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Ice Cream Town

By Rona Arato

In 1920, the only things that keep Sammy out of trouble on New York’s tough streets are his quick wit and amazing singing voice.

Imagine a Day

By Sarah. L. Thompson, Illustrated by Rob Gonsalves

A book of breathtaking paintings that encourages the reader to imagine a day when the ordinary becomes extraordinary … a day when anything is possible.

In The Forest With The Elephants

By R. Smith & M. Schmidt

Myanmar is the only country in Asia that still can boast a healthy elephant population. Thousands roam in the wild there, and thousands more work with humans to harvest valuable wood.

In the Garden with Dr. Carver

By Susan Grigsby, Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

George Washington Carver visits Alabama to help the people learn how to grow plants in the soil. He also visits a school where he teaches children how nature is connected.

Indian Shoes

By Cynthia Leitich Smith, Illustrated by Jim Madsen

Together with Gramps, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life’s challenges.

Irena’s Jars of Secrets

By Marcia Vaughan, Illustrated by Ron Mazellan

The story of Irene Sendler, a social worker who helped rescue nearly 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Includes an afterward, sources and glossary.

Isle of Swords

By Wayne Thomas Batson

A young, seriously injured amnesiac regains consciousness on an island and finds that discovering his identity involves notorious pirates warring over legendary treasure.

It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw

By Don Tate, Illustrated by R. Gregory Chri

Bill Traylor, a former slave, began to draw pictures when he was eighty-five, based on his memories of rural and urban life in Alabama. Includes afterward, author’s note, and sources.

Itch

By Polly Farquhar

Isaac’s sixth-grade year gets off to a rough start. For one thing, a tornado tears the roof off the school cafeteria. His mother leaves on a two-month business trip to China. And as always. . . . there’s the itch.

Drawing on her own experiences with idiopathic angioedema and food allergies, Polly Farquhar spins a tale of kids trying to balance the desire to be ordinary with the need to be authentic–allergies, itches, confusion and all.

I’m Not Who You Think I Am

By Peg Kehret

Ginger is the target of mistaken identity by a disturbed mother.

Jack Plank Tells Tales

By Natalie Babbitt

An out-of-work pirate, Jack Plank, comes ashore to look for a different line of work, but every night he explains how each non-sailing career he has investigated just won’t work for him.

Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk

By Liesl Shurtliff

All his life, Jack has longed for an adventure, so when giants turn up in the neighbor’s cabbage patch, he is thrilled! Soon Jack is chasing them to a land beyond the clouds, with his little sister, Annabella…The king of the giants has taken something that belongs to them, and they’ll do anything—even dive into a smelly tureen of green bean soup—to get it back.

Jam & Jelly by Holly & Nellie

By Gloria Whelan, Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen

Nellie and her mother pick berries all summer in order to make enough money so that Nellie can have a coat to wear to school in the winter.

Jesus

By Brian Wildsmith

The story of Jesus’s life with stunning paintings by this gifted artist.

Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press

By Bruce Koscielniak

A history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg round 1450 but also at its precursors.

John Ronald’s Dragons

By Caroline McAlister, Illustrated by Eliza Wheeler

John Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and especially when life got hard or sad. After his mother died and he had to live with a cold-hearted aunt, he looked for dragons. He searched for them at his boarding school. And when he fought in a Great War, he felt as if terrible, destructive dragons were everywhere. But he never actually found one, until one day, when he was a grown man but still very much a boy at heart, when he decided to create one of his own.

Julia Gillian(and the Art of Knowing)

By Alison McGhee, Illustrated by Drazen Kozjan

Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard take long walks through their neighborhood. One hot summer she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.

The Junction of Sunshine and Lucky

By Holly Schindler

Auggie and her grandfather use found objects to transform the appearance of their home and, in the process, change a whole town’s perceptions of beauty and art.

Kate’s Light: Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse

By Elizabeth Spires, Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully

This biography profiles the life of Kate Walker, one of the first women on the Eastern seaboard to be put in charge of an offshore lighthouse.

Kid President’s Guide to Being Awesome

By Robby Novak and Brad Montague

In his Guide to Being Awesome, Kid President pulls together lists of awesome ideas to help the world, awesome interviews with his awesome celebrity friends.

Kit

By Shirley Woods

Readers will be entranced by the many adventures of a raccoon as he learns to survive in the wilds of Nova Scotia.

