Reading Suggestions for Kids

NoveList K-8 Plus

Contains information on over 260,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles. Features lists of award-winning books, book discussion guides, Read-a-Like recommendations, and complete series information. Also includes reader ratings and reviews, and you can create your own reading wish list.

Alex’s Recommendations

Picture Books

Papa Doesn't Do Anything! (But Love You) by Jimmy Fallon (Author) , Miguel Ordóñez, (Illustrator)
This Book Is Dangerous! by Ben Clanton
When You Go to Dragon School by Chelsea M. Campbell (Author), Charlene Chua (Illustrator)
The Wild Robot on the Island by Peter Brown

Kids

Chickenpox by Remy Lai ; color by Ninakupenda Gaillard
Gabby Torres gets a billion followers by Angela Dominguez
Sea legs text by Jules Bakes ; art by Niki Smith
The Song of Orphan's Garden by Nicole M. Hewitt
Space chasers by Leland Melvin and Joe Caramagna ; art by Alison Acton
Unicorn book club by Dana Simpson

2025 Newbery Medal & Honor Books

The First State of ­Being by Erin Entrada Kelly
Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar
One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome
The Wrong Way Home by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller

2025 Caldecott Medal & Honor Books

Chooch Helped by Andrea L Rogers (text) & illus. by ­Rebecca Lee Kunz
Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo (text) & illus. by Cherry Mo
My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales (text) & illus. by C.G. Esperanza
Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Maclear (text) & illus. by Gracey Zhang
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda (text) & illus. by Yuko Shimizu

2025 Coretta Scott King Award & Honor Books

My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales (text) & illus. by C.G. Esperanza
Black Star by Kwame Alexander
Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by Coretta Scott King. illus. by Ekua Holmes
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller by Breanna J McDaniel. illus. by April Harrison
Kwame Crashes the Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer
One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome

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