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By. Karen Hesse

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The main character, Billie Jo, is an eighth grader who loves music. She and her family are having a hard time financially due to the great depression. Her father continues to work on the farm, yet it's not helping much due to the continuing dust storms that are consistently coming. One day Billie Jo is asked to play the piano with her music teacher from school. She does such a great job that he asks her to travel around to play with a group called the Black Mesa Boys. Her mom gives her permission since they really need the money. Billie Jo's mother dies due to a misunderstanding with a pale of kerosene. Bullies Jo tried her best to save her mother, yet both mom and the baby die. Billie Jo also has burns on her hands so the chores she does makes them worst. She is in so much pain that she isnt able to play the piano anymore. She is angry with her father and herself for the death of her mom. They grow apart to where they are just strangers due to him always working and being in class. Her aunt sent her a letter telling her that she could go live with her in Texas. She decides to go before her father dies from what she believes is skin cancer. Yet, during her ride, she realizes that she cant run from her problems. She learns to forgive herself and her father. She goes back home to rebuild the family she had lost.

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My favorite part is the ending. It's a very cliche happy ending, yet it reminds me that there is always hope and peace after a storm.

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I would recommend this book for a 5th or 6th grade class. It could be a GT 4th grade class. I believe it should be a read a loud. It would be a great way to integrate history with ELA. This would be a great book to use when teaching about the great depression because it allows kids to see inside the mind of a child during this rough time in history.

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By. David A. Adler

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This book explains and teaches about three different types of measuring systems: Egyptian, Customary, and Metric. It repeats all throughout the book that the different measuring systems "are just different ways of measuring the same length and distance." The author focuses on instructing readers how to measure specific things based off of the different systems being discussed.

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I love how the author gives very detailed instructions for kids to measure their height as well as a couple of other things. I love how the author, David Alder, wrote the book so that children can apply the knowledge they are reading about to their lives.

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I would recommend this book for a math or science class. I feel as if this book would be good for a variety of levels (first grade to 5th). This would be a good hook to introduce the concept of different metric systems. In addition to that, this book could also be used when teaching students how to write expository papers due to the detailed instructions on HOW TO measure different things using the different systems.

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By. Linda Jacob's Altman
Illustrated By. Enrique O. Sanchez

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Amelia is the main character. Everytime she begins to get settled down at a location, her father pulls out the map for them to migrate to the next place. She hates having to move all the time because she feels as if she has never been able to "settle down." However, one day she comes across an accidental road where she discovers a tree. She decides to make the tree her home, so everyday after school and work she visits the tree. Unlike the other places she lived, the teacher cared to learn her name. Because of that and the tree, she didn't want to leave she felt as if she belonged. Yet, she knew she would be leaving soon, so she decided to create a spot she could soon come back to. Therefore, she buried a box with some of her belongings.

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My favorite part was the theme. The theme is something the reader can take away from the story and apply it to his/her life. I love how the author writes the story so that it conveys the truth in that a person's home is not necessarily a building, it can be where their heart is at.

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I would recommend this book for a second to even fourth grade class. This book would be great to use when a new student joins the class. In addition to that, it would be a good book to read when teaching about Theme or Symbolism.

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Sadyebeth and Anson Lowitz

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The story is a brief biography of George Washington that desribes his life from beginning to end. It emphasizes his rise leadership by detailing how he became the commander of the colonial troops and how he became the President of the United States.

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I like how the author spends a good amount of time describing George Washington's childhood and adolescence. I like it because it allows students to make connections with him.

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I recommend this book for higher elementary students. The book would be not appeal tonyounger students due to the black and white pictures as well as the length. This book would be good to use during independent projects for either a history class or english.

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Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

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Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

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By. Barbara Park

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By. Arnold Lobel

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This is one book with five different mini-stories. The stories focus on the friendship of two characters: Toad and Frog. Both physically resemble an animal, yet act like and perform human-like traits/skills.

