ILA Teachers' Choices Reading List, 2015-2020
Resources for a selection of titles recognized by this list since 2015 -- recognizing books evaluated and recommended by teachers to encourage young people to read
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- 3,198 Resources including
- 358 Videos
- 187 Book Readings
- 340 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 180 book results

Last Stop on Market Street
by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
(Selection, 2016)
70 Resources15 Awards





Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship
by Jessica Kensky, Patrick Downes, and Scott Magoon
(Selection, 2019)
46 Resources4 Awards


Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
(Selection, 2015)
44 Resources16 Awards

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
(Selection, 2015)
44 Resources14 Awards



Before She Was Harriet
by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome
(Selection, 2018)
40 Resources13 Awards


The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
(Selection, 2015)
38 Resources14 Awards



Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
by Roxane Orgill and Francis Vallejo
(Selection, 2017)
37 Resources13 Awards


Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You
by Sonia Sotomayor and Rafael López
(Selection, 2020)
36 Resources4 Awards

Stella by Starlight
by Sharon M. Draper and Sarah Jane Coleman
(Selection, 2016)
35 Resources11 Awards


The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
(Selection, 2015)
31 Resources12 Awards



Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
by Helaine Becker and Dow Phumiruk
(Selection, 2019)
30 Resources9 Awards





Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
by Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy
(Selection, 2019)
27 Resources10 Awards

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art
by Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPre
(Selection, 2015)
26 Resources6 Awards



The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
by Cynthia Y. Levinson and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
(Selection, 2018)
26 Resources4 Awards


A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat
by Emily Jenkins and Sophie Blackall
(Selection, 2016)
25 Resources2 Awards

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
(Selection, 2016)
25 Resources8 Awards




I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick
(Selection, 2015)
24 Resources5 Awards

Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
by Katherine Applegate and G. Brian Karas
(Selection, 2015)
23 Resources6 Awards

All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
by Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis
(Selection, 2015)
23 Resources4 Awards

The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs
by Kate Messner and Matthew Forsythe
(Selection, 2019)
23 Resources8 Awards
