Today I decided to make a political statement. I donated 100 NEW books to my town's Food Shelf.
This list is a combination of selections of middle-grade favorites compiled by my local children's bookstore and also some golden oldies for which I have fond kid connections. Kid stories travel with these books. I figure you can never go wrong with Junie B. Jones and Miss Nelson. And if you haven't read Owl in Love: Schoolgirl by day, owl by night, do it!
NOTE: None of these books appears in the Common Core retinue of sacred writings, but I'd testify that any one of them could help a child become college and career ready.
"New" is a critical element here. It does not refer to the date of publication but to the fact that these books are sparkling and shiny. Untrodden. I set off on this effort when I heard that the Food Shelf does have a few volumes--tattered and torn. Leftovers. I figure that making sure every local child has at least a handful of new books is the best contribution I can make to the well-being of our country
Think about it: How many times have you heard "the needs of children" mentioned in the very noisy political campaign? I say "children's needs" start right here.
Right now.
- War of the Werelords
- The Wolf Princess
- Phantom Tollbooth
- How to Catch a Bogle
- Beyonders 01: World Without Heroes
- Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
- UFiles #1: World without Heroes
- Lionboy3: The Truth
- Clementine01
- The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans!
- Where I Belong
- Shug
- Giver 1
- Long Road to Freedom
- Madman of Piney Woods
- Secondhand Magic
- Star Rise
- Lemonade War 01
- Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures: Great Egyptian Grave Robbery
- A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher
- Encyclopedia Brown Carries On
- Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon
- Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
- Wayside School: Sideways Stories
- The Magic Finger
- Koya Delaney and the Good Girl Blues
- Punished!
- 10 Turkeys in the Road
- Mrs. Lane is a Pain
- The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids: Skeletons Don't Play Tubas
- Underpants for Ants
- The Family Under the Bridge
- Stone Fox (3 copies)
- Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus
- Miss Nelson Has a Field Day
- Horrible Harry Goes to Sea
- National Geographic Readers: Trucks!
- Black Lagoon Adventures: Back-to-School Fright from the Black Lagoon
- Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash
- Hatchet: Brian's Winter
- Silly Street: Selected Poems
- Radio Fifth Grade
- Cam Jansen Mysteries: The Scary Snake Myster7
- Now Everybody Really Hate Me
- The Truth About Cats
- Wanted: Perfect Parents
- Tarzan
- Tarzan: Always in My Heart
- CrookJaw
- Joe on Sunday
- Mudigush
- What If. . . .
- Oh say can you Say?
- Invitation
- Chicken
- Busy Buzzing Bumblebees
- Night/Knight
- On Grandpa's Farm
- Twice Upon a Time: Rapunzel: The One with All the Hair
- Fat Fanny, Beanpole Bertha, and the Boys
- A Big Fish Story
- The Clothes Horse and other stories
- Belli's Deli
- Aesop's Fables
- Cat Up a Tree
- Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears and Other Amazing Alphabet Anecdotes
- Frog in a Bog
- Up in the Mountains and other poems of long ago
- The Rainbow Hand
- Hello Mr. Chips! computer Jokes and Riddles
- The Good Little Girl
- The Voyage of Odysseus
- Aesop's Fables
- Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth Century Art
- Pinocchio
- Words with Wings:a Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art
- Ride a Purple Pelican
- A Chair for My Mother
- Monday's Troll
- Edna St. Vincent Millay: Poetry for young people
- A Thousand Cousins
- Something on my Mind
- Chickens! Chickens!
- Tales of Tails
- Peacock and Other Poems
- Someone could win a polar bear
- The Something
- Daddy-Long-Legs
- Noah's Ark
- Bad Kitty
- Red Dog Blue Fly: Football Poems
- Owl in Love: Schoolgirl by day, owl by night
- Are all the giants dead?
- Library Lion
- Baby See, Baby Do!
- Fly with the Birds
- I Spy on the Farm
- What Will You Wear, Claude
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