Recommending Reading

Massachusetts Children’s Book Award

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor

The Bad Guys (Episode #1) by Aaron Blabey
A Boy Called Bat by by Elana Arnold

The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
The Doldrums by Nicholas Gannon

Framed: A T.O.A.S.T. Mystery by James Ponti

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

Growing Up Pedro: How the Martinez Brothers Made It from the Dominican Republic All the Way to the Major Leagues by Matt Tavares

A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
by Adam Gidwitz

It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas

The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary by Laura Shovan

Ms. Bixby's Last Day by John David Anderson

A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen

One Last Word by Nikki Grimes

Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin

Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
Science Comics: Volcanoes: Fire and Life by Jon Chad
The Terrible Two by Mac Barnett
Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn

Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale

Waylon! One Awesome Thing by Sara Pennypacker

What Elephants Know by Eric Dinerstein

Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

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