Entering Grades 5-7 Children’s Fiction 2022 Nutmeg Books Grades 4-6 A Good Kind of Trouble - Lisa Moore Ramee Clean Getaway - Nic Stone Summer 2021 Accidental Trouble Magnet - Zanib Mian *COG - Greg van Eekhout Amal Unbound - Aisha Saeed The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise Book Suggestions Amina's Voice - Hena Khan - Dan Gemeinhart Becoming Muhammad Ali - Kwame Alexander Emmy in the Key of Code - Aimee Lucido The Best Man - Richard Peck Harbor Me - Jacqueline Woodson Blackbird Girls - Anne Blankman You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! - Alex Bouncing Back - Scott Ostler Gino Countdown / Revolution / *Anthem - Planet Earth Is Blue - Nicole Panteleakos Deborah Wiles *Sal and Gabi Break the Universe - Carlos Forever, or a Long Long Time - Caela Carter Hernandez *Framed - James Ponti Sanity & Tallulah - Molly Brooks *From the Desk of Zoe Washington - Janae Wink - Rob Harrell Marks Front Desk and All American Girl - Kelly Yang Rick Riordan Presents books *Greenglass House books - Kate Milford *Dragon Pearl - Yoon Ha Lee Hurricane Child – K. Callender *Aru Shah series - Roshani Chokshi *The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place *Paola Santiago and the River of Tears - series - Maryrose Wood Tehlor Kay Mejia *Invisible Emmie & others - Terri Libenson *City of the Plague God - Sarwat Chadda It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel - Firoozeh Dumas *The Storm Runner - J.C. Cervantes It Wasn’t Me - Dana Alison Levy *Tristan Strong series - Kwame Mbalia *Kinda Like Brothers - Coe Booth *One Crazy Summer - Rita Williams-Garcia Other Popular Fiction Authors *One Half from the East - Nadia Hashimi *Avi *Gordon Korman All books listed are available at the *Origami Yoda series - Tom Angelberger *Michael Buckley *Lois Lowry Stratford Library. *Other Words for Home - Jasmine Warga *Leslie Connor *Mike Lupica *means in Hoopla as an ebook or audiobook *The Parker Inheritance - Varian Johnson *Sharon Creech *Brandon Mull *Pax - Sara Pennypacker *Margaret Peterson Haddix James Patterson *Pay Attention, Carter Jones - Gary Schmidt Shannon Hale *Gary Paulsen *Posted - John David Anderson *Anthony Horowitz *Obert Skye Rain Reign - Ann M. Martin Save Me a Seat - Sarah Weeks Graphic Novels Scare Scape - Sam Fisher *All’s Faire in Middle School - Victoria *The School for Good and Evil series - Soman Jamieson
Children’s Department Chainani The Dragon Tea Society - Katie O’Neill 2203 Main Street | Stratford, CT Turtle Boy - M. Evan Wolkenstein *The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman *Twilight Hauntings: Enchanter’s Child – *Iron Man: The Gauntlet - Eoin Colfer 06615 Angie Sage *Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series 203.385.4165 | *The Queen’s Thief series - Megan W. Turner *New Kid and Class Act - Jerry Craft [email protected] *You Go First - Erin Entrada Kelly Secret Coders series - Gene Luen Yang Nonfiction Biography Online Books All Thirteen - Christina Soontornvat Becoming (adapted for young readers) - The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for Michelle Obama Go to the Stratford Library website to the World’s Most Adventurous Kid - Becoming Kareem - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar check out eBooks and audiobooks with Dylan Thuras Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini - your Stratford Library card. Basher science books - Simon Basher Sid Fleischman www.Stratfordlibrary.org Behind the Legend series (various authors) Extreme Scientists - Donna M. Jackson Click on <24/7 Library> The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science *Heroism Begins with HER - Winifred Click on
How We Got to the Moon - John Rocco mobile device to check out materials *Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Poetry Click on Language at the top of the Battle for the Ballot Box - Evette Dionne Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson Forest World - Margarita Engle screen for books in Spanish & French Lesser Spotted Animals - Martin Brown Lights on Broadway - Harriet Ziefert *Freedom Over Me - Ashley Bryan More Online Resources Lincoln’s Grave Robbers - Steve Sheinkin I’m Just No Good at Rhyming - Chris Harris Mission: Animal Rescue series - National * Joyful Noise – Paul Fleischman HarperKids Geographic The Lost Words - Robert MacFarlane Book trailers, excerpts, & author interviews. Out of the Box - Jemma Westing *Martin Rising - Andrea Davis Pinkney https://www.youtube.com/user/HarperKids/videos Ripley’s Believe It or Not series *My Dog May Be a Genius - Jack Prelutsky Scientists in the Field series (various authors) National Geographic Book of Animal Read & Learn with Simon Kids Swords - Ben Boos Poetry - J. Patrick Lewis Authors read chapters from their books and Stamped for Kids - Jason Reynolds & Ibram Kendi *Out of Wonder - Kwame Alexander author interviews. The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXy91 and Truth - Wade Hudson Folklore OfJg0go22HZBIwx82sYG173WRPY Ultimate Weather-Pedia - Stephanie Drimmer All Colour Book of Dragons, Ogres, and Nutmeg Children’s Book Award Under the Hood series - Seth Kingston Wicked Witches - Milos Maly www.nutmegaward.org We Are Artists - Kari Herbert American Tall Tales - Mary Pope Osborne Ashley Bryan’s African Tales, Uh-Huh *What Color Is My World?: The Lost History The Society of Book Writers & Illustrators Can You Guess My Name? - Judy Sierra of African-American Inventors - Kareem Links to ebooks, audiobooks, visits with authors Celtic Memories - Caitlin Matthews Abdul-Jabbar and illustrators, and much more. Fairy World - Stella A. Caldwell Where on Earth: Geography as You’ve Never https://www.scbwi.org/digital-directory-for- Keepers of the Night - Michael J. Caduto Seen It Before remote-learning-resources/ World of Animals series Misoso - Verna Aardema Write Your Own… series - Tish Farrell The People Could Fly - Virginia Hamilton Also check out our collections of Books *Yoga for You series - Rebecca Rissman The Rainbow People - Laurence Yep on CD and Playaway!