Student Resources
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free"
-Frederick Douglas
Best Children's Books
Picture Books
Changes, Changes by Pat Hutchins
A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
The Quilt by Ann Jonas
Selina and the Bear Claw Quilt by Barbara Claassen Smucker
Suddenly by Colin McNaughton
Fiction
Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson
Going Bovine
Libba Bray
Fire
Kristin Cashore
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins
If I Stay
Gayle Forman
Nonfiction
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum
Candace Fleming, illus. by Ray Fenwick
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Phillip Hoose
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary
Elizabeth Partridge