Check out these picture books to help with the first day of school jitters. It’s Your First Day of School, Busy Bus! by Jody Jensen Shaffer The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson A Place Called Kindergarten by Jessica Harper The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes Chu’s First Day of School by Neil Gaiman
August is Read a Romance Month! Love stories are celebrated in the middle of the hottest month of the year! If it has been a while since you've read a romance novel, you may be surprised at the changes in the genre. Romance novels now reflect people of different ethnicities, body types, and sexual orientations.
These atmospheric fantasy novels are retellings of traditional tales and have fairy tale conventions turned upside down. Dark and Deepest Red by Anna Marie McLemore Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust Lobizona by Romina Garber Red Hood by Elana K Arnold A Blade So Black by L.L McKinney The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance Once
