Prosper ISD trustees will be asked Monday to sign off on roughly 480 new library books for the district's campuses, the latest list to come through the review process state lawmakers created last year.
The approval is item 9.B on the consent agenda for the board's regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 16. It asks trustees to approve a library material procurement list "as recommended by the School Library Advisory Council."
What is on the list
The 14-page attachment, labeled the district's October 2026 procurement list and revised Oct. 26, gives each book's title, author and the school level it is meant for. By the count of entries, about 338 are for elementary libraries, 52 for middle schools and 94 for high schools.
The elementary titles include "150,000 Trees: Growing a Memorial for 9/11's Flight 93" and "A Visit to the Alamo." The middle school list includes several Hardy Boys Adventures volumes and "Who Is Ilona Maher," and the high school list includes Virgil's "Aeneid" alongside titles such as "Absent," "Death in Verse" and "Black Clover 37."
Why the board votes on books
Senate Bill 13, passed by the Legislature in 2025, set out how districts add books to school libraries. Under the law, a local school library advisory council has at least five members appointed by trustees, and a majority of its voting members must be parents of students in the district who do not work for it.
