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The PA Center for the Book is thrilled to announce the 2025 A Baker's Dozen: The Best 13 Books for Family Literacy booklist! This year's selections include: 

• Towed by Toad by Jashar Awan
• Up High by Matt Hunt
• Go and Get with Rex by David LaRochelle, illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka
• Just Like Millie by Lauren Castillo
• Bookie and Cookie by Blanca Gómez
• Yellow Bus by Loren Long

Learn more about the 2025 booklist here.

The PA Center for the Book is thrilled to announce the books representing Pennsylvania in The Library of Congress Center for the Book’s 2025 Great Reads from Great Places program! 

This year's youth title is With or Without You by Eric Smith from Inkyard Press and this year's adult title is Sidle Creek by Jolene McIlwain from Melville House Publishing!

Learn more about the 2025 Great Reads selections here. 

To celebrate Pride Month in June, we are highlighting a few LGBTQ+ books based Pennsylvania: 

• A Sharp Endless Need by Marisa Crane
• Chlorine by Jade Song
• Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky
• Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
• Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner

The PA Center for the Book is thrilled to announce the 2025 A Baker's Dozen: The Best 13 Books for Family Literacy booklist! This year's selections include:

• Lucky Duck by Greg Pizzoli
• I Quit by Kristen Tracy, illustrated by Federico Fabiani
• The Man Who Didn’t Like Animals by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
• Home In a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo
• The Mango Tree (La mata de mango) by Edel Rodriguez
• A Friend for Eddy by Ann Kim Ha
• Trunk Goes Thunk! by Heather Morris, illustrated by Chantelle and Burgen Thorne

Learn more about the 2025 booklist here.

To celebrate National Great Outdoors Month in June, we are highlighting a few nature books about Pennsylvania: 

• Birds of Pennsylvania Field Guide by Stan Tekiela
• Rockhounding Pennsylvania and New Jersey by Robert Beard
• Wildlife of Pennsylvania and the Northeast by Charles Fergus
• Near Woods by Kevin Patrick
• Hiking Waterfalls Pennsylvania by Johnny Molloy

To celebrate National Children's Day on June 8, we are highlighting a few children's books about notable Pennsylvanians: 

• Fred Rogers (Latrobe)
• Roberto Clemente (Pittsburgh)
• Joan Jett (Wynnewood)
• Keith Haring (Kutztown)
• Laura Wheeler Waring (Philadelphia)