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


All the Way to Lhasa: A Tale from Tibet
By: Barbara Berger
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
There's a saying that "slow but steady wins the race." In this richly illustrated book, the...

A Big Mooncake for Little Star
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she bakes with her mama. But she's not supposed to...

A Walk in New York
By: Rubbino Salvatore
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A boy and his father share the wonder of a visit to the sites of New York City, from the Empire...

Adventures of Polo
By: Regis Faller
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The rollicking adventures of Polo, a bright and resourceful pup, are told through lively,...

Along a Long Road
By: Frank Viva
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A bicyclist rides begins his outing near the sea and rides through cities, towns, and the...

Around the World in a Bathtub
By: Wade Bradford
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Everywhere people take baths, but baths and bathing traditions are different in places and...

As the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps
By: Gail Hartman
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Follow the crow along a stream and a long and winding road, with other animals and landmarks...

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

Brush of the Gods
By: Lenore Look
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Wu Daozi's brush created images that seemed to come alive. Travel to ancient China to meet Daozi...

Colores de la Vida
By: Cynthia Weill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book
Animal sculptures on carefully composed pages with the color words provide a fine introduction...

Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes
By: Hena Khan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book
Handsomely illustrated, shapes both simple (square, rectangle) and complex (cone, hexagon) are...

Dim Sum for Everyone
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A Chinese family goes out for dim sum ("little dishes"), choosing their favorites off...

Follow That Map! A First Look at Mapping Skills
By: Scot Ritchie
Age Level: 3-6 years old
One day when Sally and her friends are playing, they notice that her dog and cat are missing....

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,...

Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors
By: Hena Khan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
This picture book celebrates Islam's beauty and traditions. From a red prayer rug to a blue...

Green Is a Chile Pepper
By: Roseanne Thong
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Henry's Map
By: David Elliot
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Henry is a very particular sort of pig. "A place for everything and everything in its place," he...

Home
By: Carson Ellis
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Travel through time, imagination, literature, and more for a unique look at "home" in any number...

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...

Josefina
By: Jeanette Winter
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book
Count along in English and Spanish with a Mexican folk artist as she sculpts her world from clay...

Just Fine the Way They Are: From Dirt Roads to Rail Roads to Interstates
By: Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Folks often resist change, even when it came to improving roads and modes of transportation in a...

Kat's Maps
By: Jon Scieszka
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Kat loves maps! She loves to make maps for everything. Her room, her block, her town, even her...

Kimonos
By: Annalore Parot
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Traditional wooden Kokeshi dolls inspired this introduction to Japanese words and culture while...

Kumak's River: A Tale from the Far North
By: Michael Bania
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Spring comes to a remote Alaskan village, and the ice on the frozen river cracks and breaks and...

Line 135
By: Germano Zullo
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria
By: Aaron Shephard
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Even the strongest man of all can be outmatched, as Shadusa learns. This retelling of a Nigerian...

Montessori: Map Work
By: Bobby George, June George
Age Level: 3-6 years old
"Our world is made of land and water." The land is called CONTINENTS; the water OCEANS. Select...

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
By: John Steptoe
Age Level: 3-6 years old
While both are beautiful, only one of Mufaro's daughters can marry the prince. The impact...

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...

On the Same Day in March
By: Marilyn Singer
Age Level: 3-6 years old

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...

Over the Hills and Far Away: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
By: Elizabeth Hammill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Poetry
Nursery rhymes from around the globe are collected here with illustrations by more than 70...

Rhymes Round the World
By: Kay Chorao
Age Level: 3-6 years old

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...

Round Is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes
By: Roseanne Thong
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Subway Ride
By: Heather Lynn Miller
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Down, down, down ... now off we go! begins a journey on city subways from Washington DC to...

Temple Cat
By: Andrew Clements
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A temple cat in ancient Egypt grows tired of being worshipped and cared for in a reverent...

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

The Last Train
By: Gordon Titcomb
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The train's illustrious past combines with realistic illustrations to successfully present...

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 Pot that Juan Built
By: Nancy Andrews-Goebel
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
A cumulative poem (in the cadence of "The House that Jack Built") chronicles the work and life...

The Scrambled States of America
By: Laurie Keller
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Dorothy may have thought there's no place like home when she clicked her ruby slippers, but...

There's a Map on My Lap
By: Tish Rabe
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
The familiar Cat in the Hat is used to introduce newly independent readers to maps of all kinds...

Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World
By: Selby Beeler
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Lighthearted illustrations provide just the right tone for brief looks at what happens when...

Tito Puente, Mambo King
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 3-6 years old

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're Sailing to Galapagos: A Week in the Pacific
By: Laurie Krebs
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Two people in bright, stylized garb sail to the islands known as the Galapagos. On successive...

Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar?
By: George Shannon
Age Level: 3-6 years old
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 Cool Drink of Water
By: Barabara Kerley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Beautiful full-page photographs and spare, poetic text give global perspective to the idea that...

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 Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice
By: Nadia Hohn
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Louise Bennett Coverley, better known as Miss Lou, was a Jamaican poet and entertainer who used...

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...

Along the Tapajós
By: Fernando Vilela
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Cauã and Inaê are a brother and sister who live in a small community along the Tapajós River in...

Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia
By: Verna Aardema
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The year Grace turned eight, her Mum and Dad took her and her siblings on a trip around...

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...

Capoeira: Game! Dance! Martial Art!
By: George Ancona
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A trip to Brazil inspired this look at a unique sport called "capoeira." The result is...

Carnival at Candlelight
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam
By: Sherry Garland
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Learn why the tiger has stripes, what happens to those who behave badly, and much more in this...

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

From the Bellybutton of the Moon and other Summer Poems/Del ombligo de la luna y otros poemas de verano
By: Francisco Alarcón
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The poet remembers summers growing up in Mexico in poems presented in both English and Spanish....

Galápagos Girl / Galapagueña
By: Marsha Diane Arnold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
As a Galápagueña, Valentina spends her days observing the natural world around her. This...

Geography from A to Z: A Picture Glossary
By: Jack Knowlton
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Have you ever wondered what a badland is? What about a gulch? Do you know what an isthmus is? Or...

Go, Go America
By: Dan Yaccarino
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This fun, fact-filled glimpse at the states begins with a warning that many of the facts are...

Gugu's House
By: Catherine Stock
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Set in Zimbabwe, Kukamba leaves the city to visit her grandmother, Gugu, in her small village....

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...

Ho'onani: Hula Warrior
By: Heather Gale
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Ho'onani feels in-between. She doesn't see herself as wahine (girl) OR kane (...

How the Sphinx Got to the Museum
By: Jessie Hartland
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The history of the Hatshepsut sphinx: from its carving in ancient Egypt to its arrival in the...

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 You Lived Here: Houses of the World
By: Giles Laroche
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Issun Boshi: The One-Inch Boy
By: Raphael Icinori
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A farmer and his wife longed for a child and miraculously got one who they named Issum Boshi,...

Kids' Multicultural Cookbook: Food and Fun Around the World
By: Deanna Cook
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Take a culinary tour around the world, with foods and activities from a variety of countries and...

Let's Celebrate: Festival Poems from Around the World
By: Debjani Chatterjee , Brian D'Arcy
Age Level: 6-9 years old

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...

Lucy in the City: A Story About Developing Spatial Thinking Skills
By: Julie Dillemuth
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Lucy in the City is about a young raccoon who gets separated from her family one night and has...

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....

Mapping Penny's World
By: Loreen Leedy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A girl maps her dog Penny's world from her room, to the neighborhood as well as the tools she...

Mapping Sam
By: Joyce Hesselberth
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Sam the cat puts her family to bed, and then — when all is quiet — heads out to explore her...

Maps and Globes
By: Jack Knowlton
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This comprehensive look at geography and the environment can take you anywhere — to the top of...

Mazes Around the World
By: Mary D. Lankford
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Regardless of where they are found, mazes are amazing! Visit mazes that can be found around the...

Me on the Map
By: Joan Sweeney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The United States is a big place which holds many children and their families. Maps and what...

Monumental Verses
By: J. Patrick Lewis
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Ancient Egypt
By: Joanna Cole
Age Level: 6-9 years old

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...

My Name Is Celia/Me llamo Celia
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old

My Name Is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez/Me llamo Gabito
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old

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...

Nine O’Clock Lullaby
By: Marilyn Singer
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nya's Long Walk: A Step at a Time
By: Linda Sue Park
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
With compassion, the creators present younger readers with a portrait of a life in which...

Olinguito, de La A a la Z!/Olinguito, from A to Z!
By: Lulu Delacre
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Animals from the Ecuadorian Andes cloud forest are introduced in stunning illustrations and...

