Good Reads
Book Lists - Libraries
Picture Books
- Armando asked, "Why?" by Jay Hulbert. - Armando's family members are too busy to answer his questions until one day they take him to the library, introduce him to the librarian, and find books with the answers to his questions.
- Aunt Lulu by Daniel Manus Pinkwater. - Tired of working as a librarian in Alaska, Aunt Lulu takes her sled and her fourteen Huskies and moves to Parsippany, New Jersey.
- Blue Bug Goes to the Library by Virginia Poulet. - Blue Bug shows you what the library has for you. Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss. - When the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do.
- Can You Guess Where We're Going? by Elvira Woodruff. - As his grandfather gives him hints about all the exciting things they will see, Jack tries to guess where they are going.
- D.W.'s Library Card by Marc Tolon Brown. - After finally getting her first library card, Arthur's little sister D.W. tries to check out her favorite book, with humorous results.
- How My Library Grew: by Dinah by Martha Alexander. - Neither Dinah nor her Teddy Bear have ever been to a library, but when one is built just down the street, she looks forward to the opening day.
- I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric A. Kimmel. - A young girl brings her pets to the library--with predictably disastrous results.
- Library by Sarah Stewart. - Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.
- The Library Dragon by Carmen Agra Deedy. - Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller.
- Library Lil by Suzanne Williams/ - A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well.
- Molly at the Library by Ruth Radlauer. - Four-year-old Molly goes to the library with her father and is thrilled to discover that she can take home ten books for fourteen days.
- Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me by Cari Best. - After taking the train downtown, Lizzie spends the day at the public library, helping her mother who is a children's librarian.
- Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora. -While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tom as finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
- Walter's Magic Wand by Eric Houghton. - Feeling restless at the library, Walter combines his imagination with his magic wand to bring several exotic books to life and complicate the librarian's tidy existence.
Easy Readers
- Clara and the Book Wagon by Nancy Smiler Levinson. - Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.
- I like the Library by Anne Rockwell. - A young child describes all the things that are available at the library.
- Tell Me Some More by Crosby Newell Bonsall. - Andrew introduces Tim to a place where he can hold an elephant under his arm, pat a lion, and pick up a river.
- Tiny Goes to the Library -by Cari Meiste. - Tiny the dog is a big help at the library when his owner takes out too many books to carry home.
Chapter Books
- Cosmic Cousin by Nancy Hayashi. - During her frequent trips to the public library, Eunice seeks to uncover the identity of Cosmic Cousin, a mysterious reader who shares her love for science fiction and seems to be searching for a new friend by leaving notes inside books.
- Emily's Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary. - Emily decides that what the town of Pitchfork needs is a library, and comes up with a plan to make it happen.
- Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library by Eth Clifford. - Two girls spend an adventurous night trapped inside the public library during a terrible blizzard.
- The Library Card by Jerry Spinelli. - The lives of four young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books.
- Locked in the Library by Marc Tolon Brown - Arthur and Francine aren't speaking to each other, but Mr. Ratburn has paired them up for a homework project. They go to the library to do some reseach, and find themselves locked in after it closes. Can they set aside their differences and work together to find a way out?
- Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller. - Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black Boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.
- The Silver Balloon by Susan Bonners/ - When fourth-grader Gregory releases a helium-filled balloon into the sky with his name and address attached, it leads to an unusual friendship and an exchange of mystery gifts.
Non-Fiction
- A Day with a Librarian - 020.92 KOT
- Check it out!: the book about libraries - 027 G352c
- Down Cut Shin Creek: The Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky - 027.0769 APP
- Inside-Outside Book of Libraries - 027.073 MUN
- Librarians - 023.2 REA
- Libraries - 027.009 RAA
- Libraries take us far - 027 HIL
- Ms. Davison, Our Librarian -020.92 FLA
And Did You Know?
- How Books Are Made - 020.92 FLA
Last Updated: 10/5/07
