50 Books to Read Before Kindergarten
Here is our list of 50 Books to Read Before starting Kindergarten!! This list was lovingly made by our librarians to share books that are fun to read and developmentally appropriate for those about to start Kindergarten.
Beneath
Cori Doerrfeld
Between Words: A Friendship Tale
Saki Tanaka
Boxitects
Kim Smith
The Boy Who Loved Maps
Kari Allen
Color Zoo
Lois Ehlert
Dad Bakes
Katie Yamasaki
Daniel's Good Day
Micha Archer
Dinothesaurus
Douglas Florian
The Dot
Peter Reynolds
Fern and Otto
Stephanie Graegin
Fresh-Picked Poetry
Michelle Schaub
Good Night, Baddies
Deborah Underwood
Grilled Cheese? Yes, Please!
Tim Kleyn
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
Karen Beaumont
I Like This, You Like That
Linda Ashman
I Love You, Stinky Face
Lisa McCourt
I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen
If Frogs Made the Weather
Marion Dane Bauer
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
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Just Because
Mac Barnett
Lena's Shoes Are Nervous
Keith Calabrese
Linus The Little Yellow Pencil
Scott Magoon
Little i
Michael Hall
Little Seasons: Spring Seeds
Mirka Hokkanen
The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)
Philemon Sturges
Love Waves
Rosemary Wells
The Mochi Makers
Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson
Mommy's Hometown
Hope Lim
Monster Hands
Karen Kane, Jonaz McMillan
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
Dr. Seuss
My Dog's a Chicken
Susan McElroy Montanari
Outside In
Deborah Underwood
Over and Under the Snow
Kate Messner
Owl Moon
Jane Yolen
Raindrops Roll
April Pulley Sayre
Round Is a Tortilla
Roseanne Thong
The Runaway Pea
Kjartan Poskitt
Spoon
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Thank You, Omu!
Oge Mora
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Jon Scieszka
There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly
Simms Taback
There's a Monster in Your Book
Tom Fletcher
We Don't Eat Our Classmates
Ryan T. Higgins
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Whose Egg Is That?
Darrin Lunde
Wonder Walkers
Micha Archer
[J] Historical Chapter Books
One of our most requested genres right now is historical! Take a look at this mix of fiction and nonfiction chapter book titles available to check out. Ideal for upper elementary and middle school readers
Echo
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Saving Zasha
Randi G. Barrow
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Prairie Lotus
Linda Sue Park
Talking Leaves
Joseph Bruchac
Amber and Clay
Laura Amy Schlitz
Stella by Starlight
Sharon M. Draper
Soldier Dog
Sam Angus
Race to the Bottom of the Earth
Rebecca E. F. Barone
What Was the Holocaust?
Gail Herman, Who HQ
Flooded
Ann E. Burg
[J] Spooky Middle Grade Fiction
Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex
Justina Ireland
The Fall of the House of Tatterly
Shanna Miles
Ghost and Bone
Andrew Prentice
The Clackity
Lora Senf
Small Spaces
Katherine Arden
Hide and Seeker
Daka Hermon
Whispering Pines
Heidi Lang, Kati Bartkowski
Shadow School #1: Archimancy
J. A. White
The Stitchers (Fright Watch #1)
Lorien Lawrence
The Darkdeep
Ally Condie, Brendan Reichs
The Vanquishers
Kalynn Bayron
Nightbooks
J. A. White
What Stays Buried
Suzanne Young
Watch Hollow
Gregory Funaro
The Hiddenseek
Nate Cernosek
The Skeleton Flute
Damara Allen
City of Ghosts
Victoria Schwab
Scritch Scratch
Lindsay Currie
What Lives in the Woods
Lindsay Currie
Karma Moon--Ghost Hunter
Melissa Savage
The Creepening of Dogwood House
Eden Royce
A Comb of Wishes
Lisa Stringfellow
Eden's Everdark
Karen Strong
The Carrefour Curse
Dianne K. Salerni
The List of Unspeakable Fears
J. Kasper Kramer
The Night Gardener
Jonathan Auxier
The Ghost Road
Charis Cotter
Ophie's Ghosts
Justina Ireland
Gloom Town
Ronald L. Smith
Dust & Grim
Chuck Wendig
Ghostlight
Kenneth Oppel
The Ghost of Midnight Lake
Lucy Strange
It Happened to Anna
Tehlor Kay Mejia
Grumbones
Jenn Bennett
Ghost Squad
Claribel A. Ortega
The Polter-Ghost Problem
Betsy Uhrig
The Girl in the Lake
India Hill Brown
The Ghost of Spruce Point
Nancy Tandon
It Found Us
Lindsay Currie
The Secret Dead Club
Karen Strong
The House That Whispers
Lin Thompson
The International House of Dereliction
Jacqueline Davies
The Ghost Job
Greg van Eekhout
Speculation
Nisi Shawl
The Forgotten Girl
India Hill Brown
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