Free Books and Free Music in the Mail — Age Group: 7 to 8 Years

Age Group: 7 to 8 Years of Age

Gefilte Fish

Children at this age gravitate toward increasingly complex, "juicy" stories with plots that may contain twists and turns as well as elements of sadness or hardships to be overcome. At this stage, simple biographies and engaging historical fiction often appeal to children's love of facts, history, and lives of people from long ago.

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May Clever Rachel by Debby Waldman Illustrated by Cindy Revell (Orca Books)	June Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty by Linda Glaser Illustrated by Claire A. Nivola (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company)
August Even Higher by Richard Ungar Illustrated by Richard Ungar (Tundra)	August Even Higher! by Eric Kimmel Illustrated by Jill Weber (Holiday House)
March Gittel's Hands by Erica Silverman Illustrated by Deborah Nourse Lattimore (Scholastic)	November Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky Illustrated by Greg Harlin (Penguin)
April The Legend of Freedom Hill by Linda Jacobs Altman Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying Hwa-Hu (Lee & Low)	March Let My People Go! by Tilda Balsley Illustrated by Ilene Richard (Kar-Ben)
December Let's Go Coconuts! by The Macaroons (The Macaroons)	April The Market Wedding by Cary Fagan Illustrated by Regolo Ricci (Tundra Books)
June The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff (Scholastic Press)	March Passover Around the World by Tami Lehman-Wilzig Illustrated by Elizabeth Wolf (Kar-Ben)
February Purim Play by Roni Schotter Illustrated by Marylin Hafner (Marshall Cavendish)	January The Rooster Prince of Breslov by Ann Redisch Stampler Illustrated by Eugene Yelchin (Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
June Sami's Sleepaway Summer by Jenny Meyerhoff Illustrated by Cathi Mingus (Scholastic)	October Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost by Ann Redisch Stampler Illustrated by Jacqueline M. Cohen (Houghton Mifflin)
July Someone for Mr. Sussman by Patricia Polacco (Philomel)	February Ten Old Men and a Mouse by Cary Fagan Illustrated by Gary Clement (Tundra)
January Terrible, Terrible! by Robin Bernstein Illustrated by Shauna Mooney-Kawasaki (Kar-Ben)	September Tikvah Means Hope by Patricia Polacco Illustrated by Patricia Polacco (Random House)
November The Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco Illustrated by Patricia Polacco (Simon and Schuster)	July The Way Meat Loves Salt by Nina Jaffe Illustrated by Louise August (MacMillan)
October When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest Illustrated by P.J. Lynch (Candlewick Press)	July The Wisdom Bird by Sheldon Oberman Illustrated by Neil Waldman (Boyds Mills Press)
September You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax? by Jonah Winter Illustrated by Jonah Winter (Random House)	November Zigazak! by Eric Kimmel Illustrated by Jon Goodell (Random House)