Jennifer LaGarde’s Favorite Books of the Year for 2022 and 2023!



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Here are Jennifer’s top picks!

Picture Books 2023

Picture Books 2022

Middle Grade Fiction 2023

Middle Grade Fiction 2022
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Answers in the Pages by David Levithan

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Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga

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Visitors by Greg Howard

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Wayward Creatures by Dayna Lorentz

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Lucky Ones by Linda Williams Jackson

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Those Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly

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Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

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Dear Student by Elly Swartz

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Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat

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Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart

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Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd

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Worser by Jennifer Ziegler

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Tumble by Celia C Pérez

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Secret Battle of Evan Pao by Wendy Wan-Long Shang

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Thirst by Varsha Bajaj

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Seed in the Sun by Aida Salazar

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Dear Student by Elly Swartz

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Lolo's Light by Liz Garton Scanlon

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Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack


Nonfiction — Elementary, Middle Grade and Up 2023

Nonfiction — Elementary, Middle Grade and Up 2022

Graphic Novels 2023

Graphic Novels 2022

Jennifer LaGarde is a lifelong teacher and learner with over 20 years in public education. Her educational passions include leveraging technology to help students develop authentic reading lives, meeting the unique needs of students living in poverty and helping learners (of all ages) discern fact from fiction in the information they consume. A huge fan of YA Literature, Jennifer currently lives, works, reads and drinks lots of coffee in Olympia, Washington. Follow her adventures at www.librarygirl.net or on Twitter @jenniferlagarde.