Toddler Tools

Calm-down time by Elizabeth Verdick

Germs are not for sharing by Elizabeth Verdick

Animals and Nature

A Nest is Noisy by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long

Snakes by Emily Green 

Living Fossils by Rebecca Hirsch

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner

Extreme Animal Rumble by Jerry Pallota 

Bears by National Geographic Kids 

Arctic Animals: Cold Feet by Speedy Publishing 

Social Emotional Learning 

The Red Book: What to Do When You’re Angry by William Anthony

A Book About Anxiety by Holly Duhig 

Let’s Get Along: Resolving Conflict by Alyssa Krekelberg 

Compassion by Katie Marsico 

STEAM

The Complete baking book for young chefs from America's Test Kitchen

Rosie Revere’s Big Project Book for Bold Engineers by Andrea Beaty

Triangles by David A. Adler

Transportation 

Helicopters by Amy McDonald 

Motocross Racing by K. A. Hale  

Sports Cars by Emma Huddleston  

Trucks by Amy Johnson 

History

Her right foot by Dave Eggers

Kid presidents; by David Stabler

Little leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

Stamped (For Kids) by Jason Reynolds

We are the change: Words of Inspiration from Civil Rights Leaders  with introduction by Harry Belafonte

The Chumash by Danielle Smith Llera 

Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale by Nathan Hale 

What Was the Titanic? by Stephanie Sabol 

Biography

On a Beam of Light; A Story of Albert Einstein  by Jennifer Berne

Shark lady by Jess Keating

Soldier for Equality by Duncan Tonatiuh

The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps by Jeanette Winter

Fred’s Big Feelings by Laura Renauld 

I Am Anne Frank by Brad Meltzer 

Who Are Venus and Serena Williams? by James Buckley Jr. 

Classics

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Little Prince by Atoine de Saint-Exupéry

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Fantasy

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J. K. Rowling

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illus. by Jules Feiffer 

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Timothy Basil Ering 

Historical Fiction

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

P. S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Spears

Humor

The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey 

The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney 

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus by Barbara Park 

Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds 

Mystery

Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Mr. and Mrs. Bunny - Detective Extraordinaire by Polly Horvath

The Great Cake Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith 

Realistic Fiction

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Wonder by R. J. Palacio

The Year of the Book by Andrea Cheng, illus Abigail Halpin

The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin 

Science Fiction

The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm

Space Case by Stuart Gibbs

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown