Week 5 Reading: Finding the right text

Because this is my first year of teaching and I am limited on my resources, I use whatever books are available to me. My classroom library is not very full and the books I do have are very outdated. The other Kindergarten teacher checks out books from the local library each week on the topic of our main book (both fiction and nonfiction) so we share those, but I do wish I were able to find interesting books that my Kindergarten students could read on their own. I have decodable and independent readers, but they are not always very exciting. I would like to be able to give my students an option of picking up books that they can read on their own and that interest them. When reading books to my students, I have noticed that they like listening to books that rhyme and books where I can change up my voice to become the characters. They also enjoy books with onomatopoeia words within them, and they do love to read nonfiction books about animals. The problem is not that I do not know what interests them, but I just don't have the resources to provide those books for them to read. The books I would provide are too high of vocabulary for them to read and comprehend, but if read to, they like to discuss unfamiliar words.