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Your library (75) Wishlist (0) Currently reading (0) To read (0) Read but unowned (0) Favorites (0) All collections (75)	a slave boy who lives on the other side of the Bok Chitto River in the 1800s. When the boy's family faces separation (1) also school and friendship. (1) an Egg Tree! So began a very special Easter tradition. I would use this book when Easter comes around to discuss the holiday and Easter family traditions. (1) an ex-slave (1) and adults might shed a tear or two (1) and an explanation of the Chinese treats that are Jasmine’s favorites. This is great to teach about writing (1) and bedtime. (1) and camouflage. (1) and diversity. (1) and facing your fears. (1) and farm and ranch life. (1) and feast. Her grandfather becomes ill (1) and french culture. (1) and Friends. (1) and friendship (1) and friendship. (1) and friendship. Relatable to children. (1) and imagination. (1) and individuality. (1) and language.Evaluation: I think children will love this heartwarming book (1) and misunderstandings. (1) and morals. (1) and music. (1) and neighborhood. Fun (1) and positive attitude. (1) and pride. I'd use this book at the end of the year to inspire my students that they will be successful and can do anything. (1) and School Life. (1) and school. (1) and self-taught artist who is now recognized as an important African-American folk artist. Bill Traylor became an artist in his 80s. I would use this for an artist study and place the book in the art center afterwards to inspire creativity. (1) and sharing. (1) and spanish language throughout. I would use it to teach about the holiday. (1) and sports. (1) and teaches Jasmine to create magical worlds with calligraphy while her little brother Tai-Tai is napping. He encourages Jasmine to let her imagination take off from the Chinese characters he teaches her each day. Soon they are playing away the afternoons (1) and then (1) and trucks. I would use this in a lesson on transportation. This book has great facts about trains and what it is like to ride on one. It can also be used in a history lesson on the industrial revolution because it has details about the transcontinental r (1) and vanish using only their imagination. This is great for art lessons (1) as I did. The information about Chinese culture and folk art at the end of the story is not only enlightening (1) because it was read to her class and made everyone laugh! This is a just for fun book that encourages students to want to read. (1) blue kite. When the wind blows her kite away (1) but due to the language and content I would not use often. Appropriate for use with 3rd and up. The animals are pretty vicious and the bully wants to kill and eat the other animals. (1) but the will get a deeper story than most other ballerina books. I like that the main character is African American and real photos are included. I would have this book in my classroom library to enhance vocabulary and as a way to show students about dive (1) but unlike much back matter in picture books (1) character (1) children will discover some of his modern art. I would have this in the classroom library as an art resource and just for enjoyment. (1) color lessons (1) compassion (1) conflict resolution (1) conflict resolution. This book could inspire an art lesson and is a great prompt for talking about how to solve conflict. (1) courage (1) creativity (1)	Crushes (1) culture (1) drawing (1) Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences (1) engaging stories to interest students in reading. Theme: school life (1) especially if discussing space and astronauts. (1) especially when talking about cooking. (1) even when a teacher rejects his talent. This can also be used to talk about jobs! (1) exaggerations (1) expressing feelings and emotions through letters (1) family (4) Folk Tale. Strega Nona is a classic story of an older woman with a magical cooking pot! Strega Nona is good for teaching about fables and folk tales and also culture. This book incorporates many Italian words (1) Folk Tale. This is a bilingual and multicultural retelling of Mary Had a Little Lamb. I would use this in my classroom in a culture and diversity lesson. The fact that it is a nursery rhyme is great for literacy too. I would sing it to the class. (1) friends (2) Friendship (1) fun story. Themes: New experiences (1) Genre: Autobiography and biography. Many people have been president of the United States. Presidents have come in just about every variety. They've been generals like George Washington and actors like Ronald Reagan; big like William Howard Taft and small (1) Genre: Biography. An excellent