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	Community Helper Picture Books Clotheslines Clues to Jobs People Do \| by Kathryn Heling The Crocodile and the Dentist \| by Taro Gomi Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus \| by Mo Willems Fire Engline No 9 \| by Mike Austin Miss Brooks Loves Books \| by Barbara Bottner Officer Buckle and Gloria \| by Peggy Rathman Send it! \| by Don Carter Whose Hands are These? \| by Miranda Paul
	Picture Books with High Lexile Levels (>740) Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day \| by Judith Viorst Chicks and Salsa \| by Aaron Reynolds The Day You Begin \| by Jacqueline Woodson Everything You Need for a Treehouse \| by Carter Higgins A Fall Ball for All \| by Jamie Swenson Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs \| by Mo Willems Love \| by Matt de la Pena Rosie Revere Engineer \| by Andrea Beatty Where the Wild Things Are \| by Maurice Sendak Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears \| by Verna Aardema
	Math Concept Picture Books for Preschool Balancing Act \| by Ellen Stoll Walsh \| Concept: Balance and Equality Count the Monkeys \| by Mac Barnett \| Concept: Counting up to Ten Ducks Away! \| by Mem Fox \| Concept: One to One Correspondance Is that Wise, Pig? \| by Jan Thomas \| Concept: Counting up to Ten Round is a Mooncake \| by Roseanne Thong \| Concept: Shapes One \| by Kathryn Otoshi \| Concept: Counting Up to 7 Turtle Splash! Countdown at the Pond \| by Cathryn Falwell \| Concept: Counting down from Ten Infinity and Me \| by Kate Hosford Concept: Infinity
	Historical Fiction - 3rd-5th Grade The Shakespeare Stealer \| by Gary Blackwood The War that Saved My Life \| by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Sylvia and Aki \| by Winifred Conkling Rodzina \| by Karen Cushman Jackie & Me \| by Dan Gutman Inside Out and Back Again \| by Thanhha Lai In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse \| by Joseph Marshall III The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg \| by Rodman Philbrick Riding Freedom \| by Pam Munoz Ryan Anna Maria's Gift \| by Janice Jordan Shefelman
	Mysteries - 3rd-5th Grade Malcolm at Midnight \| by W.H Beck Masterpiece \| by Elise Broach Absolutely Truly \| by Heather Vogel Frederick Space Case \| by Stuart Gibbs Big Bad Detective Agency \| by Bruce Hale Capture the Flag \| by Kate Messner Greenglass House \| by Kate Milford The Bone Thief \| by Alyson Noel William Wenton and the Secret Portal \| by Bobbie Peers Liar & Spy \| by Rebecca Stead
	Books featuring Characters with Physical Disabilities El Deafo \| by Cece Bell Emmanuel's Dream: the True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah \| by Laurie Ann Thompson Freak the Mighty \| by W. Rodman Philbrick Hello Goodbye Dog \| by Maria Gianferrari I Funny: A Middle School Story \| by James Patterson Not so Different \| by Shane Burcaw Out of my Mind \| by Sharon Draper Stephen Hawking (Little People Big Dreams) \| by Isabel Sanchez Vegara The War that Saved My Life \| by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley We're all Wonders \| by R.J. Palacio

Amy Krouse Rosentahl | author of Duck! Rabbit!; Little Pea; Spoon and more!
Beverly Cleary | author of Ramona Quimby Age Eight; The Mouse and the Motorcycle; Henry Huggins and more!
Brain Jacques | author of the Redwall series and more!
Catherine Jinks | author of Evil Genius; The Reformed Vampire Support Group and more!
Dan Gutman | author of the Baseball Card Adventure series; My Weird School series; My Weird School Daze series and more!
Dav Pilkey | author of the Captain Underpants and Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot series and more!
Jack Prelutsky | the first Children's Poet Laureate and author of Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant; A Pizza the Size of the Sun; The Swamps of Sleethe and more!
J.K. Rowling | author of the Harry Potter series.
John Flanagan | author of the Ranger's Apprentice series.
Jon Scieszka | author of the Time Warp Trio series; the Trucktown series; The Stinky Cheese Man and more!
Mike Lupica | author of The Batboy; Heat; Million Dollar Throw and more!
Mo Willems | author of the Pigeon Books; the Elephant and Piggie series and more!
Neil Gaiman | author of the 2009 Newbery Award Winner The Graveyard Book; Caroline and more!
Rebecca Stead | author of the 2010 Newbery Award Winner When You Reach Me and more!
Rick Riordan | author of the Percy Jackson series and more!
Roald Dahl | author of The BFG; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Fantastic Mr. Fox and more!
Scott Westerfeld | author of Leviathan; Peeps; the Uglies series and more!
Shel Silverstein | poet and author of A Light in the Attic; The Giving Tree; Where the Sidewalk Ends and more!
Tanya Lee Stone | author of the 2010 Sibert Award Winner Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream and more!
Tim Green | author of Baseball Great; Football Champ and more!


	Community Helper Picture Books Clotheslines Clues to Jobs People Do \| by Kathryn Heling The Crocodile and the Dentist \| by Taro Gomi Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus \| by Mo Willems Fire Engline No 9 \| by Mike Austin Miss Brooks Loves Books \| by Barbara Bottner Officer Buckle and Gloria \| by Peggy Rathman Send it! \| by Don Carter Whose Hands are These? \| by Miranda Paul
	Picture Books with High Lexile Levels (>740) Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day \| by Judith Viorst Chicks and Salsa \| by Aaron Reynolds The Day You Begin \| by Jacqueline Woodson Everything You Need for a Treehouse \| by Carter Higgins A Fall Ball for All \| by Jamie Swenson Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs \| by Mo Willems Love \| by Matt de la Pena Rosie Revere Engineer \| by Andrea Beatty Where the Wild Things Are \| by Maurice Sendak Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears \| by Verna Aardema
	Math Concept Picture Books for Preschool Balancing Act \| by Ellen Stoll Walsh \| Concept: Balance and Equality Count the Monkeys \| by Mac Barnett \| Concept: Counting up to Ten Ducks Away! \| by Mem Fox \| Concept: One to One Correspondance Is that Wise, Pig? \| by Jan Thomas \| Concept: Counting up to Ten Round is a Mooncake \| by Roseanne Thong \| Concept: Shapes One \| by Kathryn Otoshi \| Concept: Counting Up to 7 Turtle Splash! Countdown at the Pond \| by Cathryn Falwell \| Concept: Counting down from Ten Infinity and Me \| by Kate Hosford Concept: Infinity
	Historical Fiction - 3rd-5th Grade The Shakespeare Stealer \| by Gary Blackwood The War that Saved My Life \| by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Sylvia and Aki \| by Winifred Conkling Rodzina \| by Karen Cushman Jackie & Me \| by Dan Gutman Inside Out and Back Again \| by Thanhha Lai In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse \| by Joseph Marshall III The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg \| by Rodman Philbrick Riding Freedom \| by Pam Munoz Ryan Anna Maria's Gift \| by Janice Jordan Shefelman
	Mysteries - 3rd-5th Grade Malcolm at Midnight \| by W.H Beck Masterpiece \| by Elise Broach Absolutely Truly \| by Heather Vogel Frederick Space Case \| by Stuart Gibbs Big Bad Detective Agency \| by Bruce Hale Capture the Flag \| by Kate Messner Greenglass House \| by Kate Milford The Bone Thief \| by Alyson Noel William Wenton and the Secret Portal \| by Bobbie Peers Liar & Spy \| by Rebecca Stead
	Books featuring Characters with Physical Disabilities El Deafo \| by Cece Bell Emmanuel's Dream: the True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah \| by Laurie Ann Thompson Freak the Mighty \| by W. Rodman Philbrick Hello Goodbye Dog \| by Maria Gianferrari I Funny: A Middle School Story \| by James Patterson Not so Different \| by Shane Burcaw Out of my Mind \| by Sharon Draper Stephen Hawking (Little People Big Dreams) \| by Isabel Sanchez Vegara The War that Saved My Life \| by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley We're all Wonders \| by R.J. Palacio


	If You Liked the I Survived Series, Try... Can you Survive The Titanic? \| by Allison Lassieur Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party \| by Nathan Hale How I Became a Ghost \| by Tim Tingle Killer Species: Menace from the Deep \| by Michael Spradlin One Came Home \| by Amy Timberlake Ranger in Time: Rescue on the Oregon Trail \| by Kate Messner Refugee \| by Alan Gratz Time Warp Trio: Knights of the Kitchen Round Table \| by Jon Scieszka Trouble Don't Last \| by Shelley Pearsall You Wouldn't Want to be a Salem Witch \| by Jim Pipe
	If You Like Elephant and Piggie, Try... Rabbit and Robot \| by Cece Bell A Pig, A Fox and a Box \| by Jonathan Fenske We are Growing \| by Laurie Keller Hippo and Rabbit in Three Short Tales \| by Jeff Mack The Watermelon Seed \| by Greg Pizzoli The Cookie Fiasco \| by Dan Santat Dance! Dance! Underpants! \| by Bob Shea Bunny will not Smile \| by Jason Tharpe What is Chasing Duck \| by Jan Thomas I Lost My Tooth \| by Mo Willems