For the Love of Reading

Because grade level does not always correspond directly to reading level or interest, these books are largely organized by genre and can be read independently or aloud.

Biographies

• Before They Were Authors: Famous Writers • It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a as Kids, Haidle South African Childhood (Young Readers Ed.),

• Biddy Mason Speaks Up, Atkins Noah (A)

• Buddy: The First Seeing Eye Dog, Moore • Kon-Tiki, Heyerdahl

• Childhood of Famous Americans Series (e.g., • Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Martha Washington, America’s First Lady), Fighters, Pinkney

Wagoner • Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books

• Christian Heroes: Then and Now (e.g., For the Blind, Davidson

William Booth), Benge (*) • Marie Curie’s Search for Radium, Birch

• DK Life Stories Series (e.g., Jane Goodall), DK • Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, Publishing Schroeder

• Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, Atkins • Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner

• Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Carson Truth, Rockwell

• God’s Smuggler, Brother Andrew (*) • Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports,

• Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas, Zuckerman

Bardoe • Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved

• Helen Keller, Davidson Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the

• How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and the World, Grandin

Flaws of the Awfully Famous, Bragg • The Hiding Place: Young Reader Ed., Boom

• Into the White: Scott’s Antarctic Odyssey, • The Monk Who Shook the World, Davey (*)

Grochowicz • The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, Freedman

• William Wilberforce, Holzmann (*)

Early Readers • Usborne Beginner Nature (e.g., Caterpillars • Amelia Bedilia Series, Parish and Butterflies, Turnbull)

• Biscuit, Capucilli • Usborne Beginner Science (e.g., Planet Earth,

• Flat Stanley: His Original Adventure, Brown Pratt)

• Fly Guy Series, Arnold • Value Tales (Biographies, e.g. The Value of

• Frog and Toad Series, Lobel Truth and Trust: The Story of Chochise),

• Fun Tales Series, Bolin Johnson • George and Martha: Complete Stories of Two Best Friends, Marshall

• Henry and Mudge Series, Rylant

• Mercy Watson, DiCamillo

• Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School, Halfmann

• Mr. Putter & Tabby Series, Rylant

• Princess Parables, Young (*)

• Step Into Reading Series, Random House

• Step Up Series by Random House, (e.g., Baseball Players Do Amazing Things, Cebulash)

• The Lighthouse Family Series, Rylant

• The Littles First Readers, Peterson

• The Littles, Peterson

• The Magic School Bus Series, Cole

• The Picture Bible, Hoth (*)

• Usborne Beginner Animals Series (e.g., Dogs)

• Usborne Beginner History Series (e.g., Digging Up History: Terra Cotta Soldiers, Gillespie)

Educational Comics • The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, Klein • American Born Chinese, Yang • The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Klein • Constitution Illustrated, Sikoryak • The Cartoon Introduction to Psychology, Klein • El Deafo, Bell • The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics, Klein • Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction, • The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food (A), Griffith Tychonievich • Max Axiom, Super Scientist Series, Lemke • The Discovery of America Series, Stilton • Science Comics, Macmillan • The Drawing Lesson, Crilley • Stickman Odyssey I & II, Ford • The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic • The Action Bible, Cariello Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage • The Best We Could Do, Bui to Freedom, Walker • The Cartoon Guide to Algebra, Gonick • The Picture Bible, Hoth (*) • The Cartoon Guide to Biology, Gonick • The Cartoon Guide to Calculus, Gonick • The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, Gonick

• The Cartoon Guide to Genetics, Gonick

• The Cartoon Guide to Physics, Gonick

• The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Gonick

• The Cartoon Guide to the Computer, Gonick

• The Cartoon Guide to the Environment, Gonick

• The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Gonick

• The Cartoon History of the United States, Gonick

• The Cartoon History of the Universe, Gonick

Faith • The World Jesus Knew: A Curious Kid’s Guide to Life in the First Century, Olson • A Ready Defense, McDowell • To Stop a Warlord: My Story of Justice, Grace, • Berenstain Bears Little Lights Series, and the Fight for Peace, Davis (A*) Zondervan • You Are Special, Lucado • Case for a Creator for Kids, Strobel • Who I Am in Christ, Anderson • Case for Christ for Kids, Strobel • Case for Faith for Kids, Strobel • Crazy Love, Chan

• Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread Happy, Russell

• Everybody Always, Goff

• How Great is Our God, Giglio

• Love Does, Goff

• Mere Christianity, Lewis

• Psalm Twenty-Three, Ladwig

• Purpose Driven Life, Warren

• Something Beautiful for God: The Classic Account of Mother Teresa’s Journey Into Compassion, Muggeridge (*)

• Surprised by Joy, Lewis

• The Action Bible, Cariello

• The Big Book of Bible Questions, Powell

• The Circle Maker, Batterson

• The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name, Lloyd-Jones

• The Picture Bible, Hoth

• The Reason for God, Keller

• The Rhyme Bible, Sattgast

Fiction • Lord of the Rings, Tolkien (A) • Make Way for McCloskey Treasury, • 26 Fairmont Avenue, dePaola McCloskey • A Boy Called Bat, Arnold • Max and the Midnights, Pierce • Aesop’s Fables • National Velvet, Bagnold • All of a Kind Family, Taylor • No Talking, Clements • Around the World in Eighty Days, Verne • Old Yeller, Gipson • Because of Winn Dixie, DiCamillo • Pi in the Sky, Mass • Black Beauty, Sewell • Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe • Boomtown: Chang’s Famous Fireworks, • Selznick Particular • Space Case, Gibbs • Caddie Woodlawn, Brink • Stuart Little, White • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl • The Children of Noisy Village, Lindgren • Charlotte’s Web, White • The Complete Brambly Hedge, Barklem • Crossing to Safety, Stegner (A) • The Cricket in Times Square, Selden • Dinotopia, Gurney • The Door in the Wall, de Angeli • Fantastic Mr. Fox, Dahl • The Family Under the Bridge, Carlson • Fish in a Tree, Hunt • The Giving Tree, Silverstein • Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor, • The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter, Scieszka Derrydale • From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. • The Great Trouble: The Mystery of London, Frankweiler, Konigsberg the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel, • Gone Away Lake, Enright Hopkinson • Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Adams • Hatchet, Paulsen (A) • The Hobbit, Tolkien (A) • Henry Reed, Inc, Robertson • The House on Walenska Street, Herman • Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth, Winick • The Hundred Dresses, Estes • Homer Price, McCloskey

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret, (Illustrated • White Fang, London

novel) Selznick • Wonder, Palacio

• The Mysterious Benedict Society, Stewart • Wonderstruck, (Illustrated novel)

• The Odyssey, Armitage (A)

• The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster

• The PS Brothers, Boelts

• The Random House Book of Fairy Tales, Ehrlich

• The Secret Garden, Burnett

• The Secret of Zoom, Jonell

• The Toothpaste Millionaire, Merrill

• The Trumpet of the Swan, White

• The Twenty-One Balloons, du Bois

• The Year at Maple Hill Farm, Provensen

• The Yearling, Rawlings

• To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (A)

• Tom Sawyer, Twain

• Tom’s Midnight Garden, Pearce

• Treasure Island, Verne

• Usborne Greek Myths, Amery

• Usborne Illustrated Norse Myths, Frith

• Usborne Illustrated Odyssey, Milbourne

• Usborne Illustrated Tales of King Arthur, Courtauld

• Usborne Illustrated: Little Women, Alcott

• Watership Down, Adams (A)

• Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls

High Schoolers • Democracy in America, de Tocqueville • Designing Your Life, Burnett • Amazing Grace, Metaxas (*) • East of Eden, Steinbeck (A) • A Brief History of Time, Hawking (A) • Ender’s Game, Card (A) • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, • Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Twain Worsley • A History of Warfare, Keegan • Exactly As You Are: The Life and Faith of Mr. • A Long Walk to Water, Park (A) Rogers, Tutle (*A) • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare • Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of • A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson Family, (Condoleezza) Rice • A Time to Kill, Grisham (A) • Father Brown Mysteries, Chesterton (A) • Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the • Frankenstein, Shelly Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, Metaxas • Freakonomics, Levitt • Angela’s Ashes, McCourt (A) • Gilead, Robinson (A) • Anna Karenina, Tolstoy (A) • Grendel, Gardner • Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Stegner • Hamlet, Shakespeare • Billy Graham: The Man I Knew, Laurie • Hobbit, Tolkein • Boundaries, Townsend • How to Win Friends and Influence People, • Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis Carnegie • Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly • Hunt for Red October, Clancy (A) Warfare, Milton • In the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez (A) • Confessions, Augustine • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. • Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky (A) Everest Disaster, Krakauer (A) • Cry, the Beloved Country, Paton (A) • Invisible Man, Ellison (A) • Daring Greatly, Brown (A) • Jeeves Series, Wodehouse • David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and • John Donne, Stubbs the Art of Battling Giants, Gladwell • Leadership Beyond Reason, Townsend • Death of a Salesman, Miller

• Les Miserables, Hugo • Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Covey

• Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Armitage

• Lord of the Flies, Golding (A) • So You Want to Talk About Race, Oluo (A)

• Lord of the Rings, Tolkien • Soul Mountain, Xingjian (A)

• Macbeth, Shakespeare • The Annotated Alice in Wonderland, Gardner

• Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered • The Black History of the White House, Lusane

God and Changed the World, Metaxas • The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir, Buck

• Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of • The Chronicles of Prydain Series, Alexander

America’s First Poet, Gordon • The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Welty

• Moneyball, Lewis (A)

• Mr. Ives’ Christmas, Hijuelos (A) • The Communist Manifesto, Marx

• Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare • The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Doyle

• Murder on the Orient Express, Christie (A) • The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor,

• My Tech-Wise Life, Crouch O’Connor

• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and • The Crosswicks Journal, L’Engle (A)

Heroes, Hamilton • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-

• Native Speaker, Chang-Rae Lee (A) time, Haddon

• Night, Weisel • The Foundation Trilogy, Asimov

• Oedipus Rex, Sophocles • The Gift of the Jews, Cahill (*)

• Personal History, (Katharine) Graham (A) • The Golden Gate, Seth (A)

• Politics, Aristotle • The Good Earth, Buck

• Quo Vadis, Sienkiewicz • The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald

• Raisin in the Sun, Hanseberry • The Help, Stockett (A)

• River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, • The Hiding Place, Boom (A)

Hessler • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Adams

• Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare • The Hornblower Saga, Forester

• Seabiscuit, Hillenbrand • The Idiot, Dostoevsky

• The Joy Luck Club, Tan • Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe

• The Koreans, Breen • Walden Two, Skinner (A)

• The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Fischer (A) • Why We Can’t Wait, Dr. MLK Jr.

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat: • Wild Swans, Chang (A)

and Other Clinical Tales, Sacks • The Odyssey, Armitage

• The Once and Future King, White

• The Power of One, Courtenay (A)

• The Prince, Machiavelli

• The Republic, Plato

• The Riddle Master Series, McKillip

• The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne

• The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, Hughes (A)

• The Self-Confidence Workbook: A Guide to Overcoming Self-Doubt and Improving Self- Esteem, Markway

• The Space Trilogy, Lewis

• The Story of My Life, Keller

• The Time Machine, Wells

• The Tipping Point, Gladwell

• The Visual Arts: A History, Honour

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Fagone

• To Be a Slave, Lester (A)

• To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee

• Touching the Void, Simpson

• Unbroken, Hillenbrand (A)

Historical Fiction • Phoebe the Spy, Griffin • A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, DeYoung • Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry (A)

• Across Five Aprils, Hunt • Rifles for Waite, Keith

• All of a Kind Family, Taylor • Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman, Henry

• Amos Fortune: Free Man, Yates • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Taylor

• Breaking Stalin’s Nose, Velchin • Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga, MacLachlan

