Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old


A Chair for My Mother
By: Vera Williams
Age Level: 3-6 years old
After a fire destroys their home and possessions, Rosa, her mother, and her grandmother save...

A Is for Activist
By: Innosanto Nagara
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Each spread presents a letter and a bit of social commentary urging children to take a stand...

A Neighborhood Walk, a Musical Journey
By: Pilar Winter Hill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
"Honk-honk, tweet-tweet, patter-patter!" This sweet, fun read-aloud drums up nostalgia for all...

All Are Welcome
By: Alexandra Penfold
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A lively neighborhood school welcomes its diverse students at the start of a school year,...

All Kinds of Families
By: Mary Ann Hoberman
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Playful language distinguishes this broad and often funny look at what makes "family....

Another Brother
By: Matthew Cordell
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Anywhere Farm
By: Phyllis Root
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
"You can grow your own farm anywhere" is the empowering message of this inclusive picture book....

Apple Pie Fourth of July
By: Janet Wong
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Are You My Mother?
By: P.D. Eastman
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A baby bird goes in search of his mother in this funny, classic story, originally published in...

Around the Table That Grandad Built
By: Melanie Heuiser Hill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
This cumulative tale is a celebration of bounty and gratitude, family and friendship and shows...

Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic
By: Ginnie Lo
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Bee-Bim Bop!
By: Linda Sue Park
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Big Frank's Fire Truck
By: Leslie McGuire
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Big Frank tells young readers all about firefighting and the many other important jobs...

Bigmama's
By: Donald Crews
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Every year the narrator and his family take a trip down to Cottondale, Florida, to visit his...

Black Is Brown Is Tan
By: Arnold Adoff
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Rhythmic language and luminous paintings show the joy of this warm and loving family as they...

Blackout
By: John Rocco
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Does no electricity mean that there's nothing to do or are there new adventures just...

Building Our House
By: Jonathan Bean
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Cherry Pies and Lullabies
By: Lynn Reiser
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Three generations bake a pie, make a crown of flowers, pass on a handmade quilt, and share a...

Chicken Sunday
By: Patricia Polacco
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do
By: Katherine Heling, Deborah Hembrook
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Common Threads: Adam's Day at the Market
By: Huda Essa
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Adam and his family spend an exciting day at the colorful and bustling Eastern Market. But when...

Counting on Community
By: Innosanto Nagara
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book
Counting up from one stuffed piñata to ten hefty hens — and always counting on each other —...

Delivering Your Mail
By: Ann Owen
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
An introduction to the important job of mail carriers, how their mail truck works, and how the...

Families
By: Sheila M. Kelly, Shelley Rotner
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Some kids are adopted, others live with one parent, other children live with two moms or two...

From My Window
By: Otavio Júnior
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
From the window in his favela, the narrator shares what he sees: neighbors working, playing,...

Green Green: A Community Gardening Story
By: Marie Lamba, Baldev Lambda
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Green grass is wide and fresh and clean for a family to play in, and brown dirt is perfect for...

Helpers in Your Neighborhood
By: Shira Evans
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Get to know the everyday heroes in your community! From firefighters to teachers, mail carriers...

Home, Sweet Home: What Makes a House a Home?
By: Moira Butterfield
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
The world is full of different homes, from tents and huts to bobbing boats, and apartments high...

How Far Do You Love Me?
By: Lulu Delacre
Age Level: 3-6 years old

How to Babysit a Grandpa
By: Jean Reagan
Age Level: 3-6 years old

I Love Saturdays y domingos
By: Alma Flor Ada
Age Level: 3-6 years old

I Pledge Allegiance
By: Pat Mora
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Libby's great aunt, Lobo, is from Mexico, but the United States has been her home for many years...

I Walk with Vanessa: A Story About a Simple Act of Kindness
By: Kerascoët Kerascoët
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The story of one girl who inspires a community to stand up to bullying. Explores the feelings of...

It Takes a Village
By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
A universal story of a diverse community coming together to make a difference. All kinds of...

Just the Two of Us
By: Will Smith
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Jubilant illustrations show how a father supports his son as he grows into a man and eventually...

Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
By: Meena Harris
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
One day, Kamala and Maya had an idea. A big idea: they would turn their empty apartment...

