Ben plays an imaginary trumpet and "accompanies" the jazz band playing nearby.
A cap peddlar falls asleep under a tree and wakes up to find that monkeys have stolen his caps.
Write On! is an excellent series for teaching grammar concepts.
How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear?: What Are Homonyms and Homophones? (Words Are Categorical) by Brian P. Cleary
Great series for teaching grammar concepts.
A young girl learns a family recipe and courage from her grandmother.
A young girl imagines she and her grandmother are flying over Harlem and buying the landmarks to give to her parents.
Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.
Tiki and Ronde are brothers, best friends, and teammates on the Cave Spring Vikings football team.
Any of the Barber brother's books would fit the same tags.
Any of the Barber brother's books would fit the same tags.
Young Michael Jordan, who is smaller than the other players, learns that determination and hard work are more important than size when playing the game of basketball.
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Christine King Farris
Looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister.
Use any of the Amelia Bedelia books to introduce and explore multiple meaning words.
When the principal tells first grade teacher Mrs. Belle that she must retire, she and her students wonder how they will keep in touch.
Use any of the books in the Young Cam Jensen series.
When Emily comes home from school and tells her family what she has learned about penguin parents and their babies, Pinkerton is inspired and starts dreaming of raising a penguin pup of his own.
Mice from different sides of the tracks exchange homes and find that the grass isn't always greener on the other side.
Big dog and little dogs are opposites in every way.
Kathy feels lonely and betrayed when her best friend goes away for the summer and has a wonderful time.
Uncle Ray is unable to visit his neice Tameika so he sends her special visitor who hitchhikes his way to her.
A farmer barters to get the things he is unable to grow or raise on his farm.
A fox has to bargain with others to return the milk he drank and in turn get back his tale.
Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.
A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.
Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.