Library News:
The Birthday Book Club has swung into action again, so for those of you who don’t know what it is here is a brief explanation: On your child’s birthday they can donate either a new book or a very gently used book to the library. Turn the book in to your child’s teacher or to the librarian with a picture of your child (wallet sized is best, or close to it). The picture can also be cut out from another picture that you have. Their picture will be put up on the Birthday Book Club wall in Erbin Hall. Summer birthday children can donate a book whenever they like.
This has been a great way to add books to the library, and the kids like seeing their picture up on the wall. If you don’t know what book to donate you can look at the list below for titles that would be great to add.
The books below are organized by Newbery Medal Winners, Caldecott Medal Winners, fiction that kids ask for and finally by grade.
Thank you,
Susan Wolfe
Book wish list for the Library:
Newbery Medal Winners
By Monica Shannon
Dobry
Caldecott Medal Books (listed by illustrator names)
By Dorothy P. Lathrop
Animals of the Bible
By Berta and Elmer Hader
The Big Snow
By Richard Egielski
Hey, Al
By Louis Slobodkin
Many Moons
By Thomas Handforth
Mei Li
By Barbara Cooney
Ox-Cart Man
By Marc Simont
A Tree is Nice
Fiction
By Rick Riordan
Red Pyramid
By Catherine Fisher
Saphique
By Patrick Ness
Chaos Walking
Monsters of Men
By Lindsay Leavitt
Princess for Hire
By Royce Buckingham
The Dead Boys
By John Flanagan
The Kings of Clonmel
By Paul Zindel
Loch
By Grade:
Kindergarten:
Creature ABC
By Andrew Zuckerman
A Friend Like You
By Tanja Askani
One Weighs a Ton
By Salina Yoon
Dogs Don’t Brush Their Teeth
By Diane deGroat
Fanny and Annabelle
By Holly Hobbie
Princess Hyancinth
By Florence Heide
Animals Day and Night
By Katharine Kenah
One World One Day
By Barbara Kerley
The Dinosaur Tamer
By Carol Greathouse
One Shoe Blues
By Sandra Boynton
First Grade:
Dangerous Animals Around the World
By Wade Cooper
Shampoodle
By Joan Holub
I Spy Fly Guy
By Ted Arnold
Goblin and the Empty Chair
By Mem Fox
We Are Citizens
By Laine Falk
Max Spaniel Dinosaur Hunt
By David Catrow
Caveman Manners
ByDavid Steinberg
Never Smile at a Monkey
By Steve Jenkins
Tarra & Bella
By Carol Buckley
Storms
By Melvin Berger
Earthquakes
By Ker Than
Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
By Sharon Robinson
How to Train with a T-Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals
By Michael Phelps
Long Shot
By Chris Paul
Dunderheads
By Paul Fleischman
Stick Man
By Julia Donaldson
Christmas Magic
By Lauren Thompson
Second Grade:
Magical Ms. Plum
By Bonny Becker
Hamlet and the Tale of the Sniggery Woods
By Maggie Kneen
Horrid Henry Tricks and Treats/Underpants
By Francesca Simon
Monsters
By Lucille Recht Penner
Nubs: A True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
By Brian Dennis
Tarra & Bella: The Elephant and the Dog Who Became Best Friends
By Carol Buckley
Amazing Animal Families
By Ruth Owen
Poodle and Hound
By Kathryn Lasky
Doll Shop Downstairs
By Yona McDonough
Goblin Baby
By Berlie Doherty
Winter’s Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again
The Hatkoffs
Face to Face with Polar Bears/ Dolphins
By Norbert/ Nicklin
African Acrostics: A Word in Edgeways
By Avis Harley
Animal Tongues
By Dawn Cusick
The True Gift
By Patricia MacLachlan
Third Grade:
Magician’s Elephant
By Kate DiCamillo
Little Leap Forward
By Guo Yue
Great Moments in Basketball History
By Matt Christopher
Odd and the Frost Giants
By Neil Gaiman
Dying to Meet You/ Over My Dead Body
By Kate Klise
Cars on Mars
By Alexandra Siy
Lincoln and His Boys
By Rosemary Wells
Fiona Finkelstein Big Time Ballerina
By Shawn K. Stout
Houdini’s box
By Brian Selznick
Adventures of Benny
By Steve Shreve
Flawed Dogs
By Berkeley Breathed
Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom
By Eric Wright
My School in the Rain Forest
By Margriet Ruurs
Witch’s Guide to Cooking With Children
By Keith McGowan
Fourth Grade:
Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
By Kate Messner
School of Fear
By Gitty Daneshvari
Stage Fright Rules for Girls #4
By Meg Cabot
Alcatraz vs. the Knights of Crytallia
By Brandon Sanderson
Looking For Marco Polo
By Alan Armstrong
William S. and the Great Escape
By Zilpha Snyder
Leaving the Bellweathers
By Kristin Clark Venuti
Julia Gillian (and the Art of Knowing)
By Alison McGhee
Wild Girl
By Patricia Riley Giff
Boy Who Invented TV
Kathleen Krull
14 Cows for America
by Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah
Animals up Close
By Igor Siwanowicz
Archeology Detectives
By Simon Adams
Day Glo Brothers
By Chris Barton
My Name is Henry Bib
Afua Cooper
Heroes of the Environment
By Harriet Rohmer
Peaceful Heroes
By Jonah Winter
Fifth Grade:
Battle for Duncragglin
By Andrew Vanderwal
Nerds: National Espionage, Rescue and Defense Society
By Michael Buckley
The Doom Machine
By Mark Teague
Century: Ring of Fire
By P.D. Baccalario
Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Trenton Lee Stewart
The Pharaoh’s Secret
By Marissa Moss
For Liberty
Timothy Decker
Secret of the Yellow Death
By Suzanne Jurmain
Omnivore’s Dilemma
Michael Pollen
Book of Totally Irresponsible Science
Sean Connolly
Hoaxed! Fake and Mistakes in the World of Science
Editors of “Yes” magazine
Sixth Grade:
Hunting Book 1 Z Rex
By Steve Cole
Leviathan
By Scott Westerfeld
Ice
By Sarah Beth Durst
Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan
Eli the Good
By Silas House
Return to Sender
By Julia Alvarez
Raven Summer
By David Almond
Ice Claw
By David Gilman
Fly Girl
By Sherri Smith
Day of the Pelican
By Katherine Patterson
Purple Heart
Patricia McCormick
Why Pi?
By Johnny Ball
Alive In the Killing Fields
By Nawwth Keat
Wanting Mor
By Rukhsana Khan
Family Secret/ The Search
By Lorraine Miller
Seventh/Eighth Grades:
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
By Deborah Heiligman
The Monstrumlogist
By Rick Yancey
Punkzilla
By Adam Rapp
Tales from the Madman Underground: A Historical Romance, 1973
By John Barnes
Once Was Lost
By Sarah Zarr
Broken Memory
By Elizabeth Combres
Miles Between
By Mary Pearson
Adoration of Jenna Fox
By Mary Pearson
Shiver
By Maggie Stiefvater
Going Bovine
By Libba Bray
Once a Witch
By Carol MacCullough
Blade
By Tim Bowler
Paper Towns
By John Green
Chosen One
By Carol Lynch Williams
Fat Cat
By Robin Brande
Thirteen Reasons Why
By Jay Asher
Hold Still
By Nina LaCour
Along For the Ride
By Sarah Dessen
Fire/Graceling
By Kristin Cashore
Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss
Genesis
By Bernard Beckett
Nelson Mandela The Authorized Comic Book
By the Nelson Mandela Foundation
Slavery Today
By Groundwork Guides
Longshot
Lance Allred
K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain
Ed Viesters
The Book of Codes
By Paul Lunde
