Appendix A: Classroom Library
Here are optional texts that we recommend for a rich grade-appropriate Classroom Library.
Grade 2 Classroom Library
| Title | Author | Lexile |
|---|---|---|
| Aesop’s Fables | Aesop and Jerry Pinkney | 760L |
| Ancient Greece and the Olympics | Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce | 590L |
| Armando and the Blue Tarp School | Edith Hope Fine and Judith Pinkerton Josephson | AD560L |
| Arthur’s Loose Tooth | Lillian Hoban | 500L |
| Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) | Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard | 510L |
| Bats: Creatures of the Night | Joyce Milton | 510L |
| Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies | Deborah Hopkinson | 780L |
| Cam Jansen and the Basketball Mystery | David A. Adler | 560L |
| Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Television Dog | David A. Adler | 620L |
| Catch That Pass! | Matt Christopher | 620L |
| Chamelia and the New Kid in Class | Ethan Long | AD620L |
| City Green | DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan | AD570L |
| Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest | Gerald McDermott | 460L |
| Creepy-Crawly Birthday | James Howe | 540L |
| Crickwing | Janell Cannon | AD800L |
| Crow Boy | Taro Yashima | AD660L |
| Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker | Augusta Stevenson | 500L |
| Death of the Iron Horse | Paul Goble | AD630L |
| Dinosaur Bones | Aliki | 580L |
| Dirt Bike Racer | Matt Christopher | 630L |
| Dream Wolf | Paul Goble | 550L |
| Each Kindness | Jacqueline Woodson | AD530L |
| Emma’s Rug | Allen Say | 450L |
| Football Nightmare | Matt Christopher | 690L |
| Fossils Tell Stories | Yu-ri Kim | AD500L |
| Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor | Jon Scieszka | 730L |
| From Egg to Chicken | Gerald Legg | 560L |
| From Seed to Sunflower | Gerald Legg | 540L |
| Gooney Bird Is So Absurd | Lois Lowry | 590L |
| Gooney Bird and the Room Mother | Lois Lowry | 600L |
| Gooney Bird on the Map | Lois Lowry | 580L |
| Gorillas: Gentle Giants of the Forest | Joyce Milton | 530L |
| Grand Canyon | Jason Chin | 1000L |
| Grandmama’s Pride | Becky Birtha | AD650L |
| Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps | Cynthia Rylant | 540L |
| Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea | Cynthia Rylant | 490L |
| Henry and Mudge and the Sneaky Crackers | Cynthia Rylant | 440L |
| Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble | Cynthia Rylant | 500L |
| Hour of the Olympics | Mary Pope Osborne | 380L |
| How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe? | Jane Yolen | AD480L |
| Hurry and the Monarch | Antoine Ó Flatharta | AD590L |
| Ice Cream Summer | Peter Sís | AD370L |
| Judy Moody (Was in a Mood) | Megan McDonald | 560L |
| Judy Moody Gets Famous | Megan McDonald | 540L |
| Just in Case | Judith Viorst | NP |
| Katie Loves the Kittens | John Himmelman | AD450L |
| Last Stop on Market Street | Matt de la Peña | AD610L |
| Let’s Look at Snails | Laura Hamilton Waxman | 500L |
| Look Up With Me: Neil DeGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars | Jennifer Berne | AD860L |
| Marco? Polo! | Jon Scieszka | 550L |
| Marveling at Minerals | Sally M. Walker | 580L |
| Matthew and Tilly | Rebecca C. Jones | 570L |
| Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood | F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell | AD580L |
| Monarch Butterfly | Gail Gibbons | AD590L |
| Mustache Baby | Bridget Heos | AD380L |
| My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis | Paul Meisel | 470L |
| My Footprints | Bao Phi | 630L |
| Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan | Jeanette Winter | AD630L |
| Neighborhood Odes: A Poetry Collection | Gary Soto | NP |
| November Night | Ron Roy | 620L |
| One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia | Miranda Paul | AD570L |
| Pan de Sal Saves the Day: A Filipino Children’s Story | Norma Olizon-Chikiamco | |
| Rain Player | David Wisniewski | AD690L |
| Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest | Gerald McDermott | AD380L |
| Rockets and Spaceships | Karen Wallace | 510L |
| Rotten Ralph | Jack Gantos | 580L |