introduction to Bill Traylor (1) Genre: Biography. This biography is about the famous artist Frida Kahlo and how she was inspired to be an artist. This would be great to read and then view Frida's art. Not only is this a great book for art and creativity (1) Genre: Biography. When students are learning about presidents (1) Genre: Chapter Book Series. Funny (1) Genre: Chapter Book Series. Teaches about the holiday Valentine's day (1) Genre: Chapter Book Series. Theme: resolving fears (1) Genre: Chapter Book Series. Themes: New Experiences (1) Genre: Chapter Book Series. Use to engage class and inform them of field day (or similar school event). Themes: school (1) Genre: Chapter Book Series. Very relatable story (1) Genre: Chapter Book Series. Winter themed book that will be relatable to students (1) Genre: Classic. Great beginner reader. Relates in verse some of the unusual thinks you can think with made-up words and intriguing ideas. Encourages word recognition (1) Genre: Classic. Great beginner reader. This is a great book to use to introduce healthy eating and trying new things! I would read aloud then add to the class library. (1) Genre: Classic. Madeline teaches about friendship (1) Genre: Classic. Theme: stuffed animals (1) Genre: Classic. Themes: Animals (1) Genre: Classic. This is a story of agentle bull who chooses not to fight. I would use this story to teach about character traits including bravery and individuality. (1) Genre: Comedy. A duck's truck gets stuck in the mud and many other animals stop by to help. I would use this book as a read aloud in my class. This book is great for making predictions! (1) Genre: Comedy. Engaging text (1) Genre: Comedy. Great book for beginner readers helps them to recognize common "household" words. Also good for vocabulary. (1) Genre: Comedy. I would use this school themed book to teach about descriptive words (1) Genre: Comedy. Teaches vocabulary through a relatable (1) Genre: Comedy. Themes: Creativity (1) Genre: Comedy. Themes: Lost and found objects (1) Genre: Comedy. This book was highly recommended by my younger sister (1) Genre: Comedy. This classic Laura Numeroff circle book is great for showing cause and effect. Every action in the book has a direct effect! The moose is hungry so you feed him a muffin and then he wants jam so you give him jam! (1) Genre: Comedy. This is a very fun book hat can be used to talk about writing letters (1) Genre: Comedy. This silly book about a large family of hogs is great for teaching about sentence transitions (1) Genre: Comedy/Series. This is a just for fun book! It can be used to teach about behavior and persuasive writing. (1) Genre: Creativity. This book sets readers on an interactive journey about colors. Children follow instructions to make colors appear (1) Genre: Creativity. This book shows Andy Warhol's imagination (1) Genre: Creativity. This is a very fun read aloud that students can interact with! This can be used for a follow the directions activity too! The book instructs the reader to perform an action on each page. (1) Genre: Fable (2) Genre: Fable/Folk Tale. This is a story of two friends: one who gives and one who takes. I would use this story to teach about friendship and how to be a good friend. It can also be used to discuss love (1) Genre: Fiction. A series about the life of a little doll and her friends. It's a wonderful windy day and perfect for Windy's favorite activity--flying her big (1)	Genre: Fiction. Henry is late for school and needs to make up a really good excuse and he does so using multiple languages. This could be used to discuss culture and language diversity. This book also has a lot of expression and voice. It could be used to (1) Genre: Fiction. I love this multicultural Halloween book. It features a black cat (1) Genre: Fiction. Jasmine’s grandfather comes to live in their house (1) Genre: Fiction. The main character Amos gets sick (1) Genre: Fiction. This book would be a part of my Halloween collections. This is a Halloween version of stone soup! It features many Halloween creatures and Halloween elements. Can be compared to Stone Soup or used to talk about important qualities. (1) Genre: Folk Tale. This Ukrainian folk tale is a great story that kids love! It can be used to teach about folk tales and the characteristics of folk tales (1) Genre: Folk Tale/Fairy Tale. This is a twist on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. I would use this in a folk tale lesson to compare to the original Cinderella. (1) Genre: Folk Tale/Fairy Tale. This is a twist on the classic fairy tale of the three little pigs. In this version there are three little wolves and a big bad pig. I would use