Younger readers
A Porcupine Named Fluffy by Helen Lester
Fluffy the porcupine is unhappy with his name: "So he decided to become fluffier." He climbs a tree and pretends to be a cloud! He even poses as a pillow. When Fluffy meets a rhinoceros named Hippo, it puts his plight in perspective...and he makes a friend. Laugh out loud funny. Follow up with the Tacky the Penguin stories by Helen Lester. This book is available as an ebook on OverDrive.
Middle grade readers
One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carley the stable family life she never thought existed, and she feels like an alien in their cookie-cutter-perfect household. Despite her resistance, the Murphys eventually show her what it feels like to belong—until her mother wants her back and Carley has to decide where and how to live. Terrific realistic fiction from the author of Fish in a Tree. Available as an ebook and audiobook on OverDrive.
Upper grade readers
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal
Jeremy Johnson Johnson hears voices. Or, specifically, one voice: the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of The Brothers Grimm. Jacob watches over Jeremy, protecting him from an unknown dark evil whispered about in the space between this world and the next. But Jacob can't protect Jeremy from everything. When Ginger Boultinghouse takes a bite of a cake so delicious it's rumored to be bewitched, she falls in love with the first person she sees: Jeremy. In any other place, this would be a turn for the better for Jeremy, but not in Never Better, where the Finder of Occasions—whose identity and evil intentions nobody knows—is watching and waiting, waiting and watching. . . And as anyone familiar with the Brothers Grimm know, not all fairy tales have happy endings. Creepy page turner. Available as an ebook on OverDrive.
HarperKids YouTube read alouds
Harper Collins Publishers have collected a series of YouTube read aloud videos on this page. It includes everything from classics like Goodnight Moon and Caps for Sale to recently published books read by their authors.
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