We want students at our school to be immersed in a culture of literacy. We want to have quality books available at all times. Students will be reading carefully chosen books that will inspire a life-long habit of reading. They will then have opportunities to engage with fellow students, teachers, and parents in thought-provoking comprehension discussions and activities. Our goal is not necessarily that every child is going to love reading, but that every child makes progress in a positive way. We want to see kids interested in engaging with text! “Incremental movement in a positive direction is our ultimate goal.”

Superintendent Wendy Dau featured the Earhart Literacy Community on her “Sup With the Sup” podcast on September 22, 2023. You can listen to it on the district’s YouTube channel. The section about Amelia Earhart begins at the 2:42 mark.

Sup With the Sup Episode 5: Amelia Earhart Literacy Community

Here is a list of all the books that have been Earhart Literacy Community selections since the program started in 2016:

2023-2024

The Day You Begin

My Papi Rides a Motorcycle

Mananaland

Jingle Dancers

Code Talker

It’s Okay to Be Different

The Hundred Dresses

The Proudest Blue

Night Diary

Follow the Drinking Gourd

What Was the Underground Railroad?

Lubna and Pebble

Drawn Together 

Front Desk

2022-2023

• All Are Welcome Here
• I Need My Monster
• School of the Dead
• Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots- Bailey School Kids
• Coyote Sunrise
• The Snowy Day
• Julie & the Wolves
• How Alma Got Her Name
• Serafina and the Black Cloak
• Rescue on the Oregon Trail- Ranger in Time
• Brown Girl Dreaming
• Interrupting Chicken
• A Year Down Yonder
• Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot

2021-2022

• Enemy Pie
• Box Car Children
• If Kids Ran the World
• Owl Moon
• Because of Winn-Dixie
• A Bad Case of Stripes
• Grumpy Monkey
• Shark Lady
• Words on Fire
• The Wild Robot
• My Side of the Mountain
• Shouting at the Rain
• Scourge
• Inside Out and Back Again

2020-2021

• The Word Collector by Peter Reynolds
• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
• The Friendship War by Andrew Clements
• The Unteachables by Gordan Korman
• The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling
• Chrysathemum by Kevin Henkes
• Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
• Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
• Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• I Don’t Like to Eat Ants by JTK Belle
• Saving Fiona by Thane Maynard
• One Third Nerd by Gennifer Choldenko
• Sergeant Reckless by Patricia McCormick and Iacopo Bruno
• Refugee by Alan Gratz
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

2019-2020

• My Father’s Dragon- Ruth Stiles Gannet
• The Magician’s Hat- Malcolm Mitchell
• Gooney Bird Greene- Lois Lowry
• A Tale of Two Beasts- Fiona Roberton
• What to do with an Idea- Kobi Yamada
• Catching the Moon- Crystal Hubbard
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins- Atwater
• Ada’s Violin by Susan Hood

2018-2019

• After the Fall- Dan Santat
• Harold’s Purple Crayon- Crockett Johnson
• Magic Tree House- Mary Pope Osborne (Dinosaurs Before Dark)
• Giraffes Can’t Dance- Giles Andreae
• The Empty Pot – Demi
• Malala’s Magic Pencil- Malala Yousafzai
• Fantastic Mr. Fox- Roald Dahl
• Pete and Pickles- Berkeley Breathed

2017-2018

• Appleblossom the Possum
• We’re All Wonders
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• The Night Gardener
• The Green Ember
• The Princess and the Warrior
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle
• The Most Magnificent Thing

2016-2017

• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
• Tomas and the Library Lady
• Roxaboxen
• Stuart Little
• George’s Marvelous Medicine
• Clementine
• Yertle and Turtle
• Wayside School is Falling Down