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Suggested Diverse Reading
Books for Babies & Pre-Readers
Babies

Chocolate Me
By Taye Diggs
Summary: Relates the experiences of a dark-skinned, curly-haired child who wishes he could look more like the lighter-skinned children in his community until his mother helps him realize how wonderful he is inside and out.
Summary: Relates the experiences of a dark-skinned, curly-haired child who wishes he could look more like the lighter-skinned children in his community until his mother helps him realize how wonderful he is inside and out.

All Kinds of Families
By Norma Simon
Summary: In a book far ahead of its time, All Kinds of Families celebrated the broad diversity of American families when it was first published in 1976. Now Norma Simon and Sarah S. Brannen have updated this classic for the modern age. Multicultural and multigenerational people demonstrate what being in a family means and how all families offer each other support and love
Summary: In a book far ahead of its time, All Kinds of Families celebrated the broad diversity of American families when it was first published in 1976. Now Norma Simon and Sarah S. Brannen have updated this classic for the modern age. Multicultural and multigenerational people demonstrate what being in a family means and how all families offer each other support and love

The Color of Us
By Karen Katz
Summary: Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.
Summary: Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.

Keisha Ann Can
By Daniel Kirk
Summary: Keisha Ann is proud that she can ride the school bus, share with friends, and help the teacher. As she zips through her day, she knows what fun learning and playing can be.
Summary: Keisha Ann is proud that she can ride the school bus, share with friends, and help the teacher. As she zips through her day, she knows what fun learning and playing can be.

Good Luck, Anna Hibiscus!
By Atinuke
Summary: Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She can't wait to fly across the world and visit her granny in Canada. But can she find enough warm clothes for the cold winter weather? And will her family miss her?
Summary: Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She can't wait to fly across the world and visit her granny in Canada. But can she find enough warm clothes for the cold winter weather? And will her family miss her?

Anna Hibiscus
By Atinuke
Summary: Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She lives with her whole family in a wonderful house. There is always somebody to laugh and play with.Anna Hibiscus loves to splash in the sea with her cousins and have parties with her aunties. But more than anything else in the world, Anna Hibiscus would love to see snow.
Summary: Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She lives with her whole family in a wonderful house. There is always somebody to laugh and play with.Anna Hibiscus loves to splash in the sea with her cousins and have parties with her aunties. But more than anything else in the world, Anna Hibiscus would love to see snow.

Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes
By Eric Litwin
Summary: Pete the cat wears his school shoes when visiting the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and more while singing his special song.
Summary: Pete the cat wears his school shoes when visiting the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and more while singing his special song.

Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
By Eric Litwin
Summary: Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand-new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes!
Summary: Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand-new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes!

Last Stop on Market Street
By Matt de la Pena
Summary:
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
Summary:
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
By Mo Willems
Summary: When the bus driver decides to take a break from driving, a wild and wacky pigeon pleads and begs to take his place, capturing the antics of a preschooler's temper tantrum.
Summary: When the bus driver decides to take a break from driving, a wild and wacky pigeon pleads and begs to take his place, capturing the antics of a preschooler's temper tantrum.

Chato's Kitchen
By Gary Soto
Summary: To get the "ratoncitos," little mice, who have moved into the barrio to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more.
Summary: To get the "ratoncitos," little mice, who have moved into the barrio to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more.

Supertruck
By Stephen Savage
Summary: When the city is hit by a colossal snowstorm, only one superhero can save the day. But who is this mysterious hero, and why does he disappear once his job is done?
Summary: When the city is hit by a colossal snowstorm, only one superhero can save the day. But who is this mysterious hero, and why does he disappear once his job is done?

Billy Bloo is Stick in Goo
By Jennifer Hamburg
Summary: Told in rhyme, a parade of characters tries to help Billy Bloo free himself from the goo, but only manages to get trapped in the goo instead.
Summary: Told in rhyme, a parade of characters tries to help Billy Bloo free himself from the goo, but only manages to get trapped in the goo instead.

Homemade Love
By Bell Hooks
Summary: A girl who is Girlpie to her mama and Honey Bun Chocolate Dewdrop to her daddy savors the warmth and love of her family.
Summary: A girl who is Girlpie to her mama and Honey Bun Chocolate Dewdrop to her daddy savors the warmth and love of her family.

