes the Wheel**Benchley George the Drummer**Campoy Tales Our Abuelitas Told*****Carbone Storm Warriors****Curtis The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963

(and others)*****Cushman Matilda Bone*****DeJong The House of Sixty Fathers****Fusco The Wonder of Charlie AnneHopkinson A Boy Called Dickens****Lasky A Journey to the New World (Dear America Series)***Martinez Little White Duck *****McKissack Porch Lies*****

Never Forgotten*****Moss Emma’s Journal: the Story of a Colonial Girl****Myers Lewis and Clark and Me***Napoli The King of Mulberry Street (and others)**** Naylor Emily’s Fortune****Parentearu Ship of Dolls****Place The Old Man Mad About Drawing: a Tale

About Hokusai****Rappaport The Boston Coffee Party**Rhodes Sugar****Roop Buttons for George Washington**

Keep the Lights Burning, Addie**Rubin The Cat with the Yellow Star*****Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry*****Vanderpol Moon Over Manifest*****Weatherford Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her

People to Freedom***Whelan Angel on the Square *****Williams-Garcia One Crazy Summer*****

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Chapter Books

HumorAppelt The True Blue Scouts of Sugarman Swamp****Bang-Campbell Little Rat Needs Music**Barrows Ivy & Bean***Bruell Bad Kitty Gets a Bath***Cameron The Stories That Julian Tells****Cazet Minnie and Moo: the Night of the Living Bed (Series)**Child Clarice Bean Spells Trouble (Series)***Clements Frindle****DiCamillo Mercy Watson to the Rescue (Series)**

Bink and Gollie (and others)** Flora & Ulysses*****

Hall Buggy Riddles**Fishy Riddles**

Haskins Ducks in Muck*Horvath The Pepins and Their Problems****Kline Horrible Harry in Room 2B (Series)***Kurzweil Leon and the Spitting Image*****Lowry Gooney Bird Greene (Series)***Mackay Dog Friday****Marshall Rats on the Range and Other Stories**

Three by the Sea (Series)**McKay Lulu and the Duck in the Park (Series)***McMullin Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day**Parish Amelia Bedelia (Series)**Peck Soup (Series)****Robinson The Best School Year Ever (Series)****Rockwell How to Eat Fried Worms****Sachar Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Series)****Schwartz Ten Copy Cats in a Boat**

There’s a Carrot in My Ear**Seidler Mean Margaret***Selfors Smells Like Dog (Series)****Smith Chocolate Fever****Sonenklar Bug Girl (Series)***Spratt The Adventures of Nanny Piggins (Series)*****Tashjian Einstein the Class Hamster***Van Velde Three Good Deeds***Weston Space Guys**Whybrow Little Wolf’s Book of Badness (Series)***

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Sports Stories

Adler Danny’s Doodles: The Jelly Bean Experiment***Christopher The Dog That Called the Pitch***

The Hit-Away Kid***Cohen Thank You, Jackie Robinson****Oechsli Mice at Bat**Hall When Willard Met Babe Ruth****Hurwitz Baseball Fever****Jeter The Contract*****Konigsburg About the B’nai Bagels*****Myers The Journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues****Slote Finding Buck McHenry*****Smith Bobby Baseball****Torrey Beans Baker, Number Five**Walker The Sluggers Club****

Chapter Books

Biography-Picture Books

Adler Lou Gehrig: the Luckiest ManAmerica’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle

Anholt Stone Girl, Bone Girl: the Story of Mary Anning

Asim Fifty Cents and a Dream (Washington)Bardoe Gregor Mendel: the Friar Who Grew PeasBarton The Day-Glo BrothersBerne On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert EinsteinBogacki The Champion of Children; the Story of

Janusz KorczakBorden Fly High! The Story of Bessie ColemanBrown Odd Boy Out: Young Albert EinsteinBrown My Name is Gabito

Tito Puente: Mambo King/Rey del MamboBruchac Jim Thorpe’s Bright PathBryant The Right Word (Roget)Burleigh The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn

Black Whiteness (Byrd)Flight (Charles Lindbergh)Home Run: the Story of Babe RuthInto the Woods (John James Audubon)

Byrd Electric Ben (Franklin)Christensen The Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star ReporterCline Satchel PaigeCline-Ransome Before There Was MozartCooney Eleanor (Eleanor Roosevelt)Cooper Coming Home: From the Life of Langston HughesCoy Hoops Genius (Naismith)Cummins Women DaredevilsDemi Su Dongpo: Chinese GeniusDingle First in the Field: Baseball Hero Jackie RobinsonFern Pippo the Fool (Brunelleschi)Giovanni Rosa (Rosa Parks)Greenberg Action Jackson (Jackson Pollack)Haskins Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight

for Civil RightsHill Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, SlaveHopkins The Tree Lady (Sessions)

Nonfiction

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Biography-Picture Books

Kalman Looking at LincolnKay Rough, Tough Charley (Parkhurst)Kerley The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

The Extraordinary Mark TwainThose Rebels, John and Tom (Adams and Jefferson)What to Do about Alice? (Roosevelt)

Krull Harvesting Hope: the Story of Cesar ChavezKubla Khan: the Emperor of EverythingLouisa May’s Battle (Alcott)

Lasky The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (Eratosthenes)Lindbergh Nobody Owns the Sky (Coleman)MacLachan The Iridescence of Birds (Matisse)Macy Basketball Belles (Morley)Martin Snowflake BentleyMcCarthy SeabiscuitMcCully ManjiroMoss Mighty Jackie: The Strike-out Queen (Mitchell)

Sky High; the True Story of Maggie GeeNelson, Kadir I Have a Dream (King)

Nelson MandelaNelson, S.D. Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa StoryNivola Life in the Ocean (Earle)Novesky Me, Frida (Kahlo)

Imogen: The Mother of Modernism and Three BoysOrgill Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat (Fitzgerald)Parker Piano Starts Here (Tatum)Pinborough Miss Moore Thought OtherwisePinkney Duke Ellington, Piano Prince and His Orchestra

Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her SongRappaport Eleanor, Quiet No More (Roosevelt)

Helen’s Big World (Keller)Martin’s Big Words (Martin Luther King)

Ray Hokusai: the Man Who Painted a MountainRockwell Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth

They Called Her Molly Pitcher

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Nonfiction

Biography-Picture Books

Ryan When Marian Sang (Anderson)San Souci Kate Shelley: Bound for LegendSchroeder Minty: a Story of a Young Harriet Tubman

Ben Franklin; His Wit and Wisdom from A-ZSchubert Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without WordsSis The Pilot and the Little Prince (Saint-Exupery)

Tree of Life (Darwin)Sisson Star Stufff (Sagan)Stanley Michelangelo

Saladin: Noble Prince of IslamStone Elizabeth Leads the Way (Stanton)Tate It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to DrawTavares Henry Aaron’s DreamWarner Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!Winter Diego (Rivera)

My Name is Georgia (O’Keefe)Wangari’s Trees of PeaceThe Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps

Winter Barack (Obama)Jazz Age Josephine (Baker)Just Behave, Pablo Picasso!You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?

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Biography-Chapter Books

Bridges Through My Eyes (Ruby Bridges)Bryan Words to My Life’s SongCooper Jack: The Early Years (John F. Kennedy)Cummings Talking with Artists (Series)Ferris What are You Figuring Now? A Story about

Benjamin BannekerGiblin The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin

The Many Rides of Paul RevereJohnson Onward: the Photobiography of Matthew HensonKostyal Trial By Ice: the Photobiography of Ernest ShakletonKrull The Boy on Fairfield Street (Dr. Seuss)

The Lives of the....(Artists, Athletes, Writers, etc. Series)

Marcus Pass It DownMeltzer Ten Kings

Ten QueensMetselaar Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures...Parker Alexander Graham Bell and the TelephoneRansom Listening to Crickets: A Story About Rachel CarsonRockwell Open the Door to Liberty! (L’Ouverture)St. George SacagaweaSchanzer John Smith Escapes Again!Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming (Woodson)

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Nonfiction

SCIENCEArndt Best Foot ForwardArnold A Warmer WorldBang Ocean SunlightBishop The Snake Scientist (A Scientist in the Field Series)

Nic Bishop Spiders (and others)Burns Beetle Busters

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam...Cerullo Life Under IceChin Island: A Story of the GalápagosCollard A Firefly Biologist at WorkCummings Talking With AdventurersDavies Tiny CreaturesDeCristofano Big Bang! The Tongue Tickling Tale of a

Speck That Became SpectacularA Black Hole is Not a Hole

Gore An Inconvenient TruthGuiberson Life in the Boreal ForestHuber Flight of the HoneybeeJackson Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature’s

