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Beat the Back-to-School Blues!

Sweet and silly reads for new and returning students to beat those back-to-school blues.

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  • Instilled with confidence by his parents, a young boy has a great first day of kindergarten.
    Book, 2019New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2019] — E BARN
  • Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school.
    Book, 2019New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — E MUHA
  • Kindergarten

    Where Kindness Matters Every Day

    Ahiyya, Vera,
    Leo, a quiet kid who is not ready for his first day of kindergarten, ends up having a great day when he makes a kindness pledge and discovers he knows a lot about being kind to others.
    Book, 2022New York : Random House Studio, [2022] — E AHIY
  • When a kindergarten class arrives for the first day at school, they are greeted only by the words "Mr. S" on the chalkboard and a delicious-looking sandwich, resulting in merry mayhem as the kids wonder if the sandwich is their teacher.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — E ARNA
  • Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.
    Book, 2018New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. — E PENF
  • The pigeon must go to school, but frets about math, learning the alphabet, heavy backpacks, and what the teacher and other birds will think of him.
    Book, 2019New York : Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group, [2019] — E WILL
  • Bobby thinks his teacher, Ms. Kirby, is horrible, but when he sees her outside of school and they spend a day in the park together, he discovers she might not be so bad after all.
    Book, 2014New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014. — E BROW
  • Instilled with confidence by her parents, a young girl has a great first day of kindergarten.
    Book, 2022New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2022 — E BARN
  • Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text show how to give a friendly welcome at school, in the neighborhood, or at home.
    Book, 2020New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020. — E ASHM
  • Saddened by her classmates' and teacher's mispronunciations of her name, a girl is empowered by her discovery that names are like songs when she and her mom celebrate the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names.
    Book, 2020Seattle, WA : The Innovation Press, [2020] — E THOM
  • It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself.
    Book, 2016New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2016. — E REX
  • The kids in Room 207 take advantage of their teacher's good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a vile substitute.
    Book, 1977Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1977. — E ALLA
  • Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2018] — E WOOD
  • When the class pet bites the finger of Penelope, a tyrannosaurus rex, she finally understands why she should not eat her classmates, no matter how tasty they are.
    Book, 2018Los Angeles ; New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2018. — E HIGG
  • Mr. Creacher, a multi-tentacled substitute teacher, warns his prankish students not to misbehave, recounting rhyming cautionary tales of the weird, spooky, and unexpected.
    Book, 2011New York : Little, Brown, 2011. — E GALL
  • A young girl tries to get her octopus, who would much rather stay home, ready for school. Includes facts about octopuses.
    Book, 2023New York : Flamingo Books, 2023. — E SCHA
  • This creatively wacky and interactive exploration of the abstract concepts of the human experience, such as feelings and thoughts, encourages readers to look past the visible and connect with the things that are not seen.
    Book, 2023San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books LLC, [2023] — E MILL
  • In order to ensure her popularity, Camilla Cream always does what is expected, until the day arrives when she no longer recognizes herself.
    Book, 1998New York : Blue Sky Press, 1998. — E SHAN
  • When a class pet proves to be more than a handful, the students agree they cannot keep him, but how will they convince their teacher, Mr. Stricter, who loves the strange creature?
    Book, 2017Los Angeles ; New York : Disney-HYPERION, 2017. — E RISS
  • Follows the progress of school buses as they take children to school and bring them home again.
    Book, 1984New York : Greenwillow Books, ©1984. — E CREW