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MPS Reads

In support of our Ambitious Instruction Plan for reading, each month we will feature below suggested titles for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 students. The goal is to

  • assist teachers, librarians, parents, and others in finding interesting books that will encourage and excite students to read more literature and informational text;
  • suggest titles that allow students to see themselves, explore other cultures, and discover more about the world in which they live;
  • increase the volume of books that students are reading independently to ignite a passion for reading.
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Carlitos, holding a small flag of Puerto Rico and running on a bayside street with his cat at sunset

September 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for September 2024. Titles include Big Kids NO Everything; Bitsy Bat: School Star; Remember; Isla to Island; Summer of the Mariposas; Ain't Burned All the Bright; Ni gua ni miau; and Across the Bay.

A smiling girl wearing swim goggles in the gently swirling water of a pool

August 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for August 2024. Titles include Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women; BASH! Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel); El parlamento de lechuzas; A Letter from Your Teacher on the First Day of School; Call Me Adnan; and When You Can Swim.

Bobby, smiling, with fire coming from his hands, his feet, and the top of his head

July 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for July 2024. Titles include Mell Fell, Birdie's Beauty Parlor, Swim Team, Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer, Forgive Me Not, Bitter, La frisita que voló el Caribe, and Like Lava in My Veins.

Two boys on a street in a neighborhood, the older brother putting his arm around the younger brother

June 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for June 2024. Titles include See You Someday Soon; How Tía Lola Saved the Summer; The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale; Nenaza y chicazo; Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina; and All Good in the Hood.

A girl holding a bowl of wonton soup, surrounded by Chinese foods, fortune cookies, and dragons

May 2024 Selections

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! Learn about the selections for May 2024. Titles include Once Upon a Book, Usha and the Big Digger, Finally Seen, They Called Us Enemy, Micaela, and Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods.

A smiling father holding his cherished daughter

April 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for April 2024. Titles include You Be Grandma; Inside Out and Back Again; One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance; Tales of the Madman Underground; ¡Primera caída! (El enmascarado de terciopelo 1); and Yo Soy Muslim: A Father's Letter to His Daughter.

Teo the rabbit and Tim the squirrel looking at each other through the branches of a hazelnut tree

March 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for March 2024. Titles include I Am Able to Shine; A Dress with Pockets; The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague; Indian No More; Maybe an Artist: A Graphic Novel; Enter the Body; and La última avellana.

A big crowd of young women wearing their hair in various ways

February 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for February 2024. Titles include Marvelous Maravilloso: Me and My Beautiful Family; Black Boy Joy; Have You Thanked an Inventor Today?; Cartas de amor de 0 a 10; Sparkle; and Inheritance.

Liam sticking his tongue out trying to catch a snowflake

January 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for January 2024. Titles include Winter Sleep: A Hibernation Story; Miles Lewis: King of the Ice #1; A Work in Progress; I'll Stop the World: A Novel; Diamond Park; David Pinchón; and Just One Flake.

Rio swimming underwater with the whale White Beak

December 2023 Selections

Learn about the selections for December 2023. Titles include Secret Pizza Party; The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors; Leon the Extraordinary: A Graphic Novel; Virtually Me: A New Virtual Reality School Where Students Get a Fresh Start after a Pandemic; and The Lost Whale/La ballena perdida.

A painted-over mural on a school wall of a feathers-wearing, tomahawk-wielding Indian mascot

November 2023 Selections

November is Native American Heritage Month! Learn about the selections for November 2023. Titles include Berry Song; Fall in Line, Holden!; Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge; A Snake Falls to Earth; Nuncaseolvida; and Mascot.

Bad Seed, a giant seed with a big smirk, with friends in ladybug and pirate Halloween costumes

October 2023 Selections

Learn about the selections for October 2023. Titles include The Storyteller's Candle; Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories; Eden's Everdark; Delicious Monsters; Ndura: Hijo de la selva; and The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky.

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