Last Stop on Market Street
By: Matt de la Peña
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A slightly grumpy CJ asks his grandma why they have to take a bus across town every Sunday after...

Let's Get a Pup! Said Kate
By: Bob Graham
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Her parents are receptive to Kate's suggestion, "Let's get a pup!" and head...

Look Where We Live!: A First Book of Community Building
By: Scot Ritchie
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
This cheery picture book emphasizes the importance of community, describing the different facets...

Maybe Something Beautiful
By: F. Isabel Campoy, Theresa Howell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Mira brings color and builds community through her beautiful art which she first gives to...

Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile
By: Gloria Houston
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Dorothy became a librarian to share her love of books and reading. How she started a library...

Mr. Griggs' Work
By: Cynthia Rylant
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Mr. Griggs is the one-man show at a small town's post office. He weighs the parcels, wonders...

Music, Music for Everyone
By: Vera Williams
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When Rosa's grandmother becomes sick, Rosa comes up with an idea that not only makes...

On Meadowview Street
By: Henry Cole
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Caroline doesn't see much of the name of their new street, Meadowview, as she and her family...

On the Road
By: Susan Steggall
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A family trip begins with everyone piling into the car. They then travel through the city with...

One World, One Day
By: Barbara Kerley
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Every day children around the world awake to begin their days having breakfast, going to school...

Pie Is for Sharing
By: Stephanie Parsley Ledyard
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A picnic, a beach, a pie cut into pieces and shared with good friends. Pie is for sharing. It...

Plant a Little Seed
By: Bonnie Christensen
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction

Rainbow Stew
By: Cathryn Fallwell
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town
By: Richard Scarry
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Visit the school, the farm, the post office, and many more fun and exciting places in this...

Room for Everyone
By: Naaz Khan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A young boy on a crowded bus (dala dala) discovers that, after some wiggles and giggles, there’s...

Ruby's Birds
By: Mya Thompson
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
When Ruby realizes there are amazing birds right in her neighborhood, her imagination takes...

Strega Nona's Harvest
By: Tomie DePaola
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
This book is a great lesson in sharing one’s blessings with others. Strega Nona tries to show...

Sun
By: Sam Usher
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
This rhyming read-aloud celebrates how we’re all connected under the sun. As readers are...

Thank You, Omu!
By: Oge Mora
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Omu is an elderly woman who makes a fantastic pot of thick red stew. The scent from her stew...

Thanking the Moon
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Curious Garden
By: Peter Brown
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction

The Forever Garden
By: Laurel Snyder
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A young girl and an older woman, Honey, bond over Honey’s garden and her chickens. When Honey...

The Name Jar
By: Yangsook Choi
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she? Being the new kid in school is hard enough...

The Park Our Town Built
By: Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In the style of "The House That Jack Built," Diane Gonzales Bertrand offers a lively picture...

The Power of One: Every Act of Kindness Counts
By: Trudy Ludwig
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
When one child reaches out in friendship to a classmate who seems lonely, she begins a chain...

The Village Garage
By: G. Brian Karas
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The workers at the village garage are busy all year long! They're busy from spring clean up...

Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems
By: Kristine George
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Share the sights, sounds, smells, and humor of a family camping trip through this collection of...

Tomás and the Library Lady
By: Pat Mora
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Tomás, child of migrant workers, visits the town library to find stories like the ones told by...

Uptown
By: Bryan Collier
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Join a boy as he takes you uptown to introduce his Harlem home, filled with excitement, sounds,...

Water in the Park
By: Emily Jenkins
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A catalog of ordinary events that occur in a park between sunrise and sunset, these scenarios...

Watercress
By: Andrea Wang
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A child is embarrassed when parents stop the car to harvest wild watercress. Illustrations in...

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
By: Traci Sorell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Sorell, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, offers readers a look at contemporary Cherokee life as...

We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Teeka has a sharp eye as she describes each member of the family that joins the picnic in the...

We March
By: Shane Evans
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Two children aroused by their parents join a march for equal rights. Short sentences and semi-...

Willie and Uncle Bill
By: Amy Schwartz
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Wolf in the Snow
By: Matthew Cordell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A girl is lost in a snowstorm. A wolf cub is lost, too. How will they find their way home?...