City Shapes
By Diana Murray
Summary: A young girl walks through the bustling city, while a pigeon flies above, both spotting hidden shapes at every turn
Summary: A young girl walks through the bustling city, while a pigeon flies above, both spotting hidden shapes at every turn

Thunder Boy Jr.
By Sherman Alexie
Summary: Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name
Summary: Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name

Viva Frida!
By Yuyi Morales
Summary: Bilingual text, accompanied by colorful photographs, explores the famous artist's life, and illuminates the laughter, love, and tragedy that influenced her work.
Summary: Bilingual text, accompanied by colorful photographs, explores the famous artist's life, and illuminates the laughter, love, and tragedy that influenced her work.

Crown
By Derrick Barnes
Summary: Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.
Summary: Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.

Mama Africa!
By Kathryn Erskine
Summary: A harrowing picture biography of civil-rights activist and Grammy Award-winning South African singer Miriam Makeba. National Book Award-winning author, Kathryn Erskine, pairs up with newcomer Charly Palmer to convey Makeba's contributions to the anti-Apartheid movement, including her work with Nelson Mandela.
Summary: A harrowing picture biography of civil-rights activist and Grammy Award-winning South African singer Miriam Makeba. National Book Award-winning author, Kathryn Erskine, pairs up with newcomer Charly Palmer to convey Makeba's contributions to the anti-Apartheid movement, including her work with Nelson Mandela.

Black on White
By Tana Hoban
Summary: Black illustrations against a white background depict such objects as an elephant, butterfly, and leaf.
Summary: Black illustrations against a white background depict such objects as an elephant, butterfly, and leaf.

Peek-A-Boo Zoo!
By Joyce Wan
Summary: Zoo animals hide from young readers and provide rhyming clues to their identities.
Summary: Zoo animals hide from young readers and provide rhyming clues to their identities.

Up! How Families Around the World Carry Their Little Ones
By Susan Hughes
Summary: Around the world, little ones are carried in many different ways: in slings, on shoulders, in backpacks, on hips, in baskets, and in loving arms. Up! depicts ten places around the world, from Afghanistan to northern Canada, Peru to West Africa. In each place, a mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, or sibling lovingly carries a baby. With various family configurations and settings ranging from a busy outdoor market to a high-rise apartment kitchen, the book wholeheartedly celebrates diversity. Gorgeous cut-paper collage art adds warmth and brightness, and brings the lyrical text to life. Repetition of the phrase "Upsy-daisy" on each spread lends familiarity, and reminds readers that love for a little one is a universal feeling.
Summary: Around the world, little ones are carried in many different ways: in slings, on shoulders, in backpacks, on hips, in baskets, and in loving arms. Up! depicts ten places around the world, from Afghanistan to northern Canada, Peru to West Africa. In each place, a mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, or sibling lovingly carries a baby. With various family configurations and settings ranging from a busy outdoor market to a high-rise apartment kitchen, the book wholeheartedly celebrates diversity. Gorgeous cut-paper collage art adds warmth and brightness, and brings the lyrical text to life. Repetition of the phrase "Upsy-daisy" on each spread lends familiarity, and reminds readers that love for a little one is a universal feeling.

Making Faces: A First Book of Emotions
By Abrams Appleseed
Summary:After images of baby faces introduce six facial expressions: happy, angry, surprised, silly, and sleepy, the reader is asked to make the same face and then find that baby among several other faces. Includes a mirror for babies to watch themselves make faces
Summary:After images of baby faces introduce six facial expressions: happy, angry, surprised, silly, and sleepy, the reader is asked to make the same face and then find that baby among several other faces. Includes a mirror for babies to watch themselves make faces
grades1-3
Books for Grades 1-3

Ballet Cat: The Totally Secret Secret
By Bob Shea
Summary: While Ballet Cat and Sparkles the Pony are trying to decide what to play, they each share an important secret.
Summary: While Ballet Cat and Sparkles the Pony are trying to decide what to play, they each share an important secret.

Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?
By Bill Martin and Eric Carle
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text portray a young bear searching for its mother and meeting many North American animals along the way.
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text portray a young bear searching for its mother and meeting many North American animals along the way.

Pete Won't Eat
By Emily Arnold McCully
Summary:Pete the pig does not want to eat his slop, but cannot go out to play with his brother and sisters until he does.
Summary:Pete the pig does not want to eat his slop, but cannot go out to play with his brother and sisters until he does.

Charlie & Mouse
By Laurel Snyder
Summary: Charlie and Mouse, two young brothers, enjoy a day out together, attending an imaginary party and collecting rocks.
Summary: Charlie and Mouse, two young brothers, enjoy a day out together, attending an imaginary party and collecting rocks.

