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Virtual Book Fair
Wondering how best to occupy kids at home this summer? Check out Lab’s Virtual Book Fair, co-sponsored by the PA Book Fair Committee and 57th Street Books, during our 52nd 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 57 Street Books’ selections to find a new favorite for yourself or a loved one, too!
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Happy reading!
LIM FAMILY LIBRARY – EARL SHAPIRO HALL
Lee McLain and Elisa Gall
¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat by Raul the Third
Milo Imagines the World by Matt De La Pena
Lift by Minh Le
How to Solve a Problem by Ashima Shiraishi
Sadiq and the Desert Star by Siman Nuurali
Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson
Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin
Classified by Traci Sorell
My Rainbow by DeShanna Neal
Baloney and Friends by Greg Pizzoli
KNES FAMILY LIBRARY – LOWER SCHOOL
Jamelle St.Clair and Irene Fahrenwald
Amina’s Song by Hena Khan
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Before They Were Artists: Famous Illustrators a Kids by Elizabeth Haidie
Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border by Mitali Perkins
The Candymakers by Wendy Mass
The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs by American Test Kitchen
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future by Tami L. Brown
Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliett Mendez
My Thoughts Are Clouds: Poems For MIndfulness by Georgia Heard
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trent Lee
ROWLEY MS LIBRARY – MIDDLE SCHOOL
Amy Atkinson and Tad Andracki
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a True Story) by Daniel Nayeri
Lupe Wong Won’t Dance by Donna Barba Higuera
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
Apple (Skin To the Core) by Eric Gansworth
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
Three Keys (A Front Desk Novel) by Kelly Yang
PRITZKER TRAUBERT FAMILY LIBRARY – HIGH SCHOOL
Susan Augustine and Shirley Volk
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Hidden King by EG Radcliff
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
You Should See Me in A Crown by Leah Johnson
Fire Keeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Remote Control by Nnedi Okofor
Sanctuary by Paolo Medoza & Abby Sher
Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Phillippe
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
57TH STREET BOOKS’ SELECTIONS
Picture books:
Julian at the Wedding by Jessica Love
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
Will You Be My Friend? by Sam McBratney
Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell
All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Those Darn Squirrels Fly South by Adam Rubin
The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson
Rock from the Sky by Jon Klassen
Middle Grade:
Time Castaways #3 by Liesl Shurtliff
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
Max and the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins by Lincoln Pierce
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary Paulsen
The Fire Keeper by J. C. Cervantes
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Diana and the Island of No Return by Aisha Saeed
Isaiah Dunn is My Hero by Kelly J. Baptist
Hazel's Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
Smartest Kid in the Universe by Chris Grabenstein
Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter by Shani King
Twins Volume 1 by Varian Johnson
Amina's Song by Hena Khan
Tristan Strong Destroys the World by Kwame Mbalia
Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake
Young Adult:
Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers by Michelle Obama
One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Sky Above Us by Natalie Lund
This Is My America by Kim Johnson
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed
We Were Restless Things by Cole Nagamatsu
The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos
Be More Chill (Graphic Novel) by Ned Vizzini
More Happy Than Not (Deluxe Edition) by Adam Silvera
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Adult list:
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi
A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
Angels and Saints by Eliot Weinberger
Arguing with Zombies by Paul Krugman
Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer
Let the Lord Sort Them by Maurice Chammah
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
Klara and the Sun by Kasuo Ishiguro
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333) ed. by Kevin Young
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Philosophy for Polar Explorers by Erling Kagge
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty
Halfway Home by Reuben Jonathan Miller
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Interior Chinatown By Charles Yu
Transcendant Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa