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Title: The Bad Seed   Author: Jory John Illustrator: Pete Oswald Publisher: Harper Collins Publication Date: August 29,2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-246776-8 Audience: 4-8 years old Summary: The main character is a sunflower seed who is behaves badly but eventually decides he doesn’t want

Title: Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Author: Judy Blume Publisher: Dell Yearling Book Publication Date: 1970 ISBN: 0-440-40419-3 Audience: Grades 3-7 Summary: Margaret Simon has moved from New York City to Farbrook, New Jersey, anxious about a new home and a new school.

Title: The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas Author: David Almond Publisher: Candlewick Publication Date: August 2013 ISBN: 978-0763661694 Audience: Grades 5-8 Summary: Stanley Potts’s uncle and guardian, Ernie, is obsessed with canning fish, but when Uncle Ernie’s obsession takes

Title: Keep Your Ear on the Ball Author: Genevieve Petrillo Illustrator: Lea Lyon Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers, 2009 ISBN: 9780884483243 Audience: Ages 8 and up Summary: Keep Your Ear on the Ball is a story about a boy with blindness named Davey.  It is Davey’s first day

Title of Book: Beatrice’s Goat Author: Page McBrier Illustrator: Lori Lohstoeter Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0-689-82460-2 Audience: Ages 4 and up Summary: Beatrice’s Goat is an endearing true story about a little girl and her goat.  Beatrice desires to go

Name of Book:  The Butterfly Author:  Patricia Polacco Illustrator:  Patricia Polacco Publisher:  Philomel Books ISBN:  0399231706 Audience:  Grades 1-5 (although in places the subject matter may be too harsh for the lower end of this age range) Summary:  Late one moonlit evening

Name of Book:  Parables: Stories Jesus Told Author:  Mary Hoffman Illustrator:  Jackie Morris Publisher:  Phyllis Fogelman Books ISBN:  0803725604 Audience:  Age 4 and up Summary:  This is an illustrated collection of eight of Jesus’ parables: The House on the Rocks, The Good

Name of Book: Wombat Walkabout Author:  Carol Diggory Shields Illustrator: Sophie Blackall Publisher: Dutton Children’s Books – Penguin Publishing Group Audience: Ages 4 and up Summary: This is a story of six wombats taking a walkabout (journey) and their encounter with a dingo.

Name of Book: If Jesus Came to My House Author: Joan G. Thomas Illustrator: Lori McElrath-Eslick Publisher : Harper Blessings; Harper Collins Audience: Ages 3 and up   Summary: A boy shares all of the activities he would do if Jesus were a visitor at his house, including

Name of Book: The Quiltmaker’s Gift Author: Jeff Brumbeau Illustrator:  Gail de Marcken Publisher: Orchard Books Audience: Ages 7 – 10 Summary: An old quiltmaker lives in the mountains sewed beautiful quilts day after day. Many people try in vain to buy her quilts but the