Music Time
By Gwendolyn Hooks
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Barkus
By Patricia MacLachlan
Summary:
Barkus is a large and very smart dog who comes to live with seven-year-old Nicky when Nicky's Uncle Everton goes traveling--and soon he is a family and school favorite.
Summary:
Barkus is a large and very smart dog who comes to live with seven-year-old Nicky when Nicky's Uncle Everton goes traveling--and soon he is a family and school favorite.

Get a hit, Mo!
By David Adler
Summary: "Mo Jackson is excited for his baseball game, but Coach Marie tells him he is batting last and playing right field, again. Will Mo ever get a hit?"-- Provided by publisher.
Summary: "Mo Jackson is excited for his baseball game, but Coach Marie tells him he is batting last and playing right field, again. Will Mo ever get a hit?"-- Provided by publisher.

Pete the Cat
By Eric Litwin
Summary: Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.
Summary: Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.

A big guy took my ball!.
By Mo Willems
Summary:
Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
Summary:
Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.

It's shoe time!
B Bryan Collier & Mo Willems
Summary: If you choose to wear unmatched shoes, can they still be a pair?
Summary: If you choose to wear unmatched shoes, can they still be a pair?

King Kayla and the Case of the Lost Tooth
By Butler, Dori Hillestad
Summary:
Kayla places her tooth in a Tooth Fairy pillow, but it disappears before the Tooth Fairy has a chance to visit--can her dog King help Kayla find the missing tooth?
Summary:
Kayla places her tooth in a Tooth Fairy pillow, but it disappears before the Tooth Fairy has a chance to visit--can her dog King help Kayla find the missing tooth?

Fly Guy and the Frakenfly
By Tedd Arnold
Summary:
Buzz has a nightmare that his best friend Fly Guy has created a gigantic Frankenfly monster.
Summary:
Buzz has a nightmare that his best friend Fly Guy has created a gigantic Frankenfly monster.

The Infaous Rastos
By Kara LaReau
Summary: Louie and Ralphie Ratso’s dad, Big Lou, always says that there are two kinds of people: those who are tough and those who are soft. Louie and Ralphie are tough, tough, tough, just like Big Lou, and they’re going to prove it. But every time they try to show just how tough they are, the Ratso brothers end up accidentally doing good deeds instead. What’ll Big Lou do when he finds out they’ve been acting like softies all over the Big City? Perfect for emerging and reluctant readers, this clever and surprisingly warmhearted chapter book shows that being tough all the time can be really tough.
Summary: Louie and Ralphie Ratso’s dad, Big Lou, always says that there are two kinds of people: those who are tough and those who are soft. Louie and Ralphie are tough, tough, tough, just like Big Lou, and they’re going to prove it. But every time they try to show just how tough they are, the Ratso brothers end up accidentally doing good deeds instead. What’ll Big Lou do when he finds out they’ve been acting like softies all over the Big City? Perfect for emerging and reluctant readers, this clever and surprisingly warmhearted chapter book shows that being tough all the time can be really tough.

Trombone Shorty
By Troy Andrews
Summary:
A Grammy-nominated headliner for the New Orleans Jazz Fest describes his childhood in Tremé and how he came to be a bandleader by age six.
Summary:
A Grammy-nominated headliner for the New Orleans Jazz Fest describes his childhood in Tremé and how he came to be a bandleader by age six.

DogMan
By Dv Pilkey
Summary:
George and Harold create a new comic book hero in Dog Man, a crimefighter with the head of a police dog and the body of a policeman, who faces off against his archnemesis Petey the cat.
Summary:
George and Harold create a new comic book hero in Dog Man, a crimefighter with the head of a police dog and the body of a policeman, who faces off against his archnemesis Petey the cat.

Jabar Jumps
By Gaia Cornwall
Summary:
"Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board.
Summary:
"Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board.

The Bad Guys
By Aaron Blabey
The Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Piranha, want to be heroes, and they decide that the way to do it is free the 200 dogs in the city dog pound--but their plan soon goes awry.
The Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Piranha, want to be heroes, and they decide that the way to do it is free the 200 dogs in the city dog pound--but their plan soon goes awry.

Ada Twist, scientist
Summary:
Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.

Bad Kitty
By Bruel Nick
Summary:
Bad behavior reigns when Kitty's owners leave Kitty and Puppy at home for a week with Uncle Murray as their pet sitter.
Summary:
Bad behavior reigns when Kitty's owners leave Kitty and Puppy at home for a week with Uncle Murray as their pet sitter.

Blue Sky White Stars
By Naberheus Sarvinder
Summary:
"A stirring poetic tribute to the beauty and wonder of America's symbols, history, landscape"-- Provided by publisher.
Summary:
"A stirring poetic tribute to the beauty and wonder of America's symbols, history, landscape"-- Provided by publisher.

