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BOOKLISTS FOR CHILDREN

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Children's Booklists by Grade
Toddler Booklist
  • Toddler Booklist
    • My Favorite Color
    • Mad, Mad, Mad
    • Ducks on the Road
    • How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
    • The Poop Song
    • Snakes on the Job
    • No More Naps
    • Good Job, George!
    • Outside, Inside
    • I'm Terrified of Bath Time
    • We're Going on a Bear Hunt
    • Off-Limits
Preschool Booklist
  • Preschool Booklist
    • How Many Squirrels Are in the World?
    • Kitties on Dinosaurs
    • SuperJoe Does Not Do Cuddles
    • The Bear in the Book
    • Quiet Time with My Seeya
    • Du Iz Tak?
    • The Littlest Yak
    • The Lost Package
    • Bedtime for Bo
    • Very Good Hats
    • The Pigeon Will Read the Roller Coaster
    • Wings, Waves, & Webs
Kindergarten Booklist
  • Kindergarten Booklist
    • One Sheep, Two Sheep
    • The Old Boat
    • Twenty Questions
    • Blurp's Book of Manners
    • The Worm Family Has Its Picture Taken
    • Dumplings for Lili
    • Bright Star
    • How to Apologize
    • Sparkly New Friends
    • Maxie Wiz and Her Dragon
    • Flubby Will Not Go to Sleep
    • Fox at Night
1st Grade Booklist
  • 1st Grade Booklist
    • Sleepy Sheepy
    • Bedtime for Frances
    • Gustav is Missing!
    • When Cloud Became a Cloud
    • The Big Honey Hunt
    • Ferry Boat
    • Ready, Set, Go-Cart!
    • Shell Quest
    • A Magic Spark
    • Pug Blasts Off
    • Who's the Best?
    • Sir Ladybug
2nd Grade Booklist
  • 2nd Grade Booklist
    • Rick the Rock of Room 214
    • Cornbread & Poppy
    • Charlie & Mouse
    • Willa the Wisp
    • Monster and Boy
    • The Story of Us
    • The Hundred Dresses
    • Game Over, Super Rabbit Boy!
    • The Used-to-Be Best Friend
    • Super Detectives
    • Your Pal Fred
    • To Change a Planet
3rd Grade Booklist
  • 3rd Grade Booklist
    • Babble! And How Punctuation Saved It
    • Home Sweet Forever Home
    • Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom
    • The Astronomically Grand Plan
    • A Spoonful of Time
    • The Best of Iggy
    • The Great Pet Heist
    • Skunk and Badger
    • The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza
    • The Flower Garden
    • Coldfire Curse
    • Love Your Amazing Self
4th Grade Booklist
  • 4th Grade Booklist
    • The Maze of Bones
    • Curse of the Night Witch
    • The Lemonade War
    • The Land of Roar
    • Halfway to Harmony
    • Stuntboy, in the Meantime
    • Nightbooks
    • The Magical Reality of Nadia
    • Merci Suarez Changes Gears
    • Hooky
    • Choosing Brave
    • The Right Word
5th Grade Booklist
  • 5th Grade Booklist
    • The Next Great Paulie Fink
    • Nowhere Better Than Here
    • Virtually Me
    • The Boys in the Back Row
    • The Witch, the Sword, and the Cursed Knights
    • The Bad Beginning
    • Healer of the Water Monster
    • Freewater
    • When Stars Are Scattered
    • How Do Meerkats Order Pizza?
    • The First Dinosaur
    • This Is Your Time
6th Grade Booklist
  • 6th Grade Booklist
    • The Door of No Return
    • The Book that No One Wanted to Read
    • The Wishing Spell
    • The Patron Thief of Bread
    • The Lost Year
    • Pony
    • Ancestor Approved
    • Healer and Witch
    • The Last Cuentista
    • Marshmallow & Jordan
    • My Aunt is a Monster
    • Agents Most Wanted

More Booklists?

For more and expanded booklists for kids, please contact the Children's Reference Desk. Need booklists while at home? Click on the Ask a Librarian tab on the right side of the screen.

