Biographies Books

I am Ruby Bridges

by Ruby Bridges

I am Neil Armstrong

by Brad Meltzer

The Story of Jane Goodall

by Susan B. Katz

Who Says Women Can't be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell 

by Tanya Lee Stone

Who was Walt Disney?

by Whitney Stewart

2023/2024 Award Winner Books

Big

by Vashti Harrison

Henry, Like Always

by Jenn Bailey

Forever is Now

by Mariama J. Lockington

Iveliz Explains It All

by Andrea Beatriz Arango

Maizy Chen's Last Chance

by Lisa Yee

Realistic Fiction Books

Wonder

by R.J. Palacio

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

Finally Seen

by Kelly Yang

Honestly Elliot

by Gillian McDunn

New Kid

by Jerry Craft

Non-Fiction Books

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

I Color Myself Different

by Colin Kaepernick

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures

by Julia Finley Mosca

One Tiny Turtle

by Nicola Davies

Historical Fiction Books

Bud, Not Buddy

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Anne of Green Gables

by L.M. Montgomery

Number the Stars

by Lois Lowry

I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001

by Lauren Tarshis

A Night Divided

by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Poetry Books

I Like Myself!

by Karen Beaumont

Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Seuss

Girls on the Rise

by Amanda Gorman

Dogku

by Andrew Clements

I am Loved

by Nikki Giovanni

Power Sharing Books

Hair Love

by Matthew A. Cherry

Front Desk

by Kelly Yang

The Hate You Give

by Angie Thomas

We are Water Protectors

by Carole Lindstrom

Under My Hijab

by Hena Khan

Fantasy Books

School for Good and Evil

by Soman Chainani

Harry Potter

by J.K. Rowling

The Chronicles of Narnia

by C.S. Lewis

How to Train Your Dragon

by Cressida Cowell

Witchlings

by Claribel A. Ortega

Picture Books Published Before 1970

The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969)

by Eric Carle

Where The Wild Things Are (1963)

by Maurice Sendak

The Snowy Day (1962)

by Ezra Jack Keats

Corduroy (1968)

by Don Freeman 

Madeline (1939)

by Ludwig Bemelmans

My Personal Favorites

The Outsiders

by S. E. Hinton

The Upside of Unrequited

by Becky Albertalli

Unwind

by Neal Shusterman

I am Number Four

by Pittacus Lore

The City of Ember

by Jeanne DuPrau

Michael Vey

by Richard Paul Evans