My first suggestion...Clementine and the Spring Trip by Sara Pennypacker. How could you go wrong with an author with the last name Pennypacker? This book is getting some early Newbery buzz and would be a great book to add to any collection.
Another book that I think a lot of our students would enjoy would be the book Eruption by Elizabeth Rusch. This nonfiction book about volcano eruptions would be a great addition to any library. Also with more and more focus being put on nonfiction reading, it might be nice to show young readers what great nonfiction can look like.
A book that I was finally able to get my hands on last week is the new book from Kate DiCamillo. Her new book is called Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. I must admit I am a sucker for any Kate DiCamillo book (Because of Winn Dixie, The Magician's Elephant, and of course The Tale of Despereaux). DiCamillo's new book did make the short list for the National Book Award.
One last title that I think our students might enjoy would be The Real Boy by Anne Ursu. I loved Ursu's last book Breadcrumbs. Here is a quick blurb from Amazon about The Real Boy:
On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy named Oscar. Oscar is a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the village, and spends his days in a small room in the dark cellar of his master’s shop grinding herbs and dreaming of the wizards who once lived on the island generations ago. Oscar’s world is small, but he likes it that way. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. And Oscar does not quite fit in it.
But now that world is changing. Children in the city are falling ill, and something sinister lurks in the forest. Oscar has long been content to stay in his small room in the cellar, comforted in the knowledge that the magic that flows from the forest will keep his island safe. Now, even magic may not be enough to save it.
I hope these helped if you were looking for some books.
Hope you are all having a great week.
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