This is a non-fiction text that covers many animals and many details about them! It includes some nice images of the animals and could definitely be of interest to any animal-loving child! This would be a great resource to have in a classroom.

This was a great book and would be a good read for middle school aged children. Taking place on Alcatraz, this book follows a middle school aged boy, Moose, in the 1930s when his family moves to the island so his dad can work as a guard. The way Choldenko incorporates a riveting story and historical facts is makes for an entertaining and interesting read!

This was a complex tale about two orphan girls trying to find their place in the world, when a strange boy falls out of a tree! In this small town, things start to get connected, all the way across the ocean in Ireland. This is a nice coming of age story that follows Naomi and Lizzie as they try to find out who they are and where they fit! A great story for upper elementary and middle school students.

This is a great book for any train-lover child! The book follows Thomas and his friends as they try to get some mischievous animals to the zoo for a grand opening! This book is great for kids too because it is interactive. Children can pull open tabs and find out what the animals are doing in hiding!

This classic tale is in its original format in this story, written by JM Barrie. It follows a magical boy, Peter Pan, and his adventures in Neverland as he refuses to grow up! Wendy, John and Michael soon join him for an adventure fighting pirates! This book would be good for middle school students, though it is slightly different (and more violent) than the Disney version.

This is one of my favorite children's chapter books! It is a good read for upper elementary and middle school students. The book is about Stanley Yelnats, who has had bad luck his whole life, and is blamed for a crime he didn't commit. He is shipped off to a boy's correction camp, and begins to discover things about his past that could help relieve him and his family of all their bad luck!

This is a nice story about an older man who just wants to enjoy Christmas without the grumpy neighbor or nosy sister stepping in. Mr. Whiskers seeks help from neighbors to get what he wants for the holidays. This would be a great book to read to children around the holidays.

This book follows Miranda, a young girl who's father was killed in the battle of Little Big Horn. She and her mother join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, where Miranda meets and befriends some of the indians that her mother blames for the death of Miranda's father. Miranda begins to see that there are two sides to every story, thus seeing things differently from her mother. This book is good for 3-5 graders, and is a historical coming of age story.

This is a really cute book about all the things that will happen if you give a mouse a cookie! The mouse will in in time have you chasing him around the house to get what he needs. This would be a really nice book to have in a classroom or to do as a read-aloud. Very cute!

Ella was given "the gift" of obedience at birth by a fairy. But as Ella grows up, she realizes how much of a curse this is, anyone could order her to do anything! She decides to go on a quest to break the spell once and for all, and on the way, she begins finding out who she really is. This is a great book about a spunky young girl looking for independence!

This is a really cute book that young children would enjoy around Christmas time. This book is about Charlie, Santa's dog! Charlie prides himself on being Santa's best friend and helping him throughout his day. When Santa starts to get stressed out and busy as Christmas gets closer, Charlie doesn't know how to help! Finally, he discovers by accident that he can paint with his tail! Everyone is happy and pleased with Charlie at the end.

This book literally follows the history of bathrooms/hygeine habits through the ages. While this book is full of interesting information, it may not be appropriate for some classrooms because some pictures contain nudity. Also, bathroom habits in the past could be considered gross by some.

This is a good text for middle school or 5th grade girls. It follows Wilma, an unpopular girl in middle school. Suddenly, Wilma's wish to be the most popular girl in school is granted! And life seems wonderful--she has tons of friends and dates to her school's dances. But she begins to wonder, how long will this last? Are these people really my friends? This is a great book to deal with the issue of popularity and being liked for who you are.

This book is appropriate for middle school aged children. It follows sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook in Philadelphia who tries to survive the yellow-fever epidemic while also surviving extreme loss of family and friends. Can she cope with this epidemic?

This book is about a donkey boy, Sylvester, who collects pebbles. One day he finds a magic red pebble that will grant every wish you wish when you hold it. Sylvester, startled by a lion, accidentally wishes he were a rock, and turns into one! His parents can't find him, and months and months pass...will Sylvester forever be a rock?

This is a wonderful book with beautiful images! It would make a great read aloud book for any elementary child and a great book to have in your classroom. This book follows the boy, Nicki, who lost his white mitten in the snow. Many animals try to squeeze in to keep warm, while Nicki continues to look! Will he find his mitten?

This book would be good as a read aloud for lower elementary students. This book counts down 10 to 0 and uses the rhyming meter/pattern of "5 little monkeys jumping on a bed," to tell about different types of dinosaurs in a silly way.

This is a great book by Gail Gibbons that traces the life cycle of plants. It has informative text and great illustrations/images and labeled diagrams of different parts of flowers and plants. This would be a great text to have in your classroom when covering life cycles of plants.

This book is so awesome! It has beautiful, eye-grabbing, close-up images of frogs to examine and text on each page giving you information and facts about different kinds of frogs. This would definitely be a great book to have in the classroom as it could grab the interest of all students!

This is a unique book that explains how animals communicate with each other. This would be a cool topic for most children as many children think that animals can communicate at a level similar to humans. This book shows children how animals do communicate with each other, but in obviously different ways than humans do. This book does not contain very many images and is thus very text heavy, but could still be accessible to older students or advanced readers.

This was a interesting and informative book that explains why all of the sudden, Pluto was not considered a planet anymore. While explaining the reasoning behind this change, the book also gives information about how space discoveries were made in history. This book would be best used for children grades 5 and above because of the amount of text/information on each page.

This is a very cool book that uses both written text and visual images and diagrams with captions to tell the story of Charles Darwin's life and his contributions to science. The use of images that appear to be from his time is a very unique way to present information. This text could be used in upper elementary and middle school grades and would be a great contribution to the classroom.

This is a very informative text about the planets and space. It has a lot of text on each page that is packed with facts about the planets. I could suggest this for older students, maybe 5-9th grade, as each page has a lot of information to unpack.

This is a great book by Gail Gibbons that traces the life cycle of an apple tree that is loved and cared for by a boy. It traces the tree (how it looks, grows, changes) throughout the seasons in an explicit way through the images and text. It is even interactive as it provides a recipe for apple pie! This could bring in a math lesson if used in the classroom.

This is an interesting science book that explains how tornadoes look, what they are, where they often take places, and how they are formed. It covers tornadoes on land and water funnels/funnel clouds. It is a good book to help students understand how to look for tornadoes and how to be safe if one ever happens in their area. This would be a great addition to any classroom.

This is an interesting book that explains how our reflexes cause us to sneeze, shiver, hiccup and yawn. This book has children-friendly explanations, but also goes into further depth with diagrams of parts of the nervous system. This might be an interesting book to explore with a class when introducing a book on the body.

This is an interactive science book that could be used with young children to help explain what creates day and night. Most young children have misconceptions about the sun moving up and down to create day and night, when really it is the Earth that spins. This book explains this with interesting images, diagrams, and some short experiments you could do at home!

This is a great book that explains how and why ducks don't get wet, even if they are completely under water! It has nice pictures to go along with the text to explain how ducks' bodies produce an oil to cover their feathers. This book also explores different species of ducks and how they migrate to find food during the winter. It also provides short experiments that you could do at home or in the classroom.

This is a kid friendly science book that explains how air is all around us even though we can't always see it or feel it. It has some short experiments you could explore at home or in school that shows how air is everywhere, even if it can't be seen. This book has nice explanations and drawings/diagrams to help children understand this concept even more.

This is an interesting interdisciplinary book that uses both language arts (poetry) and science to make an informative book about insects. Each page has a poem about a different insect and a beautiful watercolor painting of the insect of interest. This could be a great interdisciplinary text for the classroom!