this in a folk tale lesson and compare it to the original Three Little Pigs. (1) Genre: Folktale. Multicultural Maasai folktale with an unlikely hero. I like the genre of folktale and I also like the multiculturalism (1) Genre: General Fiction. A warm book featuring an African-American mother and daughter and their neighbors in Harlem. They come together to celebrate a birthday...but Kameeka's more focused on winning the title of hula-hooping queen. Children can relate to (1) Genre: General Fiction. Iggy Peck is a great book to use when discussing perseverance or art! Iggy loves to build and doesn't give up on his dream (1) Genre: General Fiction. Teaches about caring for an animal and rural areas. I love the real photos on each page (1) Genre: General Fiction. Themes: animals (1) Genre: General Fiction. Themes: Changes (1) Genre: General Fiction. This is a Native American story where a girl tells her Grandma that she would like to dance at the next powwow. The girl (1) Genre: General Fiction. This lift the flap animal zoo book can be used as an engaging way to interest student's in reading. The story is like a guess the animal game where some answers are predictable. (1) Genre: Historical Fiction. Joe has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class (1) Genre: Historical Fiction. Martha Tom is a Choctaw girl who becomes friends with Little Mo (1) Genre: Informational. This book is great to be used as an informational text. Many teachers have units just for informational texts. This includes facts about chameleons like their features (1) Genre: Informational. This is a book I would use before going over safety procedures or just to emphasize safety. The class can act out scenarios and practice what safe options would be. This is also a way to introduce the topic of bullying. (1) Genre: Informational. This is for students interested in cars (1) Genre: Legends and Myths. In an African village live seven brothers who make family life miserable with their constant fighting. When their father dies (1) Genre: Legends and Myths. This original story is based on Hindu mythology and gives an insight into Asian and Hindu culture. It tells the story about how Ganesha's love of sweets led to a broken tusk and the writing of an epic poem. I would use this to le (1) Genre: Math. This book can be used to teach about money and the general concept of spending money. This also ties into subtraction. The group has a certain amount of money to spend and they go through multiple options of how they can spend it. Good visual (1) Genre: Math. This book helps to make the concept of large numbers (1) Genre: Mystery. Nate the great is a detective series. In this book (1) Genre: Nonfiction. This is an inspiring piece of literature about following your dreams. Many students will be enticed because it is a book about a ballerina (1) Genre: Nursery Rhyme/Song. This story of the silly monkeys jumping on the bed can be used to teach many things! I would use it for counting and talking about safety. It will enhance literacy by using repetitive phrases and a catchy tune. (1) Genre: Realistic Fiction. Maple's parents plant a maple tree in her honor and the book shows how they are friends. It is a great book to use to talk about nature and gardening. I would take the class to study trees outside after and we could describe them (1) Genre: Realistic Fiction. One Easter morning (1) Genre: Realistic Fiction. This book can be used to deal with the "I'm bored" attitude and come up with solutions to it. Also it can inspire creativity! I'd ask the students to draw and write aout something they can do that is amazing and fun. (1) Genre: Realistic Fiction. This is a relatable book where the character has a bad day. This book can be used to talk about how everyone can have a bad day and how to deal with those feelings. It also incorporates the theme of perseverance (1) Genre: Rhyming. I would use this book in a rhyming lesson! It rhymes about the different shades of green. I like the die cut pages in this book and think it will inspire creativity and make rhyming fun. (1) Genre: Series. Clifford is a great series that many children enjoy. Teaches about friendship and growing up. Students interested in dogs will enjoy it. (1) Genre: Series. Franklin is a popular character and this is a relatable story for children. This story is abut having a sleepover and then feeling homesick. This can be used to talk about friendship and feelings. (1) Genre: Series. This is a collection including many o the Berenstain Bears books. I would include these in my classroom because it is a series that the kids like and every story has a valuable lesson. They are always relatable too (1) Genre: Wordless. I would use this wordless picture book to show the class that we can all be authors and make up our own stories using the pictures. First I would create my own story and then let the class create the words they wold use. (1) Genre:Informational. This book is about children all over the world. This would be great to introduce during a social studies lesson about people all over the world. It has real pictures of children and things they can do. (1) Genre:Nonfiction. This innovative book takes a complex subject and makes it accessible to young readers. It explains the basic concept of gravity describing what it does and how it affects objects in simple terms. I would use this with a science lesson (1) great visuals. (1) growing up (1) habitats (1) he can travel through time. So for his report (1) he is gone. Jasmine teaches Tai-Tai to make magic just like their grandfather had taught her. Mandarin Chinese characters shown on each page to match the pictures and the author includes a pronunciation key at the back of the book. There is also informati (1) he leaves an unusual will: by sundown (1) he must solve a riddle using musical clues. I would use this as a beginner chapter book for students interested in adventure (1) hope (1) horses are purple and golden monkeys wear pink baubles on their tails. Through Andy Warhol's Colors (1) I would use this book to introduce the students to Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln Memorial. I would show pictures of him and a virtual tour of the memorial too. (1) including how many shoeboxes it takes to make a stack as high as Mount Everest. I would use this hen counting or adding large numbers to make math understandable in a real world context. (1) inspirational (1)	is presented at a level that will make it understandable even to children. (1) it is also great for Hispanic culture and historical women. (1) Jackie Robinson (1) Jenna (1) Joe decides to go back to meet one of the greatest baseball players ever (1) Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards (1) Katy and Carl went on an egg hunt through Grandmom's house. Katy couldn't find anything until she went up to the attic. There she discovered a very special set of eggs. Grandmom had painted them when she was a little girl. And now (1) kindness (1) like a million (1) like a trip to the dentist. (1) like how something unrealistic usually happens just as the animals all fit into a mitten in this story. (1) loyalty (1) Manners (1) Martha Tom and the Choctaw women help them to escape to freedom. This book is a great history lesson to teach about slavery (1) mix (1) mystery (1) Native Americans (1) or creativity lessons. (1) parents (1) pets (1) play with monkeys (1) practices by watching a videotape of her grandmother and asks various relatives and friends for advice. I would use this book when discussing Native Americans because it teaches us about the differences and similarities in our cultures and has great illus (1) pride (1) problem solving (1) protesting (1) rumors (1) School (1) sharecropper (1) she hung them from the branches of a tiny tree (1) she sets off to find. The book comes with instructions on how to make and fly a kite. The pictures and stories are perfect for children (1) siblings (1) simple story. (1) song to go with it. Themes: Animals (1) splatter (1) teamwork (1) the brothers must make gold out of seven spools of thread. If they fail (1) the importance of education (1) the themes are: Cause and Effect (1) they will be turned out as beggars. I would use this book to teach about teamwork and Kwanzaa. (1) time (1) to find out what it was like to be the man who broke baseball's color barrier. Great chapter book to read aloud in second grade or for grades third and up to read independently. It will interest students who like baseball and sports heroes. It gives good (1) Tolerance (1) trains (1) understandable. Readers actually see what one million of something looks like as this book contains one million dots and 46 amazing facts (1) which anyone can relate to. I may use this if our many students in our class have a cold or if I am sick. It can show how to be a good friend when someone is sick and how someone feels when they are sick. It can be included in an animal or zoo category of (1) which is often linked to Halloween and bad luck (1) with playful maps to trace each adventure and great ideas for things to do and make. This story reminded me of these little dolls my mom and I used to make. I thought it was a very unique series. It can be used to talk about weather and what types of acti (1)

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