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 World of Water
By: Beatrice Hollyer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
This book follows the daily lives of children in Peru, Mauritania, the United States, Bangladesh...

Parrots Over Puerto Rico
By: Susan L. Roth
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
How colorful parrots that have lived on the island of Puerto Rico for “millions of years” almost...

Patterns in Peru: An Adventure in Patterning
By: Cindy Neuschwander
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Piñata Maker/el piñatero
By: George Ancona
Age Level: 6-9 years old

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...

Ralph Masiello's Ancient Egypt Drawing Book
By: Ralph Masiello
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Red Kite, Blue Kite
By: Ji-li Jiang
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Shaped By Her Hands: Potter Maria Martinez
By: Anna Harber Freeman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The most renowned Native American Indian potter of her time, Maria Povika Martinez learned...

Sharuko: El Arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A bilingual picture book biography of Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello,...

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,...

Tales Told in Tents: Stories from Central Asia
By: Sally Pomme
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Where do you find needles? All over the world, of course! Readers will recognize many things in...

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
By: William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops...

The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections
By: Jan Mark
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Sun Shines Everywhere
By: Mary Ann Hoberman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
This rhyming read-aloud celebrates how we’re all connected under the sun. As readers are...

The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest
By: Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Exploring its history, geography, climate, and culture, this unique book takes readers on the...

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...

The Water Princess
By: Susan Verde, Georgie Badiel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce and she...

The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
By: Jeanette Winter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, and dreamed of designing her own cities. After studying...

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...

Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
By: Vera B. Williams
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Ultimate Trains
By: Peter McMahon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Sophisticated readers will learn a great deal about trains and how they work in straightforward...

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...

Under the Sunday Tree
By: Eloise Greenfield
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry and vibrant paintings in the primitive style by a recognized Bahamian artist create...

Wish: Wishing Traditions Around the World
By: Roseanne Thong
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Children around the world make wishes. Information about what makes a wish come true follows a...

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


Amina's Voice
By: Hena Khan
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Amina loves music, but stage fright and her conservative uncle’s disapproval hamper her...

Black Artists Shaping the World
By: Sharna Jackson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Dedicated to the work of contemporary Black artists from around the world, this engaging book...

Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics
By: Margarita Engle
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Poetry
Lyrical poems introduce a “variety of amazing people …” including Pura Belpre became a New York...

Cool World Cooking: Fun and Tasty Recipes for Kids!
By: Lisa Wagner
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Fanny in France: Travel Adventures of a Chef's Daughter, with Recipes
By: Alice Waters
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fanny is a girl who knows a lot about food and cooking since she’s grown up in and around the...

Hello World: A Celebration of Languages and Curiosities
By: Jonathan Litton
Age Level: 9-12 years old
There are many ways to say Hello! There’s more than just “hi!” People world-over say it in their...

Historium: Welcome to the Museum
By: Jo Nelson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Welcome to the museum! Discover a collection of curated objects on every page, accompanied by...

If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge
By: Marc Aronson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
No matter how much is known, there's always more to learn. In a fascinating re-examination of...

Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers
By: Juliet Menéndez
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Discover how 40 influential Latinas became the women we celebrate today in this collection of...

Maps
By: Aleksandra Mizielinska, Daniel Mizielinska
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Travel the world without leaving your living room. Much more than an ordinary atlas, this book...

National Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers, 3rd edition
By: National Geographic Society
Age Level: 9-12 years old
The latest edition of the Young Explorers atlas uses satellite images to help focus on various...

Other Words for Home
By: Jasmine Warga
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
A hopeful middle grade novel in free verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to...

Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
By: Gina Capaldi, Q.L. Pearce
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Ša willingly left her...

Rivers: A Visual History from River to Sea
By: Peter Goes
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Our seas and rivers tell a compelling story about our planet. Take a journey along the most...

Sharuko: Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello / El Arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello unearthed Peru's ancient cultures and...

Take Shelter: At Home Around the World
By: Nikki Tate
Age Level: 9-12 years old
A roof, a door, some windows, a floor. All houses have them, but not all houses are alike. Some...

The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt
By: Claudi Logan
Age Level: 9-12 years old
It is 1924, two years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Readers are invited to join a...

The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America
By: Jamie Hernandez
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Meet the dragon slayer, a girl and a mouse, and a boy who talks to ants. Three traditional tales...

United States Atlas for Young Explorers (Third Edition)
By: National Geographic Society
Age Level: 9-12 years old