40 Books for 40 Years Reading Program

In honor of the Ela Library’s 40th anniversary this year, the library is launching a new community-wide reading program for kids! We have chosen a list of 40 books to appeal to many different types of readers, both in interest and reading ability. Students entering grades K-5 are invited to read the books of their choice from our list and add a bead to the tower for each title. As goals marked on the tower are met, special prizes will become available for all to enjoy! Encourage your friends and neighbors to work together in building a tower of reading beads this year. The program runs through December 30, 2012. 

SUGGESTED FOR GRADES K-3
Ant and Grasshopper by Luli Gray
Art & Max by David Wiesner
The Big Fat Cow that Goes Kapow by Andy Griffiths
Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo
Blackout by Jon Rocco
That Cat Can't Stay! by Thad Krasnesky
The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha R. Vamos
The Circus Ship by Chris Can Dusen
Clemente! by Willie Perdomo
Even Monsters Need Haircuts by Matthew McElligott
Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom by Eric Wight
How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes by Margie Palatini
Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic by Robert Burleigh
Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes by Eric Litwin
Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum by Meghan McCarthy
A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip Christian Stead
We Are in a Book by Mo Willems
Where in the Wild? Camouflaged Creatures Concealed & Revealed by David M. Schwartz

SUGGESTED FOR GRADES 3-5
The Aviary by Kathleen O’Dell
Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! by Matthew McElligott
Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkins
Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems by Christine O’Connell George
Floors by Patrick Carman
Half Magic by Edward Eager
Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms by Lissa Evans
King of the Mound: My Summer with Satchel Paige by Wes Tooke
Lexie by Audrey Couloumbis
Madeleine’s Light by Natalie Ziarnik
May B. by Caroline Starr Rose
No Passengers Beyond This Point by Gennifer Choldenko
One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin
Orani: My Father’s Village by Claire A. Nivola
Paradise Trap by Catherine Jinks
Sidekicks by Dan Santat
Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Jacobson
Smells like Dog by Suzanne Selfors
Snake and Lizard by Joy Crowley
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick