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Books for Every Reader

I believe that there’s a book for every reader, no matter the age. This page is a collection of all the book lists (and sometimes, relevant book reviews) that I have created to support young readers, their teachers, parents, and librarians. I have categorized all the books, from picture books to YA by theme.

You will find everything from middle-grade books about anxiety, adoption, featuring biracial kids, to YA by Black authors, YA about food, and YA about music. For themes where I have yet to publish a list, I have linked to specific books that have already been reviewed on this site.

Happy reading — and feel free to leave questions and recommendations in the comments!

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

  • Table of Contents
  • My Favorites by Year
  • Activity Books
  • Middle-Grade Debuts
  • Picture Books (0 and Up)
    • Bad Days
    • Ballet
    • Bathtime
    • Culture
    • Dance
    • Fathers
    • First Day of School
    • Friendship
  • Growth Mindset
    • Math
    • Problem Solving
    • Siblings
  • Chapter Books for Elementary School (Ages 6-10)
  • Middle-Grade Books by Theme (Ages 8-12)
  • Upper Middle-Grade Books (11-14)
  • Summer Reading Guides
  • Audiobooks
  • My Middle-Grade TBR
    • 2020
    • 2021
    • 2022
  • Graphic Novels
  • Books for Teens

My Favorites by Year

  • 2019
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • 2022

Activity Books

  • Drawing and coloring books
  • Joke books
  • Dictionaries for kids

Middle-Grade Debuts

  • 2020 Debut Middle-Grade Books

Picture Books (0 and Up)

  • Adoption
  • Alphabets
  • Animals
  • Anxiety
  • Art
  • Board books
  • Bathtime
  • Back to school
  • Bedtime
  • Bees
  • Being yourself/Being Unique
  • Birds
  • Biographies
  • Black authors
  • Body
  • Camping
  • Colors
  • Cooking
  • Counting
  • Courage
  • Dance
  • Death and grief
  • Dementia
  • Disability
  • Divorce
  • Dogs
  • Dragons
  • Earth
  • Fall
  • Fathers
  • Fear of the dark
  • Feelings
  • Food baking and cooking
  • Funny
  • Gardening
  • Grandparents
  • Gratitude
  • Growth mindset
  • Horses
  • Imagination
  • Indian culture
  • Interactive
  • Joy of books and reading
  • Kindness
  • Love
  • Managing anger
  • Mindfulness
  • Mothers
  • Moving
  • Preschool read-aloud
  • Siblings
  • Shapes
  • Snow and winter
  • Summer
  • Trees
  • Unique names
  • Welcoming new sibling

Bad Days

  • Sunday Funday in Koreatown, Aram Kim

Ballet

  • Bunheads, Misty Copeland

Bathtime

  • Off to See the Sea, Nikki Grimes

Culture

  • Bindu’s Bindis, Supriya Kelkar

Dance

  • The Electric Slide and Kai, Kelly J. Baptist; Darnell Johnson

Fathers

  • The Way to Treasure Island
  • Help Wanted, Must Love Books

First Day of School

  • Clothesline Clues to the First Day of School
  • Go Be Wonderful, Donna Gephart
  • Lola Goes to School

Friendship

  • Antonino’s Impossible Dream
  • Stay Through the Storm
  • Friendship picture book list

Growth Mindset

  • Bella’s Recipe for Success

Math

  • Bracelets for Bina’s Brothers, Rajani LaRocca
  • Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum, Natasha Yim

Problem Solving

  • Catch That Chicken, Atinuke

Siblings

  • Ten Little Dumplings, Larissa Pan
  • Zoo-Mate Wanted, Korrie Leer

Chapter Books for Elementary School (Ages 6-10)

  • Animals
  • Ballet and dance
  • Best early readers for kids
  • Black authors
  • Chapter books for beginning readers
  • Chapter books for boys
  • Chapter books for third graders
  • Best books for 8-year-olds
  • Great books for 9-year-old boys
  • Fifth graders
  • Friendship chapter books
  • Graphic novels
  • Moving to a new house
  • Siblings
  • STEM fiction
  • Starting a business
  • 2021 Chapter books and picture books

Middle-Grade Books by Theme (Ages 8-12)

  • 9/11
  • 100 exceptional middle-grade books to read in 2023
  • Action and adventure
  • Adoption
  • Alzheimer’s/Dementia
  • Animals and pets
  • Anxiety books (kids with anxiety)
  • Arab protagonists
  • Art, Crafts and Photography
  • Asian authors
  • Awesome books for 10-year-old boys
  • Ballet and dance
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Being an only child
  • Best soccer books for kids
  • Best funny books
  • Biracial protagonists
  • Birds and bird-watching
  • Black authors
  • B’nai Mitzvahs
  • Boy books (with a male protagonist)
  • Boy-boy friendships
  • Body image and body positivity
  • Bullying
  • Chess
  • Coming of age
  • Community
  • Dealing with changes
  • Death and grief
  • Dementia
  • Disability
  • Divorce and blended families
  • Dog books
  • Domestic abuse
  • Earth/Environment (with PRINTABLE)
  • Enjoyable books for 11-year-old boys
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Exciting books for 12-year-old boys
  • Family stories (big & small families)
  • Farm (set on a farm
  • Favorite realistic fiction
  • Featuring black girl leads
  • Featuring Korean protagonists
  • Feel-good
  • Female main characters
  • Fiction and non-fiction pairings
  • Food books (main character loves cooking or story centered around food)
  • Friendship
  • Funny books
  • Grandparent stories
  • Graphic novels for girls
  • Historical fiction
  • Holocaust
  • Homelessness & poverty
  • Horse books
  • Immigration
  • Intergenerational friendships
  • Jewish
  • Latino authors
  • Libraries
  • Make you cry
  • Mental illness in the family
  • Middle school life
  • Moving to a different house, city, or country
  • Multiple narrators or POV
  • Muslim
  • Music and musical theatre
  • Mysteries
  • Native American
  • Neurodiverse protagonists (autism, OCD, dyslexia, ADHD, learning difficulties)
  • New kid in school
  • Non-fiction
  • Periods and puberty
  • Refugees
  • Road trips
  • Robots
  • Romance
  • Sci-fi
  • Series and companion titles
  • Set in Asia
  • Set in Africa
  • Set in Europe
  • Set in motels
  • Set in NYC
  • Set in small towns
  • Set on a ship
  • Sexual harassment and consent
  • Seventh graders
  • Space books
  • STEM fiction
  • Stuttering
  • Siblings
  • Sisters
  • Short books (under 250 pages)
  • Shy kids
  • Sixth graders
  • Sports
  • Spy books
  • Summer
  • Summer Camp
  • Superheroes
  • Survival
  • Time and travel
  • Tween girls
  • Third-Culture kids
  • Verse novels
  • Video games and video gaming
  • Writers and kid reporters

Upper Middle-Grade Books (11-14)

  • The best upper middle-grade books to read
  • Books for 7th graders
  • 8th grade books

Summer Reading Guides

  • 2021 Summer Reading Guide

Audiobooks

  • Tween audiobooks
  • Audiobooks for the whole family
  • YA audiobooks
  • Picture books on audio

My Middle-Grade TBR

2020

  • Winter/Spring
  • September Backlist Spotlight
  • October Backlist Spotlight
  • Summer/Fall

2021

  • Winter/Spring
  • February Backlist Spotlight
  • Summer/Fall

2022

  • Winter/Spring

Graphic Novels

  • The best graphic novels for tweens
  • Graphic novels for 8-year-olds
  • Graphic novels for 9-year-olds
  • Graphic novels for 10-year-olds
  • Graphic novels for 11-year-olds
  • Friendship
  • Food
  • Non-fiction
  • Siblings
  • Sports
  • Tween graphic novel series
  • Race
  • Young graphic novels (K-6)
  • YA graphic novels

Books for Teens

  • Boarding schools
  • Body image
  • College Admission Fiction
  • Food YA
  • Fat kids in YA
  • Historical fiction (with PRINTABLE)
  • Music books for teens
  • Mental illness
  • Sports YA
  • Summer romances
  • Young YA
  • YA by Asian authors
  • YA by Black authors
  • YA by Latino authors
  • My favorite books for 16-and-up teens
  • YA about family

Last Updated:3rd March 2023

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