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Title: Who Counts? 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, 2 Sons Author: Amy-Jill Levine & Sandy Eisenberg Sasso Illustrator: Margaux Meganck Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Publication Date: May 17, 2017 ISBN: 9780664262747 Audience: Ages 5-10 Summary: This book places the three

Title:  Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Author: Mo Willems Illustrator: Mo Willems Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Publication date: 2003 ISBN number: 978-078681988-1 Audience:  Ages 2 – 6 Summary of book:    The bus driver has left the reader in charge to make

Title of Book: My Sister, Alicia May Author: Nancy Tupper Ling Illustrator: Shennen Bersani Publisher: Pleasant St. Press ISBN: 978-0-9792035-9-6 Audience: Ages 5 – 7 Summary: My Sister Alicia May is a story journeying through the life of a little girl with Down syndrome. 

Name of Book:  Number the Stars Author:  Lois Lowry Publisher: Laurel Leaf ISBN: 978-0440227533 Audience: Ages 12 and up Summary:  This is a story about a ten year old Danish girl, Annemarie, trying to help her Jewish friend, Ellen, in the middle of World War II. Annemarie’s

Name of Book:  Annie on My Mind Author:  Nancy Garden Publisher:  Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN:  0374303665 Audience:  Age 14 up Summary:  In November of her senior year in high school, 17-year-old Liza meets Annie Kenyon in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Though their worlds are

Name of Book: Miss Spider’s Tea Party Author:  David Kirk Illustrator: David Kirk Publisher:  Scholastic/Callaway ISBN: 9780590477246 Audience:  Written for ages 4 – 6 Summary: A charming but very lonely spider wishes to invite her neighbor insects to tea.  All that she

Title: Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case Author: Chris Crowe Publisher: Dial ISBN: 978-0803728042 Audience: Grades 5-12 Summary: Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi during

Name of Book: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Author: Mem Fox Illustrator: Julie Vivas Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers Audience: Ages 6 -11 Summary: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge is a rich and warm tale about a young, small boy who lives next door to an old people’s

Name of Book: Yes We Can Author:Sam McBratney Illustrator:Charles Fuge Publisher:Scholastic Publisher’s Intended Audience: Preschool/younger elementary.  Message is important for all ages but text is most appropriate for a young audience. Summary: Yes We Can tells the story