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Mom, I'm Bored

It will only be a few short weeks until you hear this repeated phrase coming from the mouths of your children. Now's the time to start gathering books to keep your child entertained during those dog days of summer!

Why not start with this list of 2013 ALA award-winning book titles for elementary-aged children?

PK-Second Grade
"Back to Front and Upside Down" by Claire Alexander (Grades PK-1)

"Extra Yarn" by Mac Barnett (Grades PK-2)

"Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover" by Cece Bell (Grades K-1)

"One Cool Friend," by Toni Buzzeo (Grades PK-1)

"I, Too, Am America," by Langston Hughes (Grades PK-3)

"This Is Not My Hat" by J. Klassen (Grades PK-2)

"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (All Ages)

"Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons" by Eric Litwin (Grades PK-2)

"Sleep Like a Tiger" by Mary Logue (Grades PK-2)

"Up, Tall and High!" by Ethan Long (Grades K-1)

"Ellen's Broom" by Kelly Starling Lyons (Grades K-3)

"H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination" by Christopher Myers (Grades PK-2)

"Creepy Carrots!" by Aaron Reynolds (Grades PK-2)

"Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert" by Gary D. Schmidt (Grades 2-3)

"Green" by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Grades PK-1)

"Let's Go for a Drive" by Mo Willems (Grades K-1)

"Each Kindness" by Jacqueline Woodson (Grades PK-3)

Grades 3-5

"The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate (Grades 3-5)

"Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin" by Robert Byrd (Grades 3-5)

"Moonbird: a Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95" by Phillip M. Hoose (Grades 3-5)

"Titanic: Voices from the Disaster" by Deborah Hopkinson (Grades 3-5)

"I, Too, Am America" by Langston Hughes (Grades PK-3)

"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (All Ages)

"A Dog Called Homeless" by Sarah Lean (Grades 3-5)

"We’ve Got a Job: the 1963 Birmingham Children’s March" by Cynthia Levinson (Grades 3-5)

"Ellen's Broom" by Kelly Starling Lyons (Grades K-3)

"Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America" by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Grades 3-5)

"Splendors and Glooms" by Laura Amy Schlitz (Grade 5)

"Martin de Porres: the Rose in the Desert" by Gary D. Schmidt (Grades 2-3)

"Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon" by Steve Sheinkin (Grades 4-5)

"Three Times Lucky" by Sheila Turnage (Grades 3-5)

"Each Kindness" by Jacqueline Woodson (Grades PK-3)

Happy Reading!

List compiled by Sewickley Academy Lower School librarians and originally appeared on Sewickley Academy's Private School Blog.

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