The following reading list was compiled by Chesapeake Public Schools Librarians.
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Primary
Virginia Readers’ Choice Titles
Alaina and the Great Play by Eloise Greenfield
Brave as a Mouse by Nicolo Carozzi
Change Sings by Amanda Gorman
Dragon Masters a book series by Tracey West
EllRay Jakes a book series by Sally Warner
The Gumazing Gum Girl a book series by Rhode Montijo
Keep Your Head Up by Aliya King Neil
Maybe by Kobi Yamada
Mr. Scruff by Simon James
Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small by Jess Wade
Notebook of Doom a book series by Troy Cummings
Something’s Wrong! A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear by Jory John
The World Needs More Purple People by Kristen Bell
Elementary
Virginia Readers’ Choice Titles
Beak & Ally a book series by Norman Feuti
Finding Langston a book series by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Forever This Summer a book series by Leslie Youngblood
How to Test a Friendship by Theanne Griffith
Mornings With Monet by Barb Rosenstock
My Life as a Billionaire by Janet Tashjian
Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech
The Sea in Winter by Christine Day
Twins a book series by Varian Johnson
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Middle
Virginia Readers’ Choice Titles
Ali Cross a book series by James Patterson
All He Knew by Helen Frost
Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories About Mythic Heroes by Rick Riordan, Carlos Hernandes, et al.
Five Things About Ava Andrews by Margaret Dilloway
Keeper of the Lost Cities a book series by Shannon Messenger
Lupe Wong Won’t Dance by Donna Barba Higuera
Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Out of My Heart by Sharon Draper
Snapdragon by Kat Leyn
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
A Wolf for a Spell by Karah Sutton
High
Virginia Readers’ Choice Titles
The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Corpse Queen by Heather Herrman
The Cousins by Karen McManus
Hawthorne Legacy a book series by Jennifer Barnes
In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers by Don Brown
In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed Masood
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
What I Carry by Jennifer Longo
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson