Back to School
Grab your backpacks. Sharpen your pencils.
Get ready for school with these great books!
PICTURE BOOKS
- Off to first grade by Louise Borden (Juv-E B OVERSIZE)
Students in a first grade class express excitement, worry, and hope as the first day of school begins.
- Clifford's first school day by Norman Bridwell (Juv-E B)
Clifford's first day at school with Emily Elizabeth is filled with finger-painting, cookie-baking, and other messy adventures.
- Kindergarten kids by Stephanie Calmenson (Juv-E C)
Cheerful rhymes make up this collection of poems about kindergarten.
- I am too absolutely small for school by Lauren Child (Juv-E C)
When Lola is worried about starting school, her older brother Charlie reassures her.
- Will I have a friend? by Miriam Cohen (Juv-E C)
Jim's concerns on his first day of school are happily forgotten when he makes a new friend.
- Little Brown Bear won't go to school by Jane Dyer (Juv-E D)
Little Brown Bear does not want to go to school, so he tries various jobs instead.
- Ready, set, preschool! by Anna Jane Hays (Juv-E H)
A collection of simple stories, poems, and picture games help children prepare for preschool.
- Wemberly worried by Kevin Henkes (Juv-E H)
Wemberly the mouse worries about the first day of nursery school.
- Off to school, Baby Duck! by Amy Hest (Juv-E H)
With a little help from Grampa, everything goes just right for Baby Duck’s first day of school.
- The apple doll by Elisa Kleven (Juv-E K)
Lizzy makes a doll out of an apple from her favorite tree to take with her to school on her first day.
- If you take a mouse to school by Laura Numeroff (Juv-E N)
Follow a boy and his mouse through a busy day at school.
- The kissing hand by Audrey Penn (Juv-E P)
Chester is reluctant to go to kindergarten, but his mother shows him a secret to carry her love with him.
- What a day it was at school! by Jack Prelutsky (Juv 821 P)
Enjoy a funny, outrageous, exciting, incredible, silly, extraordinary day at school!
- My name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits (Juv-E R)
Korean-born Yoon, or "shining wisdom," refers to herself as "cat," "bird," and "cupcake," to feel more comfortable in her new school and country.
- Welcome to kindergarten by Anne Rockwell (Juv-E R)
A boy visits the classroom where he will attend kindergarten.
- The twelve days of kindergarten by Deborah Lee Rose (Juv-E R)
A child counts items in his kindergarten classroom.
- Off to school! by Ann Schweninger (Juv-E S)
Button Brown has an exciting first day at school.
- Miss Bindergarten gets ready for kindergarten by Joseph Slate (Juv-E S)
Learn the letters of the alphabet as Miss Bindergarten and her students get ready for kindergarten.
- I love school! by Philemon Sturges (Juv-E S)
A brother and sister describe the things they love to do during their day at kindergarten.
- Mouse's first day of school by Lauren Thompson (Juv-E T)
Mouse finds a world of new objects and new friends at school.
- Emily's first 100 days of school by Rosemary Wells (Juv-E W OVERSIZE)
Emily learns the numbers from 1 to 100 through different activities at school.
CHAPTER BOOKS:
- Ramona the brave by Beverly Cleary (Juv-F C)
Determined to be brave, six-year-old Ramona begins first grade.
- Amber Brown is not a crayon by Paula Danziger (Juv-F D)
Third grade is a sad time for Amber because her best friend Justin is moving away.
- Get ready for second grade, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger (Juv-YR D)
Amber is nervous about starting second grade with a new teacher, but things turn out just fine.
- How to be cool in the third grade by Betsy Duffey (Juv-F D)
Robbie decides that the only way to survive third grade is by being cool.
- The year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill (Juv-F H)
Frederika and her friends wonder if their new teacher will last very long in their isolated Alaskan village.
- Ever-clever Elisa by Johanna Hurwitz (Juv-F H)
The year Elisa enters the first grade is filled with exciting times at school and special celebrations at home.
- Judy Moody by Megan McDonald (Juv-F M)
Judy Moody is in a “back-to-school bad mood” until she gets a project to create a collage about herself.
- The first day of school by Margaret McNamara (Juv-YR M)
After a summer of playing with his puppy, Michael is sad to leave him at home for the first day of school.
- The worst witch by Jill Murphy (Juv-F M)
Mildred’s first term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches starts badly; she can't control her broom, her kitten, or her spells.
- Sideways stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar (Juv-F S)
All kinds of funny things happen at Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways!
- The flunking of Joshua T. Bates by Susan Shreve (Juv-F S)
Driving home from the beach on Labor Day, Joshua receives some shocking news from his mother:
he must repeat third grade.
- Oliver Pig at school by Jean Van Leeuwen (Juv-YR V)
During Oliver Pig's first day at school, he builds with blocks, plays with his toy dinosaur, and makes
a new friend.
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