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Ages 3-5 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F ABC Drive, Naomi Howland

F Corduroy, Don Freeman

F ABC I Like Me!, Nancy Carlson

F A Den is a Bed for a Bear, Becky Baines

F Abuela, Arthur Dorros & Elisa Kleven

F Dolphin Baby!, Nicola Davies & Brita Granström

F Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good,

F Don’t Worry, Douglas!, David Melling

Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst & Ray Cruz

F Alice the Fairy, David Shannon F Alphabet Under Construction, Denise Fleming F All Kinds of Families!, Mary Ann Hoberman & Marc Boutavant

F The Are You Ready for Kindergarten?

F The Dot, Peter H. Reynolds F Exclamation Mark, Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld F Family Pictures/Cuadros de familia, Carmen Lomas Garza F First the Egg, Laura Vaccaro Seeger

F Happy Birthday, Hamster, Cynthia Lord & Derek Anderson F Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson F Here Come the Girl Scouts!, Shana Corey & Hadley Hooper

F Homer, Shelley Rotner & Diane Detroit F The House that George Built, Suzanne Slade & Rebecca Bond

F A House is a House for Me, Mary Ann Hoberman & Betty Fraser

F Five Little Monkeys Reading in Bed, Eileen Christelow

F How Do Dinosaurs books, Jane Yolen & Mark Teague

F Baby Bear Sees Blue, Ashley Wolff

F Frog & Toad Are Friends, Arnold Lobel

F How Does Your Salad Grow?, Francie Alexander

F Bailey, Harry Bliss

F The Froggy books, Jonathan London

F How Georgie Radboum Saved Baseball, David Shannon

workbook series, Kumon Publishing

& Frank Remkiewicz

F Bats at the Beach, Brian Lies F Bird, Butterfly, Eel, James Prosek F Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle

F The Geronimo Stilton series, Geronimo Stilton F Gilbert Goldfish Wants a Pet, Kelly DiPucchio & Bob Shea F The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein

F The Can You See What I See? books, Walter Wick

F Gone with the Wand, Margie Palatini & Brian Ajhar

F The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss

F Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site,

F ‘Cause I Love You, Jan Carr & Daniel Howarth F Cindy Moo, Lori Mortensen & Jeff Mack F The Clifford books, Norman Bridwell F Come On, Rain, Karen Hesse & Jon J. Muth

Sherri Duskey Rinker & Tom Lichtenheld

F Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown F Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss F Growing Vegetable Soup, Lois Ehlert F The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

F Huck Runs Amuck, Sean Taylor & Peter Reynolds F I Am Small, Emma Dodd F I Read Signs, Tana Hoban F If Rocks Could Sing: A Discovered Alphabet, Leslie McGuirk

F If You Decide to Go to the Moon, Faith McNulty & Steven Kellogg

F If You Take a Mouse to School, Laura Numeroff & Felicia Bond

F I’m Fast!, Kate & Jim McMullan F I’m Your Bus, Marilyn Singers & Evan Polenghi

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Ages 3-5 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F Immi’s Gift, Karin Littlewood F Insect Detective, Steve Voake & Charlotte Voake F Into the Sea, Brenda Z. Guiberson F Ish, Peter H. Reynolds F It’s Moving Day, Pamela Hickman & Geraldo Valerio F Interrupting Chicken, David Ezra Stein F It’s Duffy Time, Audrey Wood & Don Wood F Jamberry, Bruce Degen

F Me and My Amazing Body, Joan Sweeney & Annette Cable

F The Max Spaniel series, David Catrow F Me…Jane, Patrick McDonnell F Me Want Pet!, Tammi Sauer F Memoirs of a Goldfish, Devin Scillian & Tim Bowers F Meow Said the Cow, Emma Dodd F Miss Fox’s Class Shapes Up, Eileen Spinelli & Anne Kennedy

F Olivia books, Ian Falconer F On Meadowview Street, Henry Cole F One Drowsy Dragon, Ethan Long F An Orange in January, Diana Hutts Aston & Julie Maren F Orani: My Father’s Village, Claire Nivola F Panda Kindergarten, Joanne Ryder & Katherine Feng F Paul Bunyan, Steven Kellogg F The Penny Pot, Stuart J. Murphy & Lynne Woodcock Cravath

