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Adrienne’s Top Picks – 2015/16
Nonfiction Picture Books
Early Primary
Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal Habitats – Il Sung Na (primary)
A Bird is a Bird – Lizzy Rockwell
Guess What’s Growing Inside This Egg? – Mia Posada
A Bear’s Year – Kathy Duval
Intermediate
Counting Lions: Portraits From the Wild – Katie Cotton
West Coast Wild: A Nature Alphabet – Deborah Hodge
Adaptable to all grades
Whose Hands Are These? A Community Helper Guessing Book – Miranda Paul
Weeds Find a Way – Cindy Jenson Elliott
Bone By Bone – Sara Levine
Egg: Nature’s Perfect Package – Steve Jenkins
Best Foot Forward: Exploring Feet, Flippers and Claws – Ingo Andt
I’m Trying To Love Spiders – Bethany Barton
I Don’t Like Snakes – Nicola Davies
Taan’s Moons – Alison Gear (aboriginal – Haida)
Eat Like a Bear – April Pulley Sayre
Water is Water – Miranda Paul
The Way to School – Rosemary McCarney
Over and Under the Snow – Kate Messner
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt – Kate Messner
Not a Buzz to be Found – Linda Glaser
Disgusting Creatures – Elise Gravel (series)
Creature Features – Steve Jenkins
The Blue Whale – Jenni Desmond
The Almost Everything Book – Julie Morstad
Best New Biographies
A Brush full of Color – The World of Ted Harrison – Margriet Ruur
Tricky Vic: The Engaging True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower – Greg
Pizzoli
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pivlova – Laurel Snyder
The Nutcracker: How Three Ballet-Loving Brothers Created a Holiday Tradition –
Chris Barton
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Levels of Thinking
Ape – Martin Jenkins
Ivan – The True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla – Katherine Applegate
The Watcher – Jeanette Winter
Connect
Ask Me – Bernard Waber
Bernice Gets Carried Away – Hannah E Harrison
Tough Guys Have Feelings Too – Keith Negley
Visiting Feelings – Lauren Rubenstein
Sonia and the Wedding Game - Kashmira Sheth
Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox – Danielle Daniel (aboriginal- Cree)
I Used to Be Afraid – Laura Vaccaro Seeger
The Goodbye Book – Todd Parr
My Blue is Happy - Jessica Young – connecting to color and feelings
Too Many Toys! – David Shannon - connection to toys
The OK Book – Amy Krouse Rosenthal - connection to something they are “OK” at
The Cat’s Pajamas – Catherine Forman connection to their pajamas
It’s OKAY to Make Mistakes – Todd Parr – (connection to making mistakes) I
It’s Not Fair! – Amy Krouse Rosenthal (connection to something they think isn’t fair)
My Brave Book of Firsts – Jamie Lee Curtis (connection to something they have
done for the first time)
100 Things That Make Me Happy – Amy Schwartz (connection to something that
makes them happy)
Yard Sale – Eve Bunting (connection to moving homes)
The Most Magnificent Thing – Ashley Spears (connecting to feeling frustrated)
Andrew’s
Waiting – Kevin Henkes (connections to waiting for something)
Sometimes You Barf – Nancy Carlson (connecting to throwing up)
And Two Boys Booed – Judith Viorst (connecting tofeeling nervous)
What If? – Anthony Browne (connecting to feeling anxious)
Question
Three Bears in a Boat – David Soman
The Storm Whale – Benji Davies
The Stranded Whale – Jane Yolen
The Mermaid and the Shoe – K. G. Campbell
Dolphin SOS – Roy Miki
The Stamp Collector – Jennifer Lauthier
Beyond the Pond – Joseph Kuefler
Out of the Woods - Rebecca Bond
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Not My Girl – Christy Jordon-Fenton (aboriginal – residential schools)
When I Was Eight – Christy Jordon – Fenton(aboriginal – residential schools)
Kookum’s Red Shoes - Peter Eyvendson(aboriginal – residential schools)
Visualize
Silence – Lemscantes
Out of the Woods – Rebecca
Bond
Bluebird – Lindsay Yankey
The Night World – Mordicai
Gernstein
Once Upon a Northern Light –
Jean E. Pendziwol
Infer
Transform
Red: A Crayon’s Story – Michael
Hall
Maddi’s Fridge – Lois Brandt
I Know A Bear – Mariana Ruiz
Johnson
What Does It Mean to Be
Present? – Rana Diorio
What Does it Mean to Be Kind? –
Rana Diorio
If You Plant A Seed – Kabir Nelson
Wait – Antoinette Portis
Sidewalk Flowers – Jon Arno
Lawson
Wait – Antoinette Portis
Pool – Jihyeon Lee
The Queen’s Shadow – Cybele
Young
Chicken Clicking – Jeanne Willis
The Tiger Who Would Be King –
James Thurber
Last Stop on Market Street – Matt
De La Pena
Home – Carson Ellis
If You Lived Here – Houses of the
World – Chris LaRoche
Yard Sale – Eve Bunting
Book – David Miles
The Book Whisper – Pamela
Zagarenski
Words – Lora Rozler
Early Readers Series
The Story of Diva and Flea – Mo Willams
Heidi Heckelbeck – Wanda Koven
Bunjitsu Bunny
Billie B. Brown/ Hey Jack – Sally Rippin
Lulu – Judith Viorst
Dory Fantasmagory – Abby Hanlon
Middle Grade Novels
The Year of Billy Miller – Kevin Henkes (gr. 3-4)
The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher – Dana Alison Levy (Gr. 3-5)
All the Answers – Kate Messner
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Wake Up Missing - Kate Messner
The War that Saved My Life - Kimberly Brubaker Bradler
Crossover – Kwane Alexander
The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate
Crenshaw – Katherine Applegate
The Fourteenth Goldfish – Jennifer Holm
Zombie Baseball Beatdown – Paolo Bacigalupi
The Nightingale’s Nest – Nikki Loftin
Wake Up Missing – Kate Messner
The Boundless – Kenneth Oppel
The Nest – Kenneth Oppel
Circus Mirandus – Cassie Brasely
Rain Reign – Ann Martin
The Thing About Jellyfish – Ali Benjamin
Echo – Pam Munoz Ryan
Fish in a Tree – Linda Mullaly Hunt
Out Of My Mind – Sharon Draper
Middle Grade Graphic Novels
Roller Girl - Victoria Jamieson
Sisters - Raina Telgemeier
Smile - Raina Telgemeier
Sunny Side Up – Jennifer L. Holm
El Deafo – Cece Bell
Dumplin’ – Julie Murphy
Social Justice Theme (Novels)
A Long Walk to Water – Linda Sue
Park
Bitter Chocolate – Sally Grindley
I am a Taxi – Deborah Ellis
Iqbal – Francesco D’Adamo
Garbage Kings – Elizabeth Laird
Professional Books
Perfect Pairs – Using Fiction and Nonfiction – Melissa Stewart and NancyChelsey
Read, Write, Lead – Regie Routman
Reading Strategies Book – Jennifer Serravallo
The Unstoppable Writing Teacher – M. Colleen Cruz
Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Signposts, Stop Signs and Strategies- Kylene
Beers and Robert Probst
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