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

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

Middle Grade Fiction

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

Nonfiction — Elementary, Middle Grade and Up

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

Graphic Novels

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

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