The purpose of the BEE Amazing book list is to promote books to elementary readers that MISD's librarians think are engaging in a way that will make them excited about reading and eager to read more. These books easily align with the district and state curriculum in many ways, but the primary purpose is to engage and excite our students about books and reading.

The Books Everyone Enjoys (BEE) Amazing book list is a compilation of books recommended by McKinney Elementary Library Media Specialists. Each campus LMS is invited to recommend books, and a committee of elementary LMSs make the final determination as to which books make the list each year. At least one LMS has read each book, and the book has positive professional reviews. Student participation is optional, and parents may help students select the books their child will read to complete the challenge. 

Participating students are not required to read every book on the list. This allows students and parents to select which books are best for their student to read. Families are welcome to read through the list together.

Most of the books on the current BEE Amazing list can be accessed digitally via Sora.

Getting Started with Sora

Downloadable BEE Amazing Book Challenge Coloring and Tracking Sheet

EVERYBODY PICTURE BOOKS

• Don't Eat Eustace by Lian Cho

• Exactly as Planned by Tao Nyeu

• Fireworks by Matthew Burgess and Cátia Chien

• I am Ingrid: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Guide Dog by Aria Mia Loberti and Vivienne To

• I am Not Happy! by Caroline L. Perry and Sydney Hanson

• Island Storm by Brian Floca and Sydney Smith

• Just One Wave by Travis Jonker

• Millie Fleur Saves the Night by Christy Mandin

• Ready, Set, Roll! by Alessandro Montagnana

• The Day the Books Disappeared by Joanna Ho, Caroline Kusin Pritchard, and Dan Santat

• The Everything Trail by Meg Fleming and Chuck Groenink

• The Interpreter by Olivia Abtahi and Monica Arnaldo

• The Wild Robot on the Island by Peter Brown

• To Catch a Ghost by Rachel Michelle Wilson

INFORMATIONAL/NON-FICTION BOOKS

• Hello, I'm a Pangolin by Hayley Rocco and John Rocco

• Stalactite and Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave by Drew Beckmeyer

• Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland by Ævar Þór Benediktsson and Anne Wilson

• What's Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?: And Other Questions about Moths & Butterflies by Rachel Ignotofsky

FICTION CHAPTER BOOKS

• Amina Banana and the Formula for Friendship by Shifa Saltagi Safadi and Aaliya Jaleel

• A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasemine Warga

• Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate

• The Academy by T.Z. Layton

• The Liars Society by Alyson Gerber

• They Call Me No Sam! by Drew Daywalt and Mike Lowery

• Troubling Tonsils! by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown