The best place for cash donations is here: Hope and Healing Fund
Updated Book Suggestions. Thanks for all the donations that have come in. I have taken some books off the list because we have multiple copies. Wild Rumpus Books can also help you order.
Special Request from Kids:
Books on how to draw
Books on dance
Sports Books (Vikings! Hockey! Baseball! )
Cars/Formula One
Books in Spanish
Resilience & Hope (Grades 2–5)
The Trouble with Heroes—Kate Messner
After the Fall — Dan Santat (Every teacher needs this one)
G is for Gratitude—Samantha Berger
A First Time for Everything — Dan Santat
Touch the Sky — Stephanie V.W. lucianovic, Chris Park
Too Scared to Sleep! A Tale of Two Snails
The Remarkables—Clotilde Perrin
The Bear and the Wildcat—Kazumi Yumoto
Be a Maker — Katey Howes
Bundle Up, Penelope Rex!—Ryan T. Higgins
I Am Every Good Thing — Derrick Barnes
All Because You Matter — Tami Charles
Rise to the Sky—Rebecca E. Hirsch
Where We Come From —Shannon Gibney, 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin, John Coy, Diane Wilson
How to Apologize — David LaRochelle
Map Into the World — Kao Kalia Yang
See You Someday Soon — Pat Zietlow Miller
The Floating Fields— Scott Riley
Fun Escapes (Grades 2–6)
The Penderwicks
Magic Tree House Books
Pizza and Taco (all the books) — Stephen Shaskan ⭐
Narwhal and Jelly — Ben Clanton
Elephant & Piggie — Mo Willems
The Pigeon WON’T Count to 10!—Mo Willems
Dog Man — Dav Pilke
Lunch Lady — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Monkey in the Run— Leo Timmers (Gecko Press)
Bad Kitty — Nick Bruel
CatStronauts — Drew Brockington ⭐
One Wise Sheep-Ulrich Hub
Have You Seen the Elephant?—David Barrie
The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix — Raina Telgemeier, Gale Galligan, Chan Chau
Judy Moody & Stink — Megan McDonald
Dory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe—Abby Hanlon
Amulet — Kazu Kibuishi
Phoebe and Her Unicorn — Dana Simpson
Hilo — Judd Winick
El Deafo — Cece Bell
Living with Viola — Rosena Fung (Lerner)
Mango & Bambang — Polly Faber & Clara Vulliamy (Gecko Press)
Big Nate — Lincoln Peirce
Moo! — David LaRochelle & Mike Wohnoutka ⭐
See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog — David LaRochelle & Mike Wohnoutka ⭐
Comforting & Hopeful Graphic Novels (Grades 4–8)
Dream On—Shannon Hale
The Night Librarian — Christopher Lincoln
The Fairy Tale Fixers: Cinderella—Deborah Underwood
The Library of Unruly Treasures—Jeanne Birdsail
Smile, Sisters, Drama — Raina Telgemeier
Roller Girl — Victoria Jamieson
Allergic — Megan Wagner Lloyd & Michelle Mee Nutter
Swim Team — Johnnie Christmas
The Inkberg Enigma — Jonathan King (Gecko Press)
Secret Coders (series) — Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes
Measuring Up — Lily LaMotte & Ann Xu
Sunny Side Up & Swing It, Sunny — Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Katie the Catsitter — Colleen AF Venable & Stephanie Yue
Ham Helsing: Vampire Hunter — Rich Moyer ⭐
Escape into Adventure & Fantasy (Grades 4–8)
Harry Potter Books
The Land of Stories — Chris Colfer
Amari and the Night Brothers — B.B. Alston
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow — Jessica Townsend
The Wild Robot & The Wild Robot Escapes — Peter Brown
Sky Island: A Journey to the Heart of Gorongosa — John Selby (Lerner)
The Mapmakers’ Race — Eirlys Hunter (Gecko Press)
The Uprising — Eirlys Hunter (Gecko Press)
Meet Me Halfway — Anika Fajardo ⭐
Dragon Hoops — Gene Luen Yang
Secret Coders — Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes
Ham Helsing — Rich Moyer ⭐
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