| Rotten Ralph’s Rotten Family | Jack Gantos | 530L |
| Sea Otter Inlet | Celia Godkin | |
| Stellaluna | Janell Cannon | AD550L |
| Switcharound | Lois Lowry | 680L |
| The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies | Kay Barnham | AD640L |
| The Apache People | Mark Harasymiw | NC880L |
| The Bug Girl: A True Story | Sophia Spencer, with Margaret McNamara | AD580L |
| The Day You Begin | Jacqueline Woodson | AD980L |
| The Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt | AD730L |
| The Empty Envelope | Ron Roy | 610L |
| The Girl Who Buried Her Dreams in a Can: A True Story | Tererai Trent | NC770L |
| The Great Race of the Birds and Animals | Paul Goble | 590L |
| The Honest-to-Goodness Truth | Patricia C. McKissack | 650L |
| The Mother’s Day Mice | Eve Bunting | 540L |
| The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline | Lois Lowry | 690L |
| The Sharing Circle: Stories about First Nations Culture | Theresa Meuse | |
| The Shoshone People | Kristen Rajczak Nelson | NC860L |
| The Tenth Good Thing about Barney | Judith Viorst | 490L |
| The Turtle of Oman: A Novel | Naomi Shihab Nye | 700L |
| The Ugly Vegetables | Grace Lin | 520L |
| They She He Me: Free to Be! | Maya Christina Gonzalez and Matthew SG | |
| Those Darn Squirrels! | Adam Rubin | AD600L |
| Three Hens and a Peacock | Lester L. Laminack | AD590L |
| Tiny Life on Your Body | Christine Taylor-Butler | 450L |
| Verdi | Janell Cannon | AD620L |
| Ways to Make Sunshine | Renée Watson | 760L |
| When Aidan Became a Brother | Kyle Lukoff | N/A |
| Who Is Jane Goodall? | Roberta Edwards | 700L |
| Who Was Amelia Earhart? | Kate Boehm Jerome | 610L |
| Who Was George Washington Carver? | Jim Gigliotti | 910L |
| Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh | Sally M. Walker | 540L |
Grade 3 Classroom Library
| Title | Author | Lexile |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Fairmount Avenue | Tomie dePaola | 640L |
| A Library for Juana | Pat Mora | 600L |
| A Sick Day for Amos McGee | Philip C. Stead | AD580L |
| Alatorcida (Spanish Crickwing) | Janell Cannon | AD750 |
| Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move | Judith Viorst | 550L |
| Alexander, Who’s Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever | Judith Viorst | AD770L |
| Anansi Does the Impossible!: An Ashanti Tale | Verna Aardema | 630L |
| Anastasia Krupnik | Lois Lowry | 700L |
| Animals Without Backbones | Bobbie Kalman | IG540L |
| Anna Carries Water | Olive Senior | |
| Anyone Can Eat Squid! | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | 600L |
| Becoming Babe Ruth | Matt Tavares | AD810L |
| Benji, the Bad Day, and Me | Sally J. Pla | AD500L |
| Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia | Jeanette Winter | AD540L |
| Birds of Prey | Gerald Legg | IG980L |
| Blizzard | John Rocco | AD570L |
| Book Uncle and Me | Uma Krishnaswami | 580L |
| Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery | James Howe, with Deborah Howe | 700L |
| Chimpanzees | Margaret Fetty | IG580L |
| Crenshaw | Katherine Applegate | 540L |
| Dolphin Talk: Whistles, Clicks, And Clapping Jaws | Wendy Pfeffer | 970L |
| Eat Your Poison, Dear | James Howe | 630L |
| El Chino | Allen Say | 600L |
| Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah | Laurie Ann Thompson | AD770 |
| Ereth’s Birthday | Avi | 610L |
| Europe | Sandra Newman | 780L |
| Figuring Out Fossils | Sally M. Walker | 540L |
| Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear | Lindsay Mattick | AD590L |
| Four Feet, Two Sandals | Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed | 620L |
| Freedom Summer | Deborah Wiles | AD600L |
| Freedom’s School | Lesa Cline-Ransome | 640L |
| Gathering Blue | Lois Lowry | 680L |
| Georgia Rules | Nanci Turner Stevenson | |
| Golem | David Wisniewski | 690L |
| Gooney Bird and All Her Charms | Lois Lowry | 610L |
| Hockey Night in Kenya | Danson Mutinda and Eric Walters | 660L |
| Hope Springs | Eric Walters | |
| How Do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies? | Jane Yolen | AD490L |
| How Heavy?: Wacky Ways to Compare Weight | Mark Weakland | AD640L |
| How I Learned Geography | Uri Shulevitz | AD660L |
| How Tall: Wacky Ways to Compare Height | Mark Weakland | AD610L |
