Parent Literacy Resources

Bookish

Bookish is a website that provides you with personalized recommendations based on the books you’ve read. Once you create an account, start adding favorites to your shelf to find new titles. Although older students will be able to manage their own accounts, adults have to use the site on behalf of a younger child.

Pick a book from this free digital library and read together with your elementary student. All of the books available for online reading are children’s picture books, appropriate for children through age ten. There is a mix of fiction and nonfiction, a range of authors, and an equal balance between read-alouds and books for independent readers. While you read, “We Give Books” donates real books to literacy programs around the world.

The International Reading Association provides recommended reading lists for kids, young adults, and teachers each year. A short description is included next to each book to give you a better idea of what it’s about.

Your child can spend a little extra time on the computer by reading free books online. The International Children’s Digital Library offers hundreds of books in different languages.

Find the latest books for kids at the Association for Library Service to Children website, which offers a list of notable children’s books each year.

Formed by a group of teachers, this site lists children’s book recommendations by subject.

The Book Report Network aims to solve these reader dilemmas, with thoughtful book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, contests and more every week

Each year, over 12,500 children from different regions of the United States read newly-published children’s and young adult trade books and vote for the ones they like best.

Collections of booklists by one of the biggest publisher of books for kids and young adults.