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My favorite story in this book is "Spring." Frog wants Toad to wake up from hibernation, so they can enjoy the weather. However, Toad doesn't want to get up; instead, he wants to sleep until "half-past May." I feel like Toad and I would get along great!

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I would recommend this book in the classroom. The brief stories would be good to use when benchmarking students. This would be a good book for ESOL students who are learning to read more in depth stories.

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by. Louis Sachar

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The book is told by an outside narrator. Each chapter is about either a student or teacher who attends Wayside School. Each chapter consists of silly stories that are truly funny. Although none of the stories could truly happen, it seems as if they did. For instance, in the very beginning of the book, Mrs. Gorf turns all the kids into apples because she is really strict. However, the kids figure out away to be turned back into children, and Johnny ends up eating Mrs. Gorf.

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My favorite part is the last chapter. In the last chapter, the readers find out that the narrator is Louis. Louis is the recess teacher, and one day during a snow storm the kids have indoor recess. During recess, he tells the students a story about a strange school with weird students. However, the "strange" school he is describing is an average classroom. The students in Miss. Jewels class do not understand how other schools are not built like theres. Also, they don't understand how other schools don't funcation like theres.

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The Golden Goose Book   "The Three Bears" 

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The Golden Goose Book   "The Three Bears" 

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Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke

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The narrator of the story is an outside character. He tells the famously known story of "The Three Bears." There are three bears (Little, Small, Wee Bear; Middle-Sized Bear; and Great, Huge Bear) who makes breakfast once morning; however, it was too hot to eat, so they go out for a stroll in the woods to allow time to cool the porridge. While they were gone, a girl (Goldenlocks) comes in and eats their food, sits in their furniture, and gets in their beds. When the bears come back, they notice that someone has been in the house. However, once they found Goldenlocks asleep in Little, Small, Wee Bear's bed, she awakes and runs away.

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I love the part when the bears find Goldenlocks because I love to ask students what they would say if they found a stranger asleep in their beds. The reactions and response of the kids shows how much engaged they were in the story.

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I would recommend this book to a second or third grade class. This book is a great read-aloud when students are learning to use expression because they love to try and match their voice to the character in which they are speaking for.

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by. Dr. Seuss

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The speaker of the story wakes up to a shoe on the wall. Once he sees the shoe, he is constantly seeing "wacky" things all throughout his home, his school, and his town. Once he noticed all twenty "wacky" things, the day was over, and it was time for bed.

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I like how George Booth, the illustrator, took time to make "wacky" details for the readers to look for.

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I would recommend this book to a pre-K or Kindergarten teacher. It would be a great book to read when the kids are learning to count to twenty or when the kids are learning the days of the week.

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I would reccomend this book for an elementary class. I probably wouldn't teach it to second grade due to the name calling and teasing that takes place. This book could be used as a fun read-aloud; it could also be used to teach different Character Traits.

**My third grade teacher read this book to my class. When I found this book at GoodWill, I had to buy it. Now that I'm older, it was a lot funnier than I remembered.

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This story is the first to a fun series! Junie B. Jones is starting Kindergarten. However, instad of her mom taking her to school, she must ride the bus. She absolutely hates the bus! The whole book is written in her perespective, so readers get to learn about what she did on the first day of school. Well, one of her classmates told her that kids who ride the bus get milk poured on their head. Junie B was not having that! So she hid from everyone and explored the entire school. After explorig the library and the nurses office, she realizes that she needs to go to the bathroom. However, the doors are locked, so she decides to call 911. Her mom, teacher, principal, and the police showed up. After talking to her mom, she decides that she is going to love riding the bus because her firend will be riding with her.

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My favorite park is the dialect of Junie B. Jones. Not only does the author do a great job at sounding like a five-year-old, she also goes above and beyond to spell and use the grammar of a five-year-old.
My favorite quote:
"Mother rolled her eyes and looked at the ceiling. I looked up there, too. But I didn't see anything.

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I would reccommend this book for a Read Aloud. This would be very fun for 2nd, 3rd, and/or 4th grade students. You could also use the book to teach on Problem and Soulation.