| I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Debbie Levy | 710L |
| Insect Eaters | Bobbie Kalman | IG570L |
| Investigating Heat | Sally M. Walker | 600L |
| Investigating Magnetism | Sally M. Walker | 510L |
| Jabutí the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon | Gerald McDermott | AD600L |
| Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-To-Be-Best Friend | Dawn Quigley | |
| Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You | Sonia Sotomayor | 710L |
| Kamishibai Man | Allen Say | AD590L |
| Leo: A Ghost Story | Mac Barnett | AD540L |
| Lupe Wong Won’t Dance | Donna Barba Higuera | |
| Mango, Abuela, and Me | Meg Medina | AD560L |
| Me… Jane | Patrick McDonnell | AD740 |
| Monkey: A Trickster Tale from India | Gerald McDermott | AD530L |
| My Name Is Sangoel | Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed | AD550L |
| Octopuses and Squid | Gerald Legg | IG860L |
| Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef | Marianne Berkes | AD600L |
| Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale | Duncan Tonatiuh | AD590L |
| Papagayo: The Mischief Maker | Gerald McDermott | AD650L |
| Pickles to Pittsburgh: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Judi Barrett | AD810L |
| Planet of the Pies: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3 | Judi Barrett | 760L |
| Poppy and Ereth | Avi | 620L |
| Proud: Living My American Dream | Ibtihaj Muhammad | 960L |
| Rain School | James Rumford | AD510L |
| Razia’s Ray of Hope: One Girl’s Dream of an Education | Elizabeth Suneby | 680L |
| Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports | Gregory Zuckerman with Gabriel and Elijah Zuckerman | 1070L |
| Secret Place | Eve Bunting | AD590L |
| Sequoyah : The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing | James Rumford | AD620L |
| Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille | Jen Bryant | 590L |
| Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself | Judy Blume | 620L |
| Steamboat School | Deborah Hopkinson | AD660L |
| Stella by Starlight | Sharon M. Draper | 740L |
| The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend | Dan Santat | AD480 |
| The Bug Girl: A True Story | Sophia Spencer, with Margaret McNamara | AD580L |
| The Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure | Doreen Cronin | 560L |
| The Cloud Book | Tomie dePaola | 680L |
| The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island | Dana Alison Levy | 730L |
| The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial | Susan E. Goodman | 770L |
| The Girl Who Hated Books | Manjusha Pawagi | 590L |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry | 760L |
| The Hideout | Eve Bunting | 690L |
| The Lost Horse: A Chinese Folktale | Ed Young | AD800L |
| The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher | Dana Alison Levy | 750L |
| The Odorous Adventures of Stinky Dog | James Howe | 750L |
| The Story Circle / El círculo de cuentos | Diane Gonzales Betrand | |
| The Story of Olympic Swimmer Duke Kahanamoku | Ellie Crowe | |
| The Terrible Two | Mac Barnett and Jory John | 620L |
| The Thing About Jellyfish | Ali Benjamin | 740L |
| The Upside Down Boy/ El niño de cabeza | Juan Felipe Herrera | AD560L |
| The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Peter Sís | AD760L |
| The Young Merlin Trilogy: Passager, Hobby, and Merlin | Jane Yolen | 770L-860L |
| Things That Are Most in the World | Judi Barrett | AD450L |
| Tomás and the Library Lady | Pat Mora | 500L |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | 770L |
| Water | Christin Ditchfield | 660L |
| What If There Were No Bees: A Book About the Grassland Ecosystem | Suzanne Buckingham Slade | 890L |
| Who Is Malala Yousafzai? | Dinah Brown | 680L |
| With Books and Bricks : How Booker T. Washington Built a School | Suzanne Slade | AD830L |
| Zombies and Electricity | Mark Weakland | 800L |
Grade 4 Classroom Library
| Title | Author | Lexile |
|---|---|---|
| A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story | Linda Sue Park | 720L |
| A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent | Anne Rockwell | 940L |
| A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet | Katherine Lasky | 940L |
