Colby Sharp’s Favorite New Books!

Colby Sharp is a husband and father of five. He teaches fifth grade in Parma, Michigan. Colby is the co-founder of Nerdy Book Club, and he co-hosts The Yarn podcast with Travis Jonker. Colby co-authored Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids with Donalyn Miller, and he is the editor of The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection. His latest book with Donalyn Miller, A Commonsense Guide to Classroom Libraries, is now available.

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Picture Books

Chooch Helped
Good Golden Sun
Thank You, Teacher!
Let's Be Bees
The Hole
How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way
To See an Owl
One Small Spark: A Tikkun Olam Story
Saturday Morning at the 'Shop
It's Winter! (Celebrate the Seasons #2)
Cookie Time
Cold
Touch the Sky
The Table
Still Life
My Daddy Is a Cowboy: A Picture Book
The Cat Way
The Man Who Didn't Like Animals
Leo's First Vote!
I'm Sorry You Got Mad
Joyful Song: A Naming Story
Sour Apple
Emma Full of Wonders
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
Built to Last
The Ship in the Window
Being Home
The Yellow Bus
Partly Cloudy
Just Like Millie
Animal Albums from A to Z
Ahoy!
Spider in the Well
Poetry Comics
A Friend for Eddy
Bros
Ready to Soar
There's No Such Thing as Vegetables
Nana in the Country (Nana #2)
The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn
Love Grows
Pepper and Me
Threads: Zlata's Ukrainian Shirt
The Last Stand
Gravity Is Bringing Me Down
My Block Looks Like
In the Night Garden
My Powerful Hair
Santa's Gotta Go!
I'm From
Nell Plants a Tree
My Name
Fox Has a Problem (I Can Read! My First: Shared Reading)
Hidden Gem
A Smart, Smart School
Enough Is...
Real to Me
The World and Everything in It
Twenty Questions
Milloo's Mind: The Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women's Education
The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
This Is a Story
Once Upon a Book
In Every Life
Evergreen
Beneath
Gibberish
Perfectly Pegasus (Not Quite Narwhal #2)
How Old Is Mr. Tortoise?
Lizzy and the Cloud
Every Dog in the Neighborhood
John's Turn
This Is a School
Three Pockets Full: A Story of Love, Family, and Tradition
The Sun Is Late and So Is the Farmer
Farmhouse
Berry Song
The Mouse Who Carried a House on His Back
The World Belonged to Us
Pigeon & Cat
Knight Owl (The Knight Owl #1)
Nigel and the Moon
My Brother Is Away
Pip and Zip
The Bird Book
I Don't Care

Nonfiction Picture Books

Seeds of Discovery
The Painter and the President: Gilbert Stuart's Brush with George Washington
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall
Kamala Raised Her Hand
Gifts from the Garbage Truck: A True Story about the Things We (Don't) Throw Away
The Wolf Effect: A Wilderness Revival Story
The Iguanodon's Horn: How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
Basketball: Amazing But True Stories! (Who Got Game?)
And Yet You Shine: The Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization, and Resistance
Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA
Cactus Queen: Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National Park
Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough
Daytime and Nighttime: Explore the Earth's Habitats During the Day and Night - Flip Over to Explore the Daytime
The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made of
Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior
Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider
We Are Branches
The Book of Turtles
The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic
Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine: Josephine Cochrane's Bright Invention Makes a Splash
A Take-Charge Girl Blazes a Trail to Congress: The Story of Jeannette Rankin
Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll
The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest
To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights
A Story Is to Share: How Ruth Krauss Found Another Way to Tell a Tale
Nellie vs. Elizabeth: Two Daredevil Journalists' Breakneck Race Around the World
To the Front!: Clara Barton Braves the Battle of Antietam
The Sweetest Scoop: Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Revolution
Dazzlin' Dolly: The Songwriting, Hit-Singing, Guitar-Picking Dolly Parton
Wait and See
Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming and Launched a Worldwide Obsession
Mega-Predators of the Past
Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story
Over and Under the Waves (Over and Under)
Tree Hole Homes: Daytime Dens and Nighttime Nooks
The Girl Who Built an Ocean: An Artist, an Argonaut, and the True Story of the World's First Aquarium
The Replay: 25 Greatest Moments in Sports
Splash!: Ethelda Bleibtrey Makes Waves of Change
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

Middle Grade Fiction

A World Worth Saving
It's All or Nothing, Vale
Will's Race for Home
Same Page
Kareem Between
Safiyyah's War
Not Nothing
Radiant
Welcome to Scare School (The Scare School Diaries #1)
The Shape of Lost Things
Lifeboat 5
Gracie Under the Waves
Unsinkable Cayenne
Popcorn
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
The Sherlock Society (The Sherlock Society #1)
Invisible Isabel
Not Another Banned Book
How It All Ends
The Frindle Files
Felix Powell, Boy Dog
The Witching Wind
Fowl Play
Tree. Table. Book.
Vega's Piece of the Sky
The Wrong Way Home
Mid-Air
Gut Reaction
Fortune Tellers
Trouble at the Tangerine
Hummingbird Season
True Colors
And Then, Boom!
Emma McKenna, Full Out (The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class #1)
The One and Only Family (One and Only #4)
Isabel in Bloom
Deep Water
The Mystery of Locked Rooms
The Secret Language of Birds
The First State of Being
Louder Than Hunger
Uprising
Ferris
Unstuck
Across So Many Seas
Averil Offline
Sunny Makes Her Case: A Graphic Novel (Sunny #5)
Drawing Deena
Just Keep Walking
Not Quite a Ghost
Slugfest
A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Jawbreaker
Coyote Queen
Forever Twelve (The Evers)
The Death and Life of Benny Brooks: Sort of a Memoir
The Wild Robot Protects (Wild Robot #3)
Something Like Home
Hope in the Valley
Mixed Up
The Lost Library
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
The Do More Club
The House Swap
Bella and the Vampire (Shiver by the Sea #1)
Heroes by a Hair (Link + Hud)
Wishing Season
Simon Sort of Says
The Probability of Everything
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Elf Dog and Owl Head
Like Lava in My Veins
North of Supernova
Where the Water Takes Us
The Order of Things
The Labors of Hercules Beal
Control Freaks
The Gray
Half Moon Summer
The Cobra's Song
Opinions and Opossums
Maizy Chen's Last Chance
The One and Only Ruby (One and Only #3)
Leeva at Last
Not an Easy Win
Finally Seen (Finally Seen #1)
Freewater
Worser
The Last Mapmaker
A Duet for Home
Those Kids from Fawn Creek
A Song Called Home
Anybody Here Seen Frenchie?
Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
Operation Do-Over
A Perfect Mistake
The Night Bus Hero
Golden Girl
The Road to After
The Last Beekeeper
Mr. Lemoncello's Very First Game (Mr. Lemoncello's Library Prequel)
Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
Big Rig
Thirst
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
Tumble
Different Kinds of Fruit
The Fort
A Rover's Story
Chester Keene Cracks the Code
Oh, Sal
The Hurricanes of Weakerville
Attack of the Black Rectangles
Two Degrees
The Bridge Battle (Lemonade War #6)
If You Read This
The Bluest Sky
Mihi Ever After (Mihi Ever After #1)
You Only Live Once, David Bravo
Hummingbird
New From Here
The Midnight Children
The Ogress and the Orphans
The Infinite Questions of Dottie Bing
The Real Deal

Graphic Novels

Speechless: A Graphic Novel
Dog Trouble
We Are Big Time
The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue
Gamerville
Next Stop
Pizza Face: A Graphic Novel
The Adventures of Thunder and Sage (Wagnificent)
Lucky Scramble
Timid
Meet Me on Mercer Street
The Vice Principal Problem (Blue Stars #1)
Besties! (Big Adventures of Babymouse #2)
The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom (The First Cat in Space #2)
New in Town (Curlfriends)
Ghost Book
Low Power (Your Pal Fred #2)
Mexikid
The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza (First Cat in Space #1)
School Trip (RAD #3)
Squished
A First Time for Everything
Snow Day (Mr. Wolf's Class #5)
The Aquanaut
Invisible (English With Some Spanish)
The Tryout (The Tryout #1)
Swim Team
Growing Pangs (From the Universe of Growing Pangs)
Booked (Crossover Graphic Novel)
Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy
Your Pal Fred (Your Pal Fred #1)
Leon the Extraordinary (Leon #1)
Play Like a Girl

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