Seasonal Booklists
Autumn Booklist
  • Autumn Booklist
    • Theme in Yellow
    • Little Moar and the Moon
    • Hush Hush, Forest
    • Hopefully the Scarecrow
    • Tzimmes for Tzipporah
    • Eagles in the End Zone
    • It's Fall!
    • We Planted a Pumpkin
    • Vamos! Let's Celebrate Halloween and Dia de los Muertos
    • Nothing Ever Happens on a Gray Day
    • What We Do in Fall
    • What Animals Do in Fall
First Day of School Booklist
  • First Day of School Booklist
    • We Don't Eat Our Classmates
    • Mr. S
    • The King of Kindergarten
    • Olu's Teacher
    • Danbi Leads the School Parade
    • School's First Day of School
    • First Day, Hooray!
    • My First Day
    • Goodnight School
    • Welcome Back!
    • First Day, Worst Day
    • Ava Lin, Best Friend
Scary Books for Older
  • Scary Books for Older
    • Don't Turn Out the Lights
    • Ghostlight
    • Felice and the Wailing Woman
    • Hide and Seeker
    • It Found Us
    • The Nightmare House
    • Brick Dust and Bones
    • The Skull
    • The Clackity
    • Just South of Home
    • Eerie Tales from the School of Screams
    • Ghost Book
Scary Books for Younger
  • Scary Books for Younger
    • Looking for a Jumbie
    • The Dark
    • There's a Ghost in This House
    • Spoonful of Frogs
    • The Haunted Lake
    • We're Going on a Goon Hunt
    • Hardly Haunted
    • I Want to Be in a Scary Story
    • So Not Ghoul
    • See the Ghost
    • Ghoulia
    • Witch in the City
Books for Older Children
Fractured Fairy Tales
  • Fractured Fairy Tales
    • Alliana, Girl of Dragons
    • Ravenous Things
    • Rumaysa
    • The Princess Protection Program
    • Beauty
    • Delphine and the Silver Needle
    • A Darkening of Dragons
    • Sisters of the Neversea
    • Snow White
    • Quest for the Kingdoms
Graphic Novels
  • Graphic Novels
    • Two-Headed Chicken
    • Housecat Trouble
    • The Stonekeeper
    • Sloth Sleuth
    • You Wish
    • Stories of the Islands
    • Saving H'Non
    • The Cardboard Kingdom
    • Escape at 10,000 Feet
    • Hooky
Mythology Booklist
  • Mythology
    • The Cassandra Curse
    • City of the Plague God
    • The Widely Unknown Myth of Apple...
    • Medusa
    • Lia Park and the Missing Jewel
    • Rise of the Halfling King
    • The Monster and the Maze
    • Blancaflor
    • The Sea-Ringed World
    • Norse Myths
Realistic Fiction
  • Realistic Fiction
    • Kicked Out
    • Not an Easy Win
    • Good Different
    • Gigi Shin is Not a Nerd
    • Hope in the Valley
    • Maybe It's a Sign
    • The Underdogs of Upson Downs
    • Jawbreaker
    • Finally Heard
    • Parachute Kids
Books for Younger Children
Monsters Booklist
  • Monsters Booklist
    • Monster's Trucks
    • Monsters in the Briny
    • Posey the Monster Slayer
    • Gustavo, the Shy Ghost
    • Monsters Love Underpants
    • Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance
    • My Monster and Me
    • The Monster's Monster
    • My Monster Friends and Me
    • The Most Terrible of All
Mysteries for Younger
  • Mysteries for Younger
    • The Chickentown Mystery
    • The Powwow Dog
    • A Mischief of Mice
    • How to Catch a Clover Thief
    • The Real Story
    • Agent Lion
    • The Case of the Downstairs Ghost
    • Dot Day
    • Bat and Sloth Solve a Mystery
    • Jewel Hunt
Picture Books to Read Aloud
  • Picture Books to Read Aloud
    • Jam, Too?
    • Paletero Man
    • Oh, Olive!
    • Once Upon a Book
    • The Scariest Kitten in the World
    • Stroller Coaster
    • Chez Bob
    • Gravity is Bringing Me Down
    • Jumper
    • I Am Okay to Feel
Sci-Fi for Younger Booklist
  • Sci-Fi for Younger Booklist
    • Go-Go Guys
    • T. Rex Time Machine
    • Dalmartian
    • Zathura
    • Oh no! Not again!
    • The Book From Far Away
    • The Secret Science Project...
    • June 29, 1999
    • See Otto Say Hi!
    • I Really Want to Fly to the Moon