For Board Consideration on May 29, 2026.
Elementary Fiction
- A Swing for Samara by Nancy Carlson
- I’m So Happy You’re Here by Michael Threets
- Llama Llama, Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
- Dandy by Ame Dyckman
- Don’t Push the Button by Bill Cotter
- Sonia’s Digital World by Shannon McClintock Miller and Clara Reschke
- Sonia Speaks Up by Shannon McClintock
- Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown
- Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cuyler
- Hammerhead Mad’s Not Bad by Kelly Oriard and Callie Christiansen
- Cranky by Phuc Tran
- Grumpy Monkey Party Time by Suzanne Lang
- Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
- How Dinosaurs Went Extinct by Ame Dyckman
- Don’t Call Me Bear! by Aaron Blabey
- The Book That Almost Rhymed by Omar Abed
- Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt de la Pena
- Kiki and the Can by John Leguizamo
- Clem Clam the Class Clown by Laurie Keller
- Emily Saw a Door by Mel Rosenberg
- Girl Running by Annette Bay Pimentel and Micha Archer
- 102 by Matthew Cordell
- Green Jolene and the Neighborhood Swap by Wendy Mass
- Otters vs. Badgers by Anya Glazer
- Diffy by Brian Lies
- Rumpelstiltskin by Mac Barnett
- The Super Roomies: Lake of Slime by Jarrett Lerner
- The Wise Pickle by Sarah Howden
- Up and Adam by Debbie Zapata
- Wild About Books by Judy Sierra
- Llama Destroys the World by Jonathan Stutzman
- My Pet Feet by Josh Funk
- Bad Dog by Mike Boldt
- The Mighty Macy by Kwame Alexander
Elementary Nonfiction
- How to Hatch: A Gosling’s Guide to Breaking Free by Sara Holly Ackerman
- Junko’s Climb by Elyssa Gavin
- The Girl Who Changed Little League by Maria Pepe & Jean L. S. Patrick
- Puffins by Maria Gianferrari
- How a Bear Became a Book by Annette Bay Pimental
- How to Have a Thought: A Walk With Charles Darwin by Nicholas Day
- Houdini’s Library by Barb Rosenstock
- Seven Million Steps by Derrick Barnes & Christian Gregory
Middle Grade
- The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon
- Library Girl by Polly Horvath
- Wildlife Rescue How to Save an Otter by Kate Messner
- You Are Now Old Enough to Hear This by Aaron Starmer
- When Tomorrow Burns by Tae Keller
- A Scar Like a River by Lisa Graff
- Crushed by Melanie Conklin
- The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good by Kirsty Applebaum
- Wombat Waiting by Katherine Applegate
- All the Sunshine in the World by Caroline Brooks Dubois
- The Second Life of Snap by Erin Entrada Kelly
- Heartland by Jilanne Hoffman
- The Clockwork Key by Vashti Hardy
- Styx and Stones by Gary Schmidt & Ron Koertge
- Alex by Proxy by Myna Karen Cantor
- Too Perfect to Die by Julianna Goodman
- Augusta Pine Does Not Exist by Emily Lloyd-Jones
- Sleepless by Gordon Korman
- The Road from Nowhere by Avi
- Some of Us Are Brave by Saadia Faruqi
- The Unlikely Tale of Chase Finnegan by Jasmine Warga
- A Potion, A Powder, A Little Bit of Magic by Philip C. Stead
- The Sweet Spot by Elaine Vickers
Middle Grade Graphic Novels
- Midsummer Sisters by Niki Smith
- Camp Monster by Kate Messner and Falynn Koch
- A Fishboy Named Sashimi by Dan Santat
- Sidekicks: Thick as Thieves by Dan Santat
Middle to High School Nonfiction
- Great Apes: Protecting Our Animal Cousins by Christopher Gudgeon
- Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game by Kadir Nelson
- The True Story of Maysoon Zayid by Seema Yasmin
Young Adult Fiction
- The Escape Game by Marissa Meyer and Tamora Moss
- Such a Witch by Sarah Henning
- Winners & Liars by Aleema Omotoni
- One Word Six Letters by Adib Khorram
- The Moon Without Stars by Chanel Miller
- The Secret World of Briar Rose by Cindy Pham
Young Adult Graphic Novels
- Landing in Place by Sherine Hamdy
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han