• Bud, Not Buddy, Curtis • Sign of the Beaver, Speare

• By the Great Horn Spoon, Fleischman • Sing Down the Moon, O’Dell

• Call it Courage, Sperry • Snow Treasure, McSwigan

• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Latham • Swift Rivers, Meigs

• Code Talkers: A Novel About the Navajo • The Big Wave, Buck (A) Marines of World War Two, Bruchac • The Bronze Bow, Speare

• Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi • The Courage of Sarah Noble, Dalgliesh

• Detectives in Togas, Winterfield • The Diary of Anne Frank, Frank (A)

• Doll Hospital Series, Holub • The Great Turkey Walk, Karr

• Freedom Train, Sterling • The Great Wheel, Lawson

• Hero Over Here, Dodson • The House of Dies Drear, Moore

• I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade, Wilson • The House of Sixty Fathers, Dejong

• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, • The Last Mission, Mazer Lord • The Master Puppeteer, Paterson

• Johnny Tremain, Forbes • The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood

• Justin Morgan Had a Horse, Henry Up to Slavery, Fradin (A)

• Lucretia Ann on the Oregon Trail, Plowhead • The Singing Tree, Seredy

• Miracles on Maple Hill, Sorensen • The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA, Woods

• Moccasin Trail, McGraw • The Whipping Boy, Fleischman

• Om-Kas-Toe, Thomasma • The Winged Watchman, Van Stockum

• Only the Names Remain, Bealer (A) • The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Speare

• Thee, Hannah, DeAngeli

• Thimble Summer, Enright

• Toliver’s Secret, Brady

• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Lin

• Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Lewis

History • True Adventure Collection: Amazing Stories of • A Child’s History of the World, Hillyer Spies, Heroes, and Survivors, Dowswell

• A Children’s History of India, Gupta • True Stories of the First World War, Dowswell

• Children’s Encyclopedia of American History, (Usborne) DK Publishing • True Stories of the Second World War,

• Everything You Need to Ace American Dowswell (Usborne) History, Big Fat Notebooks • Everything You Need to Ace World History, Big Fat Notebooks

• Lincoln and His Boys, Wells

• Lincoln: A Photobiography, Freedman

• Newsmakers (e.g., Nelson Mandela), Abdo

• The History of the Ancient World, Bauer

• The History of the Medieval World, Bauer

• The History of the Renaissance World, Bauer

• The Story of London, Jones

• The Story of Western Science, Bauer

• The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History, Bingham

• The Usborne History of Britain, Brocklehurst

• The Usborne Official Roman Soldier’s Handbook, Imperiosa

• The World Wars, Dowswell (Usborne)

• There’s No Ham in Hamburgers: Facts and Folklore About Our Favorite Foods, Zachman

• Time Traveler, Hindley

Music, Arts & Crafts

• 100 Colorful Ripple Stitches to Crochet, Morgan

• Complete Guide to Needlework: Embroidery, Needlepoint, Knitting, Applique, Quilting, Patchwork, Macrame, Crochet, Rug-making, Lacework, Reader’s Digest Publishing

• Maker Camp: Heritage Crafts and Skill- Building Projects for Kids, Holton-Fessler

• Step-By-Step to Drawing People, Watt

• Stitch Sampler, Ganderton

• The Art of Calligraphy: A Practical Guide to the Skills and Techniques, Harris

• The Children’s Book of Art, Dickens

• The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes, Stillinger

• The Music Masters Series (CDs): An Introduction to the Classics (e.g., The Story of Vivaldi), Vox

• The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas, Watt

• Usborne Book of Famous Paintings, Dickens

Poetry • The Works of Anne Bradstreet, John Harvard • 101 Famous Poems, Cook Library • Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harper

• Edgar Allen Poe: Complete Tales & Poems, (Maplewood Books, Publisher)

• Family Gathering, Chappell (A)

• George Herbert: The Country Parson, The Temple, Wall

• God Particles, Lux (A)

• Irresistible to Women, Dean Parkin (A)

• Messenger, Voigt

• New & Selected Poems, Lux (A)

