Great book ideas for the holiday season

Waynflete librarians Emily Graham and Laurel Daly have put together a selection of books that will inspire a love of reading!

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Early Childhood, Kindergarten, Grades 1-2

• Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor
• A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel
• I Am Love: A Book of Compassion by Susan Verde and Peter H. Reynolds
• Jerome by Heart by Thomas Scotto
• Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin

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Grades 3-5

• Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
• Knights vs. Dinosaurs by Matt Phelan
• The Library of Ever by Zeno Alexander
• Monstrous Devices by Damien Love
• Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly

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Middle School

• Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds
• Guts by Raina Telgemeier
• The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Brenda Woods
• Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj
• Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo

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Upper School

• Educated by Tara Westover
• Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, and Identity by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

 

From all of us at Waynflete—may your holidays be filled with family, friends, and good books!