Published in 2021, this story is about a half-white, half-native girl who sees her best friend get murdered. She becomes involved in the FBI investigation revolving around a new drug.

Awards:
American Indian Youth Literature

Genre:
Fiction
Mystery

Published in 2013, this story is about Summer, a twelve-year-old Japanese-American girl who. She does a lot of hard work with her difficult family, she finds to a greater understanding of herself, of her family and its heritage, and of her relationships.

Awards:
Asian/Pacific American Award

Genre:
Fiction

Published in 2019, this book is a reminder to us to celebrate our blessings and reflect on daily events and struggles. This book is about the Cherokee people and how they are grateful for everything they have.

Awards:
Robert Sibert Book Award

Genre:
nonfiction

Published in 2000, This story is about a young girl who grows up living a privileged life until she is forced one day to leave with her mother. They had to work on a farm and start their lives over again.

Awards:
Pura Belpre Award

genre:
Historical Fiction

Published in 2020, this story is about a young deaf boy during World War II. He has a sister who loves him and helps him and a conscientious objector who helps him.

Awards:
Scott O'Dell Award

Genre:
Historical Fiction

Published in 1997, This book is about a young Jewish girl that gets the chance to come to America because a rabbi has a ticket to give out. She travels by boat in the rain and cold and is sad to leave her grandmother. Once she gets to New York City she works at a dress shop and meets a man that she ends up marrying. She pays for a ticket for her grandmother to come to the US to be with her.

Awards:
Choice book

Genre:
Historical Fiction

Published in 2019, this book is about two teens who are struggling with their pasts and fall in love over the summer and help one another gain confidence.

Awards:
Whippoorwill Award

Genre:
Realistic fiction

Published in 2016, this story is about a boy and a fox that are best friends the boy's dad enlisted into the army and made his son get rid of the fox. The fox and the boy are determined to get back together.

Awards:
Christopher Award for Clementine's Letter
Golden Kite Award for Pierre In Love.

Genre:
Realistic Fiction

Published in 2019, this story is about a little girl who starts to wear a hijab to school. Her little sister looks out for her throughout the day and is worried people will pick on her sister. The story explains that the two sisters love the hijab and think it was beautiful so they are strong and don't let people bully them for it.

Awards:
Goodreads Choice Award for Picture Books Nominee
Booklist: Editors' choice

Genre:
realistic fiction

Published in 2018, this story was about a young girl who lost her leg and was struggling with how she would do things without her leg. Eventually, they got her a service dog that helped her do many things. She then found out that she would need her other leg removed. Rescue helped her through this hard time and they became great friends.

Awards:
Schneider Family Book Award

Genre:
Realistic Fiction
Autobiography

Published in 1987, This story is about a little boy and his father who go on an owl hunt while it's dark out. They needed to be quiet and make owl noises so an owl would respond. Finally, the owl started to respond and get closer and they were able to see the owl with a flashlight.

Awards:
Caldecott Medal
Genre:
Realistic Fiction

Published in 2000, This book is about a boy who gets upset when a new kid, Jeremy moves to the neighborhood. After Deciding Jeremy is his new enemy he goes to his father for help. His dad makes an enemy pie for Jeremy and tells his son he has to spend the whole day with his first. By the end of the day, he learns that Jermey isn't too bad at all.

Awards:
Choice book

Genre:
Fiction

Published in 2019, This book is about The first day of school of Penelope Rex and she is very nervous that she won't make friends. She got to school and found out they were all humans. On her first day of school, she eats the whole class and when the class fish tries to eat her she gets a taste of her own medicine. She then becomes friendly with her classmates and doesn't eat them anymore.

Awards:
Choice book

Genre:
Fiction

Published in 2014, This story is about a young girl that spent her summer wanting to raise her own money to buy herself a scooter. She competed with other people over the summer selling lemonade.

Awards:
Choice book

Genre:
Fiction

Published in 2018, This book is about a young girl who has to move countries and starts going to a new school. The story takes you through her journey to see if she makes friends even though she doesn't know the language and culture of this new place.

Awards:
Choice book

Genre:
Fiction

Published in 2001, This book has a bunch of short poems that are made for two people to read back and forth to each other. They are short and easy for children to read as well.

Genre:
Fiction

Awards:
Choice book

Published in 2005, This story is about a child asking a cat what it's like to be a cat. The cat responds with lots of detail and has some sass. It is a fun easy read for children.

Genre:
Fiction

Awards:
Choice book

Published in 2009, This is a story of a young girl in Afghanistan who goes to a secret school for girls. The young girl has not talked to anyone since her parents disappeared. Her grandmother decided to risk everything to enroll Nasreen in a secret school for girls.

Genre:
Non-fiction

Awards:
Jane Addams Children's Book Award

Published in 1981, This story is about a boy that walks down the market street buying many things. At the end of the book, you learn that he is buying all these things for his friend, a cat. This story shows you how its kind to do things for others and not always just for yourself.

Genre:
Fiction

Awards:
National Book Award

Published in 1983, this story is about the first year of Keladry of Mindelan's training as a page of Tortall. This book is part of a series, Proctor of the Small.

Genre:
Fantasy Fiction

Awards:
Choice book

Published in 1973, This story is about a wizard that goes to stay at a boarding house. Weird things started happening around the house so Mrs. Beggs did witchcraft to have some animals tie him up and take him out. He ended up breaking free and tying up all the animals and coming back to the house as an animal.

Genre:
Fiction

Awards:
Choice book

Published in 1998, This story was about a cat, squirrel, and a duck that were fighting about what they would do to make pumpkin soup. Cat and squirrel realized that the way they were acting towards duck was not nice and if they wanted duck to be there friend then they needed to be nicer. They all came together and made the soup.

Genre:
Fiction

Awards:
Kate Greenaway

Published in 2012, this story is about a family that sees a huge black dog outside. The only one who was brave enough to face it was the smallest in the family. This book is all about facing your fears.

Genre:
Fiction

Awards:
Kate Greenaway

Published in 1994, this book tells the story of Cinderella and also Cinder Edna. Cinder Edna didn't care much about fancy things and being a princess. She wanted to find someone who shared interests with her and she enjoyed, rather than someone who she could live in a big castle with. Cinder Edna ended up living happily ever after but Cinderella didn't.

Genre:
Fairy Tale, Fiction

Awards:
Choice book

Published in 2018, This story is about a boy who wants to become a mermaid and be a part of a mermaid parade. He decides to use what he has at home to create a mermaid outfit for himself. At first, his grandma showed a look of disapproval but then came around and gave him a necklace and took him to the parade.

Genre:
Children's Picture Book

Awards:
Stonewall

Published in 1996, this story is about a young boy in middle school who did not enjoy being in class and would constantly interrupt his teacher. He asks his teacher about the meaning of a word and wasn't happy with her answer so he decided to make up his own word for a pen even when asked not to.

Genres: Novel, Fiction, Children's literature

Awards
Phoenix

Published in 1999, this book is about a family that lived on land, and white people keep encroaching on their life. She has an older sister and an annoying younger brother and there was also a baby. They built a new birchbark house every fall. A visitor came to their lodge in winter and brought an enemy with him.

Genre:
Novel, Fiction, Children's literature

Awards:
Phoenix

Published in 2002, this story is about a queen forcing her son to find a princess to marry and he doesn't have any luck that he likes. Finally, he comes across another king and falls in love, and marries him.

Genre:

Children's Fiction

Awards:
Choice book

Published in 2018, this book starts with the start of the world like planets and sun and stars. Then it continues up to the beginning of life on earth, to people, and the reader is important and their birth.

Genre:
Picture Book
Science fiction, Adventure fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Religious Fiction

Awards:
Coretta Scott King

Published in 2012, This story is about Two little girls, Chloe and Maya. Chloe didn't show much kindness to Maya and their teacher gave a lesson about kindness to them. After the lesson, Chloe was upset that she didn't show Maya Kindness and lost a friendship because of it. Maya ended up leaving the school because people weren't showing her kindness.

Awards:
Coretta Scott King Author

Published in 2018, This story is about a powerful message. The message is it's important to be yourself and express your story, and the day you do that is the day you will start living and enjoying your life. This is an empowering book for young readers to enjoy being different than everyone else.

Awards:
Book of Choice

Published in 2005, This is a true story that took place in NYC Central Park Zoo. Two male penguins did everything together and started doing what the couple penguins would do. They started seeing the other couple of penguins laying eggs and they couldn't. A zookeeper noticed and saw an egg that needed to be nurtured and gave it to the two-mile penguin. They raised the penguin for their own.

Awards:
Book of Choice

Published in 1980, This story was about a princess who had all of her clothes burned off by a dragon's breath. The princess followed the dragon's trail and tricked him into getting tired out so he wouldn't be able to keep ruining their town. After the princess saved the prince he said “you smell like ashes and don't look like a real princess. She decided that he did appreciate her and didn't marry him.

Awards:
Book of choice

Published in 2013, This story is about a young girl whose family is traveling north from South Carolina. One day she found a rope and she used that rope for fun and had no idea it would be a part of her family for generations for different things like tying a suitcase shut and jumping rope. This story goes all the up to the little girl being a grandmother.

Awards:
Book of choice

Published in 1953, this story is about how a pig becomes friends with a spider. When the pig Wilber is endangered from being slathered, the spider Charlotte writes messages on the web to persuade the farmer to let the pig live.

Awards:
Newbery Medal

Published in 2020, this book is about a community that all comes together to stand up and fight for their land and all living things on it when a black snake comes. The black snake is known to kill everything on their land.

Awards:
Golden Kite Award

Published in 2011, this book is about a bear who lost his hat and walked around and asked other animals if they have seen his hat. All the animals said that they didn't see it and finally the bear remembered he saw someone wearing this hat. He went back and got his cook from the rabbit and then ate the rabbit.

Awards:
E.B. White Read Aloud Award

Published in 1929, this book was about a man that went to get a cat for himself and his wife and couldn't decide what cat he wanted. He decided to take all the cats home with him and there were hundreds, thousands, millions, billions. The very old lady said we can't keep all these cats and the cats fought over who would stay. Once the man and lady came back out there was only one cat left to keep.

Awards:
Newberry Award

This book was published in 2019. This book is about finding ways to cope with sadness when it comes their way. The book gives many examples of ways to help like drinking hot chocolate or going for a walk. I would use this book with children in my classroom as a whole group because it's a good way for children to see it's okay to be sad and there are ways to help you feel better.

Awards:
One of my books of choice

Published in 1970, Frog and Toad Are Friends is about Frog and Toad going on different adventures and running into different problems in each story and finding ways to fix them. I would like this book in my classroom for students to be able to look at in their free time and read on their own.

Award for book:
Caldecott Honor Book