| Aliens Ate My Homework | Bruce Coville | 730L |
| Baby Animals in Rivers | Bobbie Kalman | NC590L |
| Baseball Saved Us | Ken Mochizuki | AD550L |
| Better Nate than Ever | Tim Federle | 930L |
| Big Cats: Hunters of the Night | Elaine Landau | |
| Black Heroes of the American Revolution | Burke Davis | 1330L |
| Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson | 990L |
| Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth | Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm | NC860L |
| Chasing Space: Young Readers’ Edition | Leland Melvin | 1020L |
| Cougar: A Cat with Many Names | Stephen Person | IG1010L |
| Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi | 780L |
| Destination: Space | Seymour Simon | 1160L |
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney | 950L |
| Echo | Pam Muñoz Ryan | 680L |
| Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah | Laurie Ann Thompson | AD770 |
| Encounter | Jane Yolen | 620L |
| Erased by a Tornado! | Jessica Rudolph | IG890L |
| Feathers | Jacqueline Woodson | 710L |
| Fiona’s Lace | Patricia Polacco | AD740L |
| Flood and Monsoon Alert! | Rachel Eagen | 1140L |
| George Washington’s Spy | Elvira Woodruff | 710L |
| Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet | Harriet Rohmer | 1070L |
| Houdini: World’s Greatest Mystery Man and Escape King | Kathleen Krull | AD810L |
| How to Dork Your Diary | Rachel Renée Russell | 710 |
| How to Steal a Dog | Barbara O’Connor | 700L |
| Hurricane | Jessica Rudolph | 580L |
| Hurricanes | Seymour Simon | |
| I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, 79 A. D. | Lauren Tarshis | 700L |
| I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 | Lauren Tarshis | 650L |
| I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 | Lauren Tarshis | 710L |
| Imagine | Juan Felipe Herrera | NP |
| Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution | Laurie Halse Anderson | 930L |
| Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman | NP |
| Labrador Retriever: Most Popular | Jessica Rudolph | IG990L |
| Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Carole Boston Weatherford | AD660L |
| Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence | Gretchen Woelfle | 640L |
| My Basketball Book | Gail Gibbons | 610L |
| My Soccer Book | Gail Gibbons | 540L |
| Neighborhood Odes: A Poetry Collection | Gary Soto | NP |
| Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street | Roni Schotter | 690L |
| One False Note | Gordon Korman | 680L |
| One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance | Nikki Grimes | NP |
| Poems in the Attic | Nikki Grimes | NP |
| Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton | Don Tate | 730L |
| Rain Reign | Ann M. Martin | 720L |
| Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson | Katherine Johnson | 1040L |
| Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports | Gregory Zuckerman with Gabriel and Elijah Zuckerman | 1070L |
| Rodrick Rules | Jeff Kinney | 910L |
| Sam! | Dani Gabriel | 500L |
| Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library | Carole Boston Weatherford | 1100L |
| Sea Turtles | Gail Gibbons | 600L |
| Silent Star: The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy | Bill Wise | 840L |
| Sophia’s War: A Tale of the Revolution | Avi | 730L |
| Sophie Hartley and the Facts of Life | Stephanie Greene | 650L |
| Spooky Cemeteries | Dinah Williams | IG790L |
| Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood | Carole Boston Weatherford | AD560L |
| Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider | E. F. Abbott | |
| Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life | Rachel Renée Russell | 890L |
| Tales from a Not-So-Perfect Pet Sitter | Rachel Renée Russell | 670L |
| The Arrow Over the Door | Joseph Bruchac | 810L |
| The Blood of Olympus | Rick Riordan | 690L |
| The Bracelet | Yoshiko Uchida | AD590L |
| The Crossover | Kwame Alexander | 750L |
| The Dumbest Idea Ever! | Jimmy Gownley | GN330L |
| The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza | James Kochalka | GN430L |
| The Last Book in the Universe | Rodman Philbrick | 740L |
| The Last Straw | Jeff Kinney | 970L |