Knut: How One Little Polar Bear Captivated the World

By Juliana, Isabella, and Craig Hatkoff

Thomas Doflein and Zoo Berlin dedicate a year to successfully raising a polar bear in captivity and in so doing, gain the attention of the world for maintaining natural habitats.

Lass

By Roland Gebauer

Based on a true story, Lessons From a Sheepdog, by Phillip Keller, this account tells how he rescues Lass from an unhappy life in the city. Lass learns to trust and to become the great dog she was created to be.

Last Holiday Concert

By Andrew Clements

Life is unusually easy for popular sixth grader Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use all of his leadership skills to unite the other students.

Laugh with the Moon

By Shana Burg

Battling the death of her mother, 13 year old Clare spends several weeks in Malawi with her father. She meets new friends that will help her open her heart after loss.

Lenny & Lucy

By Philip C. Stead, Illustrated by Erin E. Stead

Peter and his father are moving to a new house beyond the dark unfriendly woods. When they arrive at their new home, Peter wants to turn back. Fortunately, he has Harold for company, but Harold is just a dog and can’t help Peter. Scared of the things hidden in the woods, Peter makes a tall pile of pillows. He stitches and sews. He pushes and pulls. And when he is done, he has Lenny, Guardian of the Bridge, to protect him and Harold. Lenny is a good guard but Peter worries that Lenny will get lonely out by the woods all by himself, so he makes Lucy, who is a good friend. Together, Lenny, Lucy, Peter, and Harold discover that this new place isn’t so scary after all.

Lety Out Loud

By Angela Cervantes

Lety Muñoz’s first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together. She loves volunteering at the Furry Friends Animal Shelter because the dogs and cats there don’t care if she can’t always find the right word. When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal profiles, Lety jumps at the chance. But grumpy classmate Hunter also wants to write profiles—so now they have to work as a team. Hunter’s not much of a team player, though. He devises a secret competition to decide who will be the official shelter scribe. Whoever helps get their animals adopted the fastest wins. The loser scoops dog food.

Lewis and Papa

By Barbara Joosse

When spring comes, Papa will take a wagonload of goods to sell in Santa Fe. Lewis feels so grown-up because his dad has said he is old enough to go along. During the trip Papa continues to build confidence in his son as they share rich daily experiences.

Life According to Og the Frog

By Betty G. Birney

Og the Frog has just moved into Room 26, and the place is hopping. There are lively kids, new routines, and a furry neighbor who seems to squeak all day. Luckily, everyone seems friendly and—BING, BANG, BOING!—some even put juicy crickets in his tank. But just as Og is getting used to this new life, there is talk of sending him back to the pond. Sure, he misses his friends, but now he has a lot more time for his favorite hobby—making up songs and poems—and he loves listening to his new friends and giving them encouraging BOINGS just when they need them. And there’s that steady supply of crickets . . . Og doesn’t want to say goodbye to his new life or his furry neighbor. But will his classmates decide to keep Og as their classroom pet or take him back to his old life, at the pond?

Lighthouse Christmas

By Toni Buzzeo, Illustrated by Nancy Sippel Carpenter

A girl and her little brother spend a Depression-era Christmas on an island off the coast of Maine with their recently widowed father in this nostalgic, touching Christmas Story. Inspired by the Flying Santa program, a New England tradition since 1929.

Like Pickle Juice On a Cookie

By Julie Sternberg, Illustrated by Matthew Cordell

When Eleanor’s beloved babysitter, Bibi, has to move away to take care of her ailing father, Eleanor must try to bear the summer without Bibi and prepare for the upcoming school year.

Linked

By Gordon Korman

Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it’s woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika.

Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing?

The mystery deepens as more swastikas begin to appear. Some students decide to fight back and start a project to bring people together instead of dividing them further. The closer Link, Michael, and Dana get to the truth, the more there is to face. It seems the crimes of the present may be connected to crimes of the past.…

Listen!

By Stephanie S. Tolan

The story of a twelve-year girl, Charley and her difficult emotional and physical journey as the themes of nature, family, and love are weaved into a complex and powerful portrait of recovery.

Litte Ree

By Ree Drummond, Illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers

Little Ree trades in her city days for a country way of life when she moves with her family to her grandparents’ ranch. She’s excited to ride horses, swim in the pond, and help Grandma cook for everyone. But on her first day, she finds that living on a ranch can be tough.

Little Dog, Lost

By Marion Dane Bauer, Illustrated by Jennifer A. Bell

This is a novel in verse about Mark, a lost dog, a small town, and small acts of bravery that bring lost-feeling neighbors together.

Little Leap Forward

By Guo Yue and Clare Farrow, Illustrated by Helen Cann

In Communist China in 1966, Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his best friend, by trying to get a caged bird to sing, and through the music he is learning to play on a bamboo flute.

Longest Journey: An Artic Tern’s Migration, The

By Amy Hevron

Follow the epic annual migration of an Arctic Tern on its sixty-thousand-mile journey to the South Pole and back again, the longest such migration in the animal kingdom.

Looking for Me…in this Great Big Family

By Betsy R. Rosenthal

Set in the 1930s, Edith is the fourth of twelve children, so it seems she is always taking care of someone younger while trying to understand just how a big family works in these hard times.

Lost City: the Discovery of Machu Picchu

By Ted Lewin

In 1911, Yale professor Hiram Bingham, on a trek to find a rumored lost city of the Incas, discovers another a lost Incan city with the help of a Peruvian boy. What he stumbled onto was even more beautiful and amazing.

Lost in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy

By Carl R. Sams II & Jean Stoick

A spring tale of trust, patience, and waiting for your time. Woodland creatures are concerned for a newborn white-tailed fawn they believe is lost.

Louisiana’s Way Home

By Kate DiCamillo

When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn’t overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and find a way home. But as Louisiana’s life becomes entwined with the lives of the people of a small Georgia town — including a surly motel owner, a walrus-like minister, and a mysterious boy with a crow on his shoulder — she starts to worry that she is destined only for good-byes.

Love Is…

By Wendy Halperin

A beautifully illustrated adaptation of one of the most beloved chapters in the Bible, I Corinthians 13, given to us by the apostle Paul.

Love, Amalia

By Alma Flor Ada, Illustrated by Gabriel M. Zubizarreta

Another loss comes and Amalia wonders if she will ever make any sense of it all.

Loving Marley

By Donald and Sara Hassler, Illustrated by Carol Newsom

From the first moment the Barkers saw the puppy it was love at first sight. They soon learn that adopting a pet is a big responsibility and a decision that will lead to a lifetime of fun and adventures.

Lula Bell on Geekdom, Freakdom, and the Challenges of Bad Hair

By C. C. Payne

Ten-year-old Lula Bell Bonner of White House, Tennessee, tries to fade in the background to avoid a bully, but after her beloved grandmother’s death Lula Bell understood about letting her light shining in the darkness.

Madeline Finn and the Therapy Dog

By Lisa Papp

Madeline Finn and Star are off to Walker Oaks, a retirement community where Star will take his tests to become a Therapy Dog. Accompanied by Mom, Mrs. Dimple, and Bonnie the library dog, she and Star make their way through a variety of challenges and meet several new friends. But Madeline Finn can’t stop thinking about an elderly man in a wheelchair who never smiles. Is there something she and Star can do to help?

Mahalia Jackson: Walking with Kings and Queens

By Nina Nolan, Illustrated by John Holyfield

Mahalia Jackson went down in history as the Queen of Gospel. This picture book biography follows her life starting in childhood. It highlights her struggles, victories and career as a singer over several decades. She never gave up or let others put her down due to the color of her skin. She paved the way for many other people of color to follow in her successful footsteps.

Malcolm at Midnight

By W. H. Beck, Illustrated by Brian Lies

A rat named Malcolm loves living at a school with a secret society of pets that keep children out of trouble. This mystery involves an iguana that has disappeared!

Marguerite Makes a Book

By Bruce Robertson

This story tells how a young but talented girl who lived in France more that 600 years ago. Her father is a manuscript illuminator, but when he falls ill it is up to Marguerite to finish his current work so that a grand lady can get her book on time.

Mark of the Thief

By Jennifer A. Nielsen

When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds much more than gold and gemstones: He discovers an ancient bulla, an amulet that belonged to the great Caesar and is filled with a magic once reserved for the Gods—magic some Romans would kill for. Now, with the deadly power of the bulla pulsing through his veins, Nic is determined to become free. But instead, he finds himself at the center of a ruthless conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and spark the Praetor War, a battle to destroy Rome from within. Traitors and spies lurk at every turn, each more desperate than the next to use Nic’s newfound powers for their own dark purposes. In a quest to stop the rebellion, save Rome, and secure his own freedom, Nic must harness the magic within himself and defeat the empire’s most powerful and savage leaders.