Librarian's Picks

 
Chapter Books (for upper grades)


 How To Steal A dog                                                           
 How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
 
 
                                                                                                        
 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead              
 
 
                                               
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke


      
Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan 




The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

 
 
Picture Books
                                                            
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson



Ruby the Copycat by Peggy Rathmann
 
 
                                                 
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka



Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
 
 
 
Piggie Pie
by Margie Palatini
 
 

Nonfiction Books
 

                                                      
Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson 



Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
 
 
                                                            
Actual Size
by Steve Jenkins



Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
 
 

Poetry Books
 
 
                                                                                 
This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
 by Joyce Sidman



Good Books, Good Times! selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
 
 
 
 
                                                      
Cesar: Si, Se Puede! Yes We Can! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand