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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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Three Black children in a museum, looking at large paintings of themselves as adults in the future

February 2025 Selections

Learn about the selections for February 2025. Titles include The Doll Test: Choosing Equality; When the Schools Shut Down; Kin: Rooted in Hope; La academia; She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman; and Dear You, Dream Big!

Brothers Max and Jay, wearing traditional Bribri head wraps, gazing fiercely in opposing directions

January 2025 Selections

Learn about the selections for January 2025. Titles include I Need a Hug/Necesito un abrazo; Something, Someday; The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum; Al otro lado; The Accidental Apprentice (Book 1 of 4 in Wilderlore); and Saints of the Household.

Christopher and Mal huddling together on a mountain top as a huge dragon flies over them

December 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for December 2024. Titles include Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon; Maddi's Fridge; This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World; Mañanaland; Boy 2.0; Betting on You; Por ahí viene el huracán; and Impossible Creatures.

Billy Mills in a track suit with USA on the chest, running, with a large eagle flying behind him

November 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for November 2024, Native American Heritage Month. Titles include Clack, Clack! Smack! A Cherokee Stickball Story; Fatty Legs; Indio no más/Indian No More; Borders; Creeboy; Opuestos; and Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills.

Taína holding a hibiscus flower, surrounded by vines in the moonlight

October 2024 Selections

Learn about the selections for October 2024, Hispanic Heritage Month. Titles include Meowl-o-ween; There's a Ghost in This House; The Snips: A Bad Buzz Day (Graphic Novel); Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World; Al principio, viajábamos solas; and The Moonlit Vine.

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.

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