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Top 20 Scholastic Books of 2020

Get ready for 2021 by filling your classroom library with the best-selling Scholastic books of 2020.

Top 20 Scholastic Books of 2020

Featuring books for readers in grades PreK-12, and the most popular titles from each of Scholastic's bestselling series, these are the most in-demand Scholastic books of 2020. From hilarious read-alouds and graphic novels to fascinating nonfiction and even professional development, there's a book here for every classroom. Which ones do you need to take your 2021 library to the next level? 

Paperback Book

The Day I Forgot to Wash My Hands

Grades Pre-K - K
$3.71$4.95
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The silly, funny, fantastic story of a boy who didn't wash his hands and the crazy consequences that ensue as he spreads a bit of grossness around.

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Frog on a Log?

Grades Pre-K - 1
$4.46$5.95
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Frog does not want to sit on a log! But Cat tells him that's where he belongs. Doing his best to find an alternative place to sit, Frog asks Cat a whole lot of questions. For every answer Cat has, Frog has another question, until he finds out what dogs sit on!

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No, David!

Grades Pre-K - 2
$5.96$7.95
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When David Shannon was five years old, he wrote and illustrated his first book. On every page were these words: NO, DAVID! . . . and a picture of David doing things he was not supposed to do. All he hears from his mother as he breaks his mother's rules is "No, David!", "That's enough, David!", and "Settle down!"

Hardcover Book

All Because You Matter

Grades Pre-K - 3
$13.49$17.99
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Discover this poignant, timely, and emotionally stirring picture book, an ode to black and brown children everywhere that is full of hope, assurance, and love.

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Hi! Fly Guy (Fly Guy #1)

Grades Pre-K - 3
$4.49$5.99
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Some kids have dogs and some kids have cats, but Buzz has a pet fly! In this first book of the hilarious series, Buzz enters his winged buddy in the Amazing Pet Competition. The judges scoff until they see all the extraordinary tricks the little fly can do.

$5.21$6.95
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Molly Lou Melon is short and clumsy and has buckteeth and a voice that sounds like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor. But armed with the encouraging words of her grandmother, Molly Lou confidently confronts the class bully at her new school.

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The Gingerbread Man

Grades 1 - 2
$3.71$4.95
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Enjoy the classic story of the gingerbread man who escapes from the oven and runs through the countryside.

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What If You Had Animal Teeth!?

Grades 1 - 2
$3.74$4.99
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This nonfiction book takes children on a fun, informative, and imaginative journey as they explore what it would be like if their own front teeth were replaced by those of a different animal.

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Creatrilogy: The Dot

Grades 1 - 3
$5.21$6.95
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With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark, and to follow where it takes us.

$2.99$3.99
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What would happen if a Tyrannosaurus rex and a Velociraptor met each other? What if they had a fight?

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Henry's Freedom Box

Grades 2 - 5
$5.96$7.95
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A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mailed himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.

Hardcover Book

Dog Man: Grime & Punishment (#9)

Grades 3 - 5
$9.74$12.99
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Purportedly drawn by the main characters of Pilkey's hit, Captain Underpants, this wildly popular series features a half-canine crime fighter; his arch rival, Petey the Cat; Petey's good-hearted clone; a devoted robot; and...you really just have to read it.

Hardcover Book

Three Keys (A Front Desk Novel)

Grades 3 - 7
$13.49$17.99
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Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic...

$8.24$10.99
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History's most exciting and terrifying events come to life in these stories of amazing kids and how they survived.

Paperback Book

Smile: Guts

Grades 5 - 7
$9.74$12.99
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The author introduces her battle with chronic anxiety as a teen as well as her ongoing coping strategies in this honest, often funny graphic novel.

Paperback Book

Refugee

Grades 6 - 9
$5.24$6.99
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Separated by continents and decades, the harrowing escape stories of Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud intertwine.

Paperback Book

Hatchet

Grades 6 - 12
$5.96$7.95
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Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Thirteen-year-old Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake, and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure.

$20.99$27.99
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.

Professional Book

Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework

Grades K - 8
$26.99$35.99
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In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework-one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. Muhammad's Historically Responsive Literacy Framework is essential for all students, especially youth of color, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices.

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