Newly Released Picture Books Online Resources for Kids Some Pets ...... Angela Diterlizzi Michigan eLibrary for Kids Detroit Public TV Kids Club Poor Little Guy ...... Elanna Allen https://mel.org/kids http://www.dptv.org/kids/ 2017 Summer Teddy the Dog ...... Keri Claiborne Boyle There is a Tribe of Kids ...... Lane Smith Discovery Kids Michigan Kids Book List The Grizzly Bear Who Lost His Grrrr ...... Rob Biddulph http://discoverykids.com http://www.michigan.gov/kids/ Cleonardo...... Mary GrandPre Finding Winnie ...... Lindsay Mattick Detroit Tigers Kids Site Kindergarten—Grade 5 They All Saw a Cat ...... Brendan Wenzel http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/det/fan_forum/kids_index.jsp The Most Perfect Snowman ...... Chris Britt Nanette’s Baguette ...... Mo Willems Scholastic Story Starters http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/ The summer months are a wonderful time Encouraging Creativity PBS Kids for you to help your children develop a love What do you do with a problem? ...... Kobi Yamada http://pbskids.org/writerscontest/create-stories for books and reading - and the staff at the What to Do with a Box ...... Jane Yolen & Chris Sheban Scholastic Poetry Macomb Intermediate School District hopes This is my Book ...... Mark Pett http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/index.htm you will enjoy the adventures awaiting you Ada Twist, Scientist ...... Andrea Beaty in our 2017 Summer Book List. Iggy Peck, Architect ...... Andrea Beaty Wonderfall ...... Michael Hall So, you want to be an author too? This list will help assure that your children Love That Dog ...... Sharon Creech The Most Magnificent Thing ...... Ashley Spires are reading high quality literature. All the A Child of Books...... Oliver Jeffers Author Quest Camps- Open to young authors ages 10 - books on the list are available at your The Day the Crayons Came Home ...... Drew Daywalt 13, Author Quest is 4 days/3 nights of writing courses, neighborhood library or book store. Your instruction, and classes at Wolverine Camps in Wolverine, Michigan. For more information visit americanchillers.com local librarian or book store sales person can suggest additional titles, too. Names You Know Oakland University Youth Writing Camps and Work- The Macomb Intermediate School District is Footloose ...... Kenny Loggins shops- The Meadow Brook Writing Project hosts summer writing camps in “America’s Castle,” the Meadow Brook working hard to help every student in every River Rose ...... Kelly Clarkston Macomb County school achieve at high Just the Two of Us ...... Wil Smith mansion. Discover secret staircases, amazing playhouses, Dirt on My Shirt ...... Jeff Foxworthy and writer's workshops at one of America’s grandest archi- levels and literacy is a top priority. We Outlaw Pete ...... Bruce Springsteen tectural structures. For more information visit: need your support in ensuring that your Cookie Meets Peanut ...... Bethany Frankel https://www.oakland.edu/mbwp/youthwritingcamps/ children meet these expectations. Your Gus & Me ...... Keith Richards example and encouragement will go a long Sugar Plum Ballerinas ...... Whoopi Goldberg Out of the Ballpark ...... Alex Rodriguez Visit Your Local Library Today way toward reaching the goal of every Freckleface Strawberry ...... Julianne Moore student becoming an excellent reader.
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44001 Garfield Road, Clinton Township, MI 48038-1100 586/228-3300 - www.misd.net Great Lakes Great Books Great Lakes Great Books 2017 Award Winning Books as Award Winners 2016-2017 Award Nominees 2017-2018 announced by the American Library Association Kindergarten and First Grade Get a jump start on reading the Michigan Reading Association’s nominees for the 2017-2018 Great Lakes John Newbery Medal Great Book Awards. Nominated titles include: Ninja Red Riding Hood...... Corey Rosen Schwartz John Newbury Medal for the most outstanding contribution Tallulah: Mermaid of the ...... Denise Brennan Nelson Kindergarten and First Grade to children’s literature. Great Lakes The Girl Who Drank the Moon ...... Kelly Barnhill A Baby Elephant in the Wild ...... Caitlin O’Donnell Dino-Racing ...... Lisa Wheeler I Am a Story ...... Dan Yaccarino John Newbery Honor Books If You Plant a Seed ...... Kadir Nelson Second and Third Seaver the Weaver ...... Paul Czajak Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Squash Boom Beet ...... Lisa Maxbauer Price Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life .. Ashley Bryan
Lulu’s Mysterious Mission ...... Judith Viorst The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles ...... Michelle Cuevas The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Trombone Shorty ...... Troy Andrews Water is Water: A Book About ...... Miranda Paul Children and Their Holy Dog ...... Adam Gidwitz Neighborhood Sharks ...... Katherine Roy the Water Cycle We Are Growing! ...... Laurie Keller Wolf Hollow ...... Lauren Wolk
Fourth and Fifth Grade Randolph Caldecott Medal Second and Third Grade Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished Fish in a Tree ...... Lynda Mullaly Hunt Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled ...... Susan Hood American picture book for children. Ideas Are All Around ...... Philip Stead Echo ...... Pam Munoz Ryan Memoirs of a Parrot ...... Devin Scillian Lost in the Sun ...... Lisa Graff Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Pond ...... Jim LaMarche Jean-Michel Basquiat...... Javaka Steptoe Seven and a Half Tons of Steel ...... Janet Nolan Steamboat School ...... Deborah Hopkinson Randolph Caldecott Honor Books Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems ...... Bob Raczka Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln? ..... Kate DiCamillo Leave Me Alone! ...... Vera Brosgol Books About Michigan or Freedom in Congo Square .... Carole Boston Weatherford Fourth and Fifth Grade ...... illustrated by R. Gregory Christie Local Interests Du Iz Tak? ...... Carson Ellis Adam and Thomas...... Aharon Appelfeld They All Saw a Cat ...... Brendan Wenzel Gertie’s Leap to Greatness ...... Kate Beasley Coretta Scott King (Author) Award The Legend of Michigan ...... Trinka Hakes Noble The Key to Extraordinary ...... Natalie Lloyd Mitt, the Michigan Mouse ...... Kathy Jo- Wargin Monster Science: Could Monsters Survive.. Helaine Becker Paddle- to-the- Sea ...... Holling Clancy Holling My Near-Death Adventures – 99% True ... Alison DeCamp Coretta Scott King Award recognizing an African American author The Birchbark House ...... Louise Erdrich Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea ...... Robert Burleigh and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults. Train to Midnight ...... Janie Lynn Panagopoulos The Wild Robot ...... Peter Brown I Love Michigan: An ABC Adventure..... Sandra Magsamen You Can Fly: The Tuskeegee ...... Carole B. Weatherford March: Book Three ...... John Lewis and Andrew Aydin Hidden Michigan ...... Anne Lewis & Janis Campbell Airmen Coretta Scott King Honor Books As Brave as You ...... Jason Reynolds
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life ...... Ashley Bryan Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Award Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Board of Education Jean-Michel Basquiat...... Javaka Steptoe
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