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Anytime is a great time to try a new genre, start a book series,

or check out one of the following recommended books!

Picture Books & Early Reader Fiction

Huy Voun Lee
1, 2, 3, Go!
An introduction to Chinese writing describing the construction, meaning, and pronunciation of simple characters used for a variety of words and the numbers one through ten.

Rex , Michael
My Freight Train
A little boy, living out his fantasy of driving his own freight train, describes the different cars, what each carries, how they are connected, and more.

O'Connor , Jane
Fancy Nancy: The Dazzling Book Report
Nancy works on her first book report about real-life hero Sacajawea, and may be spending too much time trying to make a fancy cover to actually work on the report's content.

Fiction

Brown, Jeff & Sara Pennypacker
The Mount Rushmore Calamity
Hoping to escape the attention brought on by the accident that flattened Stanley, the Lambchop family drives to South Dakota, where they become involved in a wild west adventure at Mount Rushmore.

Clements, Andrew
Lost and Found
Twin brothers Jay and Ray Grayson learn about friendship, honesty, and themselves after taking advantage of a clerical oversight in which their new school thinks there is only one Grayson boy.

Perez, Amada Irma
My Diary from Here to There - Mi diario de aqui hasta alla
A young girl describes her feelings when her family decides to leave their home in Mexico to look for work in the United States. Written in English and Spanish.

 

Nonfiction

Davies, Andrew
Super-Size Bugs
Up-close photographs and text introduce readers to the physical characteristics and behaviors of a variety of insects, including praying mantises, bees, caterpillars, tarantulas, and more.

Suen, Anastasia
Wired
Explores how electricity is conducted and follows its route from a power plant to the home.

Biography

Green, Michelle Y.
A Strong Right Arm
Tells the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, a woman who had to overcome the obstacles of gender and race to pursue her dream of playing baseball, and who finally got her chance to play in the Negro Leagues.

McCully, Emily Arnold
Marvelous Mattie
Describes inventor Margaret E. Knight's childhood, explaining how her interest in mechanical innovations began, and tells the story of her invention of a paper bag maker and her legal battle for the patent after someone stole her idea.

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