| The Madman of Piney Woods | Christopher Paul Curtis | 870L |
| The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History | Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple | AD840L |
| The Maze of Bones | Rick Riordan | 610L |
| The Memory Coat | Elvira Woodruff | AD860L |
| The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher | Dana Alison Levy | 750L |
| The Moon | Seymour Simon | 730L |
| The Nervous System | Christine Taylor-Butler | 730L |
| The Printer | Myron Uhlberg | AD640L |
| The Prison-Ship Adventure of James Forten, Revolutionary War Captive | Marty Rhodes Figley; adapted by Amanda Douring Tourville | GN580L |
| The Sword Thief | Peter Lerangis | 660L |
| The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues | Ellen Raskin | 760L |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | 740L |
| The Turtle of Oman: A Novel | Naomi Shihab Nye | 700L |
| The Wretched Stone | Chris Van Allsburg | AD730L |
| Through My Eyes | Ruby Bridges | 860L |
| Tornado | Jessica Rudolph | 530L |
| Visiting Langston | Willie Perdomo | NP |
| Ways to Make Sunshine | Renée Watson | 760L |
| We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices | Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson | 850L |
| What Is the Women’s Rights Movement? | Deborah Hopkinson | 900L |
| What’s the Big Deal About Elections? | Ruby Shamir | NC1030L |
| When My Name Was Keoko | Linda Sue Park | 670L |
| Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman | Kathleen Krull | AD850L |
| Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice | Mahogany L. Browne with Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood | |
| Wolves | Duncan Searl | IG750L |
| Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures | Karen Bush Gibson | 1080L |
| Zombie in Love | Kelly DiPucchio | AD560L |
Grade 5 Classroom Library
| Title | Author | Lexile |
|---|---|---|
| A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Madeline L’Engle | 850L |
| A Wind in the Door | Madeline L’Engle | 790L |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeline L’Engle | 740L |
| Adaptation and Survival | Robert Snedden | 1030L |
| An Acceptable Time | Madeline L’Engle | 710L |
| Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer | 600L |
| Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion | Russell Freedman | 1060L |
| Bats | Gail Gibbons | AD630L |
| Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane | Carole Boston Weatherford | AD1090L |
| Black Brother, Black Brother | Jewell Parker Rhodes | HL400L |
| Boys Without Names | Kashmira Sheth | 670L |
| Buzz off, Flies! | Rachel Eagen | NC1000L |
| Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream | Crystal Hubbard | AD640L |
| Chains | Laurie Halse Anderson | 780L |
| Charged Up: The Story of Electricity | Jacqui Bailey | 860L |
| Colors of the Wind: The Story of Blind Artist and Champion Runner George Mendoza | J. L. Powers | |
| Coretta Scott King: I Kept on Marching | Kathleen Krull | 880L |
| Dragonwings | Laurence Yep | 870L |
| Finally: A Wish Novel | Wendy Mass | 750L |
| Freak the Mighty | Rodman Philbrick | 930L |
| Frindle | Andrew Clements | 830L |
| From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E. L. Konigsburg | 700L |
| Golda Meir: A Strong, Determined Leader | David A. Adler | 810L |
| Growing Up Pedro: How the Martinez Brothers Made It from the Dominican Republic All the Way to the Major Leagues | Matt Tavares | AD730L |
| Hiroshima | Laurence Yep | 760L |
| Homeless Bird | Gloria Whelan | 800L |
| How I Became a Ghost: A Choctow Trail of Tears Story | Tim Tingle | HL480L |
| I Have a Right to be a Child | Alain Serres | AD730L |
| I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 | Lauren Tarshis | 590L |
| I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 | Lauren Tarshis | 610L |
| I Survived: True Stories: Five Epic Disasters | Lauren Tarshis | 930L |
| Insects and Spiders | Christine Taylor-Butler | 830L |
| Iqbal | Francesco D’Adamo | 750L |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O’Dell | 1000L |
| Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth | E. L. Konigsburg | 680L |
| Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs | Mary E. Lyons | 880L |
| Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship | Nikki Giovanni | AD970L |
| Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer | Bill Wise | AD920L |
| Love That Dog | Sharon Creech | 1010L |
| Love, Penelope | Joanne Rocklin | |
| Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli | 820L |
| Many Waters | Madeline L’Engle | 700L |
| Mary Todd Lincoln: I’m Usually the Smartest Person in the Room | Kathleen Krull | 860L |
| Max the Mighty | Rodman Philbrick | 870L |
| Meteorology: The Study of Weather | Christine Taylor-Butler | 880L |
| Mimi’s Village: And How Basic Health Care Transformed It | Katie Smith Milway | 980L |
| Mr. Popper’s Penguins | Richard Atwater and Florence Atwater | 910L |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O’Brien | 790L |
| My Teacher Is an Alien | Bruce Coville | 650L |
| Myths Busted! 2: Just When You Thought You Knew What You Knew… | Emily Krieger | 1030L |
| Myths Busted! 3: Just When You Thought You Knew What You Knew… | Emily Krieger | 1000L |
| Ninth Ward | Jewell Parker Rhodes | HL470L |
| Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | 670L |
| Obama: Only in America | Carole Boston Weatherford | AD910L |
| Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | NP |
| Peggy Flanagan: Ogimaa Kwe, Lieutenant Governor | Jessica Engelking | |
| Pelé: The King of Soccer | Eddy Simon | GN700L |
| Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods | Rick Riordan | 790L |
| Planet Earth | Christine Taylor-Butler | 850L |
| Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai | Claire A. Nivola | AD870L |
| Ponce de Leon: Exploring Florida and Puerto Rico | Rachel Eagen | IG1110L |
| Proud: Living My American Dream | Ibtihaj Muhammad | 960L |
| Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing’s African-American Champion | Carole Boston Weatherford | 930L |
| Rad Girls Can: Stories of Bold, Brave, and Brilliant Young Women | Kate Schatz | |
| Refugee 87 | Ele Fountain | 720L |
| Return to Sender | Julia Alvarez | 890L |
| Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports | Gregory Zuckerman with Gabriel and Elijah Zuckerman | 1070L |
| Rules | Cynthia Lord | 670L |
| Secrets of the Sphinx | James Cross Giblin | 1100L |
| Serafina’s Promise | Ann E. Burg | HL590L |
| Seymour Simon’s Extreme Earth Records | Seymour Simon | NC1120L |
| Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal | Margarita Engle | NC1310L |
| Soldier for Equality : José de la Luz Saénz and the Great War | Duncan Tonatiuh | 860L |
| Stella by Starlight | Sharon M. Draper | 740L |
| Sun Up, Sun Down: The Story of Day and Night | Jacqui Bailey | 640L |
| Super Amoeba | Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm | GN520L |
| Sylvia & Aki | Winifred Conkling | 760L |
| That’s Not Fair! / No es justo!: Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle for Justice / La lucha de Emma Tenayuca por la justicia | Carmen Tafolla and Sharyll Teneyuca | AD650L |
| The Black Cauldron | Lloyd Alexander | 760L |
| The Book of Three | Lloyd Alexander | 770L |
| The Borrowers | Mary Norton | 780L |
| The Castle of Llyr | Lloyd Alexander | 790L |
| The Eternity Code | Eoin Colfer | 620L |
| The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough | Katie Smith Milway | 820L |
| The Inca Empire | Sandra Newman | 940L |
| The Kite Fighters | Linda Sue Park | 880L |
| The Moon | Christine Taylor-Butler | 820L |
| The Plague of Doves | Louise Erdrich | 960L |
| The Planet of Junior Brown | Virginia Hamilton | 730L |
| The Rock Factory: A Story About the Rock Cycle | Jacqui Bailey | 880L |
| The Story of Olympic Swimmer Duke Kahanamoku | Ellie Crowe | |
| The Undefeated | Kwame Alexander | |
| This Would Make a Good Story Someday | Dana Alison Levy | 860L |
| Up, Down, All Around: The Story of Gravity | Jacqui Bailey | 700L |
| Waiting for the Magic | Patricia MacLachlan | 420L |
| What Is a Top Predator? | Bobbie Kalman | NC890L |
| When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses | Rebecca L. Johnson | 920L |
| Where on Earth Are Forests? | Bobbie Kalman | IG860L |
| Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod | Gary Paulsen | 1060L |
| Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina | Rodman Philbrick | 860L |