PICTURE BOOKS
1. CINDY – Get me Out of This Book by Dakos and Cholette – ESSENTIAL
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend by Melanie Watts
2. LISA – Quiet by Tomie dePaola – ESSENTIAL
Interview about Quiet (and dePaola’s books about the Saints)
3. CINDY – Give Me Back My Bones! By Kim Norman and Bob Kolar – ESSENTIAL
Alphaoops! H is for Halloween by Alethea Kontis
The Little Ice Cream Truck by Margery Cuyler
Bonaparte Falls Apart by Margery Cuyler
4. LISA – The Wild Wombat by Udo Weigelt – ESSENTIAL
5. CINDY – Goodbye, Friend! Hello, Friend! By Cori Doerrfeld – ESSENTIAL
The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
6. LISA – Music for Mister Moon by Philip C. Stead – ESSENTIAL
Erin Stead’s Mister Moon webpage
7. CINDY – The Last Peach by Gus Gordon – ESSENTIAL
8. LISA – If You Had Your Birthday Party on the Moon by Joyce Lapin – ESSENTIAL
Sterling Publisher’s book trailer
Simona Ceccarelli youtube illustrating demo
NONFICTION PICTURE BOOKS
9. CINDY – Homes in the Wild by Lita Judge – ESSENTIAL
Red Sled by Lita Judge – ESSENTIAL
10. LISA – Growing Season by Maryann Cocca-Leffler – ESSENTIAL
11. CINDY – Go For the Moon by Chris Gall – ESSENTIAL
12. LISA – On the Playground : Our First Talk About Prejudice by Dr. Jillian Roberts – ESSENTIAL
13. CINDY – Moth: An Evolution Story by Isabel Thomas and Daniel Egneus – ESSENTIAL
Outrageous Animal Adaptations by Michael J. Rosen
Shell, Beak, Tusk by Bridget Heos
MIDDLE GRADE
14. LISA – Mr. Wolf’s Class by Aron Nels Steinke – ESSENTIAL
15. CINDY – Planet Earth is Blue by Nicole Panteleakos – ESSENTIAL
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Sara Lost and Found by Virginia Cattleman
Three Pennies by Melanie Crowder
16. LISA The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle – ESSENTIAL
17. CINDY – Skyjacked by Paul Griffin – ESSENTIAL
The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin
I am Still Alive by Kate Marshall
Amazon – Deathwatch by Robb White
18. LISA – New Kid by Jerry Craft – ESSENTIAL
Teaching Guide from the Publisher
19. CINDY – Allies by Alan Gratz – ESSENTIAL
20. LISA – Small Spaces by Katherine Arden – ESSENTIAL
Nightmares! by Segel and Miller
The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn
21. CINDY – The Revenge of Magic by James Riley – ESSENTIAL
Once Upon the End by James Riley
22. LISA –The Giver adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell – ESSENTIAL
23. CINDY – Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor – ESSENTIAL
Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce
YA
24. LISA There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon – HIGH
25. CINDY – The Lonely Dead by April Henry – ADVISABLE
The Dead and Buried by Kim Harrington
26. LISA Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card – ADVISABLE
27. CINDY – I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn – ESSENTIAL
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
North of Beautiful by Justina Headley
28. LISA The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina – ADVISABLE
29. CINDY – Take the Mic edited by Bethany C. Morrow – HIGH
30. LISA Aftermath by Kelley Armstrong – HIGH
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