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Books for Babies and Toddlers

A is for Apple

Tiger Tales, Georgie Birkett

ABCs of Kindness at School

Patricia Hegarty, Summer Macon

Diggers Love to Go to School!

Brianna Caplan Sayres, Christian Slade

Dr. Seuss's School Things

Dr. Seuss, Tom Brannon

Open the Preschool Door

Christopher Santoro

The Monsters on the Bus
(Sesame Street)

Sarah Albee, Joe Ewers

Books for Kids

Welcome to Our Classroom! (An All Are Welcome Book)

Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman

All Are Welcome (An All Are Welcome Book)

Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman

KINDergarten

Vera Ahiyya, Joey Chou

Getting Ready for Second Grade

Vera Ahiyya, Debby Rahmalia

Getting Ready for First Grade

Vera Ahiyya, Debby Rahmalia

Getting Ready for Kindergarten

Vera Ahiyya, Debby Rahmalia

Getting Ready for Preschool

Vera Ahiyya, Debby Rahmalia

The 12 Days of Kindergarten

Jenna Lettice, Colleen Madden

The 12 Days of Preschool

Jenna Lettice, Colleen Madden

I'm Going to Kindergarten!

Andrea Posner-Sanchez, Joanie Stone

I'm a Preschool Kid!

Deb Adamson

Get Ready for School! (Ms. Rachel/Sesame Street)

Ms. Rachel, Random House

Owl by Myself

Pete Oswald

A Not So Perfect Start (The Caring Classroom, Book 1)

Trudy Ludwig, Maribel Lechuga

Sunday Scaries

Debra Kempf Shumaker, Lavanya Naidu

Yeti Is Not Ready for School

Leigh Anne Carter

Breathe Like a Bear: First Day of School Worries

Kira Willey, Anni Betts

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Dr. Seuss

The World Needs More Purple Schools

Kristen Bell, Benjamin Hart, Daniel Wiseman

Mao Mao's Perfectly Imperfect Day

Laan Cham

Is This Your Class Pet?

Troy Cummings

A Letter to My Teacher

Deborah Hopkinson, Nancy Carpenter

My Teacher Is a Dinosaur!

Bill Canterbury, Jeff Harter

School Day! (Blue's Clues & You)

Lauren Clauss, Luke Flowers

School is Fun Sticker Book (Peppa Pig)

Courtney Carbone, Golden Books

The First Day of School (PAW Patrol)

Matt Huntley, Jason Fruchter

Richard Scarry's Great Big Schoolhouse

Richard Scarry

The Name Jar

Yangsook Choi, Yangsook Choi

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read

Rita Lorraine Hubbard, Oge Mora

Today at School

Jessica Young, Renée Kurilla

We're All Wonders

R. J. Palacio

Brave Every Day

Trudy Ludwig, Patrice Barton

My First Day

Phùng Nguyên Quang, Huynh Kim Liên

Back to School with the Berenstain Bears

Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

How to Get Your Teacher Ready

Jean Reagan, Lee Wildish

If I Ran Your School-by the Cat in the Hat

Random House

How Rocket Learned to Read

Tad Hills, Tad Hills

Hurry, Little Tortoise, Time for School!

Carrie Finison, Erin Kraan

Little Daymond Learns to Earn

Daymond John, Nicole Miles

Books for Growing Readers

This Makes Me Anxious: First Day of School

Courtney Carbone

Driving School (Elbow Grease)

John Cena, Dave Aikins

Stitch Goes to School (Disney Stitch)

John Edwards, Disney Storybook Art Team

School for Woodland Creatures

Lauren Castillo

Squishy School #1: Buddy Up!

Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Becky Cas

Bibsy Cross and the Bad Apple

Liz Garton Scanlon, Dung Ho

Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School

Emily Jenkins, Pete Oswald

Junie B. Jones #18: First Grader (at last!)

Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus

Magic Tree House Books 1-4 Boxed Set

Mary Pope Osborne

Graphic Novels

Sol Goes for Goal!

Julio Anta, Gabi Mendez

Pizza and Taco: Too Cool for School

Stephen Shaskan

Grumpy Monkey School Stinks!

Suzanne Lang, Max Lang

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus: The Graphic Novel

Barbara Park, Honie Beam, Colleen AF Venable

Growing Pangs

Kathryn Ormsbee, Molly Brooks

Apple Crush

Lucy Knisley

Picture Day

Sarah Sax

On Guard!

Cassidy Wasserman

Sweet Valley Twins: The New Girl

Francine Pascal, Knack Whittle, Nicole Andelfinger

Magic Tree House Graphic Novels
Boxed Set 1-2

Mary Pope Osborne, Kelly Matthews, Nichole Matthews, Jenny & more...

Books for Tweens

Iveliz Explains It All

Andrea Beatriz Arango, Alyssa Bermudez

No Place on Earth

Andrea Beatriz Arango

Because of Mr. Terupt

Rob Buyea

The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks

Katie Kirby

The Frindle Files

Andrew Clements

The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman

Gennifer Choldenko

Just Roll with It

Veronica Agarwal, Lee Durfey-Lavoie

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Chris Grabenstein

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

Tae Keller

Lights, Camera, Middle School!

Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm

Shine!

J.J. Grabenstein, Chris Grabenstein

The Friendship War

Andrew Clements

Wonder

R. J. Palacio

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