Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla. By Katherine Applegate

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1 Picture Books Uni the Unicorn: A Story About Believing. By Amy Krouse Rosenthal Lifesize Ocean. By Anita Gameri My Blue is Happy. By Jessica Young Sam And Dave Dig a Hole. By Mac Barnett The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend. By Dan Santat A Fine Dessert. By Emily Jenkins The Monkey and the Bee. By C.P. Bloom Home. By Carson Ellis Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla. By Katherine Applegate The Book With No Pictures. By B.J. Novak Before After. By Anne Margot Rammstein A Perfectly Messed-Up Story. By Patrick McDonnell The Bear Ate Your Sandwich. By Julia Sarcone-Roach Animalium. By Jenny Broom

2 Emerging Readers Fly Guy and the Frankenfly. By Tedd Arnold Cork & Fuzz : Spring Cleaning. By Dori Chaconas I Will Take a Nap. By Mo Willems Ballet Cat: The Totally Secret Secret. By Bob Shea Mr. Putter and Tabby Turn the Page. By Cynthia Rylant Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover. By Cece Bell Beginning Fiction grades 1-3 Anna Hibiscus series. By Atinuke Mr. Cooper Is Super! By Dan Gutman My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish: the Seaquel. By Mo O Hara The Princess in Black. By Shannon Hale A Dragon s Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans. By Laurence Yep The Chicken Squad- The First Misadventure. By Doreen Cronin Dory Fantasmagory. By Abby Hanlon Fangbone Series. By Michael Rex Weird But True: 300 Outrageous Facts. National Geographic

3 Heidi Hecklebeck series. By Wanda Coven Jospehine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker. By Patricia Hruby Powell Fiction grades 3-5 The Imaginary. By A.F. Harold Rain Reign. By Ann M Martin Teslas s Attic. By Neal Shusterman The War That Saved My Life. By Kimberly Brusker Bradley Percy Jackson s Greek Gods. By Rick Riordan Circus Mirandus. By Cassie Beasley The Island of Dr. Libris. By Chris Grabenstein The Penderwicks in Spring. By Jeanne Birdsall Under the Egg. By Laura Marx Fitzgerald I Am Malala (Young Reader). By Malala Yousafzai Fiction grades 5-8 The True Adventures of Charley Darwin. By Caroline Meyer West of the Moon. By Margi Preus. Under the Egg. By Laura Marx Fitzgerald.

4 A Snicker of Magic. By Natalie Lloyd. The Boundless. By Kenneth Oppel. Hope Is a Ferris Wheel. By Robin Herrera. A Time to Dance. By Padma Venkatraman. The Night Gardener. By Jonathan Auxier. Tesla s Attic. By Neal Shusterman The Testing. By Joelle Charbonneau Non-fiction The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus. By Jen Bryant. Illus. by Melissa Sweet. Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America. By Russell Freedman. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science. By Aronson, Marc and Marina Tamar Budhos. Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion. Burns, Loree Griffin. Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. Stone, Tanya Lee. Graphic Novels El Deafo. By Cece Bell. Color by David Lasky. (2015 Newbery Honor Book)

5 Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust. By Loïc Dauvillier. Illus. by Marc Lizano. Color by Greg Salsedo. Tr. by Alexis Siegel. (2015 Batchelder Honor Book) Lowriders in Space. By Cathy Camper. Illus. by Raúl the Third. Chronicle. Sisters. By Raina Telgemeier. Illus. by the author. This One Summer. By Mariko Tamaki. Illus. by Jillian Tamaki. (2015 Caldecott Honor Book) Links for further reading: ALSC 2015 Notable Children's Books Popular Middle School Books Middle School Book Lists Suggestions for Reluctant Boy Readers oy_readers YALSA 2015 Nonfiction Award Nominations