Jada Jones
By Kelly Lynos
Summary:
Fourth-grader Jada's best friend moved away but a class project on rocks and minerals, her favorite topic, could mean new friends, if only one of her teammates would stop being mean.
Summary:
Fourth-grader Jada's best friend moved away but a class project on rocks and minerals, her favorite topic, could mean new friends, if only one of her teammates would stop being mean.

The Quickest Kid in Clarksville
By Pat Xietlow Miller

MArvelous Cornellius
By Phil Bildner
Summary:
A man known as the "Trashcan Wizard" sings and dances his way through the French Quarter in New Orleans, keeping his beloved city clean, until Hurricane Katrina's devastation nearly causes him to lose his spirit.
Summary:
A man known as the "Trashcan Wizard" sings and dances his way through the French Quarter in New Orleans, keeping his beloved city clean, until Hurricane Katrina's devastation nearly causes him to lose his spirit.

Little Shaq
By O'Neal, Shaquille
Summary:
"Little Shaq doesn't love trying new things, especially if he might not be very good at them. So when his class is assigned projects for the school's upcoming art show, he's not sure that his skills will transfer from the basketball court to the art studio. Can Little Shaq find the confidence to embrace his own style and create a piece for the show?"-- Provided by publisher.
Summary:
"Little Shaq doesn't love trying new things, especially if he might not be very good at them. So when his class is assigned projects for the school's upcoming art show, he's not sure that his skills will transfer from the basketball court to the art studio. Can Little Shaq find the confidence to embrace his own style and create a piece for the show?"-- Provided by publisher.

The Water Princess
By Susan Verde
Summary:
"The story of one young girl's quest to bring clean drinking water to her African village"--
Summary:
"The story of one young girl's quest to bring clean drinking water to her African village"--
Books for Grades 4-6
Grades 4-6

Home Court
By Amar'e Stoudemire
Summary:
Between sports, school, and working for his father, eleven-year-old Amar'e's life is full and he is not yet ready to concentrate on basketball--but when a group of older boys start hogging the local basketball court he knows that he has to do something to help his friends.
Summary:
Between sports, school, and working for his father, eleven-year-old Amar'e's life is full and he is not yet ready to concentrate on basketball--but when a group of older boys start hogging the local basketball court he knows that he has to do something to help his friends.

Nikki & Deja
By Karen English
Summary:
When an arrogant new girl comes to school, third-graders and best friends Nikki and Deja decide to form a club that would exclude her but find the results not what they expected.
Summary:
When an arrogant new girl comes to school, third-graders and best friends Nikki and Deja decide to form a club that would exclude her but find the results not what they expected.

The Carver Chronicles: The New Kid
By Karen English
Summary: Third-grader Gavin and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new boy in their class, Khufu. He doesn't look or act like other kids. When Gavin's bike goes missing, they think Khufu stole it, but did he?
Summary: Third-grader Gavin and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new boy in their class, Khufu. He doesn't look or act like other kids. When Gavin's bike goes missing, they think Khufu stole it, but did he?

Sofia Martinez: My Fantastica Family
By Jacqueline Jules
Summary:
Sofia Martinez and her family head for the beach, but she has packed too many games; she makes a family time capsule to which Abuela contributes; and the family is shopping for back-to-school supplies when four-year-old Manuel disappears.
Summary:
Sofia Martinez and her family head for the beach, but she has packed too many games; she makes a family time capsule to which Abuela contributes; and the family is shopping for back-to-school supplies when four-year-old Manuel disappears.

Locomotion
By Jacqueline Woodson
Summary:
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
Summary:
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.

Out of Wonder
By Kwame Alexander
Summary:
Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.
Summary:
Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.

The First Rule of Punk
By Celia Pérez
Summary:
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
Summary:
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.

The Losers Club
By Andrew Clements
Summary:
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
Summary:
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.

Finding Mighty
By Sheela Chari
Summary:
"Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all?"
Summary:
"Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all?"

50 Wacky Things Animals Do
By: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
Summary: Describes fifty strange animal behaviors, including how cuckoo birds lay their eggs in other birds' nests, how male penguins offer stones to female penguins, and how electric eels defend themselves with electric shock waves.
Summary: Describes fifty strange animal behaviors, including how cuckoo birds lay their eggs in other birds' nests, how male penguins offer stones to female penguins, and how electric eels defend themselves with electric shock waves.

Ahimsa
By: Kelkar, Supriya
Summary: Gandhi asks for one member of each family to join the fight for independence from the British, and when ten-year-old Anjali's mother is jailed for doing so, Anjali must step out of her comfort zone to take over her mother's work.
Summary: Gandhi asks for one member of each family to join the fight for independence from the British, and when ten-year-old Anjali's mother is jailed for doing so, Anjali must step out of her comfort zone to take over her mother's work.

Dara Palmer's Major Drama
By: Shevah, Emma
Summary: Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
Summary: Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.

A Dash of Trouble
By: Meriano, Anna
Summary: Wanting to be a part of her family's Dia de los Muertos preparations, Leonora sneaks out of school to discover her mother, aunt, and older sisters have been keeping a secret.
Summary: Wanting to be a part of her family's Dia de los Muertos preparations, Leonora sneaks out of school to discover her mother, aunt, and older sisters have been keeping a secret.

Full Cicada Moon by Hilton
By: Hilton, Marilyn
Summary: In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
Summary: In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.

Gone to Drift
By: McCaulay, Diana
Summary: Gone to Drift tells the story of a 12-year-old Jamaican boy, Lloyd, and his search for his beloved grandfather, Maas Conrad, a fisherman who is lost at sea
Summary: Gone to Drift tells the story of a 12-year-old Jamaican boy, Lloyd, and his search for his beloved grandfather, Maas Conrad, a fisherman who is lost at sea

Inside Out & Back Again
By: Lai, Thanhha
Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

EllRay Jakes
By: Warner, Sally
Summary: Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes of Oak Glen Primary School is looking for a new best friend, and he decides that the best way to find one is to come up with a bunch of amazing things to do at recess--and see who shares in the fun.
Summary: Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes of Oak Glen Primary School is looking for a new best friend, and he decides that the best way to find one is to come up with a bunch of amazing things to do at recess--and see who shares in the fun.

The last kids on Earth
By: Brallier, Max
Summary: "Jack teams up with the evil King Wretch in order to convince his friends to stay with him instead of going in search of others who may have survived the monster apocalypse"-- Provided by publisher.
Summary: "Jack teams up with the evil King Wretch in order to convince his friends to stay with him instead of going in search of others who may have survived the monster apocalypse"-- Provided by publisher.

The Night Diary
By: Hiranandani, Veera
Summary: Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
Summary: Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.

Planet Jupiter
By: Kurtz, Jane
Summary: Jupiter and her family have spent their lives on the road, moving from town to town in a trusty old van and earning their living by playing music for tourists.
Summary: Jupiter and her family have spent their lives on the road, moving from town to town in a trusty old van and earning their living by playing music for tourists.

Ruby Lee & Me
By: Hitchcock, Shannon
Summary: When a formerly segregated North Carolina town hires its first African-American teacher in 1969, two girls--one black, one white--confront the prejudice that challenges their friendship.
Summary: When a formerly segregated North Carolina town hires its first African-American teacher in 1969, two girls--one black, one white--confront the prejudice that challenges their friendship.

Star Scouts
By: Lawrence, Mike
Summary: Accidentally abducted by an alien named Mabel, Avani joins Mabel at Camp Andromeda, a camp for Star Scouts where she has the adventure of a lifetime.
Summary: Accidentally abducted by an alien named Mabel, Avani joins Mabel at Camp Andromeda, a camp for Star Scouts where she has the adventure of a lifetime.

Stella Diaz has Something to Say
By: Dominguez, Angels
Summary: When her class is assigned a project where each student must speak on their favorite subject, Stella Diaz, who sometimes lapses into Spanish and pronounces words wrong, must overcome her fear of public speaking.
Summary: When her class is assigned a project where each student must speak on their favorite subject, Stella Diaz, who sometimes lapses into Spanish and pronounces words wrong, must overcome her fear of public speaking.

Rip And Red
By: Bildner, Phil
Summary: "Rip and Red find that fifth grade continues to challenge them in brand-new ways and discover that sometimes radical change is nothing to be afraid of"-- Provided by publisher.
Summary: "Rip and Red find that fifth grade continues to challenge them in brand-new ways and discover that sometimes radical change is nothing to be afraid of"-- Provided by publisher.

The Sweetest Sound
By: Winston, Sherri
Summary: "Shy ten-year-old Cadence grapples with an overprotective father, a mother who's skipped town to pursue stardom, and what to do when a recording of her amazing voice leaks before she's ready to share it with the world".
Summary: "Shy ten-year-old Cadence grapples with an overprotective father, a mother who's skipped town to pursue stardom, and what to do when a recording of her amazing voice leaks before she's ready to share it with the world".
Books for Grades 7 & Up
7& Up