This month, our Book Love program is honored to be supporting the Alexandria Tutoring Consortum (ATC) Book Drive, spearheaded by Life Scout Will Rutherford. His goal is to collect at least 300 books for children who do not have access to them, and donation will help kids reading below grade level through the summer and beyond.

For the month of July, all Book Love donations will go towards this project. Purchase a book for ACT this month and we’ll match your donation! If you’d like to buy the specific titles and donate them to the book drive, please leave the comment “Book Love” at check out. If you’d like us to choose, please purchase a book love care package here. Check out their most requested book selections below, on our website, and then head to www.oldtownbooks.com to order today!

KINDERGARTEN, ON LEVEL

Ragweed’s Farm Dog Handbook by Anne Kennedy

Mother Bruce by Ryan Higgins

Let’s Go Visiting by Sue Williams

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion

Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells

Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell 

In the Garden by Rigby

Where is the Red Car? by Pat Harrison

Kitty Cat by Annette Smith

Zoo Book by Joy Cowley

Choosing a Puppy by Jenny Giles

The Four Seasons by Melvin Berger 

Gecko’s Story by Kathleen Moeller Houses 

Around the World by Judy Nayer 

Jobs People Do by Pam Holden

GRADE 1, BELOW BENCHMARK

Amazing Elephants by Charlotte Guillain 

How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills Koala Lou by Mem Fox

Mr. Tang’s Taxi at the Zoo by Joy Cowley 

Pete Little by Beverley Randell

What Can Fly? by Brenda Parkes

Sammy by Kathleen Urmston

The Go-Karts by Annette Smith, Beverley Randell and Jenny Giles

Elephant by Clair Vial and Graham Meadows 

Jolly Roger, the Pirate by Beverley Randell Brown Mouse Plays a Trick by Jenny Giles 

Making Spaghetti by Jack Hastings

A Trip to the Farm by Eliza Comodromos 

A Tadpole Grows Up by Pam Zollman 

Ben’s Tooth by Beverley Randell

Jobs People Do by Mary Atkinson

Baron Rescue Dog by Lola Schaefer

Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff

Desert Animals by Gary and Shelley Underwood

GRADE 1, ON LEVEL

Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty

Biggest, Strongest, Fastest by Steve Jenkins

Sharks by Anne Schreiber

Tall Things by Annette Smith

Sammy’s Walk by Karen Evans

Gilbert the Pig Wears a Dress by Michele Dufresne

Who Helps? by Judy Nayer

Biscuit by Alyssa Capucilli

Going to the Dentist by Sean Finnigan

Wax to Crayons by Inez Snyder

The Flood by Jenny Giles

Grasshoppers by Jeffery Williams

Messy Bessey by Pat and Fredrick McKissack

Iris and Walter by Elissa Haden Guest

Insects by Robin Bernard

Zelda and Ivy: Keeping Secrets by Laura McGee Kvanosky

What’s in a Cave? by Martha Rustad 

A World of Worms by Matthew Hugo

Don’t Swap Your Sweater for a Dog by Katherine Applegate

GRADE 2, BELOW BENCHMARK

Iris and Walter, True Friends by Elissa Guest President Squid by Aaron Reynolds

A Mom for Umande by Maria Faulconer 

Old Bumpy Alligator by Pat Blanchard and Joanne Suhr 

Little Chimp by Jenny Giles

Hippo by Claire Vial and Graham Meadows 

Big Dog and Little Dog by Dav Pilkey 

Coral Reefs by Ruth Mattison

The Elves and the Shoemaker by Jenny Giles 

Dinosaurs by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld 

Fox on the Job by James Marshall