New Books to Elementary Libraries
Created by Michelle Barnes
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Growth Mindset
Anything Is Possible by Giulia Belloni
The Anti-Test Anxiety Society by Julia Cook
Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett
The most magnificent thing by Ashley Spires Ashley
A Perfectly Messed-up Story by Patrick McDonnell
Sophie's Masterpiece : A spider's tale by Eileen Spinelli
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak
Bubblegum Brain by Julia Cook
Writing Process/ How- To Writing
The Writing Process:
Ralph Tells a Story (good for personal narratives)
Little Red Writing
Show Don’t Tell by Josephine Nobisso
The Plot Chickens
The Best Story
Memoirs of a Hamster
The Word Collector
How-To Writing
My First Book of Baseball
Tomatoes to Ketchup
Beans to Chocolate
STEAM/Engineer/ Inventors
Invasive Animal Species
What If You Had Animal Teeth?
What If You Had Animal Hair?
What If You Had Animal Feet?
Aliens From Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Ecosystems
Oil Spill by Melvin Berger
A Beginner’s Guide to Coding by Marc Scott
Minecraft series
Rosie Revere Engineer by andrea Beaty
Awesome Dawson
Secret Coders Series (graphic novels) by Gene Luen Yang
Cool Circuits by Susan Martineau
Monkey with a Tool Belt by Chris Monroe
Ada Twist Scientist by Andrea Beaty
Things That Float and Things That Don’t by David Adler
Math on the Moon
Informational Text
Farmers Market Measurement by Dawson Hunt
How to Make Origami
My First Book of Football
Flashing Fireflies
Flood!
Fractions
Military Helicopters
Rescue Helicopters
Monster Trucks
Clownfish
Haunted Hotels
How Do Formula One Race Cars Work?
Superstars of the Miami Heat
Superstars of the Boston Celtics
Undertaker: WWF
Siberian Huskies
Stingrays
U.S. Special Forces
Tae Kwon Do
Haunted Amusement Parks
Happy New Year (lower level grades)
Christopher Columbus: New World Explorer or Fortune Hunter?
Benedict Arnold: Battlefield Hero or Selfish Traitor?
John Brown: Defending the Innocent or Plotting Terror?
Fiction
Picture Books
Baby Bear by Khadir Nelson
If You Plant a Seed by Khadir Nelson
Silver Seeds by Paul Paolli
The Potato Chip Champ: Why Kindness Counts
Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner
Shortcut by Donald Crews
Squirrel's New Year's Resolution by Pat Miller
If You Give a Cat A Cupcake by Laura Numeroff
Batitude by Julia Cook
But It’s Not My Fault by Julia Cook
This Book Just Ate My Dog by Richard Byrne
Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner
The Black Rabbit by Phillip Leathers
Tooth on the Loose by Susan Elya
The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
The Friend MeiJing by Anna McQuinn
Dog Breath by Dave Pilkey
My Day From A to Z by Isabel Campoy
The Best Part of Me by Wendy Ewald
Alphabet Adventure by Wudrey Wood
Journey by Aaron Becker
Fire Fuego by Susan Elya
A Big Guy Took My Ball Mo Willems
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
Abby Visits the Big City
Early Readers/Early Chapter Books
Princess Pink Series
Pete the Cat- Scuba Cat
Ninjago Series
Scary Tales Series
Sparkle Spa
Emma Is In The Air-Showtime
Owl Diaries
Kung Pow Chicken series
Teacher’s Pet
Marvel Comic Series: Captain America, and Iron Man
Lego Series
Ghost Island (choose your own adventure) by Shannon Gilligan
Penny and Her Marble by Kevin Henkes
A Birthday For Bear by Bonny Becker
Max and Zoe series by Shelley Sateren
King Pow Chicken: Bok Bok Boom
Wonder Women
Teen Titans Go Series: Boys Versus Girls
Zane: Ninja of Ice #2
Transformers: Team of Hereo’s by Jennifer Fox
Emma on the Air series: Party Drama by Ida Siegal
Chapter Books
Monster High- Haunted Freaky Fusion
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
Story Thieves series
Captain Underpants (entire series)
Origami Yoda Book: The Secret Fortune Wookie Tom Angleberger
Origami Yoda Book:Princess Label Maker To The Rescue by Tom Angleberger
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made by Stephen Pastis (similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
Sammy Keyes And the Sisters of Mercy by Wendelin Draanen
Running Rivals By Jake Maddox
Stolen Bases by Jake Maddox
Playing Forward by Jake Maddox
Marvel Comic Series: Invasion of the Space Phantoms
Captain America: Civil War
Scary Tales Series: Swamp Monster by James Preller
I Scream You Scream by James Preller
Eerie Elementary: School is Alive by Jack Chabert
Graphic Novels are essential!
Ghosts by Raina Telegmeier
Smile by Raina Telegmeier
Drama by Raina Telegmeier
Dogman Series
March (Book One) by John Lewis
Astronaut Academy Re-Entry by Dave Roman
The Babysitters Club: Maryanne Saves The Day
Amelia Rules: The Teenage Guide To Not Being Popular
Amelia Rules: When the Past is Present
Secret Coders (series)
Hi/Low Readers
Survival of the Brain
Survival in the City
B Negative (Orca Series)
Benched (Orca Series)
Facespace by Orca Books
Burning Secrets by Steve Brezenoff
Crime Scene Investigators Uncovering the Truth
Biographies
Biographies
Nicki Minaj
Bruno Mars
Kevin Durant
Dwyane Wade
One Direction
Kanye West
Pitbull
Kate Middleton
Stephen Curry
Selena Gomez
Rhonda Rousey
Serena Williams
Odell Beckham Jr.
Michelle O’Bama
Teaching a specific ELA Strategy?
Character Traits:
The Recess Queen
The Word Collector
Sophie’s Masterpiece
The Potato Chip Champ
Problem/Solution
Writing is Not Easy by Mo Willems
This Book Just Ate My Dog
Point of View
Believe me Goldilocks Rocks: The Story of the Three Bears by Nancy Loewen
Trust Me, Jack’s Beanstalk Stinks!: The Story Told From the Giants Side by Eric Braun
Red Riding Hood was Rotten: The Story Told by the Wolf by Trisha Speed Shaskan
Problem/Solution
Writing is Not Easy by Mo Willems
This Book Just Ate My Dog
Christopher Columbus: New World Explorer or Fortune Hunter?
Benedict Arnold: Battlefield Hero or Selfish Traitor?
John Brown: Defending the Innocent or Plotting Terror?
Compare/Contrast: Opinion
Frog or Toad
Cat vs. Dog
Cause/Effect
Aliens From Earth- When Animals and Plants invade other ecosystems
If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Numeroff
Character Traits
The Recess Queen
The Word Collector
Sophie’s Masterpiece
The Potato Chip Champ