Staff picks

These books for teens feature AANHPI fictional characters and include some nonfiction memoirs. Every May we celebrate Americans who trace their heritage to a vast region: China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, Native Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Guam, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.

May is AANHPI month. Explore the experiences and contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawaii'ans and Pacific Islanders in these nonfiction books for elementary and middle school ages. We celebrate Americans who trace their heritage to a vast region: China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, Native Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Guam, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.

Every May we celebrate Americans who trace their heritage to a vast region: China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia, Native Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Guam, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.

These audiobooks, some of them available in downloadable audio and others as audio CDs, feature First Nations, Indigenous, Native American, Indian and Alaska Native readers.

This is a selected list of new fiction and nonfiction for all ages, written by Indigenous authors. This list is updated regularly.

These books and articles provide an introduction how our clothing is made, how advertising affects our choices, and how what we decide to buy can affect workers and the environment. For 4th-8th graders

2025 OBOB books for grades 3, 4, 5

2025 OBOB titles for grades 6, 7, 8

2025 OBOB titles for grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Read a book, then get out your bike and take a ride! Books for preschoolers to 6th graders

Books for ages 5-12 sharing stories and information about transgender people.

Author Rob Osler coined the word quozy to be a blend of cozy mysteries with LGBTQ+ characters. 

Consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words with short vowel sounds, like bat and hop, are the first words students learn to read in their journey to independent reading.

Blends are two or three consonants that blend together, like /st/ in stop or /ck/ in rock. Each letter in the blend makes a sound. Digraphs are two consonants that together make one sound, such as /sh/ in shop or /ch/ in chat.

Silent-e (also known as magic-e) words follow a pattern of vowel + consonant + e, such as the words lake, slide, and hope. The vowel makes its long sound and the e is silent.

Vowel teams are two or more vowels together that make a sound, such as in the words boot or rain. Sometimes they may contain consonants that create a vowel sound like /ow/ in throw. R-controlled vowels have a vowel followed by r. Sometimes this pattern is called the “bossy r” because the “r” takes over and the vowel makes a different sound, such as in the words car or burn. Consonant -le words end with a consonant, followed by le, such as table or purple.

Get organized, learn some study tips, and find help for math, science, writing, and AP and college exams.

Illustrated biographies for elementary ages about girls and women who have an impact on our world.

Mark Black History Month 2024 by exploring these titles for young readers focused on African Americans in the arts. 

-Alicia T.

Mark Black History Month 2024 with this list of curated titles focused on African Americans and the arts. 

-Alicia T.