Hammock is up and I'm ready to read! Book list inspired by @colby.sharp (TIKTOK)

Sometimes you just luck out.  

A goal of mine for this summer is to read more children's books  to bolster my knowledge of children's literature to the end goal of knowing what books to recommend to my students.

So, there I am, swiping through TikTok and I come across @colby.sharp.  He is obviously a book enthusiast and lists many books that he has read to his students AND shows us what his 5th graders are reading.  

As a bonus, he posts videos about the best part of his day.  (Love the positive focus!)

I ran to my computer and wrote down the books he shared.  Here is a list of books that I will be checking out this summer.  I put the @GPL for my own reference.  

Thanks, @colby.sharp!  I have my hammock up and am ready to get started!
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1. The Road to After by Rebekah Lowell
2. Blended by Sharon M. Draper (@GPL)
3. Apple Crush by Lucy Knisley 
4. When Stars are Scattered by Vicotria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
5. Little House by Kevin Henkes (@GPL)
6. Answers in the Pages by David Levithan
7. How we Ricochet by Faith Gardner
8. Mr. Lemoncello's Very First Game by Chris Grabenstein (Audio)
9. Growing Pangs by Kathryn Ormsbee (@GPL)
10. Steve L. McEvil by Lucas Turnbloom
11. The Boy Who Loved Maps by Kari Allen
12. The World's Longest Licorice Rope by Matt Myers
13. A Mouthful of Minnows by John Hare
14. Wait --- and See by Helen Frost
15. Tiny Dino by Deborah Freedman
16. Everything in Its Place by Pauline David-Sax
17. My Life as a Meme/Book/Joke by Jake Tashjian
18. All the Answers by Kate Messner (@GPL)
19. Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy by Jonathan Hill
20. A Guard Dog Named Honey by Denise Gosliner Orenstein
21. Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper (@GPL)
22. Rider Woofson by Walter Styles
23. The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell (@GPL)
24. The ___ Story Treehouse by Andy Griffiths (@GPL)
25. Most People by Michael Leannah and Jennifer E. Morris
26. After the Fall by Dan Santat (@GPL)
27. Old Wood Boat by Nikki McClute
28. Gabe in the After by Sharnnon Dolesk
29. Dear Friends by Lisa Greenwald
30. Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla Magoon
31. Singing with Elephants by Margarita Engle (@GPL)
32. Donut The Unicorn who wants to Fly by Laura Gehl and Andrea Zuill
33. Time Capsule by Lauren Redniss
34. Blips on a Screen by Kate Hannigan
35. Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (@GPL)
36. Brothers at Bat by Aubrey Veronica (@GPL)
37. Celia Planted a Garden by Phyllis Root, Gary D. Schmidt (@GPL)
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38. Stepping Stones by Lucy Knisley (@GPL)
39. How to Send a Hug by Hayley and John Rocco
40. One Little Bag An Amazing Journey by Henry Cole (@GPL)
41. The Night Gardner by Terry Fan and Eric Fan
42. Perfectly Imperfect Mira by Faith Pray
43. Our Green City by Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Colleen Larmour
44. Zonia's Rain Forest by Juana Martinez Neal (@GPL)
45. A Leaf Can Be...by Laura Purdie Salas (@GPL)
46. Ducks Overboard by Markus Mouth (@GPL)
47. Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal
48. John's Turn by Mac Barnett (@GPL)
49. Totally Random Questions by Melina Gerosa Bellows
50. Undrowned by K.R. Alexander
51. Wish by Barbara O'Connor (@GPL)
52. Far Away by Lisa Graff
53. My Life Begins! by Patricia MacLachlan
54. Refugee by Alan Gratz (@GPL)
55. Wink by Rob Harrell (@GPL)
56. Shelter by Christie Matheson (She has other books at GPL)
57. Forge by Lourie Halse Anderson (Audio book @GPL)
58. Out of my Heart by Sharon M. Draper (@GPL)
59. The Grimm Conclusion: Companion to the Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz (@GPL)
60. Lizzy and the Cloud by Terry Fan and Eric Fan (@GPL)
61. Thursday by Ann Bonwill and Kayla Harren 
62. Those Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly (@GPL)
63. A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser (@GPL)
64. Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed (@GPL)
65. A Song Called Home by Aara Zarr 
66. Riley's Ghost by John David Anderson (@GPL)
67. It's the end of the World and I'm in my Bathing Suit by Justin A. Reynolds (Audio book @GPL)
68. The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat (@GPL)
69. Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Yee (@GPL)
70. Jennifer Chan is Not Alone by Tae Keller (@GPL)
71. Learning to Fall by Sally Engelfried
72. If You Laugh I'm Starting this Book Over by Chris Harris
73. Wake me up in 20 Coconuts by Laurie Keller
74. The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander (Author has other books at GPL)
75. The Day the War Came by Nicola Davies
76. Here Come the Girl Scouts!  By Shana Corey
77. Nellie Vs. Elizabeth by Kate Hannigan
78. To The Front by Claudia Friddell
79. Thirst by Varsha Bajaj (Count Me In Novel @GPL)
80. Slip by Marika McCoola
81. How you Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta
82. The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill (@GPL)
83. Healer and Witch by Nancy Werlin
84. Meant to Be by Jo Knowles (Where the Heart is @GPL)
85. Tumble by Celia Perez

I hope to be posting little reviews on my Books Page so I can reference them later and you can have a peek inside the books, too!