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


Absolutely One Thing: Featuring Charlie and Lola
By: Lauren Child
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Sometimes, as a treat, Mom takes Charlie and Lola to the store and says they may choose one...

Bedtime Math
By: Laura Overdeck
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Cook-A-Doodle-Do!
By: Janet Stevens
Age Level: 3-6 years old

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 —...

How Big Were the Dinosaurs?
By: Bernard Most
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Dinosaurs are endlessly fascinating. Perhaps because it is hard to imagine giant lizards roaming...

Inch by Inch
By: Leo Lionni
Age Level: 3-6 years old

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...

Millions, Billions and Trillions: Understanding Big Numbers
By: David Adler
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A billion is a big number, bigger than a million. "It's written like this: 1,000,000,000 — one...

Musk Ox Counts
By: Erin Cabatingan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book

One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller
By: Kate Read
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book
One hungry fox with two sly eyes is on the prowl…three plump hens had better watch out! Rich and...

One Gorilla: A Counting Book
By: Anthony Browne
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Perimeter, Area and Volume: A Monster Book of Dimensions
By: David Adler
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Sheep Won't Sleep: Counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s
By: Judy Cox
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Clarissa is flabbergasted. Ten of the sheep she was counting while trying to doze off have...

Teddy Bear Patterns
By: Barbara McGrath
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Age Level: 6-9 years old


7 Ate 9
By: Tara Lazar
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Private I tries to assuage 6 who just knows that 7 is coming to get him! Why? Because 7 8 9, of...

7 X 9 = Trouble
By: Claudia Mills
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The times tables causes third grader, Wilson, great anxiety as he struggles to learn them all...

A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon
By: Suzanne Slade
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The inspiring true story of mathematician Katherine Johnson--made famous by the award-winning...

A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars
By: Seth Fishman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Earth is surrounded by stars of which the sun is only one. Earth is blue “because it is covered...

Actual Size
By: Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The real and truly amazing size of animals from the sea and land are shown in a way that...

Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics
By: Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
How many species are there across the globe? How much do all of the insects in the world...

Ants Rule: The Long and Short of It
By: Bob Barner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This is a colorful and fun-filled introduction to nonstandard measurement, comparison, and...

Bedtime Math 2: This Time It’s Personal
By: Laura Overdeck
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Playful situations from familiar situations and activities make math come alive. Questions for...

Betcha! Estimating
By: Stuart Murphy
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
By: Joseph D'Agnese
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was...

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
By: Halaine Becker
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
You've likely heard of the historic Apollo 13 moon landing. But do you know about the...

Dinosaurs: By the Numbers
By: Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Through infographics, illustrations, facts, and figures, readers will learn about the giants...

Eating Fractions
By: Bruce MacMillan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
How do two children share one banana? Cut it in half, of course! Healthy foods are shared by...

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
By: Margot Lee Shetterly, Winifred Conklin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The true story of four African American women whose talent and tenacity led to careers at NASA...

How Big Is a Foot?
By: Rolf Myller
Age Level: 6-9 years old

How Much Is a Million?
By: David Schwartz
Age Level: 6-9 years old
There are millions of people living in the United States, but the numbers are much too large to...

How Tall, How Short, How Far Away?
By: David Adler
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Just a Second
By: Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In just a second, a bat can make 200 calls, a black mamba snake can slither 24 feet, four babies...

Lemonade for Sale
By: Stuart Murphy
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Maryam’s Magic: The Story of Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani
By: Megan Reid
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
As a little girl growing up in Tehran, Maryam Mirzakhani was spellbound by stories but she did...

Math Curse
By: Jon Sciezka
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When the narrator begins to see math everywhere, she knows she’s suffering from a math curse!...

Mathemagic! Number Tricks
By: Lynda Cogan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Magic tricks and math come together, sure to engage sophisticated children. Clear explanations...

Me and the Measure of Things
By: Joan Sweeney
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Measuring Penny
By: Loreen Leedy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Concept Book

Millions to Measure
By: David M. Schwartz
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Mind-Boggling Numbers
By: Michael J. Rosen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
If you could hike to the moon, how long would it take? Just how many glasses of lemonade would...

Money Math: Addition and Subtraction
By: David A. Adler
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Cartoon versions of American presidents guide children through this lively introduction to...

Mystery Math: A First Book of Algebra
By: David Adler
Age Level: 6-9 years old

One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book
By: April Sayre, Jeff Sayre
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Pigeon Math
By: Asia Citro
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Concept Book
Telling a story about pigeons should be simple. But what's a narrator to do when the...

Place Value
By: David Adler
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In this playful introduction to number values, readers are reminded that “Order is important in...

Stars
By: Seymour Simon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Do aliens come from the stars? What is that twinkling out there? How long does it take for a...

Superhero School
By: Aaron Reynolds
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Leonard is disappointed in superhero school; the only thing his teacher, The Blue Tornado, talks...

Tally O'Malley
By: Stuart Murphy
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
By: Deborah Heiligman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Paul Erdos grew up in Hungary and was always an unusual child. He enjoyed numbers, was inept at...

The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague
By: Julia Finley Mosca
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an...

The Great Graph Contest
By: Loreen Leedy
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Kid's Book of Weather Forecasting
By: Mark Breen, Kathleen Friestad
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In this hands-on science book, kids learn how to make a barometer, record their observations in...

The Wing Wing Brothers: Carnival de Math
By: Ethan Long
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger
By: Ann Whitehead Nagda
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A Siberian tiger cub born at the Denver Zoo is orphaned when he is just a few weeks old. Through...

You Can, Toucan, Math: Word Problem-Solving Fun
By: David Adler
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Various birds appear with riddles asking readers to use addition, subtraction, multiplication...
Age Level: 9-12 years old


Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
By: Traci Sorell
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's...

Fractions in Disguise
By: Edward Einhorn
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It is the...

Secret Coders: Secrets & Sequences
By: Gene Luen Yang
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Can the three friends — Eni, Hopper, and Josh — foil the dastardly principal to save the day?...

Solving for M
By: Jennifer Swender
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
When Mika starts fifth grade at the middle school, her neat life gets messy. Maybe, with some...

Which One Doesn't Belong? A Shapes Book
By: Christopher Danielson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Every colorful page contains a thoughtfully designed set of four shapes. Each of the shapes can...