Good Character Reading!

Spokane County Library Suggests…
May Reading List

Courage: Displaying integrity in spite of obstacles and challenges

K-2

Gittel’s Journey: an Ellis Island Story / Lesléa Newman (2019)
A Little Bit Brave / Nicola Kinnear (2020)
Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave / Jessica Hische (2018)
Get Me Out of This Book: Rules and Tools for Being Brave / Kalli Dakos (2019)
Paolo, Emperor of Rome / Mac Barnett (2020)

 3-5

Bo the Brave / Rebecca Elliott (2020)
The One and Only Bob / Katherine Applegate (2020)
Sydney & Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World / Jacqueline Davies (2021)
Bump / Matt Wallace (2021)
Braver: A Wombat’s Tale / Suzanne Selfors (2020)
The Hero Next Door / Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich (2019)
The Ballad of Tubs Marshfield / Cara Hoffman (2020)

Middle School

The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane / Kate O’Shaughnessy (2020)
Don’t Judge Me / Lisa Schroeder (2020)
Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus / Dusti Bowling (2019)
War Stories / Gordon Korman (2020)
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky / Kwame Mbalia (2019)
Spindlefish and Stars / Christiane M. Andrews (2020)
Ikenga / Nnedi Okorafor (2020)

High School

Be Not Far from Me / Mindy McGinniss (2020)
The Enigma Game / Elizabeth Wein (2020)
The Poet X / Elizabeth Acevedo (2018)
A Song Below Water / Bethany C. Morrow (2020)
Cemetery Boys / Aiden Thomas (2020)
The Hero Handbook / Matt Langdon (2021)

 

Read-Alouds

A Little Bit Brave / Nicola Kinnear (2020)
Bearnard’s Book / Deborah Underwood (2019)
When you are brave / Pat Zietlow Miller (2019)

 

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