You Matter
By: Christian Robinson
Age Level: 3-6 years old
In this brightly illustrated picture book, many different perspectives around the world are...
Age Level: 6-9 years old


111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl
By: Rina Singh
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In a small village in India, a boy grows up to make a huge difference in his community by...

A City Through Time
By: Philip Steele
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Follow the progress of an imaginary city through six key periods of time, each captured by a...

A Country Far Away
By: Nigel Grey
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Told in the first person by two young boys, this story relates the same daily activities in two...

A Piece of Home
By: Jeri Watts
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
When his family moves from Korea to West Virginia, Hee Jun has a difficult time adjusting. He...

A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart
By: Zetta Elliot
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
In this powerful, affirming poem, a Black child explores his shifting emotions throughout the...

Barrio: José's Neighborhood/Barrio: El barrio de José
By: George Ancona
Age Level: 6-9 years old
José lives in a diverse neighborhood where he's just as likely to hear Spanish, English, or...

Beatrice's Goat
By: Page McBrier
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The true story of how a young girl from Uganda was able to attend school after receiving a goat...

Big Papa and the Time Machine
By: Daniel Bernstrom
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A heartfelt journey into African American history. When a little boy is feeling afraid to go to...

Black Is a Rainbow Color
By: Angela Joy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this moving and powerful anthem about a people...

Bronzeville Boys and Girls
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This collection of poems, first published in 1956, reveals the heroes we see in our everyday...

Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
In this story of community conservation, a girl finds a home in a new place and a way to help...

Celebrate Independence Day with Parades, Picnics, and Fireworks
By: Deborah Heiligman
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
By: Amanda Gorman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the...

City Green
By: DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
There is a garbage-filled, vacant lot on the street where Marcy lives. Instead of growing...

Crouching Tiger
By: Ying Chang Compestine
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
By: Derrick Barnes
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This rhythmic, read-aloud is celebration of the self-esteem, confidence, and swagger Black boys...

Dad and the Dinosaur
By: Jennifer Choldenko
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A father-son story about bravery and facing fears. With his toy dinosaur, Nicholas can scale...

Dear Mr. Rosenwald
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A 10 year old girl narrates this fictionalized story, based on real events and people, of how...

Each Kindness
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Each kindness makes the world a little better. Chloe and her friends won't play with the new...

Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed their World
By: Allan Drummond
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
It's windy on the Danish island of Samsø. Meet the environmentally friendly people who now...

Family Is a Superpower
By: Michael Dahl
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman have many extraordinary abilities, but their greatest...

Family Pictures/Cuadros de familia
By: Carmen Garza
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The artist recalls growing up in south Texas in this celebration of family and cultural...

Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles
By: Philippe Cousteau, Deborah Hopkinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
To help baby loggerhead turtles find their way back to the sea, a group of children involve the...

Freedom in Congo Square
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Join the rhythmic countdown to Sunday afternoon, the one time when enslaved Africans in 19th...

Giant Steps to Change the World
By: Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A book about activism and taking the big steps to set things right, using examples of people...

Happy Birthday, America
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Realistic watercolors present the summer celebration a boy shares with his family on the 4th of...

Harlem
By: Walter Dean Myers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Experienced readers will enjoy this stunning and sophisticated visit to Harlem in word and image...

Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
By: Tony Hillery
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Discover the inspiring true story of how one man made a big difference in a neighborhood. Tony...

Helen’s Birds
By: Sara Cassidy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A wordless graphic novel depicts an intergenerational friendship between a young girl, Saanvi,...

Hey, Wall: A Story of Art and Community
By: Susan Verde
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
There is a wall in Ángel’s neighborhood. Around it, the community bustles with life: music,...

Home
By: Jeannie Baker
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Little by little, baby Tracy grows. She and her neighbors begin to rescue their street. Together...

How to Make a Better World: For Every Kid Who Wants to Make a Difference
By: Keilly Swift
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
This guide to making the world a better place is packed with inspiring ideas and tips for kids...

I Believe I Can
By: Grace Byers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
An inspirational "can do" tribute to youth, encouraging readers to believe in themselves and...

I'm New Here
By: Anne Sibley O'Brien
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Three students are immigrants from Guatemala, Korea, and Somalia and have trouble speaking,...

If America Were a Village: A Book About the People of the United States
By: David Smith
Age Level: 6-9 years old

If the Walls Could Talk: Family Life at the White House
By: Jane O'Connor
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The "beautiful 200-year-old mansion on 18 acres of land right in the heart of downtown...

In My Family/En mi familia
By: Carmen Garza
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Kingsville, on the border of Mexico and Texas, comes to life in words and pictures in this book...

Jasmine Toguchi: Mochi Queen
By: Debbi Michiko Florence
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Jasmine is only 8 years old but wants to do what the boys do. It’s her family Japanese tradition...

Lend a Hand: Poems About Giving
By: John Frank
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
A collection of original poems centered on giving and spontaneous acts of kindness, which also...

Let the Children March
By: Monica Clark-Robinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for...

Let's Talk About Race
By: Julius Lester
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Lester shares his own story as he explores what makes each of us special. He says, "I write...

Maddi's Fridge
By: Lois Brandt
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This story addresses issues of poverty with honesty and sensitivity while instilling important...

Mango, Abuela, and Me
By: Meg MedinaAngela
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
When a little girl’s far-away grandmother comes to stay, love and patience transcend language....

Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans
By: Phil Bildner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Cornelius Washington was proud of his hometown, New Orleans. His job as a sanitation worker was...

Me and My Family Tree
By: Joan Sweeney
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
By: Janet Halfmann
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Lilly Ann Granderson,, who was enslaved, secretly learned to read and write as a child and...

Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children
By: Jan Pinborough
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Here's the true story of how Anne Carroll Moore created the first children's room at the New...

Miss Rumphius
By: Barbara Cooney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Miss Rumphius leaves the world more beautiful with an unusual legacy. This gentle story can...

My Hair Is a Garden
By: Cozbi A. Cabrera
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
After being taunted by classmates about her unruly hair, Mackenzie seeks guidance from her wise...

My Map Book
By: Sara Fanelli
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
In each spread of this bold and humorous picture book, children can examine their place in the...

Nadia's Hands
By: Karen English
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nadia is thrilled to be the flower girl at her aunt's wedding, yet continues to worries her...

Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
By: Barack Obama
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In this tender letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to...

Olivia's Birds: Saving the Gulf
By: Olivia Bouler
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
One 11 year-old girl can make a difference, as young ornithologist and artist Olivia Bouler has...

One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
By: Kate Smith Milway
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This fictionalized story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana, who changes his world with a small loan and...

Our Little Kitchen
By: Jillian Tamaki
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A crew of resourceful neighbors comes together to prepare a meal for their community. With a...

Out and About at City Hall
By: Nancy Garhan Attebury
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A group of children go on a field trip for a guided tour of city hall, where they learn about...

Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World
By: Allan Drummond
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
How one person helped make one community into the bicycle capital of the world is told in...

Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
By: Dee Romito
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The life story of Georgia Gilmore, a woman whose pies and delicious homemade cooking helped...

Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
By: Anika Aldamuy Denise
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A picture book biography of storyteller, puppeteer, and New York City’s first Puerto Rican...

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangara Maathai
By: Claire Nivola
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Wangari Maathai's native Kenya was a changed land, literally blowing away because its trees...

Red, White, and Boom!
By: Lee Wardlaw
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book
By: Nikki Grimes
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sam and the Lucky Money
By: Karen Chinn
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
During Chinese New Year, a young boy encounters a homeless person and discovers that no gift is...

Say Something
By: Peter H. Reynolds
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us, each and every day...

Snail Mail
By: Samantha Berger
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Snails delivering letters trek across the country-through desert heat and dangerous blizzards,...

Sofia Valdez, Future Prez
By: Andrea Beaty
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Sofia is a young girl who gets things done and has a great desire to help others. After her...

Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice
By: Marianne Celano
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The book follows two families — one White, one Black — as they discuss a police shooting of a...

Song in the City
By: Daniel Bernstrom
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A young girl, filled with the sounds of her beloved city, shares a song with her grandmother...

Stand Up! Speak Up!: A Story Inspired by the Climate Change Revolution
By: Andrew Joyner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Celebrate young climate change activists in this charming story about an empowered girl who...

Start Now! You Can Make a Difference
By: Chelsea Clinton
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
What can I do to help save endangered animals? How can I eat healthy? What do I do if I'm being...

Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee!
By: Andrea J. Loney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
James VanDerZee (1886–1983) was a prolific photographer who used his camera to capture the...

Tar Beach
By: Faith Ringgold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Cassie doesn't have to actually go to the beach; she's got her very own "tar...

Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers' Rights
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
After Frances Perkins witnessed the Triangle Waist Factory fire in 1911, she decided to work to...

The Birdwatchers
By: Simon James
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A grandfather shares with his grandchild the quiet wonder of birdwatching — and a wry talent for...

The Can Man
By: Laura E. Williams
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
As Tim ponders how he might earn money for a skateboard, he hears The Can Man down the street...

The Colors of Us
By: Karen Katz
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her...

The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams
By: Tanya Lee Stone
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The story of Jane Addams who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up her house...

The Tree Lady
By: H. Joseph Hopkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The true story of green-thumbed pioneer and activist Kate Sessions, who helped San Diego grow...

The Ugly Vegetables
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In a neighborhood of flower gardens, a Chinese-American girl and her mother plant what the child...

This Is How I Do It: One Day in the Life of You and 59 Real Kids from Around the World
By: Matt Lamothe
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This activity book invites kids to document their lives and daily rituals alongside 59 real kids...

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The story of one family’s journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in...

Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding
By: Lenore Look
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Jenny's favorite uncle, Uncle Peter, is getting married. Now Jenny won't be his only...

Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen
By: Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A boy wonders about the people he sees on his city’s streets until he goes to the soup kitchen...

Waiting for the Biblioburro
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Meet Ana, a young girl who loves to read. There aren't many books in her small Colombian village...

Watch Me Grow! A Down-to-Earth Look at Growing Food in the City
By: Deborah Hodge
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Growing fruits and vegetables doesn't take a lot of space; they can even grow in crowded...

We Came to America
By: Faith Ringgold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
America is a country rich in diversity.No matter what brought them here, each person embodied a...

What Can a Citizen Do?
By: Dave Eggers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Across several seemingly unrelated but ultimately connected actions, we watch how kids turn a...

What Is Given from the Heart
By: Patricia McKissack
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A family in the community have lost everything in a fire, and the church is collecting anything...

Your Name Is a Song
By: Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A celebration to remind all of us about the beauty, history, and magic behind names. Frustrated...
Age Level: 9-12 years old


101 Small Ways to Change the World
By: Lonely Planet Kids, Aubre Andrus
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Find ways to help out family, friends, yourself and the planet and show how you're never too...

31 Ways to Change the World
By: We Are What We Do
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Small actions multiplied by lots of people equals big change! That’s the driving belief behind...

A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park
By: Ashley Benham Yazdani
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
How did Central Park become a vibrant gem in the heart of New York City? Follow the visionaries...

Generation Fix: Young Ideas for a Better World
By: Elizabeth Rusch
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Young people see a need and work to better their world in this upbeat chronicle of youthful...

Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
By: Kelly J. Baptist
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
A boy who discovers a love of poetry after finding his late father's journal. Isaiah learns that...

Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It
By: Andrea Pinkney
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Inspired by storytelling's oral tradition and through a mix of fictional first-person narratives...

Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You!
By: Marley Dias
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Marley Dias, the powerhouse girl-wonder who started the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign, speaks to...

Murals: Walls That Sing
By: George Ancona
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness
By: Anastasia Higginbotham
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
An honest explanation for kids about the state of race in America today, how power and privilege...

Seedfolks
By: Paul Fleischman
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot, and a sense of community...

The Kid's Guide to Service Projects
By: Barbara Lewis
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
This new edition of the best-selling youth service guide includes a refreshed Ten Steps to...

The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth
By: Wade Hudson, Cheryl Willis Hudson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Thirty diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators invite you into their homes to witness ...

What Does a Mayor Do?
By: David Jakubiak
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Discusses the duties of mayors, how they get into office, the responsibilities of local...

Wishtree
By: Katherine Applegate
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"―people write their...