• Poetry 180: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems, Collins (A)

• Rhyme’s Reason, Hollander

• Sailing Alone Around the Room, Collins (A)

• The City in Which I Love You, Li-Young Lee (A)

• The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, BN Classics

• The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou, Angelou (A)

• The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, Coffin (A)

• The Poetry of Robert Frost, Lathem

• The Weave Room, Chitwood (A)

Poetry for Kids

• A Child’s Anthology of Poetry, Sword

• A Light in the Attic, Silverstein

• Be Glad Your Nose is On Your Face, And Other Poems, Prelutsky

• Falling Up, Silverstein

• Goodnight Moon, Brown

• Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss

• I’m Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups, Harris

• It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles, Prelutsky

• Poetry for Kids Series (e.g., Robert Frost), Quarto

• Poetry for Young People Series (e.g., Maya Angelou) Sterling

• Poplollies and BelliBones, Sperling

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Frost (Jeffers, Illus.)

• The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, Prelutsky

• The Road Not Taken, Frost (Mineker, Illus.)

• Where the Sidewalk Ends, Silverstein

Resource Remainders • The “Where Is…” Series (e.g., Where Is Antarctica?), Penguin • A Basic Course in American Sign Language, • The Dragon Grammar Book: Grammar for Humphries Kids, Dragons, and the Whole Kingdom, • A Sentence a Day: Short, Playful Proofreading Robinson Exercises, Prust • The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching • Actually, the Comma Goes Here: A Practical Reading, Wise Guide to Punctuation, Cripps • The Tech-Wise Family, Crouch • Business for Beginners, Usborne • Usborne Beginner Animals Series (e.g., Dogs) • Critical Thinking Company (e.g., Reading • Usborne Beginner History Series (e.g., Digging Detective, Block) Up History: Terra Cotta Soldiers, Gillespie) • Drawing With Children: A Creative Method • Usborne Young Reading Series: Levels 1, 2, 3 for Adult Beginners Too, Brookes (e.g., The Story of Slavery, Bingham) • Everything You Need to Ace English, Big Fat • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Notebooks Within, Goldberg • Getting the Best Out of College, Crossman

• Growth Mindset Workbook for Kids: 55 Fun Activities to Think Creatively, s • Hooked on Phonics: Learn to Read

• Homeschool Like an Expert, Crossman

• Improve Your Survival Skills, Smith

• Politics for Beginners, Usborne

• Rex Barks: Diagramming Sentences Made Easy, Davenport

• Smithsonian Knowledge Encyclopedia, DK Publishing

• Solve Problems, and Love Learning

• Study Smart, Study Less, Crossman

Series • Encyclopedia Brown, Sobol • Ender’s Game (A) • A Tale from Redwall, Jacques • Framed, Ponti • “Dear America” Biography Series, (e.g., • Fudge Series, Blume Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The • Hardy Boys, (e.g., The Tower Treasure), Dixon Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell), • Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling (A) Scholastic • Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor, • “If You Lived”, Scholastic Hale • “You Wouldn’t Want to…” (e.g, You Wouldn’t • Horrible Histories, Deary Want to Be a Pyramid Builder), Scholastic • How to Train Your Dragon, Cowell • A to Z Mysteries (e.g., The Quicksand • Jungle Book, Kipling Question), Roy • Just So Stories, Kipling • All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot • Little House (on the Prairie), Laura Ingalls • Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery Wilder • Big Nate, Peirce • Lord of the Rings, Tolkien • Candymakers, Mass • McBroom’s Wonderful One-Acre Farm, • Capital Mysteries, Roy Fleischman • Chasing Vermeer, Balliett • Milly Molly Mandy, Brisley • Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis • Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, Lofting • Cornerstones of Freedom (e.g. The Story of • Nancy Drew, (e.g., The Secret of the Old Ford’s Theater and the Death of Lincoln), Clock), Keene (A) Children’s Press • Nate the Great, Sharmat • Danny Dunn Adventures, Williams • Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales (History) • Danny, the Champion of the World, Dahl Series, Hale • Daughters of the Faith Biography Series, • Pippi Longstocking, Lindgren Lawton (*) • Rats of NIMH, O’Brian • Dr. Dolittle, Lofting

