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Anytime is a great time to try a new genre, complete a book series, or check out one of the following recommended books!

Picture Books & Early Reader Fiction

Numeroff, Laura
If You Give a Cat a Cupcake
Describes a series of increasingly far-fetched events that might occur if someone were to give a cupcake to a cat.

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.

Roome , Diana Reynolds
The Elephant's Pillow: A Chinese Bedtime Story
Sing Lo, a wealthy boy living in Peking, goes to visit the late emperor's Imperial Elephant and tries to cheer him up.

Shannon, David
Too Many Toys
After he finally concedes that he has far too many toys, Spencer agrees to give many of them away, but realizes that there is one special toy that he absolutely cannot part with.

Fiction

Balliett, Blue
The Calder Game
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.

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.

Tingle, Tim
Crossing Bok Chitto : A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.

Nonfiction

Farris, Christine King
March On! : The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Christine King Farris describes how her brother, Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.

Nelson, Kadir
We Are the Ship : The Story of Negro League Baseball
Explores the history of Negro League baseball teams, discussing owners, players, hardships, wins, and losses; and including illustrations.

Biography

Rappaport , Doreen
Abe's Honest Words : The Life of Abraham Lincoln
An illustrated biography of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States and the man responsible for seeing the country through the Civil War.

Rappaport , Doreen
Martin's Big Words : The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Looks at the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, explaining his work to bring about a peaceful end to segregation.

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