Baby Books & Picture Books Up to Age 5
Ten Magic Butterflies
By Danica Mckellar
This book mixes magic and math for young children. This is New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar’s second book, and she sneaks in secret addition and subtraction concepts to help make numbers fun.
We Are Together
By Britta Teckentrup
This beautiful book celebrates the power of love, teamwork, and friendship with vibrant artwork, illustrations and story by award winning author Britta Teckentrup.
Books for Ages 5-8
Roscoe Riley Rules
By Katherine Applegate
Roscoe just can’t help break rules while trying to help in the most hilarious ways in this series by award winning author Katherine Applegate (known also for The One and Only Ivan, Wishtree).
Exquisite - The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
By Suzanne Slade
A 2021 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book A 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book; Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black per son to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950. She is known for her poems about love, family, poverty. This book is a picture book biography exploring her life and the beauty of her writing.
Books for Ages 8-12
Restart
By Gordan Karman
Chase Ambrose was a football star with a lot of friends at his school and also the biggest bully. A fall from a roof wipes out Chase’s memory, and he has to restart his life. Upon returning to school, Chase is puzzled by the differences in the way that others treat him. Some are happy to see him while others steer clear of him. Can Chase figure out who he was before?
The Journey of Little Charlie
By Christopher Paul Curtis
The narrator is Charlie Bobo, the 12-year-old son of a white sharecropper, whose family can’t catch a break: “In life, there was good luck followed by no luck, followed by bad luck, followed by tragical luck, followed by the luck of the Bobos.” This is a tense, powerful novel of boy and slave catcher in 1858.
Books for Middle-Schoolers & Tweens
Finding Mighty
By Sheela Chari
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.
Harbor Me
By Jacqueline Woodson
In her first middle-grade novel since Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories in a safe space, covering topics from deportation to incarceration.
Books for Young Adults
Feathers
By Jacqueline Woodson
This historical novel was first published in 2007. The story is about a sixth-grade girl named Frannie growing up in the '70s. One day an unexpected new student causes much chaos to the class because he is the only white boy in the whole school.