Thank you so much for checking this wish list of books supplied to us by the Erlanger/Elsmere libraries. Keep in mind, they are more than happy to take donations of any new and gently used books that are appropriate for K-12 students, so if you have titles that are not on the list but still in good shape – bring them in! Drop off places on campus include the Benedictine Library, Saints Center, Academic Building (main stairway outside of the admissions office), and Centennial Hall. Deadline to take part in the book drive is Dec. 12. Thank you for your generosity and for helping provide students in this school district with fantastic reading options. If you have additional questions, contact Judy Crist at [email protected] or 859-344-3443.

Elementary Level:

Food Group books (The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, etc) by John Jory

Brad Meltzer books from his “I Am” biography series

Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels – Ann M. Martin

Who Would Win sports and/or animal series – Any

Piggie and Elephant or Pigeon books – Mo Willems

Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney

Cupcake Diaries series – Coco Simon

Goosebumps series – RL Stine

Magic Treehouse series regular or graphic novels by Mary Pope Osborne

Junie B Jones series – Barbara Park

Princess in Black – Dean and Sharon Hale

Froggy – by Johnathan London

Fly Guy series – Tedd Arnold

Hair Love – by Matthew A Cherry

Pete the Cat – Eric Litwin and James and Jennifer Dean

Misunderstood Shark – by Ame Dyckman

Bounce Back – Misako Rocks!

Dog Man – Dav Pilkey

Drama – Raina Telgemeier

Sisters – Raina Telgemeier

Smile – Raina Telgemeier

Dork Diaries series – Rachel Renee Russel

Weird But True! – Any

Judy Moody or Stink – by Megan McDonald

The Superteacher Project – by Gordan Korman

Growing Pangs – Katherine Ormesbee and Molly Brooks

Golden Ticket – by Kate Egan

The Lost Library – Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass

DogTown – Katherine Applegate

Joke books for kids

Holiday books

Middle Schoolers

Smile series by Raina Telgemeier

Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney

The Babysitters Club graphic novel series – Ann M. Martin

Wings of a Fire graphic novel series by Tui T Sutherland

My Hero Academia series by Kohei Hoikoshi

Real Friends series by Shannon Hale

Percy Jackson graphic novel series by Robert Venditti

Artemis Fowl graphic novels by Eoin Colfer 

Uglies graphic novel series – Scott Westerfeld

Survived graphic novel series

Harry Potter series – JK Rowling

Berrybrook Middle School series by Svetlana Chmakova

The Cartoon History of the Universe series by Larry Gonick

The Olympians series by George O’Connor

5 Worlds series by Mark Siegel

City of Secrets series by Victoria Ying

Vampire Academy series by Leigh Dragoon

Other books

Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

Cardboard by Doug TenNapel

Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks

Bad Island by Doug TenNapel

Runaways by Brian K Vaughn

Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown

Archie by Mark Waid

Gotham High by Melissa de la Cruz

Champions by Jim Zub

Suee and the Shadow by Ginger Ly

The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag

Happy Face by Stephen Emond

Twilight the graphic novel by Young Kim

Body Snatcher by Vincent Goodwin

Jughead by Chip Zdarsky

High School

Any books about sports

Books by Holly Jackson

Books by Karen M. McManus

Big request for books by Ruta Sepetys

Books about careers

Manga Graphic Novels Books by Neil Shusterman

Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter

Nothing Like the Movies by Lynn Painter

The Boy From Block 66 by Limor Regev and other books from the Heroic Children of WWII series

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

The Gilded Ones or The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna

House of Salt and Sorrows

Dear Martin/Dear Justyce or other books by Nic Stone