F Jangles, David Shannon

F The Moon Book, Gail Gibbons

F Pete the Cat, Eric Litwin & James Dean

F Ladybug Girl at the Beach, Jacky Davis

F Mouse Loves School, Lauren Thompson & Buket Erdogan

F Pinkalicious books, Elizabeth & Victoria Kann

F Let’s Count to 100!, Masayuki Sebe

F My Father’s Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett

F Pirates Don’t Change Diapers, Melinda Long & David Shannon

F Little Critter books, Mercer Mayer

F Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Richard & Florence Atwater

F Planets, Elizabeth Carney

F Little Pink Pup, Johanna Kerby

F The My Weird School series, Dan Gutman

F Polar Bear Morning, Lauren Thompson & Stephen Savage

F Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life,

F The Nate the Great Series, Marjorie S. Sharmat

F Ponyella, Laura Numeroff, Nate Evans & Lynn

Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm

F LMNO Peas, Keith Baker F Lola at the Library, Anna McQuinn & Rosalind Beardshaw F Looking Down, Steve Jenkins

& Marc Simont

F National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Why, Amy Shields

F The New Kid on the Block, Jack Prelutsky & James Stevenson

Munsinger

F The Pony Scouts series, Catherine Hapka & Anne Kennedy F The Poppleton series, Cynthia Rylant & Mark Teague F The Princess Posey series, Stephanie Greene & Stephanie Sisson

F Lucky Duckling, Eva Moore & Nancy Carpenter

F The Night Before Kindergarten, Natasha Wing & Julie Durrell

F Pugs in a Bug, Carolyn Crimi & Stephanie Buscema

F The Magic Fish, Freya Littledale

F Nic Bishop Spiders, Nic Bishop

F Q is for Duck: An Alphabet Guessing Game, Mary Elting,

F The Magic Tree House series, Mary Pope Osborne & Sal Murdocca

F No, David!, David Shannon

F Maybe a Bear Ate It!, Robie H. Harris & Michael Emberley

F Numbers All Around, Susan Canizares & Betsey Chessen

Michael Folsom & Jack Kent

F The Raft, Jim LaMarche

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Ages 3-5 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F Ready or Not, Here Comes Scout!, Jill Abramson, Jane O’Connor & Deborah Melmon

F The Story of Ferdinand, Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson F Up on Daddy’s Shoulders, Matt Berry & Hans Wilhelm

F Strega Nona, Tomie de Paola

F Rooster’s Off to See the World, Eric Carle

F Welcome to My Neighborhood!: A Barrio ABC,

F Stuart Little, E. B. White

F Ron’s Big Mission, Rose Blue, Corinne Naden

Quiara Alegria Hudes & Shino Arihara

F A Tadpole Grows Up, Pam Zollman

& Don Tate

F Wemberly Worried, Kevin Henkes

F The Tale of Tricky Fox, Jim Aylesworth &

F Rubia and the Three Osos, Susan Middleton Elya &

F What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, Steve Jenkins

Barbara McClintock

Melissa Sweet

& Robin Page

F Telling Time: How to Tell Time on Digital and Analog Clocks!,

F The Salamander Room, Anne Mazer, Steve Johnson

Jules Older & Megan Halsey

& Lou Fancher

Giles Laroche

F Tabby McTat, the Musical Cat, Julia Donaldson

F Scooter in the Outside, Anne Bowen

F What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the

& Alex Scheffler

F Sense Suspense: A Guessing Game for the Five Senses, Bruce McMillan

F What Do Wheels Do All Day?, April Jones Prince &

Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!, Barbara Kerley & Edwin Fotheringham

F Ten Black Dots, Donald Crews

F The Shape of Things, Dayle Ann Dodds & Julie Lacome

F Ten Cats Have Hats, Jean Marzollo

F What is Weather?, Ellen Lawrence

F Sleep Like a Tiger, Mary Logue & Pamela Zagarenski

F Ten Little Caterpillars, Bill Martin Jr. & Lois Ehlert

F What Will I Do if I Can’t Tie My Shoe, Heidi Kilgras

F Smart About the Presidents (Smart About History), Jon Buller,

F The There Was an Old Lady… books, Lucille Colandro

F Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

Susan Schade & Jill Weber

& Jared D. Lee

F Whistle for Willie, Ezra Jack Keats

F The Snail and the Whale, Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

F These Bees Count, Alison Formento & Sarah Snow

F Shark vs. Train, Chris Barton & Tom Lichtenheld

F Those Rebels, John and Tom, Barbara Kerley &

F Woolbur, Leslie Helakoski & Lee Harper

Edwin Fotheringham

F Shoe-La-La, Karen Beaumont & Leuyen Pham

F The You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You series, Mary Ann

F Thunder Cake, Patricia Polacco

F Splat the Cat books, Rob Scotton

Hoberman& Michael Emberley

F Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark, Ken Geist

F Star of the Sea: A Day in the Life of a Starfish,

F Yoko, Rosemary Wells

F Time for Bed, Mem Fox & Jane Dyer

Janet Halfmann & Joan Paley

F You and Me Together: Moms, Dads, and Kids Around the World, Barbara Kerley

F The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka &

F The Story of the Statue of Liberty, Betsy Maetro

Lane Smith

F Spoon, Amy Krause Rosenthal & Scott Magoon

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F White Rabbit’s Color Book, Alan Baker

F You Are Stardust, Elin Kelsey & Soyeon Kim

F The Toot and Puddle books, Holly Hobbie

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Ages 5-7 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F The Geronimo Stilton series, Geronimo Stilton

F 1001 Things to Spot in the Sea, Katie Daynes

F Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault,

F The Great Sheep Shenanigans, Peter Bently & Mei Matsuoka

& Lois Ehlert

F ABC of Jobs, Roger Priddy

F Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Judi Barrett & Ron Barrett

F Animal Snackers, Betsy Lewin

F Coral Reefs, Jason Chin

F The Amelia Bedelia series, Peggy Parish Gerald McDermott

Ariane Dewey

F Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss

F The Cow that Went Oink, Bernard Most

F Anansi the Spider, A Tale from the Ashanti,

F Gregory the Terrible Eater, Mitchell Sharmat, Jose Aruego &

F Creepy Carrots!, Peter Brown & Aaron Reynolds

F The Henry and Mudge series, Cynthia Rylant & Suçie Stevenson

F A-Z Mystery Series, Ron Roy & John Steven Gurney

F David McPhail’s Animals A to Z, David McPhail

F Here Comes Trouble!, Corinne Demas & Noah Z. Jones

F Baby Dolphin’s First Day, Peter Roop, Connie Roop &

F Diary of a Spider, Doreen Cronin & Harry Bliss

F How Georgie Radboum Saved Baseball, David Shannon

F The Scholastic Discover More series, various

F Icky Bug Shapes, Jerry Pallotta & Shennen Bersani

American Museum of Natural History

F Beatrice’s Goat, Page McBrier & Lori Lohstoeter

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F The I Spy series, Jean Marzollo & Walter Wick

F Big Red Lollipop, Rukhsana Khan & Sophie Blackall

F Dinotrux, Chris Gall

F The Black Lagoon series, Mike Thaler & Jared Lee

F Doctor De Soto, William Steig

F The Boris series (Branches early chapter books), Andrew

F The Dot, Peter H. Reynolds

F Insect Detective, Steve Voake & Charlotte Voake

F The Elephant and Piggie series, Mo Willems

F I Stink!, Kate McMullan & Jim McMullan

F Every Cowgirl Loves a Rodeo, Rebecca Janni & Lynne Avril

F The Junie B. Jones series, Barbara Park

Joyner

F Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!, Kathleen V. Kudlinski & S.D. Schindler

F If You Decide to Go to the Moon, Faith McNulty & Steven Kellogg

F The Boy Who Cried Ninja, Alex Latimer

F Every Thing On It: Poems and Drawings, Shel Silverstein

F The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition,

F Extra Yarn, Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen

William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer

F Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth, Nicola Davies & Neal Layton

F A Butterfly is Patient, Dianna Hutts Aston & Sylvia Long

F The Fancy Nancy books, Jane O’Connor

F The Cam Jansen series, David A. Adler

& Robin Preiss Glasser

F The Car Washing Street, Dennis Lewis Patrick & John Ward F Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

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& Denise Brunkus

F Just Behave, Pablo Picasso!, Jonah Winter & Kevin Hawkes

F Let’s Do Nothing, Tony Fucile F Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same!, Grace Lin F The Library Mouse books, Daniel Kirk

F The Flat Stanley series, Jeff Brown & Macky Pamintuan

F Little Dog Lost, Monica Carnesi

F The Fly Guy series, Tedd Arnold

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Ages 5-7 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F The Looniverse series (Branches early chapter books), David Lubar, Matt Loveridge

F The Lotus Lane series (Branches early chapter books), Kyla May

F My Father’s Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett

F The Poppleton series, Cynthia Rylant & Mark Teague

F The My Weird School series, Dan Gutman

F Q is for Duck, Mary Elting , Michael Folsom & Jack Kent

F The Nate the Great Series, Marjorie S. Sharmat

F Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit, Chris Van Dusen

& Marc Simont

F The Magic Fish, Freya Littledale

F The Rainbow Magic series, Daisy Meadows

F National Geographic Kids Readers: Saving Animal Babies,

F Rooster’s Off to See the World, Eric Carle

Amy Shields

F The Magic School Bus Rides the Wind, Anne Capeci & Carolyn Bracken

F Ron’s Big Mission, Rose Blue, Corinne Naden & Don Tate

F The New Kid on the Block, Jack Prelutsky

F The Magic Tree House series, Mary Pope Osborne

F Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

Greg Tang

F The Scaredy Squirrel books, Melanie Watt

Troy Cummings

Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen

F Math For All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles,

& Melissa Sweet

F The Notebook of Doom series (Branches books),

F The Magic School Bus & the Climate Challenge,

Doreen Rappaport & Bryan Collier

F Rubia & the Three Osos, Susan Middleton Elya

F Nic Bishop Snakes, Nic Bishop

& Sal Murdocca

F The Scrambled States of America, Laurie Keller

F Numbers All Around, Susan Canizares & Betsey Chessen

F The Scream Team Series, Bill Doyle & Jared Lee

F On Meadowview Street, Henry Cole

F Sense Suspense, Bruce McMillan

F One Cool Friend, Toni Buzzeo & David Small

F Sight Word Readers Parent Pack: Learning the First 50 Sight

F Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Brian Floca

F Me . . . Jane, Patrick McDonnell

F Pancakes for Breakfast, Tomie DePaolo

F Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story,

F Paul Bunyan, Steven Kellogg

Thomas F. Yeserski

F Miss Smith Under the Ocean, Michael Garland F The Missy’s Super Duper Royal Deluxe series (Branches early chapter books), Susan Nees

F The Pain and the Great One, Judy Blume

F The Skippyjon Jones series, Judy Schachner

F The Penny Pot, Stuart J. Murphy & Lynne Woodcock Cravath

F Sleeping Bootsie, Maribeth Boelts & Patricia Cantor

F Pirates Don’t Change Diapers, Melinda Long & David Shannon

F Smart About the Presidents, Jon Buller, Susan Schade & Jill Webber

F Planets, Elizabeth Carney

F The Mr. Putter and Tabby series, Cynthia Rylant

F Plant a Kiss, Amy Krause Rosenthal & Peter H. Reynolds F Pluto Visits Earth!, Steve Metzger & Jared D. Lee

F Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden, Edith Pattou

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F Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down, Andrea Pinkney & Brian Pinkney

F The Mouse and Mole series, Wong Herbert Yee & Arthur Howard

Words Is a Snap!, Scholastic

F Polar Animals, Wade Cooper

Read-Aloud Award Winner Award Winner

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F Splat the Cat: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Rob Scotton F Stay: The True Story of Ten Dogs, Michaela Muntean & K.C. Bailey & Steve Kazmierski

F The Stink Series, Megan McDonald

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Ages 5-7 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation, Jacqueline Jules & Jef Czekaj

F The Story of Ferdinand, Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson

F Water Buffalo Day: Growing Up in Vietnam, Huynh Quang

F Strega Nona, Tomie DePaola

Nhuong, Jean Tseng & Mou-Sien Tseng

F Stuart Little, E. B. White

F What Do Wheels Do All Day?, April Jones Prince &

F Stuck, Oliver Jeffers

Giles Laroche

F A Stick is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play, Marilyn Singer & LeUyen Pham

F What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!, Barbara Kerley & Edwin Fotheringham

F Surfer Chick, Kristy Dempsey & Henry Cole

F Winter’s Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again,

F A Tadpole Grows Up, Pam Zollman

Craig Hatkoff, Juliana Hatkoff & Isabella Hatkoff

F The Tale of Tricky Fox, Jim Aylesworth &

F Woolbur, Leslie Helakoski & Lee Harper

Barbara McClintock

F Telling Time: How to Tell Time on Digital & Analog Clocks!, Jules Older & Megan Halsey

F The You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You series, Mary Ann Hoberman& Michael Emberley

F You Are Stardust, Elin Kelsey & Soyeon Kim

F Third Grade Angels, Jerry Spinelli F This Is Not My Hat, Jon Klassen F Thunder Cake, Patricia Polacco F Tony Baloney books, Pam Munoz Ryan & Edwin Fotheringham

F The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith

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2013 Summer Challenge Book List

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Ages 8-10 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F 100 Deadliest Things on the Planet, Anna Claybourne

F It’s a Dog’s Life: How Man’s Best Friend Sees, Hears, and F The Captain Underpants series and Super Diaper Baby series, Dav Pilkey

F 101 Freaky Animals, Melvin & Gilda Berger

F Dog Whisperer Series, Nicholas Edwards

F 11 Birthdays, Wendy Mass

F Capture the Flag, Kate Messner

F 13 Planets: The Latest View of the Solar System, David A. Aguilar

F Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet, Alexandra Siy

F Donovan’s Word Jar, Monalisa DeGross & Cheryl Hanna F Double Fudge, Judy Blume

F The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery, Sandra Markle

F The 39 Clues series, various authors

F Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why Commas Really Do Make a Difference, Lynne Truss & Bonnie Timmons

F The Animorph series, K.A. Applegate

F Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett

F The Baby Mouse series, Jennifer L. Holm

F Cinderella Smith, Stephanie Barden & Diane Goode

& Matt Holm

Smells the World, Susan E. Goodman & David Slonim

F Edgar Allen’s Crime Investigation Notebook, Mary Amato F The Encyclopedia Brown series, Donald J. Sobol

F The Clementine series, Sara Pennypacker & Marla Frazee

& Leonard Shortall

F The Bad Kitty series, Nick Bruel

F Cockroach Cooties, Laurence Yep

F Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul Curtis

F The Baby Sitters Club series, Ann M. Martin

F Creature from My Closet Series, Obert Skye

F The Ellray Jakes series, Sally Warner

F Baseball Saved Us, Ken Mochizuki & Dom Lee

F The Creepella von Cacklefur series, Geronimo Stilton

F The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds

F The Beast Quest series, Adam Blade

F The Critter Club series, Callie Barkley & Marsha Riti

F Because Of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo

F The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American

Freedom, Emily Arnold McCully

Revolution, Jim Murphy

F The Big Nate Series, Lincoln Peirce

F Escaping Titanic: A Young Girl’s True Story of Survival, Marybeth Lorbiecki & Kony S. Heinzen

F Freckle Juice, Judy Blume

F Binky the Space Cat, Ashley Spires

F The Dear America series, various authors

F Black Holes, Ker Than

F The Dear Dumb Diary series, Jim Benton

F Bones, Steve Jenkins

F The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Jeff Kinney

F Frindle, Andrew Clements

F Brixton Brothers Series, Mac Barnett

F The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, Barbara Kerley

F The Fudge series, Judy Blume

F Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins, Carole Boston Weatherford & Jerome Lagarrigue

& Brian Selznick

F Brooklyn Bridge, Lynn Curlee

F Dogs on Duty: Soldiers’ Best Friend on the Battlefield &

F The Bunnicula series, Deborah & James Howe

F Ghost Buddy series, Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver

Beyond, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

F The Buzz on Bees, Shelley Rotner & Anne Woodhull

F Galaxy Zack series, Ray O’Ryan & Colin Jack

F A Dog and His Girl Mysteries series, Jane Mason

F Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women, Catherine Thimmesh & Melissa Sweet

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Ages 8-10 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F Inside Tornadoes, Mary Kay Carson

F Glory Be, Augusta Scattergood F The Great Wall of Lucy Wu, Wendy Wan-Long Shang

F Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship, Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu & Peter Greste

F James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl F The Judy Moody series, Megan McDonald &

F The Greedy Triangle, Marilyn Burns

F The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Peter H. Reynolds

F Grin and Bear It, Leo Landry

F Pie, Sarah Weeks

F The Kid Who Became President, Dan Gutman

F The Goddess Girls series, Joan Holub

F Polar Bear Math, Ann Whitehead Nagda & Cindy Bickel

F The Katie Woo series, Fran Manushkin

F The Goosebumps series, R.L. Stine

F Rachel Carson, Ron Fontes & Justine Fontes

F The Lemonade War series, Jacqueline Davies

F Hachiko Waits, Leslea Newman

F The Ramona Quimby series, Beverly Cleary

F The Loser List series, H.N. Kowitt

F The Henry Huggins series, Beverly Cleary

F Ricky Vargas series, Alan Katz & Stacy Curtis

F Lost! A Dog Called Bear, Wendy Orr & Susan Boase

F Hotel for Dogs, Lois Duncan

F Sami’s Sleepaway Summer, Jenny Meyerhoff

F Lucky Stars series, various authors

F Horse Diaries series, Various Authors

F Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan

F The Mal and Chad series, Stephen McCranie

F The Houdini Box, Brian Selznick

F The School of Fear Series, Gitty Daneshvari

F In Memory of Gorfman T. Frog, Gail Donovan

F How Cool Is This?, DK Publishing

F Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse, Marilyn Singer & Josee Massee

