Asian Americans, Native Hawai'ians and Pacific Islanders / nonfiction for K-8 grades
May is AANHPI month. Explore the experiences and contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawaii'ans and Pacific Islanders in these nonfiction books for elementary and middle school ages. We celebrate Americans who trace their heritage to a vast region: China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, Native Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Guam, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.
Asian Americans, Native Hawai'ians and Pacific Islanders in picture books from Multcolib Families
Every May we celebrate Americans who trace their heritage to a vast region: China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia, Native Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Guam, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.
Dress and live greener: books for tweens and young teens
These books and articles provide an introduction how our clothing is made, how advertising affects our choices, and how what we decide to buy can affect workers and the environment. For 4th-8th graders
2025 Oregon Battle of the Books, grades 3-5
2025 OBOB books for grades 3, 4, 5
Celebrate Bike Month with these books for kids
Read a book, then get out your bike and take a ride! Books for preschoolers to 6th graders
Books for children and tweens featuring trans people
Books for ages 5-12 sharing stories and information about transgender people.
Decodable books step 1 : Short vowels and CVC words
Consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words with short vowel sounds, like bat and hop, are the first words students learn to read in their journey to independent reading.
Decodable books step 2 : Blends and digraphs
Blends are two or three consonants that blend together, like /st/ in stop or /ck/ in rock. Each letter in the blend makes a sound. Digraphs are two consonants that together make one sound, such as /sh/ in shop or /ch/ in chat.
Decodable books step 3 : Silent-e or Magic-e
Silent-e (also known as magic-e) words follow a pattern of vowel + consonant + e, such as the words lake, slide, and hope. The vowel makes its long sound and the e is silent.
Decodable books step 4 : vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and consonant-le
Vowel teams are two or more vowels together that make a sound, such as in the words boot or rain. Sometimes they may contain consonants that create a vowel sound like /ow/ in throw. R-controlled vowels have a vowel followed by r. Sometimes this pattern is called the “bossy r” because the “r” takes over and the vowel makes a different sound, such as in the words car or burn. Consonant -le words end with a consonant, followed by le, such as table or purple.
Picture book biographies for Women's History Month
Illustrated biographies for elementary ages about girls and women who have an impact on our world.
You and your name
Books for preschoolers and early elementary ages about the importance of a name.
When things go bump in the night : books for tweens and young teens
Creepy and scary books for upper elementary and middle school ages.
Picture books with modern Native, American Indian, Indigenous, Alaska Native, First Nations, Métis, & Inuit families
Many picture books show peoples indigenous to North America in a historical context, but Native people aren't a relic of the past, and as these books show they are active members of the modern world. #ownvoices
Bullies and bullying: books for children and teens
Books that address teasing, name-calling, excluding, and other hurtful behavior. Books that explore successful responses. Books that promote kindness and empathy.
Pride for Tweens: sexual orientation
Books for 4th-6th graders about who you are attracted to, who you love.
Pride for Tweens: gender identity
Books for 4th-6th graders. Gender identity is how you feel and express yourself with your clothes, hairstyle, pronoun choices and name, and other actions.
Activities for Children and Adults
Whether you’re connecting with your little one, a younger sibling, or babysitting for a friend’s child, starting a new project together can be just the thing to bridge generations. These titles are an invitation to your inner child to let your imagination run free right alongside your junior companion’s.
Whimsical and charming picture books
Whimsical picture books full of nature and imagination
Indigenous books for tweens
Fiction and nonfiction about and by Native American, Native Hawaiian and First Nation peoples for grades 4-6.