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The Birthday Book tradition gives parents the opportunity to donate a book in honor of their child's love for reading by purchasing a favorite book to donate to the school library on the child's birthday. The student presents the book at Friday morning chapel where everyone can see the new library addition. A bookplate with the child's name and birthday is placed in the book prior to circulation. Book recommendations are updated monthly. Please purchase a hardback version, when possible. 

Grades Pre-K-First

• The Five Chinese Brothers by: Claire Huchet Bishop
• Miss Nelson has a Field Day by: Garrett Christopher
• Miss Nelson is Back by: Garrett Christopher
• Bunny Bungalow by: Cynthia Rylant
• Every Living Thing by: Cynthia Rylant
• If You'll be My Valentine by: Cynthia Rylant
• The Relative's Came by: Cynthia Rylant
• The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery by: Graeme Base
• Jungle Dreams by: Graeme Base
• 1,2,3 to the Zoo by: Eric Carle
• "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,' said the Sloth by: Eric Carle
• A Good Day by: Kevin Henkes
• Lily's Chocolate Heart by: Kevin Henkes
• Shhh by: Kevin Henkes
• Jamie O'Rourke and the Giant Potato by; Tomie Depaola
• Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure by: Doreen Cronin
• Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabet Adventure by: Doreen Cronin
• Dooby Dooby Moo by: Doreen Cronin
• Wiggle by: Doreen Cronin
• The Apple Pie Tree by: Zoe Hall
• It's Pumpkin Time! By: Zoe Hall
• Goggles by: Ezra Jack Keats
• Regards to the Man in the Moon by: Ezra Jack Keats
• Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe by: Vera B. Williams
• Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea by: Vera B. Williams
• Piggies by: Audrey and Don Wood
• Heckedy Peg by: Audrey and Don Wood
• Quick as a Cricket by: Audrey and Don Wood
• For Pete's Sake by: Ellen Stoll Walsh
• Hop Jump by: Ellen Stoll Walsh

Grades 2-3

• Babuska's Doll by:Patricia Polacco
• Chicken Sunday by: Patricia Polacco
• Just Plain Fancy by: Patricia Polacco
• An Orange for Frankie by: Patricia Polacco
• Lunch Money by: Andrew Clements
• Room One-A Mystery or Two by: Andrew Clements
• Things Not Seen by: Andrew Clements
• Otis Spofford by: Beverly Cleary
• "The Cobble Street Cousins" series by: Cynthia Rylant
• "Ivy + Bean" series by: Annie Barrows
• "Katie Kazoo" series by: Nancy Krulik
• "A to Z Mystery" series by: Rob Roy
• "Secrets of Droon" series by Tony Abbott
• Clementine by: Sara Pennypacker
• Song of the Water Boatman: And Other Pond Poems by: Joyce Sidman
• Heckedy Peg by: Audrey and Don Wood
• The Golden Goose by: Dick King-Smith
• Hairy Hezakiah by: Dick King-Smith
• Falling Up: Poems and Drawings by: Shel Silverstein
• Listen to the Wind by: Greg Mortenson

Grades 4-6

• "Pendragon" series, books 5-10, by: D.J.MacHale
• "Spartan Quest" series, Birth of a Warrior, by: Michael Ford
• "Vet Volunteers" series by: Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Van Gogh Cafe by: Cynthia Rylant
• Jip: His Story by: Katherine Paterson
• Park's Quest by: Katherine Paterson
• Chasing Redbird by: Sharon Creech
• Ruby Hollar by: Sharon Creech
• A Ring of Endless Light by: Madeline L'Engle
• Two Under Par by: Kevin Henkes
• 2095 by: Jon Scieszka
• The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story by: Sid Fleischman
• Anastasia Krupnik by: Louis Lowry
• Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess by: Richard Platt
• Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by: Lesley Blume
• Fair Weather by: Richard Peck
• Island of the Aunts by: Eva Ibbotson
• Mount Olympus Basketball by: Kevin O'Malley
• Mr. Chickee's Funny Money by: Christopher Paul Curtis
• Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter by: Richard Platt
• The Squire's Tale by: Gerald Morris
• The Storyteller's Beads by: Jane Kurtz
• The Wreckers by: Iain Lawrence

Any Non-Fiction Books about

• Animals
• Technology
• Transportation
• United States Symbols (Mt. Rushmore, Statue of Liberty, etc.)
• Athletics
• World Records (Guinness Books)
• Crafts and Hobbys