The Top Fiction Titles Every Classroom Library Should Have

That lovely old lady has returned just in time for the first day of school. Now she's swallowing items to make the very best of her first day back. With rhyming text and funny illustrations, this lively version of the classic song will appeal to young readers with every turn of the page. A fun story for the first day of school!

A silly read-aloud story with funny rhymes and hilarious illustrations.

Carmen Agra Deedy, New York Times best-selling author and one of Scholastic's most talented and cherished storytellers, retells a hilarious folktale in this wickedly funny and inspiring picture book that proves the smallest of creatures can sometimes possess the most surprising strength!

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.

YOU are your ancestors' wildest dreams. How will you express YOUR greatness? Perfect for fans of I Am Every Good Thing, Little Legends, and All Because You Matter.

Rubin loves the beautiful sounds that are played by the orchestra. He wants to learn to play the violin and make his own music. But when Rubin plays, it doesn't sound like he imagines it should. Rubin goes into the forest to practice alone and despite only getting the violin to screech, he finds an unlikely audience that loves his unique style.

This is a story of self-love that teaches children that their physical layer is just that — one layer — and below it lies a rich tapestry of attributes that make them unique and wonderful. Through Marc Colagiovanni's powerful text and Peter H. Reynolds' inspirational artwork, this picture book offers readers a wholly original exploration of self-love and self-acceptance.

A lovingly empowering story about finding courage and strength in your family, history, and community through a traditional and cherished Samoan dance, taualuga. Written by debut author, Kealani Netane, and illustrated by New York Times bestselling illustrator, Dung Ho.

In a hilarious story for fans of We Don't Eat Our Classmates, a young girl is determined to find out the truth about her favorite animals -- and find out once and for all, are seals really jerks and do they really eat penguins?!

This hilarious installment in Ross Burach"s Very Impatient Caterpillar series playfully encourages readers to love who they are, while also illuminating the importance of pollinators to our ecosystem.

Laugh out loud as our bestselling dinosaurs learn to be kind despite their sometimes mischievous antics. How does a dinosaur learn to be kind? Does he roar about everything that is on his mind? Does he wake up at midnight and make lots of noise? Does he take his big sister's new shoes and her toys?

A heartwarming and inspirational story about chasing your dreams and never giving up by gold-medal-winning Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez.

P.U.! Dog Man got sprayed by a skunk! After being dunked in tomato juice, the stink is gone but the scarlet red color remains. Now exiled, this spunky superhero must struggle to save the citizens who shunned him! Will the ends justify the means for Petey, who's reluctantly pulled back into a life of crime in order to help Dog Man? And who will step forward when an all-new, never-before-seen villain unleashes an army of A.I. robots?

A flat boy can do almost anything!

In this hilariously illustrated series, Big Bad Wolf has had enough. He enlists fellow bad guys Shark, Snake, and Piranha to join him in his ill-fated effort to cross over to the good side!

Lia and her family are waiting to board a flight across the Atlantic, leaving behind family, friends, and Romania — the only home Lia has ever known. But Lia's heartache is overshadowed by the discomfort of her first period. As if things weren't difficult enough! Now Lia is thrust into a world where everything is different: her home, her language, and even her body. With so many changes happening at once, Lia struggles with schoolwork, has trouble communicating with classmates, and has no idea how to manage her unpleasant periods. Will she ever feel like herself again?

First-generation Filipino siblings JJ and Althea struggle to belong at school. To make matters worse, they have to help their parents run the family food truck by dressing up as a dancing pig and passing out samples. Ugh! And their mom is always pointing out lessons from Filipino folklore — annoying tales they've heard again and again. But when witches, ogres, and other creatures from those same stories threaten their family, JJ and Althea realize that the folklore may be more real that they'd suspected. Can they embrace who they really are and save their family?

Three best friends have been inseparable for years, but everything is changing as everyone splits into twos, leaving Maggie unsure of where―and with who―she still fits.

With only her sister (who has been trapped in the body of a cat!) and two great mythological figures to help her, Astrid sets out on a journey to face her destiny. But will she be able to save her mom-and the world!-before Chaos reigns supreme?

Together with Besa and the Ibis — a game rival turned reluctant ally — Yared must search for his missing uncle... and answers to his place in a forgotten, galaxy-spanning war.

How many problems can a delicious cup of bubble tea cause? Plenty, if you're Chloe Wong. For starters, Chloe wants to go on the class trip to Broadway — an expense Chloe's not sure she and her dad can afford since her mom passed away — and those yummy cups of boba cost money. And then there's the fact that the incorrigible Henry Lee is the bobamaster at Tea Palace, and when he's not annoying Chloe, he's usually coming up with the perfect drink for every occasion. 

A semiautobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about frenemies, fitting in, and finding your voice.

When an unseen force begins to destroy the trees, putting the entire ecosystem at risk, Plum and her classmates must spring into action. Plum is determined to help, even though she's hiding secrets about her own Guardian powers from even her closest friends.

Kids everywhere will wish they were hanging with 12-year-old Eddie and his neighborhood friends as they face the apocalypse under hilarious circumstances.

Hilarious, heartwarming, and highly relatable, Ultraviolet digs deep into themes of consent, puberty, masculinity, and the emotional lives of boys, as it challenges stereotypes and offers another way to be in the world.

Things haven"t been the same since Shane"s accident. One minute he was a normal kid playing a game of tag with his friends, and the next he is stuck in a nightmare. Every time Shane falls asleep he is pulled into a dark world where a dark monster king reigns. The King is collecting children and keeping them as treasure. But Shane can"t
stay awake forever. It"s time to take matters into his own hands. He must go into the nightmare world and bring down the King.

Twelve year-old Serenity Noah has never told anyone about her recurring nightmares — the haunting images of silver butterflies whose flapping wings drive away all sound, leaving only suffocating silence in their wake. Her parents already favor her "perfect" younger brother, Peace, and she doesn't want to be seen as the "problem" child. Instead, Serenity's found a productive way to channel her fears: creating a horror movie as scary as her nightmares.

Deaf heroine, Mary Lambert, is our guide through a breathless, exquisitely plotted adventure, this time taking us from 19th century Martha"s Vineyard to Europe as Mary sets out to discover what her future holds.

Jesse Dienstag's favorite sweatshirt says, "The real world isn't real." That's the slogan of the vacation-home community in Pennsylvania where his family has always spent every vacation and weekend for as long as he can remember. In the summer of 2019, as Jesse is about to enter his junior year of high school in New York City, he desperately wants to believe the slogan is true. For one thing, the two girls he loves-equally and desperately-are in Pennsylvania, and all the stresses and pressures of his daily life and school are in New York.

A brand-new game show that offers young criminals the chance at freedom has been greenlit. Little do they know, winning is their only chance at survival. A captivating examination of the dark truths around the criminal justice system, Ben Oliver, critically acclaimed author of The Loop trilogy, delivers an action-packed thrill ride with deadly high stakes.

This amazing collaboration brings together two inspirational Black artists, NYT bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk and actress Lexi Underwood, for a story about the transformative power of art as protest and its capacity to change the world.

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast that will forever change how you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart.

When a fire cuts off a popular trail in the Oregon forest, a small group trapped by the flames must find another way out―or die―in Playing with Fire, an unrelenting teen-vs-nature YA thriller by New York Times bestselling author April Henry.