What is a Bucket of Books?
Buckets of Books are provided by the library and contain up to 30 books on a topic, plus a teacher's guide. These are available through the regular check-out process. To place a hold on a bucket, click on the topic link from the lists below. Then, click the “Place hold” button and follow the instructions on the screen.
If there's not a Bucket of Books on your topic, or if the buckets are all checked out, see the booklists page.
- Communities and Neighborhoods (grades: K-2)
- Earth’s Processes (grades 2–4)
- Engineering & Scientific Innovation (grades 2-5)
- Environmental Protection & Climate Change (grades K-3)
- Farms and Farm Animals (grades: K-2)
- The Five Senses (grades: K-2)
- Food and Nutrition (grades: K-2)
- Growing Things (grades: 1-3)
- Growth and Adaptations (grade: 1)
- Insects and Spiders (grades: K-2)
- Life Cycles & Traits (grade: 3)
- Light and Sound Waves (grade: 1)
- Living Things: Survival & Environment (grade: kindergarten)
- Mysteries (grade: 3)
- Oceans and Ocean Life (grades:K-2)
- Weather (grade: kindergarten)
- Weather and Natural Disasters (grades 3-4)
- African American History (grades: 5-8)
- Biografías de latinoamericanos en español/Latin American Biographies in Spanish (grades: 4-6)
- Earth’s Processes (grades: 2-4)
- Ecosystems and Ecology (grades: 5-8)
- Energy (grade: 4)
- Engineering & Scientific Innovation (grades: 2-5)
- Environmental Protection & Climate Change (grades: 4-7)
- Native Americans (grades: 4-7)
- Pacific Northwest Native Americans (grades: 4-7)
- Properties of Matter (grade: 5)
- The Solar System and Space (grades: 4-5)
- Weather and Natural Disasters (grades: 3-4)
- African American History (grades: 5-8)
- Ancient China: Fiction and Nonfiction (grades: 6-8)
- Ancient Egypt: Fiction and Nonfiction (grades: 6-8)
- Ancient Greece and Rome: Fiction and Nonfiction (grades: 6-8)
- Ancient India: Fiction and Nonfiction (grade 6)
- Aztec, Inca and Maya: Fiction and Nonfiction (grades 6-8)
- Biografías de latinoamericanos en español/Latin American Biographies in Spanish (grades 4-6)
- Climate Change (grades 6-8)
- Ecosystems and Ecology (grades 5-8)
- Engineering & Scientific Innovation (grades 6-12)
- Environmental Protection (grades 4-7)
- Heredity and Evolution (grades 6-8)
- The Middle Ages and the Renaissance - Nonfiction (grades 6-8)
- Native Americans (grades 4-7)
- Pacific Northwest Ecology and Geology (grades 6-12)
- Pacific Northwest Native Americans (grades 4-7)
- Zines (grades 8-12)
- Engineering & Scientific Innovation (grades 6-12)
- Pacific Northwest Ecology and Geology (grades 6-12)
- Zines (grades 8-12)
For educators
Need a book bucket on another topic? If you teach in a Multnomah County school, School Corps can create one just for you. To request a custom book collection visit the Assignment Alert page. This service takes three weeks.
Checkout policies
- Buckets of Books borrowers are responsible for following the same policies as other library users.
- Buckets can be checked out for six weeks with a library educator account or for three weeks with a personal library account.
- The borrower is responsible for returning all the contents of the bucket. (Contents are listed in the teacher's guide.)
For more information, contact School Corps at lib.school.corps@multco.us or 503.988.6004.