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MPS Reads

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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June 2025 Selections

Learn about the selections for June 2025. Titles include Chicken Soup for the Soul Babies: Keep Trying (Don't Give Up!); Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel; The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman; Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy); Redes; and All About Nothing.

Gigi Shin, holding an artist's paintbrush, with an easel and artworks behind her

May 2025 Selections

Learn about the selections for May 2025. Titles include Tiny Feet Between the Mountains, Home in a Lunchbox, Finally Heard, Tricky Chopsticks, The Many Masks of Andy Zhou, La trenza o el viaje de Lalita, and Gigi Shin Is Not a Nerd.

A fierce, tough-looking buffalo with horns and lots of fluffy fur frowning at us

April 2025 Selections

Learn about the selections for April 2025. Titles include A Whale of a Time: A Funny Poem for Each Day of the Year; My Block Looks Like; Cruzita and the Mariacheros; Call Us What We Carry; ¿Dónde estás, primavera?; and Buffalo Fluffalo.

A parent and child, both holding nautical spyglasses, grinning and gazing across the pretend ocean

March 2025 Selections

Learn about the selections for March 2025. Titles include Wind Watchers; Molly, by Golly! The Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter; Felice and the Wailing Woman/Felice y La Llorona; The Prince and the Coyote; Pitu le baila al mar; and Ahoy!

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.

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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.

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