Kids Are Reading

Click here to view the New York Times Childrens book list. Below are just a few of our favorite books.

Kids Age 2-5

Puff, The Magic Dragon. By Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton. Illustrated by Eric Puybaret. Unpaged. Sterling $16.99
(Ages 3 to 7)

600 Black Spots. Written and illustrated by David A. Carter. Little Simon $ Schuster Children's Publishing. $16.99 (Ages 3 and up)

Every Friday. Written and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino. Holt $16.99 (Ages 3 to 7)

Not a Box. Written and illustrated by Antoinette Portis. HarperCollins. $12.99 (Ages 2 to 6)

First the Egg. Written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger. Neal Porter/Roaring Brook. $14.99 (Ages 2 to 6)

Kids Age 5-9

Old Penn Station. Written and Illustrated by William Low. Holt. $16.99 (Ages 5 to 9)

Jabberwocky. Illustrated by Christopher Myers. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children. $15.99 (Ages 5 to 9)

The True meaning of Smekday. Written and illustrated by Adam Rex. 423pp. Hyperion Books for Children. $16.99
(Ages 8 and up)

The Frog who wanted to see the sea. Written and illustrated by Guy Billout. Creative Editions. $17.99 (Ages 7 and up)

The Wall. Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain. Written and illustrated by Peter Sis. Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus $ Giroux. $18. (Ages 8 and up)

Monkey Island by Paula Fox. Bantam Doubleday for young readers, New York, 1997.

 

Books related to Homelessness

A Shelter in Our Car
by Monica Gunning (Author), Elaine Pedlar (Illustrator)

Home Is Where We Live: Life at a Shelter Through a Young Girl's Eyes (Paperback)
by Jane Hertensten (Editor), B. L. Groth (Photographer)

Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan. Mulberry Books, New York, 1991.

Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by Ronald Himler. Clarion Books, New York, 1991.

The Lady in the Box by Ann McGovern. Turtle Books, New York, 1997.

 

Kids Age 9+

The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Written and illustrated by Brian Selznick. Scholastic. $22.99 (Ages 9 and up).

The Arrival. By Shaun Tan. Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic. $19.99 (Ages 10 and up)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling and Mary GrandPré (Hardcover - Jul 21, 2007

His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman (Paperback - Sep 23, 2003)

Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis and Pauline Baynes

Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail by Danica McKellar (Hardcover - Aug 2, 2007)

Beowulf by Kevin Crossley-Holland and Charles Keeping (Hardcover - Jun 18, 1989)

Matilda (Puffin Modern Classics) by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake (Paperback - Sep 23, 2004)

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake (Paperback - Aug 16, 2007

The Witches by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake (Hardcover - Oct 1, 1983) 

The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity-Challenge the World Around You! (Everything Kids Series) by Tom Robinson  
  
Books related to Homelessness Ages 9+

 

Moving to Nowhere: Children's Stories of Homelessness by Mary E. Walsh; Auburn House, 1992.

"Not Just a Shelter Kid": How Homeless Children Find Solace by Melanie Smith. Percy. London : Garland Publishing 1997.

Our Wish by Ralph da Costa Nunez with Jenna Mandel. Illustrated by Madeline Gerstein. Homes for the Homeless, Inc. New York, 1997.

Saily’s Journey by Ralph da Costa Nunez with Karina Kwok. Illustrated by Madeline Gertein Simon. White Tiger Press, New York, 2002.

Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Aladdin Paperbacks, New York, 1996.

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Aladdin Paperbacks, New York, 2000.

Cooper’s Tale by Ralph da Costa Nunez Homes for the Homeless, Inc. New York, 2000.

The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson. Harper Collins Children’s Books, New York, 1958.

Home is Where We Live. Life at a Shelter through a Young Girl’s Eyes by Cornerstone Press Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1995.

Homeless by Bernard Wolf. Orchard Books, New York, 1995.

Ivy, Tales of a Homeless Girl by Summer Brenner. Creative Arts Book Company, Berkley, California, 2000.

The King of Dragons by Carol Fenner. Scholastic Books, 1998.

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