Nevada Reading Week 2021 - Grades PreK - 2
 
For more than 30 years, Nevada Reading Week has been celebrated during the first week in March and serves to promote a life-long love of reading in Nevada students. Here is the recommended reading list for grades PreK through 2. These titles were chosen to illustrate 2021’s theme “Change Your World – Read.” Click a title to place a hold or to find electronic copies to download.
 
To find out more about Nevada Reading Week, visit the Nevada Department of Education website.
 

Alma and How She Got Her Name
by Juana Martinez-Neal

What's in a name? For one little girl, her very long name tells the vibrant story of where she came from — and who she may one day be.
Birdsong
by Julie Flett

A celebration of art, nature and connecting across generations traces the experiences of a young girl who moves to a small town, where her friendship with an elderly fellow crafter is shaped by the seasons and her awareness of her friend’s failing health. By the creator of Wild Berries
The day You begin
by Jacqueline Woodson

The National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and author of the Coretta Scott King Award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming combines lyrical, reassuring text with artwork by the award-winning illustrator of Book Fiesta to inspire readers to find the courage to connect with others.
Dreamers
by Yuyi Morales

Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story in this picture-book tribute to the transformative power of hope . . . and reading.

In 1994, Yuyi Morales left her home in Xalapa, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed.

She brought her strength, her work, her passion, her hopes and dreams...and her stories.
Say Something
by Peter H. Reynolds

The creator of the best-selling The Word Collector and The Dot presents an empowering story for kid activists about finding one's voice and using it to make the world a better place.
When the Earth Shook
by Lisa Lucas

Twinkling in the night sky over Earth for billions of years, two stars witness the spread of pollution and sickness across the planet and tell a clueless leader and the people of the world what they must do to make things right again.
Whoever You Are
by Mem Fox

Aims to teach tolerance by showing how, across the earth, across cultures and generations, whether children are crying, laughing, or playing, they are all alike inside although they may appear very different on the outside.



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