Book Fair

Wondering how best to occupy kids at home this summer? Check out Lab’s first-ever Virtual Book Fair, co-sponsored by the PA Book Fair Committee and 57th Street Books, during our annual Rites of May festival.  

Browse our librarians’ reading lists for titles sure to keep children’s imaginations alive and skills sharp. Be sure to check out 57th Street Books’ selections to find a new favorite for yourself or a loved one, too. Father’s Day is June 21!  

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Happy reading! 

LIM FAMILY LIBRARY (ESH) Lee McLain, Mary Ogilvie

• A Fox Found a Box (Adamson) 

• How Did I Get Here? Your Story from the Big Bang to Your Birthday (Bunting)

• King and Kayla and the Case of the Unhappy Neighbor (Butler) 

• Mulan: Before the Sword (Lin) 

• Hum and Swish (Myers) 

• The Dragon Thief (Elliott) 

• Someone New (O'Brien)

• If Elephants Disappeared (Williams) 

• Jack Goes West (Barnett) 

• Bea Garcia: The Tree and Me (Zemke) 

ROWLEY LIBRARY (MS) Amy Atkinson, Tad Andracki

• Resistance, Jennifer Nielsen 

• Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds 

• Front Desk, Kelly Yang 

• Refugee, Alan Gratz 

• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole In the Sky, Kwame Mbalia 

• A Wolf Called Wander, Roseanne Parry 

• Framed!, James Ponti 

• The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs, America’s Test Kitchen 

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi 

• Confidence Code for Girls : Taking Risks, Messing Up, and Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self, Katty Kay, Claire Shipman 

• Space!: The Universe as You've Never Seen It Before, DK 

• The Element In the Room, Mike Barfield 

• New Kid, Jerry Craft 

• Stargazing, Jen Wang 

• Becoming Brianna, Terri Libenson 

• Amazing Greek Myths of Wonder and Blunders, Michael Townsend 

• Explorer: The Mystery Boxes, Kazu Kibuishi 

KNES FAMILY LIBRARY (LS) Irene Fahrenwald, Catherine Slighton

• Cookies for everyone: 99 deliciously customizable bakeshop recipes, by Mimi Council 

• Maker Lab: 28 Super Cool Projects, the Smithsonian Institution. 

• Cape, by Kate Hannigan 

• Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky, by Kwame Mbalia 

• Dog Days (The Carver Chronicles), by Karen English

• The One and Only Bob, by Katherine Applegate 

• Magic Thief, by Sarah Prineas. 

• Justin Case. School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters, by Rachel Vail 

• White Bird: A Wonder Story, by R. J. Palacio 

• Stargazing, by Jen Wang 

PRITZKER TRAUBERT FAMILY LIBRARY (HS) Susan Augustine, Shirley Volk

• Dig by A.S. King 

• Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 

• Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J Krosoczka 

• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay 

• Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater 

• 88 Names by Matt Ruff 

• Queen of Nothing by Holly Black 

• Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump 

• Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda 

• Almost American Girl by Robin Ha 

Picture Books 

• Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks 

• The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown  

• Undefeated 

• Mother Goose of Pudding Lane 

• Pokko and the Drum

• Charcoal Boys 

• Small in the City 

• Orchestra 

• Hello, Neighbor! The Kind and Caring World of Mister Rogers

Middle Grade 

• Cape

• Time Castaways #1: The Mona Lisa Key 

• Time Castaways #2: The Obsidian Compass 

• Out of the Wild Night 

• Scary Stories for Young Foxes

• Dear Sweet Pea 

• The One and Only Bob

• We Dream of Space  

• Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

• Ashes (Seeds of America) 

• Rat Rule 79

• Finding Langston 

• Leaving Lymon

• New Kid

• Woke 

• The Dark Hedges and Other Magical Places That Really Exist 

Young Adult 

• Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know 

• Internment

• Speak: The Graphic Novel 

• Shout 

• Pride 

• Black Enough   

• Pet 

• Piecing Me Together

• Watch Us Rise  

• Frankly in Love 

• Children of Blood and Bone 

• Children of Virtue and Vengeance

• Awaken the Magic 

• The Hate You Give

• On the Come Up

• Find Your Voice: A Guided Journal for Writing Your Truth  

• Clap When You Land 

• For Every One

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You 

• 1919: The Year That Changed America   

Adult Selections

• American Birds: A Literary Companion

• Capital and Ideology

• CirceCity

• We Became

• DAIRY RESTAURANT                              

• Deacon King Kong: A Novel

• Dead Land

• Disappearing Earth

• Exhalation

• Ghosts in the Schoolyard

• How to Be a Bad Emperor

• How To Do Nothing

• How to Drink

• Hurricane Season

• In the Dream House: A Memoir

• Little Fires Everywhere

• Milkman

• Minor Feelings

• Moby Dick

• Normal People

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

• Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

• Say Nothing

• Severance

• Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

• Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

• Station ElevenThe Bird Way

• The Book of Delights: Essays

• The City In A Garden

• The Dutch House: A Novel

• The Glass Hotel

• The Great Believers

• The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

• The Mirror and the Light

• The Mushroom at the End of the World

• The Night Watchman

• The Overstory

• The Plague

• Trust Exercise

• Underland

• Untamed

• War and Peace

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

• Weather

• Wow, No Thank You.

• Writers & Lovers