Jennifer LaGarde Collections

Jennifer LaGarde is a lifelong teacher and learner with over 20 years in public education. Her educational passions include leveraging technology to help students develop authentic reading lives, meeting the unique needs of students living in poverty and helping learners (of all ages) discern fact from fiction in the information they consume. A huge fan of YA Literature, Jennifer currently lives, works, reads and drinks lots of coffee in Olympia, Washington. Follow her adventures at www.librarygirl.net or on Twitter @jenniferlagarde.
 

Favorite Books Of The Year

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Picture Books

The Blue Pickup
When I Wrap My Hair
One Giant Leap
Built to Last
The Last Stand
Don't Trust Cats (Life Lessons from Chip the Dog)
Partly Cloudy
Everyone Starts Small
I Lived Inside a Whale
The Fish of Small Wishes
Nana in the Country (Nana #2)
There's No Such Thing as Vegetables
The Book Bus
The House Before Falling Into the Sea
Jump for Joy
Aloha Everything
The Heart Never Forgets
Chicken Little and the Very Long Race (Chicken Little #3)
Ahoy!
Just Like Millie
Joyful Song: A Naming Story

Middle Grade Fiction

Isabel in Bloom
Warrior on the Mound
A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)
Louder Than Hunger
And Then, Boom!
Shark Teeth
The First State of Being
Across So Many Seas
Medusa (Myth of Monsters #1)
Ferris
Unstuck
The Partition Project
Amil and the After
Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II (Operation Kinderspion #1)
The Night War
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
Olivetti
On All Other Nights: A Passover Celebration in 14 Stories
Ultraviolet
Winnie Nash Is Not Your Sunshine
Mid-Air

Nonfiction — Elementary, Middle Grade and Up

Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
Glenn Burke, Game Changer: The Man Who Invented the High Five
We Who Produce Pearls: An Anthem for Asian America
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava
A Plate of Hope: The Inspiring Story of Chef José Andrés and World Central Kitchen (English With Some Spanish)
Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King
What's Inside a Bird's Nest?: And Other Questions about Nature & Life Cycles (What's Inside?)
Guts for Glory: The Story of Civil War Soldier Rosetta Wakeman
Cactus Queen: Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National Park
A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison
Great Gusts: Winds of the World and the Science Behind Them
And Yet You Shine: The Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization, and Resistance
The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith!
The Rock in My Throat
Spying on Spies: How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Broke the Nazis' Secret Codes
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
Poetry Comics

Graphic Novels

The Vice Principal Problem (Blue Stars #1)
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival
Unicorn Boy (Unicorn Boy #1)
Next Stop
Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD
Meet Me on Mercer Street
Training Day: El Toro and Friends (World of ¡Vamos! )

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