• Elsie Dinsmore, Finley (*)

• Ready, Set, Grow (e.g., A Kid’s Guide to • The Original Bobbsey Twins (e.g., In and Out), Managing Money), Wilt Hope (A)

• Riley Mack, Grabenstein • The Penderwicks, Birdsall (A)

• Serendipity Books, Cosgrove • The Pendragon Cycle, Lawhead (A)

• Sower Series, Mott Media (*) • The Ramona Collection (e.g., Beezus and

• Starting Point History Series, (e.g., Who were Ramona), Cleary

the Romans), Cox • The Shoe Books, Streatfeild

• Step Up Series by Random House, (e.g., • The Smartest Kid in the Universe, Grabenstein

Baseball Players Do Amazing Things, • The Sugar Creek Gang, Hutchens (*)

Cebulash) • The Vanderbeekers, Glaser

• Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing, Blume • The White Mountains, Christopher

• The “Who Was” Biography Series (e.g., Who • The Wild Robot, Brown

Was Maya Angelou? ) Penguin Workshop • The Wingfeather Saga, Peterson

• The Ascendance Trilogy (e.g., The False • The Wizard of Oz, Baum

Prince), Nielsen (A) • They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They?, McManus

• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Robinson • Thomas the Tank Engine: Complete Original

• The Betsy-Tacy Treasury, Lovelace Collection, Awdry

• The Borrowers, Norton • Tom Swift Adventures, Appleton

• The Boxcar Children, Warner • Ungifted, Korman

• The Discovery of America, Stilton

• The Fourteenth Goldfish, Holm

• The Gollywhopper Games, Feldman

• The Great Brain, John D. Fitzgerald

• The Happy Hollisters, West

• The Kid Who Ran for President, Gutman

• The Lemonade War, Davies

• The Moffats, Estes

STEM • STEM Lab: Build, Invent, Create, Discover, Challoner • 50 Science Things to Make and Do, Andrews • Tech Lab: Awesome Builds for Smart Makers, • Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Challoner Nature, Berenstain • The Anatomy Coloring Book, Kapit • Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create • The Mysteries of The Universe, Gater Like an Inventor, Grandin • The Story of Astronomy and Space, Stowell • Electricity and Magnetism, Adamczyk • The Story of Invention, Claybourne • Everything You Need to Ace Biology, Big Fat • The Story of Science, Claybourne Notebooks • The Usborne Official Astronaut’s Handbook, • Everything You Need to Ace Chemistry, Big Stowell Fat Notebooks • The Usborne Science Encyclopedia • Everything You Need to Ace Computer • The Way Things Work Now, Maccaulay Science and Coding, Big Fat Notebooks • Ultimate Explorer Field Guide: Insects, • Everything You Need to Ace Geometry, Big Romero Fat Notebooks • Ultimate Explorer Field Guide: Night Sky, • Everything You Need to Ace Math, Big Fat Schneider Notebooks • Usborne Beginner Nature (e.g., Caterpillars • Everything You Need to Ace Science, Big Fat and Butterflies, Turnbull) Notebooks • Usborne Beginner Science (e.g., Planet Earth, • Greg’s Microscope, Selsam Pratt) • Maker Lab: 25 Super Cool Projects Outdoors, • Usborne Book of Astronomy and Space, Miles Challoner • Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope, • Maker Lab: 28 Super Cool Projects, Challoner Rogers • Real Science 4 Kids Series (e.g., Chemistry), • Usborne Illustrated Dictionary of Math, Large Keller • Usborne Science Encyclopedia, Rogers • Secret Coders Series, Yang • What If, Monroe

• What’s Biology All About, Maskell • What’s Chemistry All About, Usborne • What’s Physics All About, Davies

Notes

(*) = Written with a faith-based audience in mind (A) = Advanced reading due to challenging writing style or sensitive content

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