Here are some book suggestions to share and discuss for grandchildren of all ages!
PreK to Early Elementary:
The only rule in Larry's book is that the reader not push the button, but when no one is looking, it may be irresistible.
Matthew goes to the zoo and has fun watching the monkeys. The monkeys only eat bananas, so Matthew does, too. Will he become a monkey?
A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what.
At sunset, when their work is done for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces of construction equipment make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.
Zookeeper Amos McGee always makes time to visit his friends who live at the zoo until the day he stays home because he is sick.
On a cold winter night many animals gather to party in the cave of a sleeping bear, who the awakes and protests that he has missed the food and the fun.
Elementary Grade Chapter Books:
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
A streetwise city mouse and his cat friend meet a country cricket who has a hidden talent.
Readers are taken back in time to various disasters that happened in history.
The four Alden children--Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny-- find a mystery wherever they go. The adventure begins when they discover an abandoned boxcar and make it their home.
Teen, Middle and High School Books:
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempts to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Holly Raus
Youth Specialist
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