Students are Given time and opportunities to browse and read books so that they can develop a love of reading.  

Our Favorites

Here are some of our teachers' favorite sites and books. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!

Books/Library Sites:

• Horn Book Newsletter – monthly publication about books for children and young adults.

• 2010 American Library Literary Award Winners

• “Do We” Really Know Dewey? – Student created site teaching the Dewey Decimal System.

• Minuteman Library Network Catalog - serving most neighborhood public libraries.

Picture Books Our Teachers Love

• Elbert's Bad Word, Audrey Wood
• Seven Blind Mice, Ed Young
• Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth, Eric Carle
• I Want to Be, Thylias Moss
• Loving, Ann Morris
• Brave Irene, William Steig
• The Seven Silly Eaters, Marla Frazee
• C Is For Curious: An ABC of Feelings, Woodleigh Hubbard
• The Paper Bag Princess, Robert Munsch
• The Kissing Hand, Audrey Penn
• A Mother for Choco, Keiko Kasza
• The Other Side, Jacqueline Woodson
• Tell Me Again About the Day I Was Born, Jamie Lee Curtis
• I Like Me, Nancy Carlson
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr. & John Archibault

Suggested Reading for Elementary Students

• Frog and Toad (series), Arnold Lobel
• Mr. Putter and Tabby (series), Cynthia Rylant
• Because of Winn Dixie, Kate Di Camillo
• Poppy, Avi
• Holes, Louis Sachar
• Rules, Cynthia Lord
• The Watsons go to Birmingham, Christopher Paul Curtis
• The City of Ember, Jean DuPrau
• The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden
• The Stories Julian Tells, Ann Cameron