For Board Consideration on August 7, 2026.
Elementary Fiction
- Clay Date by Dev Petty
- The Seven Chinese Sisters by Kathy Tucker
- Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong
- How Many Donkeys? An Arabic Counting Tale by Margaret Read MacDonald & Nadia Jameel Taibah
- Waffles and Julius: No Hugs Please! by Ed Vere
- Pyramid Boy by Satoshi Kitamura
- Specs by Van. G. Garrett
- Millie Fleur Saves the Night by Christy Mandin
- Becoming Boba by Joanna Ho
- A Riddle of Eels by Nicholas Day
- Dragon Dog by Suzanne & Max Lang
- The Island by Gideon Sterer & Julia Sarcone Roach
- Braided Roots by Pasha Westbrook
- Grumpy Monkey and the Best Present by Suzanne & Max Lang
- Spells to Cast on Your Parents by Pete Holmes
- Wake Up, Poppyville by Vikki Chu
- Bear Wakes Up by Lisa Chow
- The Warm Fuzzies by Darren Farrell
- The Buddy System by Sam Wedelich
- In case of los Moscas by Jackie Morera
- Mister in the Stars by Devon Rohana
- Yum Yum Dim Sum by Felicity Yeoh
- Snow Geese Season by Angela Burke
- Would You Still Love Me if I was a Worm by Meghan Sullivan
- Love is a Shape by Kate Hoefler
- The Secret Dragon by Briony May Smith
- Elaine by Anden Wilder
- My Neighborhood by Delano Brown
- I Hear the Snow, I Smell the Sea by Janice Milusich
- The Book That Almost Rhymed by Omar Abed
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas …According to Max by Alistair Heim
- Pig the Slob by Aaron Blabey
- Mouse’s First Summer by Lauren Thompson
Elementary Nonfiction
- Endangered Animals by Edward Close
- What if Elephants Disappeared by Therese Emminizer
- Sea Babies: A Picture Book Celebration of the Ocean’s Baby Animals by Sylvia Earle
- Don’t Let Them Disappear by Chelsea Clinton
- Nurses and What They Do by Liesbet Slegers
- Coolest Animals on the Planet by National Geographic Kids
- Hidden Heroes: Ten Overlooked Trailblazers by
- Antonia and Her Magic Wand by Elizabeth Duncan
- Fatal Glitch by Erin Entrada Kelly and Eliot Schrefer
- Treasury of Egyptian Mythology by Donna Jo Napoli
- The Best Joke Book for Kids by Rather McSilly
- You Quack Me Up by Tommy Nelson
Middle Grade
- Eva to the Max by Rebecca Caprara
- Everything New Again by Renee Watson
- Snoop by Gordon Korman
- Dasia (Forever) by Nic Stone
- Because of Our Student Teacher by Rob Buyea
- The Wild Zone: Camp Half-Blood, Book 1 by Rick Riordan and Annabel Oh
- The Creeps by Tehlor Mejia
- Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
- The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell
- The Neverfear by Katherine Rundell
- Grimlore Game by Kalyn Josephson
- Ms. Pennypickle’s Puzzle Quest by Chris Grabenstein
- Brittle Magic by Kate O’Shaughnessy
- The Dragon’s Apprentice by James Riley
- Another by Paul Tremblay
- Wander Lost by Laura Martin
- Javier and the Cone of Uncertainty by K. A. Holt
- Into the Wild Magic by Michelle Knudsen
Middle Grade Graphic Novels
- The Endless Game by J. D. Amato
Middle to High School Nonfiction
- Encyclopedia of African American History and Culture by Kaitlyn Wells and Priyanka Lamichhane
Young Adult Fiction
- Capsized by Charlotte Lillie Balogh
- The Age of Fury by John Stephens
- Mischief Girls by Aashna Avachat
- The End of Us by Sandra Proudman
- Blightfall by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patternson
- The Pools by E. Lockhart
- That Feeling When by Beth Reekles
- The Gods Will Sing Our Song by Autumn Krause
- The Last King of Faerie by Cassandra Clare
- The Peacock Throne by Zeba Shahnaz
- Veiled in Shadow by Liz Edelbrock
- We’re All Going to Die Tonight by Veronica Bane
- Our Dark Unraveling by Margot McGovern
- A Darker Act by Amy Goldsmith
- The Lodge by Natasha Preston
- Building 903 by Lois Lowry
Young Adult Graphic Novels
- School Bus Graveyard by Red
- Marionetta, volume 1 by Miriam Bonastre Tur
- My Life as an Internet Novel by A. Hyeon
- Our Aimless Nights by Koumori
- Cursed Princess Club by LamCat
- Hirayasumi by Keigo Shinzo
- Classroom of the Elite by Syougo Kinugasa
- Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura