It's that time of year again. Summer is almost over and school will soon be starting again for another year. To celebrate, here is a list of school related books for all ages to get you in the back to school spirit. As always, click on the book title to place the book on hold or contact your local branch for more information.
Hello School!A cozy introduction to what makes school so much fun features a diverse group of students who share first-day milestones, from getting a cubby and making new friends to taking a nature walk and participating in arts-and-crafts activities.
Schooled
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
High SchoolThis is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, growing up in the height of grunge and rave culture in the 90s, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today. Written in alternating chapters from both Tegan's point of view and Sara's, the book is a raw account of the drugs, alcohol, love, music, and friendships they explored in their formative years.
Off to SchoolPapa Smurf sends all of the Smurfs back to school. At 100 years old, they really need to brush up on their reading skills!
Rock Your School StuffProvides step-by-step instructions to crafty projects to make yourself the coolest school stuff.
Training School
Spud he's scatty and accident prone - but good with gadgets star she's super-smart and ready to pounce... Together they're Spy Pups, following hot in the paw prints of mum LARA (that's Licensed Assault and Rescue Animal to you). Spud and Star can't wait. They're in New York training with the FBI - America's very best spies.
Tool SchoolTold in rhyming text, five tools--Hammer, Screwdriver, Pliers, Saw, and Tape Measure--learn to work together on their first day of school.
School TripEighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together.
Spy SchoolTwelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.
Kitty SchoolWhen it's time for kitty school in the Dollhouse, Gabby and the Gabby Cats get ready for a super-fun learning adventure!
School Rules!
Cassandra LOVES school so much that she never, ever wants to leave! One Friday, Cassandra decides she is going to stay at school. She stays after the nice teacher leaves. She stays while the janitor with a tattoo mops the floors. She stays after the mean principal turns off all the lights and goes home. She plays with the plasticine and the unit blocks until after dark, when her mom and dad realize she is not at the dinner table. They go to the school and take her back home. The next day, Cassandra gets up and puts her school clothes on. Her parents explain that it's Saturday and there is NO school on Saturday. But Cassandra takes her bike and heads off anyway but the school is locked. On her way back home she goes by the School Store and places an order. The next day is Sunday, and Cassandra looks out the window to find a brand-new red-brick school with a nice teacher, a mean principal, and a janitor with tattoos in her back yard. She runs out the door, into her new school, sits down at a desk in the classroom with the nice teacher, and plays with the unit blocks and plasticine!
Rachel's back in school in Lancaster County! And that's where trouble finds her once again! Except this time, trouble is spelled O-R-L-I-E. That's the name of the new boy-the freckle-faced kid with a nasty cowlick-who has an ornery attitude when it comes to Rachel. From mixed-up school lunches to playground high jinks, these two Amish kids are off on the wrong bare foot. Will nine-year-old Rachel be able to survive Orlie's constant teasing? Can anything good come from this mayhem and madness?
School Buses
Simple text and full color photographs introduce young readers to school buses. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade.
It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself.
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
A young monster with no manners goes to a new school and learns from another student the manners she should use at school.
One spring night in 1998 the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies as allies in her tenure at the school. For her best friend, scholarship student Kersti Kuusk, the lingering questions surrounding Cressida's fall continue to nag long after she leaves the Lycée. Kersit marries and becomes a bestselling writer, but never stops wondering about Cressida's obsession with the Helvetian Society - a secret clue banned years before their arrival at the school - and a pair of its members who were expelled. When she is invited as a guest to the Lycée's 100th anniversary, she begins probing the cover-up, unearthing a frightening underbelly of lies and abuse at the prestigious establishment. And in one portentous moment, Kersti makes a decision that will connect her to Cressida forever and raise the stakes dangerously high in her own desire to solve the mystery and redeem her past.
Every image in this beautiful picture book for young readers speaks to the importance of education, and the physical commitment children are willing to make each day to attain it.
The most important investment parents can make is finally simplified, Gail-style.
This updated classic gives students the tools they need to successfully transition from high school to college, avoid rookie mistakes, and set themselves up for academic success from day one.
