for the Book Worm Club!
Do you love to read? Would you love to share your love of reading with a child who is just learning to read? Big Buddy has the perfect opportunity for you.
Big Buddy’s Book Work Club is your opportunity to spend one hour a week, reading age-appropriate books to elementary school-age youth. This virtual program asks you to commit to one hour per week. There is a training session, and we’ll have a celebration at the end of the semester.
Intrigued? Get started today by clicking here and letting us know.
Big Buddy's Book Recommendations
All Because You Matter – Tami Charles & Bryan Collier
Alma and How She Got Her Name – Juana Martinez-Neal
I Am Enough – Grace Byers & Keturah A. Bobo
I Am Every Good Thing – Derrick Barnes & Gordon C. James
The Day You Begin – Jacqueline Woodson & Rafael López
Coretta Scott – Ntozake Shange & Kadir Nelson
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X – Ilyasah Shabazz & AG Ford
Rosa – Nikki Giovanni & Bryan Collier
Ruth and the Green Book – Calvin Alexander Ramsey
The Undefeated – Kwame Alexander & Kadir Nelson
Dreamers – Yuyi Morales
Mae Among the Stars – Roda Ahmed & Stasia Burrington
Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly & Laura Freeman
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark – Debbie Levy & Elizabeth Baddeley
Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army – Art Coulson & Nick Hardcastle
Mommy’s Khimar – Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow & Ebony Glenn
How to Build A Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine – Amy Guglielmo & Jacqueline Tourville
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way – Kyo Maclear & Julie Morstad
The Whispering Town – Jennifer Elvgren & Fabio Santomauro
A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story – Caren Stelson & Akira Kusaka
Here and Now – Julia Denos & E. B. Goodale
The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics – Susan Hood & Christiane Engel
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice – Mahogany L. Browne & Elizabeth Acevedo
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop – Laban Carrick Hill & Theodore Taylor III
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut – Derrick Barnes
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood – Tony Hillery & Jessie Hartland
Zonia’s Rain Forest – Juana Martinez-Neal
Marjory Saves the Everglades: The Story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas – Sandra Neil Wallace & Rebecca Gibbon
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table – Jacqueline Briggs Martin & Eric-Shabazz Larkin
The Word Collector – Peter H. Reynolds
We March – Shane W. Evans
Sulwe – Lupita Nyong’o & Vashti Harrison
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb – Veronica Chambers & Rachelle Baker
We Are Water Protectors – Caroline Lindstrom & Michaela Goade