LEVELED READING LISTS
BABIES
PRESCHOOL
KINDERGARTEN
READY to READ
FIRST GRADE
SECOND GRADE
THIRD GRADE
FOURTH GRADE
FIFTH GRADE
SIXTH GRADE
SEVENTH GRADE
PREESCOLAR
THEMED READING (Ages 0-7)
Celebrate
Asian & Pacific Heritage
Celebre
las Historias Latinx
Celebrate
Latinx Stories
Celebrate
LGTBQ+ Stories
Women's History
La Historia de la Mujer
Celebrate
Black Stories
Celebrate
Indigenous Heritage
Celebrate
Jewish Heritage
THEMED READING (Ages 8-12)
Celebrate
Asian & Pacific Heritage
Celebre
las Historias Latinx
Historias de los
Pubelos Originarios
Celebrate
LGTBQ+ Stories
Women's History
La Historia de la Mujer
Celebrate
Black Stories
Celebrate
Indigenous Heritage
Celebrate
Jewish Heritage
FAVORITE THEMES
SPOOKY
BOOKS
LIBROS
ESCALOFRIANTES
HORROR
(ages 9-12)
DRAGONS
(ages 9-12)
RESILIENCE
HISTORIAS
BILINGÜES
CELEBRATE
JUNETEENTH
AWARD WINNERS 2023
Newbery Medal Annual book award that honors the most distinguished book for children.
Caldecott Medal Awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Pura Belpré Award This award is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Coretta Scott King AwardsGiven annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.
Geisel AwardAwarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers.
Batchelder AwardAwarded to a United States publisher for a children’s book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originating in a country other than the United States and in a language other than English and subsequently translated into English.
Sydney Taylor Book Award This award recognizes titles for children and teens that exemplify high literary standards while authentically portraying the Jewish experience.
APALA Award Awarded to honor and recognize individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit.
Odyssey AwardGiven to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
Schneider Family Book AwardsAwarded to honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
John Steptoe New Talent Award Established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a given year within the structure of the two awards given annually by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee.
Stonewall Book Award honored for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.
Sibert Medal Awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English.
