Virginia Readers

2021-22 Reader's Choice Lists

Follow each link to download the bookmarks for the 2021-2022 VRC Book Lists

Primary Bookmarks
Elementary Bookmarks
Middle School Bookmarks
High School Bookmarks

Primary:

• Almost Time by Gary D. Schmidt
• Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang & Charlene Chua
• Between Us and Abuela by Mitali Perkins
• Inky’s Amazing Escape: How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home by Sy Montgomery
• Snail Crossing by Corey Tabor
• The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
• The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad
• This Way, Charlie by Caron Lewis
• What Riley Wore by Elana Arnold & Linda Davick
• Who Wet My Pants? by Bob Shea

Elementary:

• When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson
• The Last Human by Lee Bacon
• The Fabled Life of Aesop by Ian Lendler
• The Brave Cyclist: The True Story of a Holocaust Hero by Amalia Hoffman
• Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming
• Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson
• One Last Shot by John David Anderson
• Things Seen from Above by Shelley Pearsall
• The Best of Iggy by Annie Barrows
• Oh, Rats! by Tor Seidler

Middle: 

• Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
• Spy Runner by Eugene Yelchin
• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
• Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
• Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963 by Sharon Robinson
• The Line Tender by Kate Allen
• The Collector by K.R. Alexander
• Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo
• A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield
• Planet Earth Is Blue by Nicole Panteleakos

High School: 

• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• Frankly in Love by David Yoon
• How We Became Wicked by Alexander Yates
• Jackpot by Nic Stone
• Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice
• Marshall The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
• The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming
• Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley
• With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo