This book is about a Jewish family from Copenhagen who escapes during World War II. The girl in the family helps rescue thousands of Danish Jews to help save them from being relocated to concentration camps. This is a great historical fiction book to teach kids about the events that happened during World War II and the Holocaust.

This book is about an old bear who falls asleep to hibernate in the winter. As he sleeps, he has a dream that he is a cub again and takes a journey through all four seasons, enjoying his surroundings in each one. This book would be a good introduction to learning about the seasons. It would also be a good book to demonstrate the message of enjoying the beauty of the world around us.

This book is about a little duck who loses their new blue socks and can not seem to find them anywhere. The duck asks a fox, an ox, looks for them in a box, and searches down by the rocks but can not find them anywhere. This book would be a good introduction to a unit about rhyming words. It could be used to introduce words that sound the same. It could also be a lesson about making predictions about the text because in some of the pictures in the book, the reader can see that the duck is wearing blue socks.

This book is about a boy named David who has a hard time staying out of trouble. David just keeps breaking the rules! Every page is essentially a picture of David breaking the rules and his mother telling him "No!" This would be a good book to use with a class where you stop reading every once in a while and talk about rules and what the importance of rules are. It could easily be connected to a classroom rules activity where students are recognizing that rules are for the safety of everybody.

This is a book about Alexander and his horrible day. From the time he wakes up until the time he goes to bed nothing goes his way. This is a great book to teach kids about having bad days and that sometimes things don't go your way. I would use this book as a way to teach kids about bad days and that everybody has them sometimes. It would be useful to connect it to a lesson about strategies for overcoming bad days or what to do when nothing seems to go your way.

This book is about a boy who becomes friends with his new neighbor. He is an angry boy, but learns to let go of that anger after being around his new friend. They create an imaginary world together, but tragedy strikes at the end of the novel. i would use this book to teach about friendship as well as the power of imagination. This book would be a good one to use to teach about overcoming tragedy as well.

Pink and Say is based during the Civil War. It is about two union soldiers who run into each other in battle. One is white and he is hurt and in need of help. A black soldier comes along and helps him. He takes him home and his mother helps nurse him back to full health. This is a great book to teach about that era of our country's history as well as a book to teach about humanity and helping each other rather than having the ego-centric attitude that we see all to often in today's society.

This book is about a little girl who thinks she is not an artist. The teacher encourages her to try, so she just puts a dot on the paper and signs it. She is very encouraged when she sees the dot hanging in the teacher's office. This is a great book to teach about creativity. It is also good to teach about the power of trying your best rather than focusing on being perfect.

The Giving Tree is a book about a young boy and a tree who spend a lot of time together. The tree gives the boy everything he needs and it makes the tree happy. as the boy gets older, he stops coming around as much and it makes the tree sad. This book is a great metaphor for family as I see the tree as the boy's mother. It is also a great example of the importance of nature. This book could potentially be used to teach about the importance of family as well as the importance of nature. It could be an introduction to metaphors as well where the kids give ideas about what the metaphor for the tree is in this book.

This book is about a young boy who's mom sends him off to bed without supper. He is not happy about this and ends up going on a journey to live with the wild things. After a little while he gets tired of it and wants to go home. When he gets home he finds a hot dinner waiting in his room. I would use this book to teach kids about the value of family and the importance of certain people in their lives.

This book is another one that allows readers to escape to a fantasy world. In this fiction book, a society is created where all pain and suffering is ended and everyone has converted to sameness. This is a great book to do as a whole class read aloud to teach students about their emotions, even the bad ones, and their importance. It will also teach students about expressing themselves and having a sense of individuality.

This book is yet another classic. A pig in danger of being slaughtered befriends a spider who ends up saving the pig's life. The friendship of these two goes on for years! This book can be used to teach many things, but I would use it to teach about friendship and compassion in elementary school.

This book is about a young man who's parents are divorced. While on his way to visit his dad, his plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. He must put aside his anger about the divorce to survive. This would be a good book to use as a read aloud in elementary school to teach about the tough topic of divorce as well as to teach about survival skills.

This is another classic. It is a great story about a young man who realizes he does not want to be civilized because that entails being okay with slavery. He runs away and on his journey he meets a runaway slave who he attempts to run away from civilization with. I would not want to use this book until at least middle school because of language used, but it is a great book to teach about this time in our nation's history.

This book is a classic. It is the first of the Hardy Boys series and leads the reader on an exciting adventure where the boys learn of the location of stolen treasure from a dying criminal who is only able to tell them it is in the tower. I would use this book with third through fifth graders. This is an exciting book that will get students engaged. I would use this book to help get students hooked on reading. Once students read this book, they may want to read the rest of the series. I know I did!

This book is nonfiction. It is a first person account of Francisco Jimenez's childhood and what it was like growing up as an immigrant. His family thought they would be living the American dream, but they did not. It shows the hard work it takes to build a life in a new country and live through poverty. I would use this book with upper elementary students to teach about immigration and poverty from a first person account.

In this book, Sal takes a journey across the country to see her mother in Lewiston, idaho with her grandparents. It turns out that her mother is deceased and they are going to visit her grave site. This is a great book to use to teach students about the tough topic of death and grief. It would be an ideal book to use with fourth or fifth graders.

This book is about a young little league baseball player who is dealing with much more than just baseball. His family escaped from Cuba. He is 12 years old and is recently orphaned living with his older brother who is only 17. He is a great baseball player and opposing coaches think he is too good to be 12. He has no birth certificate and is afraid he will be sent back to Cuba. I would use this book to teach about family and show that some have it worse off than they might. It could also be used to teach about immigration and a realistic fiction story that deals with that.

This is a great collection of poems. It contains a wide variety of poems to use with children. I would use this book in the classroom to help get students into poetry. I would also use it to help teach students about themselves through reading lines like "all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet." It would be a great book to use when teaching figurative language as well.

This book takes the reader on a journey as if they are in the fantasy world of Hogwarts themselves. Harry is living with his aunt and uncle when he is given a letter to attend Hogwarts. Not only does this fun read allow the reader to escape to a fantasy world, it also deals with many concepts for students including orphanage and mixed families. I would use this book to address some of those themes with my students. I think it would be a fun read aloud to do with the class everyday.