| Title | Author | Grade Level | Quantity Available | Summary | Available Lesson Plans |
| The Name Jar | Yangsook Choi | K-3rd Grade | 25 total - Central - 5, Frost - 5 , Irwin - 5, Memorial - 5, Warnsdorfer - 4 | After Unhei moves from Korea to the U.S., her new classmates help her decide what her new name should be. | |
| The Colors of Us | Karen Katz | K-3rd Grade | 25 total - Bowne Munro - 4, Chittick - 5, Frost - 5, Lawrence Brook - 5, Warnsdorfer - 5 | Seven-year old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature. | |
| Super Grandpa | David M. Schwartz | K-5th Grade | 25 total-- Bowne - 5, Central - 5, Chittick - 5, Lawrence Brook - 5, Warnsdorfer - 5 | Tells the story of Gustaf Hakansson, the sixty-six-year-old man who in 1951 surprised the judges and the crowds by riding more than a thousand miles in the Tour of Sweden bicycle race. Includes a CD containing a reading of the story and a Swedish waltz. | |
| My Friend Isabelle | Eliza Woloson | K-2nd Grade | 28 total - Each school has 3-4 books | Isabell and Charlie are friends. Isabell has Down syndrome and Charlie doesn't. My Friend Isabelle encourages us to think about why friendships are special and how our differences can make the world more interesting. | |
| And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell | K-3rd Grade | 25 total- Central - 5, Chittick - 5, Frost - 5, Irwin - 5, Memorial - 5, | At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches. | |
| If the World Were a Village | David J. Smith | 5th-12th Grade | 25 total - at Hammarskjold | The global village is represented by 100 lively folks who show readers similarities and differences among the planet's people. | |
| Six Million Paper Clips - the Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial | Peter Schroeder & Dagmar Shroeder Hildebrand | 4th Grade + | 25 total - at Frost School | Presents the story of a group of middle school students from Whitwell, Tennessee who began a project of collecting six million paper clips and building a memorial to the Jews who were victims of the Nazi Holocaust of World War Two. | |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary | 4th Grade + | 25 total - Bowne - 5, Chittick - 5, Lawrence Brook - 5, Memorial - 5, Warnsdorfer - 5 | In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world. | |
| Too Many Holidays? | Angela Shelf Medearis | 4th Grade + | 27 total - Bowne - 4, Central - 5, Frost - 5, Irwin - 5, Memorial - 6 | A young girl is being asked to celebrate/study Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and Greek Christmas, when all she wants to do is celebrate Christmas. | |
| The Christmas Menorahs | Janice Cohn | 4th-5th Grade | 23 total - Bowne - 3, Central - 5, Frost - 5, Irwin - 5, Lawrence Brook - 5,Memorial - 5 | Describes how people in Billings, Montana joined together to fight a series of hate crimes against a Jewish family. | For Book Talk questions, click on the Book Talk Related Lesson/Activities' Link on the left |
| Jonah the Whale | Susan Richards Shreve | 4th-5th Grade | 27 total - Bowne - 3, Central - 5, Chittick - 4, Frost - 5, Irwin - 5, Memorial -5 | After moving to a new town, Jonah, an eleven-year-old with a big imagination, reinvents himself as a talk show host, hoping this will somehow bring his absent father back. | For Book Talk questions, click on the Book Talk Related Lesson/Activities' Link on the left |
| Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry | Mildred Taylor | 5 the Grade + | 32 total - at Hammarskjold | An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. | |
| Bud,Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | 4th - 7th Grade | 35 total - Bowne - 5, Central - 5, Chittick -5 . Frost - 5, Irwin - 5, Lawrence Brook -5, Warnsdorfer - 5 | Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. | For Book Talk questions, click on the Book Talk Related Lesson/Activities' Link on the left |
| Locomotion | Jacqueline Woodson | 4th - 8th Grade | 30 total -Bowne -4, Central - 5, Chittick - 5, Irwin - 5, Lawrence Brook - 5, Warnsdorfer - 5 | Inspired by his teacher, eleven-year-old Lonnie begins to write about his life in a series of poems in which he discusses his feelings about his friends, his foster mom, his little sister Lili, and the death of his parents. | |
| Eggs | Jerry Spinelli | 3rd - 5th Grade | 9 total - Chittick - 5, Warndorfer - 4 | Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives. | |
| Sahara Special | Esme Raji Codell | 3rd - 6th Grade | 30 total - at Central School | Struggling with school and her feelings since her father left, Sahara gets a fresh start with a new and unique teacher who supports her writing talents and the individuality of each of her classmates. | Book Talk questions and Activities at the back of the book. |
| Rules | Cynthia Lord | 4th - 7th Grade | 25 total- at Hammarskjold | Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic. | |
| A Boy No More | Harry Mazer | 5th - 9th Grade | 30 total at Hammarskjold | After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity. | |
| Miracle Boys | Jacqueline Woodson | 5th - 9th Grade | 30 total - Bowne - 5, Central - 5, Chittick - 5, Frost - 5, Lawrence Brook - 5, Warnsdorfer -5 | Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother. | |
| Lily's Crossing | Patricia Reilly Giff | 4th-5th Grade | 20 total - Bowne - 4, Chittick - 4, Lawrence Brook -4, Memorial - 4, Warnsdorfer - 4 | During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently. | |
