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2021 Elementary Reading List

• Becuse of the Rabbit/ Lord
• Bud, Not Buddy/ Curtis
• Chasing Secrets/ Choldenko
• Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix/ Martin
• Finding Langston/ Cline- Ransome
• Finding Winnie: The True Story of the Wold’s Most Famous Bear/ Mattick
• The Fourteenth Goldfish/ Holm
• Fuzy Mud/ Sachar
• Honus & Me: A Baseball Card Adenture/ Gutman
• I Survived the Joplin Tornado/ Tarshis
• Invention of Hugo Cabret/ Selznick
• The Iron Trial/ Black
• The Laundry News/ Clements
• The Lemonade War/ Davies
• Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale/ Myers
• My Life as a Book/ Tashjian
• Pax/ Pennypacker
• Picture of Hollis Woods/ Giff
• The Return of Zita the Spacegirl/ Hatke
• Roller Girl/ Jamieson
• Show me a Sign/ LeZotte
• Shipwreck Search: Discovery of the H.L. Hunley/ Walker
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky/ Mbalia
• Two Minute Drill (Comebak Kids series)/ Lupica
• Women Who Broke the Rules: Sonia Sotomayor/ Krull