F How Strong Is It?, Ben Hillman

F The Secret Life of a Snowflake: An Up-Close Look at the Art and Science of Snowflakes, Kenneth Libbrecht

F National Geographic: Everything Rocks and Minerals,

F The I Survived series, Lauren Tarshis

Steve Tomecek

F Inside Out & Back Again, Thanha Lai

F Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, James Rumford

F Nest for Celeste, Henry Cole

F The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick F Iva Honeysuckle Discovers the World, Candice Ransom &

F Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

F The New Kid on the Block, Jack Prelutsky &

F The Shocking Truth About Energy, Loreen Leedy

James Stevenson

Heather Ross

F Nic Bishop: Marsupials, Nic Bishop

F The Ivy and Bean series, Annie Barrows

F The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence, Dennis Brindell Fradin & Michael McCurdy

F Ocean Sunlight, Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm

& Sophie Blackall

F The Infinity Ring series, various authors

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F The Scream Team series, Bill Doyle & Jared D. Lee

F One Dog and His Boy, Eva Ibbotson

F Sidekicks, Dan Santat

F One Hen, Katie Smith Milway & Eugenie Fernandes

F Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar

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Ages 8-10 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F The Trouble with Chickens: A J. J. Tully Mystery,

F The Sleepover Squad series, P. J. Denton & Julia Denos

Doreen Cronin & Kevin Cornell

F Sleuth or Dare, Kim Harrington

F Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt

F The Spray-Paint Mystery, Angela Shelf Medearis &

F Twice Upon a Time Series, Wendy Mass

Robert Papp

F A Warmer World: From Polar Bears to Butterflies,

F Star in the Forest, Laura Resau

How Climate Change Affects Wildlife, Caroline Arnold & Jamie Hogan

F Starring Jules series, Beth Ain F STAT: Home Court, Amar’e Stoudemire

F The Whatever After series, Sarah Mlynowski

F Stealing Air, Trent Reedy

F Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin

F Stone Fox, John Reynolds Gardiner & Marcia Sewall

F Who Was King Tut?, Roberta Edwards & True Kelley

F The Storm Runners Trilogy, Roland Smith

F Wild Tracks! A Guide to Nature’s Footprints, Jim Arnosky

F Stranded Series, Jeff Probst

F Wings of Fires series, Tui T. Sutherland

F A Strange Place to Call Home: The World’s Most Dangerous Habitats & the Animals That Call Them Home, Marilyn Singer & Ed Young

F Wonder Horse: The True Story of the World’s Smartest Horse,

F The Swindle series, Gordon Korman

Emily Arnold McCully

F You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!, Jonah Winter & Andre Carrilho

F The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo F The Tarantula Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series), Sy Montgomery & Nic Bishop

F Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World, Sy Montgomery & Temple Grandin

F Those Rebels, John and Tom, Barbara Kerley & Edwin Fotheringham

F Thunderstorms, Paul P. Sipiera F A Topps League Story series, Kurtis Scaletta & Eric Wight

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Ages 10-12 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska’s WWII Invasion,

F 13 Gifts, Wendy Mass

F Dark Lord: The Early Years, Jamie Thomson

F Al Capone Does My Shirts, Gennifer Choldenko

F The Deltora Quest series, Emily Rodda

F The Amulet Series, Kazu Kibuishi

F Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney

F The Animorphs series, K.A. Applegate

F A Dog’s Way Home, Bobbie Pyron

F Athlete vs. Mathlete, W. C. Mack

F Dragon Run, Patrick Matthews

F Cardboard, Doug Ten Napel

F Drawing From Memory, Allen Say

F Blizzard: The Storm That Changed America, Jim Murphy

F The Dreamer, Pam Muñoz Ryan & Peter Sis

F The Bone series, Jeff Smith

F Ellis Island, Elaine Landau

F The Hindenburg Disaster, Jill Sherman

F The Boy on Cinnamon Street, Phoebe Stone

F The Encyclopedia of Me, Karen Rivers

F The Heroes of Olympus series, Rick Riordan

F The Brotherband Chronicles, John Flanagan

F Esperanza Rising, Pam Muñoz Ryan

F Hold Fast, Blue Balliett

F Bud Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis

F Explorer: The Mystery Boxes, Kazu Kibuishi (editor)

