Staff Book Recommendations

🔹All Different Now - Angela Johnson

🔹All the Way to the Top - Annette Bay Pimentel

🔹I’m Not a Girl - Maddox Lyons and Jessica Verdi

🔹We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga - Traci Sorrel

🔹Woke Baby - Mahogany Brown

🔹Antiracist Baby - Ibram X. Kendi

🔹Jabari Jumps - Gaia Cornwall

🔹Hair Love - Mathew Cherry

🔹Be Kind - Pat Zietlow Miller 

🔹We're Different We're The Same and We're All Wonderful (Sesame Street) - Bobbi Kates 

🔹I am Enough - Grace Byers

🔹Sofia Valdez Future Prez - Andrea Beaty 

🔹I Like Myself - Karen Beaumont 

🔹Corduroy - Don Freeman

🔹The Snowy Day - Ezra Keats 

🔹Fry Bread - Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal

🔹I Am Every Good Thing - Derrick Barnes

🔹Sulwe - Lupita Nyong'o

🔹Trombone Shorty - Troy Andrews and Bill Taylor

🔹Efrén Divided - Ernesto Cisneros

🔹Blended - Sharon Draper

🔹Stella By Starlight - Sharon Draper

🔹Out of My Mind - Sharon Draper

🔹El Deafo - Cece Bell

🔹Little Man, Little Man - James Baldwin

🔹Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson

🔹Front Desk - Kelly Yang

🔹Inside Out and Back Again - Thanhha Lai

🔹The Watsons Go to Birmingham - Christopher Paul Curtis

🔹Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - Grace Lin

🔹The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales - Virginia Hamilton

🔹Sea Prayer - Khaled Hosseini

🔹Stir It Up! - Ramin Ganeshram

🔹Merci Suárez Changes Gears - Meg Medina

🔹From the Desk of Zoe Washington - Janae Marks

🔹Save Me a Seat - Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan

🔹A Good Kind of Trouble - Lisa Moore Ramée

🔹Black Brother, Black Brother - Jewell Parker Rhodes

🔹When Starts Are Scattered - Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

🔹Wonder - R.J. Palacio

🔹The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros

🔹Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes

🔹Monster - Walter Dean Myers

🔹The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

🔹Stamped - Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

🔹The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas​

🔹March (trilogy) - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin;  illustrated by Nate Powell

🔹Everything Sad is Untrue -  Daniel Nayeri

🔹Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents (2008), by Ronald Rapee, et al.

🔹Parent-Led CBT for Child Anxiety: Helping Parents Help Their Kids (2016), by C. Creswell, M. Parkinson, K. Thirtwall, and L. Willetts

🔹Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, Revised and Updated Edition: Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life — from Toddlers to Teens (2014), by Tamar E. Chansky

🔹Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility, and Happiness (2008), by Tamar E. Chansky

🔹Monsters Under the Bed and Other Childhood Fears: Helping your Child Overcome Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias (Villard Books, 1993), by Stephen W. Garber, PhD, Robyn Freedman Spizman, and Marianne Daniels Garber 

🔹What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake: A Kid's Guide to Accepting Imperfection (2015), by Claire A. B. Freeland and Jacquelline B. Toner

🔹The Anxiety Workbook for Kids: Take Charge of Fears and Worries Using the Gift of Imagination (2016), by R. Alter and C. Clarke

🔹The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids: Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety, and Transitions (2009), by L. Shapiro and R. Sprague

🔹What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Managing Anxiety, by Dawn Huebner, PhD

🔹Outsmarting Worry: An Older Kid’s Guide to Managing Anxiety, by Dawn Huebner, PhD

🔹What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming OCD, by Dawn Huebner, PhD