Another great way to find books is google "Newberry Awards" and you will see some fab books. Quite a few of them have become favorites of my girls.
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Oops thought I was on the "books banned" string...sorry -- just checked the posts above...anyway--I won't repost the above but we have a Va Young readers top 10 books for each year. Maybe each state has the same sort of thing...d
Really great set of books: G.A. Henty wrote 99 historical fiction novels. They are adventure stories (turn of the century, so great vocabulary building!).
Each book is fictional, but set in a different time period and place and FULL of historical references. The first one takes place in ancient Egypt in the 1400's.
The English teacher are usually chomping at the bit to help select literature. You may want to consider posting a 'help wanted' in your next newsletter asking for a team of 2-3 volunteers to create a list of proposed books to purchase. Also, our PTO commemorates any type of benenvolent gifts (death in a family, birth, retirement, etc.) by donating a book to the school library...preferabley in line with the occasion. Print out a bookplate and stick inside to commemorate the event, and possibly give the recipient a copy as well with a matching bookplate commemorating the donation.
I worked in a k-8th library and the perennial favorites were in age/grade order:
Clifford
Little Critter
Biscuit
Fluffy
Berenstain Bears
Magic School Bus
Franklin
Poppleton
Junie B Jones
Bailey School Kids
Nate the Great
Amelia Bedelia
Help! I'm Trapped.... series
Animal Ark Books
Magic Tree House
Arthur
Berenstain Chapter Books
Magic School Bus Chapter Books
Time Warp Trio
Bunnicula Series
My Life As series (Bill Myers)
All Matt Christopher Fiction/Non-Fiction
Amber Brown
Cam Jansen
American Girls
Babysitters Club
Warriors (Erin Hunter, author - series about cats)
Guardians of Ga'hoole
History Maker Bios (Barnes & Noble)
Princess Diaries
Girls of Many Lands series
Charlie Bone
Artemis Fowl Series
Series of Unfortunate Events
Harry Potter
Eragon
Chronicles of Narnia
My Name is America (boys)/Dear America (girls)
---historical fiction series
Favorite Authors:
Lois Duncan (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Garth Nix
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