Book Talk Books 2024-2025

I can recommend books all day long, but sometimes (often?) kids' opinions and tastes differ greatly from mine. Therefore, on checkout days, I have students in grades 3-5 recommend books to each other via book talks - short little "ads" for titles they love. 

Here are their recommended books from last year - most popular at the top. Series and graphic novel favorites endure, so I've indicated NEW titles in those categories from last year. 

Already in collection

Series

• 
  Babysitters Club (#1 again)
  
• Dog Man (#2 again)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (up from #4 last year)
• I Survived (up from #11 last year ... probably because we have graphic novel versions now)
• Wings of Fire (down from #3 last year)
• Dork Diaries 
• Harry Potter 
• Cat Kid Comic Club 
• Percy Jackson 
• Lost in ... 
• The Last Kids on Earth 
• NEW: First Cat in Space 
• Super Potato 
• Bad Kitty 
• Captain Underpants 
• Hooky (I purchased this thanks to a book talk the previous year) 
• Magic Tree House 
• Babymouse 
• Big Nate 
• NEW: My Weird School 
• NEW: Hilo 
• NEW: Junie B. Jones 
• Ivy & Bean 
• Elephant & Piggie
• InvestiGators (I purchased this thanks to a book talk the previous year)
• NEW: Max and the Midnights
• NEW: Warriors
• NEW: My Life as a ... 
• NEW: Judy Moody
• NEW: Sparks
• NEW: Spy School
• NEW: Meesh the Bad Demon (RICBA nominee)
• FGeeTV (I purchased this thanks to a book talk the previous year)
• Bad Guys
• Total Mayhem (I purchased this thanks to a book talk the previous year)
• NEW: Max Crumbly
• NEW: Notebook of Doom
• NEW: Chunky
• Whatever After
• NEW: Nat
• NEW: Goosebumps
• Owl Diaries 
• NEW: Katie the Catsitter
• NEW: Nnewts
• Amulet 
• 
  The Cardboard Kingdom
• NEW: Diary of a Pug
  
  

Picture books

• Pete the Cat books 
• Where's Waldo
• Mel Fell
• Where is My Butt?
• It's Only Stanley
• Spring is Here
• Puppy Cam
• David Goes to School
• Grumpy Cat
  
  

Standalone Graphic novels

• Allergic  (#1 again)
• Smile 6 (up from #3 last year)
• Guts (up from #5 last year)
• Sisters
• No Such Thing as Perfect 
• Art Club (RICBA nominee) 
• Ghosts 
• Frizzy (I purchased this thanks to a book talk the previous year)
• Dream Jumper
• Explorer: Boxes
• Swim Team
• Expedition Backyard 
• Miss Quinces
• Growing Pains (RICBA nominee)
• Forget Me Not
• Roller Girl
• Click
• Short & Skinny
• Awkward
• Copper
• Bad Sister
  
  

MG Novels

• 
  The One and Only Ivan 
• The Wild Robot 
• Hatchet 
• Wonder
• Travel Team
• Flying Solo
• Million Dollar Shot
• Lulu and the Brontosaurus
• Holes 
• Ollie's Odyssey 
• The Lost Library (KRARI read)
  
• If This Were a Story 
• The One and Only Bob
• Framed
• I'm Trapped in a Video Game
• Fever 1793
• Coraline 
• The Mysterious Benedict Society 
• The Tale of Desperaux
  
  

Nonfiction

• Gator Bites
• Gone Again Ptarmigan
• Patrick Mahomes
• Beluga Whales
• Who Would Win?
• Taylor Swift
• My Little Book of Football
• Sand Tiger Sharks
• I Spy
• Lebron James
• Secrets of the Zodiac
• All About Lions

 

Books I will add to the collection

Series

• Campground Kids - added in the fall!
• Search and Rescue

Graphic novels

• Inspector Fly Trap

MG Novels

• Pax