*book group selection | bolded means favorite
Picture Book
*The Dream Catcher by Marcelo Verdad
*Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers and Rebecca Lee Kunz
*Aloha Everything by Kaylin Melia George and Mae Waite
*An Etrog from Across the Sea by Deborah Bodin Cohen, Kerry M. Olitzky, and Stacey Dressen McQueen
Early Reader
*Vacation: Three-and-a-Half Stories by Ame Dyckman and Mark Teague
Middle Grade
*Continental Drifter by Kathy MacLeod
*Popcorn by Rob Harrell
*Finn and Ezra’s Bar Mitzvah Time Loop by Joshua S. Levy
*Lunar Boy by Jacinta Wibowo and Jessica Wibowo
*Just Shy of Ordinary by A.J. Sass
*Black Star by Kwame Alexander
*Johnny, the Sea, and Me by Melba Escobar, Elizabeth Builes, and Sara Lissa Paulson
Young Adult
Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson
*Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham
*Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley, Casio Ribeiro, Nikki Fox, and Micah Myers
*Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield
*Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa
*Night Owls by A.R. Vishny
*Trajectory by Cambria Gordon
Young Nonfiction
Information Now: A Graphic Guide to Student Research by Matt Upson, Colin Michael Hall, and Kevin Cannon
*Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso and Rudy Gutierrez
*Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills by Billy Mills, Donna Janell Bowman, and S.D. Nelson
*Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle and Jason Chin
*John the Skeleton by Triinu Laan and Marja-Liisa Plats
*Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller by Breanna J. McDaniel and April Harrison
*Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan’s Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants by Norman H. Finkelstein and Vesper Stamper
*Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by Coretta Scott King and Ekua Holmes
*Home by Isabelle Simler and Vineet Lal