Just in time for back-to-school, these are books I read and loved…
and predict you’ll be wanting to read and share with your students this fall.
and predict you’ll be wanting to read and share with your students this fall.
Go ahead and preorder them now!
Picture Books
Where Oliver Fits by Cale Atkinson – Sept 5
Come With Me by Holly M. McGhee, illus by Pascal Lemaitre – Sept 5
Sarabella’s Thinking Cap by Judy Schachner – Sept 5
Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow by Michelle Cuevas – Sept 12
Why Am I Me? by Paige Britt, illlus by Selina Alko & Sean Qualls – Sept 12
There’s Nothing to Do! by Dev Petty, illus by Mike Boldt – Sept 19
It’s Not Jack and the Beanstalk by Josh Funk, illus by Edwardian Taylor – Sept 19
Rapunzel by Bethan Woollvin – Oct 1
After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) by Dan Santat – Oct 3
That Is My Dream! by Langston Hughes, illus by Daniel Miyares – Oct 3
La La La: A Story of Hope by Kate DiCamillo, illus by Jaime Kim – Oct 3
Draw the Line by Kathryn Otoshi – Oct 10 (wordless)
Blue vs. Yellow by Tom Sullivan – Oct 10
A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider by Barbara Herkert, illus by Lauren Castillo – Oct 24
Hey Black Child by Useni Eugene Perkins, illus by Bryan Collier – Nov 14
Early Readers
King & Kayla and the Case of the Mysterious Mouse
by Dori Hillestad Butler, illus by Nancy Meyers – Sept 1
The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate
by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale, illus by LeUyen Pham – Sept 5
Beatrice Zinker, Upside Down Thinker by Shelley Johannes – Sept 19
That’s My Book! and Other Stories by Salina Yoon – Sept 19
Charlie & Mouse & Grumpy by Laurel Snyder, illus by Emily Hughes – Oct 3
Elephant & Piggie Like Reading: It’s Shoe Time! by Bryan Collier – Oct 24
Middle Grades
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez – Aug 22
Patina (Track, book 2) by Jason Reynolds – Aug 29
All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson – Sept 5
Swing It, Sunny by Jennifer L. Holm, illus by Matthew Holm – Sept 12
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate- Sept 26
And a bonus middle grade (since I apparently only read advanced copies of books with girl main characters) that is already out, but I only just read it: The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
Young Adult
Warcross by Marie Lu – Sept 12
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds – Oct 17
Dear Martin by Nic Stone – Oct 17
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