Looking for some good back-to-school book selections? We’ve compiled a list to help build community, develop listening comprehension and stamina, and get your year off to a great start. Titles are listed in alphabetical order and include links to Amazon as well as helpful lesson information.
When you see an * after the title, that means it's a chapter book.
- A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue by Julia Cook
- A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech
- Amelia Bedelia’s First Day of School by Herman Parish
- And Here’s to You! by David Elliott (Book Look)
- Bailey by Harry Bliss
- The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak
- Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes (Lit Lesson)
- Clifford’s First School Day by Norman Bridwell
- The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
- Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson (Book Look)
- Enemy Pie by Derek Munson (Lit Lesson)
- First Day Jitters (Mrs. Hartwell’s Classroom Adventures) by Julie Danneberg
- First Day, Hooray! by Nancy Poydar
- Franklin Goes to School by Paulette Bourgeois
- Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London
- The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray
- Going Places by Paul A. and Peter H. Reynolds (Book Look)
- The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper (Book Look)
- Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester
- How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? by Jane Yolen
- How to Be by Lisa Brown (Book Look)
- How to Read a Story by Kate Messner
- If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff
- Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus* by Barbara Park
- The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn (Lit Lesson)
- Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes (Lit Lesson)
- Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
- Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I Don’t) by Barbara Bottner
- Morris Goes to School by Bernard Wiseman
- The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires (Book Look)
- Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little* by Peggy Gifford
- Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth by Alison McGhee
- My Teacher Sleeps in School by Leatie Weiss
- My Name Is Yoon by Helen Recorvits (Brief Focus Lesson)
- The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
- The New Girl . . . and Me by Jacqui Robbins
- Only One You by Linda Kranz (Book Look)
- Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes by Eric Litwin
- The Pout-Pout Fish Goes to School by Deborah Diesen
- The Reader by Amy Hest (Book Look)
- The Recess Queen by Alexis O’Neill (Lit Lesson)
- Ruby the Copycat by Peggy Rathmann
- School Bus Board Book by Donald Crews
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School* by Louis Sachar
- Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell
- The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
- The Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler
- This School Year Will Be the BEST! by Kay Winters
- The Year of Billy Miller* by Kevin Henkes
- Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes (Lit Lesson)
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