F Holes, Louis Sachar

F Chains and Forge, Laurie Halse Anderson

F The False Prince, Jennifer A. Nielsen

F Hoot, Carl Hiaasen

F The Clone Codes series, Patricia C., Fredrick,

F Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson

F Horton’s Miraculous Mechanisms, Lissa Evans

F Freak the Mighty, Rod Philbrick

F I, Funny, James Patterson

F Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines

F Icefall, Matthew J. Kirby

& John McKissack

F Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two, Joseph Bruchac

Samantha Seiple Horton’s Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery & a Very Strange Adventure, Samantha Seipl, Chris Grabenstein & Laura Park

F The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman F The Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling F The Hatchet series, Gary Paulsen F Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, Kadir Nelson

of the Civil Rights Movement, Ann Bausum

F Cold Cereal, Adam Rex

F The Kane Chronicles series, Rick Riordan

F The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

F From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg

F Confectionately Yours series, Lisa Papademetriou

F The Giant and How He Humbugged America, Jim Murphy

F Confetti Girl, Diana Lopez

F Game Changers series, Mike Lupica

F Killer Species #1: Menace from the Deep, Michael P. Spradlin F The Last Dogs: The Vanishing, Christopher Holt & Greg Call F Lawless, Jeffrey Salane

F Countdown, Deborah Wiles

F Lawn Boy, Gary Paulsen

F Dark Life and Rip Tide, Kat Falls

F The Lions of Little Rock, Kristin Levine F A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck

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Ages 10-12 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F Mammoth Bones and Broken Stones: The Mystery of America’s First People, David L. Harrison & Richard Hilliard

F The Romeo & Juliet Code, Phoebe Stone

F War Horse, Michael Morpurgo

F Rules, Cynthia Lord

F The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963,

F The Suzanna Snow Mystery series, Angie Frazier

F The Savage Fortress, Sarwat Chadda

F The Middle School series, James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts &

F Saving Zasha & Finding Zasha, Randi Barrow

Laura Park

F The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg,

Christopher Paul Curtis

F We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March, Cynthia Levinson

F Savvy, Ingrid Law

F The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin

F The Secret Tree, Natalie Standiford

Rod Philbrick

F Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom

F Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks and the Sea, Peter

F The New Way Things Work, David Macaulay

Benchley and Karen Wojtyla

and Neil Ardley

F The Notorious Benedict Arnold, Steve Sheinkin

F When the Butterflies Came, Kimberley Griffiths Little

F Shipwrecks: Exploring Sunken Cities Beneath the Sea, Mary M. Cerullo

F Okay for Now, Gary Schmidt

F Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble

F One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia

F When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead F When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, Kimberly Willis Holt

F Six Days, Philip Webb

F The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate

(With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), Sue Macy

Telescope Saw, Elaine Scott

F White Dolphin, Gill Lewis F Who Could That Be at This Hour?, Lemony Snicket

F The Origami Yoda Series, Tom Angleberger

F Splendors and Glooms, Laura Amy Schlitz

F Wild Life, Cynthia deFelice

F Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse

F The Stranded series, Jeff Probst & Chris Tebbetts

F The Witch & Wizard Series, James Patterson

F The Percy Jackson & the Olympians series,

F Three Times Lucky, Sheila Turnage

F Wolves of the Beyond Series, Kathryn Lasky

F The Titanic Trilogy, Gordon Korman

F Wonder, R. J. Palacio

F Titanic: Voices From the Disaster, Deborah Hopkinson

F A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle

F Tracing Stars, Erin C. Moulton

F Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial

Rick Riordan

F Pictures of Hollis Woods, Patricia Reilly Giff F Plunked, Michael Northrop F Precious Bones, Mika Ashley-Hollinger F The Ranger’s Apprentice series, John Flanagan

F Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers and Secret

Maryland, Sally M. Walker

Writing, Paul B. Janeczko & Jenna LaReau

F Wonderstruck, Brian Selznick

F Rebel McKenzie, Candice Ransom

F The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi

F Z is for Zeus, Helen L. Wilbur

F Road Trip, Gary Paulsen & Jim Paulsen

F Turtle in Paradise, Jennifer Holm

F Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor

F Unfortunate Son, Constance Leeds

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Young Adult (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F Endangered, Eliot Schrefer

F The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman

F Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917,

Alexie

F The Enemy Series, Charlie Higson

Sally M. Walker

F The Alex Rider series, Anthony Horowitz

F The Bluford series, Paul Langan

F Alexander the Great, Robert Green

F The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

F Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart,

F Border Town Series, Malin Alegria

Candace Fleming

F The Escape from Furnace Series, Alexander Gordon Smith F Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates, Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw

F Fablehaven, Brandon Mull

F The Boy Who Dared, Susan Campbell Bartoletti

F American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang F An American Plague: the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Jim Murphy

F Andrew Jenks: My Adventures as a Young Filmmaker, Andrew Jenks

F Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, translated by B.M. Mooyaart

F The Far West, Patricia C. Wrede

F Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith,

F Fat Kid Rules the World, K. L. Going

Deborah Heiligman

F Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy,

F Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, James L. Swanson

Albert Marrin

F Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Phillip Hoose

F The Giver, Lois Lowry

F Cleopatra’s Moon, Vicky Alvear Shecter

F Guilty By a Hair!, Anna Prokos

F Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip, Jordan Sonnenblick

F Guinness World Records: Fearless Feats, Laurie Calkhoven &

F Artemis Fowl Series, Eoin Colfer

F The Dark Unwinding, Sharon Cameron

F The Bar Code Rebellion series, Suzanne Weyn

F Dead and Buried, Kim Harrington

F Guts, Gary Paulsen

F Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon, Jonathan Stroud

F Deck Z: The Titanic, Chris Pauls & Matt Solomon

F Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent, Thomas B. Allen

F Beautiful Creatures Series, Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

F Defriended, Ruth Baron

F Heroes of the Environment, Harriet Rohmer

F Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most

F The Divergent Trilogy, Veronica Roth

F The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

F A Dog’s Journey & A Dog’s Purpose, W. Bruce Cameron

F Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler’s Shadow,

Dangerous Weapon, Steve Sheinkin

F Black and White: The Confrontation Between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor, Larry Dane Brimner

F Black Star, Bright Dawn, Scott O’Dell

Ryan Herndon

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

F Dr. Frankenstein’s Daughters, Suzanne Weyn

F Home of the Brave, Katherine Applegate

F Drama, Raina Telgemeier

F The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer

F The Eleventh Plague, Jeff Hirsch

F The Hunger Games Trilogy, Suzanne Collins

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Young Adult (By Title, Author and Illustrator) F I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior, Howard R. Wasdin &

F The Planets, Dava Sobel

Stephen Templin

F Spellbinding, Maya Gold

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science, John Fleischman

F Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell

F Pictures of Hollis Woods, Patricia Reilly Giff

F Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City, Kirsten Miller Cameron Dokey

F Summer Ball, Mike Lupica

F Predator Cities series, Philip Reeve

F Sunrise Over Fallujah, Walter Dean Myers

F Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing, Ann Angel

F The Rescuers, Allan Zullo

F Jefferson’s Sons, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

F The Raft, S.A. Bodeen

F Lincoln’s Grave Robbers, Steve Sheinkin

F Rebel Spirits, Lois Ruby

F The Lunar Chronicles series, Marissa Meyer

F Return to Me, Justina Chen

F Magisterium, Jeff Hirsch

F The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, Sonia Manzano

F Marcelo in the Real World, Francisco X. Stork

F A Ring of Endless Light, Madeleine L’Engle

F March Toward the Thunder, Joseph Bruchac

F Rotten, Michael Northrup

F The Matched Trilogy, Ally Condie

F Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois,

F Tangerine, Edward Bloor F This Dark Endeavor, Kenneth Oppel F To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee F Trapped, Michael Northrop F Trash, Andy Mulligan F The Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld F Undead, Kristy McKay F The Vietnam series, Chris Lynch

Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan

F The Maze Runner Trilogy, James Dashner F Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs F My Life in Pink & Green, My Summer of Pink & Green, Lisa Greenwald

F This is What Happy Looks Like, Jennifer E. Smith

F The Savage Fortress, Sarwat Chadda

F What I Saw And How I Lied, Judy Blundell

F The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater

F Who Wants Pizza?, Jan Thornhill

F See You at Harry’s, Jo Knowles

F White Fang, Jack London

F Mythopedia: Oh My Gods!, Megan E. Bryant

F Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi

F Nation, Terry Pratchett

F The Shiver Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater

F Napoleon, Kimberly Heuston

F Shooting Kabul, N.H. Senzai

F Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie,

F Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am, Harry Mazer

Barbara Goldsmith

Jennifer E. Smith

F Stolen, Lucy Christopher

F Pinned, Sharon Flake

F Kissed: Belle; Sunlight and Shadow; Winter’s Child,

F The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight,

F Why Is Snot Green?, Glen Murphy F Zach’s Lie, Ronald Smith

& Peter Lerangis

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