"Check it Out" features books recommended to teachers and parents by school librarians and other educators. Have a recommendation? Send suggestions, along with your name and local union, to lfrenett@nysutmail.org.
Radiant Child - Author/illustrator Javaka Steptoe
Stoked — 1969 - By Helene Forst
Slacker - By Gordon Korman
Sometimes - Written by Hugo Ibarra and John Seidlitz, Illustrated by Katia Lara
The Emancipation of Grandpa Sandy Wills - By Cheryl Wills - Illustration/Design by Randell Pearson
Memory of Light - By Francisco X. Stork
Kindness for Weakness - By Shawn Goodman
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea - By Eunsun Kim with Sebastien Falletti
Amina's New Friends - By Anne O'Brien Carelli, Illustrated by Roberta Collier-Morales
Bud, Not Buddy - By Christopher Paul Curtis
There are no buffalo in Buffalo - By Sally Valentine Illustrations by Suzanne Valentine
Go Set a Watchman - by Harper Lee
Guess Who Zoo? - By Howard Eisenberg
Me and that Asberger Kid - By A. Teacher
Last Stop on Market Street - by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson
Our Community of Workers Coloring Book - by Marilyn Anderson and Jonathan Garlock
Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington - by Frances E. Ruffin, illustrated by Stephen Marchesi
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type - by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin
Manny and the Mango Tree - by Ali R. and Valerie Bustamante, illustrated by Monica Lunot-Kuker
The Crossover - By Kwame Alexander
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - by Doreen Rappaport, Illustrated by Bryan Collier
Counting by 7s - By Holly Goldberg Sloan
Frog Song - by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Bipolar Buffalo: A Mosaic of Minds Journey - by Anthony Antek
Lemonade- Inspired by actual events - By Bernard L. Dillard
Picture me gone - by Meg Rosoff
Travels with Gannon & Wyatt: Egypt - by Patti Wheeler and Keith Hemstreet
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - By Sherman Alexie
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Lula Bell on Geekdom, Freakdom & the Challenges of Bad Hair - C.C. Payne
Have You Seen Marie? - By Rose Reissman
Henry and the Kite Dragon - by Bruce Edward Hall, Illustrated by William Low
Having Our Say - By Sarah A. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust - by Eve Bunting, Illustrated by Stephen Gammell
Buried Alive! How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean Desert - by Elaine Scott
Between Shades of Gray - by Ruta Sepetys
You Will Be My Friend! - by Peter Brown
With the Might of Angels - by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Secret Saturdays - by Torrey Maldonado
Stumptown Kids - by Carol Gorman and Ron Findley
I Get It!, I Get It! - How John Figures It Out - One Boy's Journey and Triumph with Auditory Processing Disorder - by Loraine Alderman and Yvonne Capitelli
The Boy Who Dared - by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story - by Pegi Deitz Shea
Marcelo in the Real World - By Francisco X. Stork