1. 2015-2016 master list for grades 3 to 5

2. The Great American Dust Bowl by Don Brown Jacket art c. 2013 by Don Brown Used by Permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

3. A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant Knopf

4. Boy on the Porch by Sharon Creech HarperCollins

5. Locomotive by Brian Floca Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster

6. Gingersnap by Patricia Reilly Giff Wendy Lamb Books

7. Words with Wings by Nikki Grimes Wordsong

8. Mary Walker Wears the Pants : The True Story of the Doctor, Reformer, and Civil War Hero by Cheryl Harness Jacket art c. 2013 by Carlo Molinari Albert Whitman

9. White Fur Flying by Patricia MacLachlan Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster

10. Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes Little, Brown & Co.

11. Parrots over Puerto Rico by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore Lee & Low

12. Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse by Tamera Wissinger Jacket art c. 2013 by Matthew Cordell Used by permisison of Houghton Mifflin

13. 2015-2016 master lists for grades 6 to 8

14. The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathy Appelt Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster

15. Hold Fast by Blue Balliett Scholastic Press

16. Doll Bones by Holly Black Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster

17. Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle- maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty by Russell Freedman Used by permission of Holiday House

18. Beholding Bee by Kimberly Newton Fusco Alfred A. Knopf

19. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein Random House Children’s Books

20. The Mad Potter: George Ohr, Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenburg and Sandra Jordan Roaring Brook Press A Neil Porter Book

21. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson Knopf

22. Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan Dial Books for Young Readers

23. Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone Reproduced by permission of Candlewick Press Somerville, MA

24. Girl from Felony Bay by J.E. Thompson Walden Pond Press

25. One Came Home by Amy Timberlake Knopf

26. The Real Boy by Anne Ursu Walden Pond Press

27. Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool Delacorte Press