Mysteries from Perilous PlacesJenkins Actual Size (and others)

The Beetle BookCreature FeaturesEye to EyeDown, Down, Down

Kudlinski Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!Littlefield Awesome Ocean Science!McCourt A Dream to Fly: the Wright Brothers at Kitty HawkMontgomery Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest ParrotO’Meara Into the Volcano: a Volcano Researcher at WorkPfeffer Dolphin Talk: Whistles, Clicks, and Clapping JawsRide Exploring Our Solar SystemRoth Parrots Over Puerto RicoSimon Lightning (and others)Stewart A Place for BatsStrauss Tree of Life: the Incredible Biodiversity of Life on EarthThimmesh Team moonWick A Drop of Water

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Nonfiction

History and GeographyBlumberg Full Steam Ahead: the Race to Build the

Transcontinental RailroadBordon Sleds on Boston CommonBrown All Stations! Distress!Chandra George Washington’s TeethFradin Let It Begin Here! Lexington and ConcordFreedman Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas (and others)

The Boston Tea PartyWho Was First? Discovering the Americas

Hopkinson Titanic: Voices From the DisasterJurmain George Did It!Kalz Mount EverestKroll The Boston Tea PartyKurlansky The Cod’s Tale

The Story of SaltLasky She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!Marrin Oh Rats! The Story of Rats and PeopleMurphy Blizzard: The Storm That Changed America

The Great FireNat’l Childrens... Our White HouseRappaport Lady Liberty (and others)Shulevitz How I Learned Geography

The Travels of Benjamin Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century

Tan The Arrival (and others)Van Rynbach The Taxing Case of the CowsWhite I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote

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Nonfiction

POETRYBryan Sing to the SunCoombs Water Sings Blue: Ocean PoemsElliot In the WildFarrar The Year Comes RoundFlorian Insectlopedia (and others)Greenfield Honey, I Love

Under the Sunday TreeThe Great Migration: Journey to the North

Grimes Meet Danitra BrownHopkins Oh No! Where Are My Pants?

My AmericaHollyer She’s All That! Poems about GirlsJaneczko Firefly JulyKennedy Exploding Gravy: Poems to Make You LaughLewis National Geographic Book of Animal PoetryMcCord One at a Time (and others)Mora Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!Opie/Wells My Very First Mother GoosePark Tap Dancing on the RoofPrelutsky The New Kid on the Block (and others)Prevert How to Paint the Portrait of a BirdRaczka LemonadeSidman Swirl by Swirl

UbiquitousWinter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold

Silverstein Everything on It (and others)Singer Mirror MirrorThomas The Blacker the BerryZathares Big, Bad and a Little Bit ScaryZullo Little Bird

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Nonfiction

THE ARTSAncona ¡Ole! FlamencoAnderson Strange Mr. SatieBryan Let It Shine: Three Favorite SpiritualsBeneduce A Weekend With Winslow Homer (Series)Bolden Wake Up Our Souls: a Celebration of African

American ArtistsBrowne The Shape GameByrd Leonardo: Beautiful DreamerClose Chuck Close: Face BookDaywalt The Day the Crayons QuitDebon Four Pictures by Emily CarrDinetti Painting the Wind (Van Gogh)Ehlert The Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life

(and others)Farley Ike’s Incredible InkFitzGerald Vinnie and Abraham (Lincoln)Fonteyn CoppéliaFrith Frida Kahlo: the Artist Who Painted HerselfGreenberg Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian SpringJohnson Magritte’s Marvelous HatKimmel A Picture for Marc (Chagall)Krull Lives of the Artists

Lives of the MusiciansLeTord A Blue Butterfly: a Story of Claude MonetMacauley MosqueManceau WindblownMorales Viva Frida!Moss Zin! Zin! Zin! A ViolinMyers JazzNapoli Ready to DreamPavlova I Dreamed I Was a BallerinaRaschka Mysterious TheloniusRoth Do Re Mi

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Notes

Books Fall Open

By David McCord

Books fall open,

you fall in,

delighted where

you’ve never been;

hear voices not once

heard before,

reach world on world

through door on door;

find unexpected

keys to things

locked up beyond

imaginings.

What might you be,

perhaps become,

because one book

is somewhere? Some

wise delver into

wisdom, wit,

and wherewithal

has written it.

True books will venture,

dare you out,

whisper secrets,

maybe shout

across the gloom

to you in need,

who hanker for

a book to read.