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Separate is Never Equal- Duncan Tonatiun

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Separate is Never Equal- Duncan Tonatiun

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Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiun is a Multicultural Award Winning book. This book is about the times before brown vs the board of education when schools were not segregated. A young Mexican-American student is trying to go to an all white school and this is not allowed in during that time period. This is a picture book so I believe it would be great for younger children because it teaches them about history not only though pictures but through words too.

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The Color of Us by Karen Katz is a multicultural book. This book is about a young girl who wants to paint herself a certain brown color so her mom takes her for a walk through her neighborhood. While on their walk Lena the little girl notices that there are all different types of colors of people. This book is great for younger kids because it shows that there are many different types of skin colors out there but yet everyone is still equal.

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Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley is a Multicultural book. I would recommend this book to young children because it shows that just because people come from different places they all have different versions of the same kinds of dishes in their house. Plus the book comes with different recipes for each type of rice that is cooked throughout the story this would be a great learning experience for kids and shows how different cultures make the same dish they eat everyday.

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The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a Science Fiction Book. The Maze runner is about a boy who wakes up in an elevator with no memory of the past other than the fact that his name is Thomas. He is surrounded by a group of boys who have no idea about their past either Thomas decides to enter the Maze and to figure out a code of how to get them out and see who is behind all of this. I would not recommend that this book be read in class to kids because it really has no significance to school, it is more of a pleasure read book and there are other books in this series and I really enjoyed them I would recommend them to anyone who is open to reading them.

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Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis is a Historical Fiction Book. Dear Reader:
Today's book is Bud Not Buddy the book takes place in 1936 about a young boy named Bud whose mother has died and he is now a foster child and he has moved on now to his third foster family. He then runs away in hopes of finding a permanent family and a better life. I absolutely loved this book but it is so sad to think that there are kids all over the world that do not have homes or a permanent family because they have lost their parents. This book is great for upper level age groups because it makes you thankful for having a real family and it shows them that not everyone in the world has the perfect family
Enjoy!

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Number the Stars by Lois Lowry is a Historical Fiction book. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read about a story that involves the holocaust, this book is so sad but has its moments of happiness. This book can be read for pleasure or it can be read to a class so they can learn about that terrible terrible time. I would recommend for older kids because it is a chapter book and the younger kids may not understand what all this book entails.

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The Great War by Joe Sacco is an Informational Text book. This book is all about the start of the first world war, about how many British soldiers were killed and wounded on just the very first day of battle. There is a 24 foot long panorama of the great war in the book and I love it because it depicts almost what the whole war was about and what it was like in that panorama. The quality of the book was great because it gave tons of information about one of the worst world wars. I would recommend this to an older class studying social studies this would be a perfect book to use to get a visual and some good information about the war.

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The Story of the Titanic by Steve Noon is an Informational Text book. This story is just a bunch of facts and information about the titanic. It is all about how it was built and who was involved in the building of it and it also talks about how the unsinkable ship ended up sinking and a lot of people lost their lives. It also tells about the ones who survived. I would recommend this book to any age group because it gives a ton of information and you could really do a whole unit over the book because of all the information that it has in it.

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The Girl Who Drank the Moon- Kelly Barnhill

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The Girl Who Drank the Moon- Kelly Barnhill

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The girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill is a Bluebonnet Award Winner Book. This book is about a young girl who is raised by a witch, swamp monster, and a dragon. The tiny dragon is trying to unlock the magic that is inside the little girl, they hope this little girl will keep the witch from terrorizing the town. They find out this little girl is full of magic and the magic inside of her is released and she has to protect the witch who has taken care of her all her life. I would recommend this book to younger children because it is a good lesson on family and that they always will have your back and maybe one day they might need you to have their back and it also expresses how important it is to be yourself.

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Rick and Rack and the Great Outdoors- Ethan Long

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Rick and Rack and the Great Outdoors- Ethan Long

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Rick and Rack and the Great Outdoors is a Graphic Novel Book. This book is short humorous stories about a moose and a raccoon who are all about exploring fishing, trying to figure out paw prints in the woods, all while trying to stay in a dry canoe. The book s all pictures with the only words coming from balloons drawn on the page for the words that they are speaking. This book is one of my favorites because it is so cute and funny I would probably recommend this book for very young children because it is a lot of pictures with very few words and I feel as if they would really enjoy this kooky story.

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Who was Amelia Earhart by Kate Jerome is a Autobiography book. Learning about this woman and what she did I just find fascinating flying solo across the Atlantic ocean and her being a woman was just bonus points as well, it is so sad that she disappeared during her flight around the world because I believe that she could do it. This book is great for young readers because they get to learn all about a great woman not through just words but through pictures as well which helps you get an even better picture of what she did. I especially love it for young girls because it shows them that us as women can do what they boys do and gives them confidence to try anything they want.

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The Three Pigs by David Wiesner is a Traditional Literature book. The three pigs is a tale as old as time almost every child in America or maybe even the world has heard the story of the three pigs, whether it was told to them by their parents or it was read to them in school. There are many different books about this story but they all seem to have the same story, a wold come in and blows all the houses down until he gets to the house with bricks and runs out of breath because he can not blow it down. I believe that this story is a must read to children because it is a great story and almost every child loves it.

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Who Was Dr. Seuss by Janet B Pascal is a Autobiography book. I really enjoyed reading this book because I got to learn so much about
Dr. Seuss in just a short period of time, and I learned about him through pictures as well as words that was the fun part about. This book was all about Dr. Seuss and how no one liked his creativeness at first but he never gave up on his dream so he began to write children's books and now he is beyond famous people around the world know him. This would be great to read to young children as well before you read them a Dr. Seuss book because then they could know all about who the person is that wrote the book you are reading them.

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Where The Wild Things Are- Maurice Sendak

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Where The Wild Things Are- Maurice Sendak

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Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is Caldecott Award Winner book. If you wanted to know some fun facts about the author which has a lot of information about why he wrote this book check out this website http://mentalfloss.com/article/30618/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-maurice-sendak.
If you want to have the book read to you visit this link. https://youtu.be/by1syKR4KRk
They also made a movie out of this book so here is a link for the trailer https://youtu.be/hcBPzqxBnRU
I would suggest this book for anyone that wants to read it I especially like it for younger kids because it lets them use their imagination.

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Al Capone Does My Shirts- Gennifer Choldenko

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Al Capone Does My Shirts- Gennifer Choldenko

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Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko is a Historical Fiction book. Click Here for my one minute book talk.

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The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein is a  Traditional Literature book. I found a poem written by Aniruddha Pathak that I feel relates to The Giving Tree.

The Joy of Giving
Be it no more than just a glass of water,
An alive walking stick played by kind daughter,
Care and concern, warm smile, not else nigh hotter;
Or quality time spent with someone old,
Blanket’s warm fold in times forlorn and cold,
In times of need a ready shoulder-hold;
A pair of sleepers to feet walking bare,
Not in loud charity to show you care,
Heart-born feelings so felt drowning false air.
Anything— given short of counting ways,
Given to brighten up sinking heart’s grays,
To lighten load that too heavily weighs.
Give it in cash if it can’t be in kind,
Let it a gift of heart be, well inclined,
A gift of very soul, body and mind.
Give— the only joy greater than getting
The joy O of giving and forgetting!

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What's Wrong With This Book- Richard McGuire

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What's Wrong With This Book- Richard McGuire

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What's Wrong With This Book by Richard McGuire is a Post Modern Picture Book.  Here is my one minute book talk click Here.

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So You Want to Be President- Judith St. George

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So You Want to Be President- Judith St. George

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So You Want to Be President by Judith St. George is an Informational Text book. This book has been one of my favorites from elementary until now, it is a great book filled with tons of information about what the president does and also a lot of information about a lot of the presidents that have served in the White House. This book is great for young readers because it gives them lots of information about the presidents and what they do and it gets there minds going about them maybe wanting to be president one day. I think this book is great for all ages though cause even now I do not ever get tired of reading it. The quality of the book is fantastic with all the information given and all of the pictures that tell the story as well.

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Wrecked by Maria Padian is a Free Choice book. Here is my story map for the book.

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Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli is a Realistic Fiction book. The characters in this story are shaped both by the setting and the time period, in the story the town of Two Mills is separated between blacks and whites and that shapes all the outside characters but Maniac does not seem to conform to these standards that Two Mills has. That also goes on to show what kind of person Maniac is he does not discriminate between black and white he makes a lot of enemies because he has friends from both sides of town but that never really seems to change the type of person that he is. I think most people can relate to the characters in this story and the challenges that they faced because we still have those same challenges going on in our world right now, and we are all finding ways to deal with them just like Maniac Magee had to.

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a Science Fiction book. The Hunger Games is about a girl who volunteers as a tribute for her sister to go compete in the hunger games along with a boy named Peeta these two know each other but not very well and as the hunger games go on they pretend they are in love to get people to like them. In the end they are the winners of the hunger games and they actually end up falling in love with each other. The series of these books are all really good and I would advise you to read them because you would really enjoy them.

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The book crossover by Kwame Alexander is a poetry book. In the book Crossover the main character is the narrator and it affects the story because you only get his point of view on things and that can be a disadvantage because you really do not know how everyone else in the story is feeling. The sounds of a basketball game make the setting seem so real that I almost feel like I am in the story and playing the game with them. The setting is a real place that exists because most of it takes place on a basketball court or in a gym and that is what makes everything in the story so vivid.

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The outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a Realistic Fiction Book. Here is my infographic for the book.

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The Last Stop on Market Street- Matt De La Pena.

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The Last Stop on Market Street- Matt De La Pena.

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The Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena is a book of my own Free choice. This book is about a young boy and his grandma who ride the bus everyday and the young boy wonders why they cannot have a car or nice things and wishes that he could have nice things. The last stop on market street every Sunday is the soup kitchen. The quality of the book is so good the images are great and the story itself is just a really good and sad one. My advice for reading this book is that you have to read between the lines in order to really understand the meaning of the book and what the boy is going through in the story.

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The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales- Jon Scieszka.

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The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales- Jon Scieszka.

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The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Sciezka is a Traditional Literature book. I would recommend this book to any age because of how entertaining it is. The book is just a bunch of fairy tales that everyone would seem to know and puts a little bit of a twist on them to make them more of a comedy than a fairy tale. There is also a new fairy tale that some may have not heard about the stinky cheeseman. The only thing about the book is that it switches back and forth so it gets kind of confusing sometimes and you really have to pay attention while reading it. Overall it is a good book and very entertaining for anyone that would want to pick it up to read it young or old.

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Because of Winn Dixie- Katie DiCamillo. 

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Because of Winn Dixie- Katie DiCamillo. 

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The book Because of Winn Dixie by Katie DiCamillo is a Realistic Fiction book.
Dear Reader:
I am writing to tell you about the book I read called "because of Winn Dixie" it is a fantastic book about a young girl who meets a stray dog who she names Winn Dixie because of the grocery store that she found the dog in and they become the best of friends, but there is a problem her neighbor and owner of the house she lives in and even her dad refuse to let her keep this dog so she has to hide it. She does everything she can to keep this dog and eventually she does get to keep it. This book is great because it talks about friendship and kindness and shows the happiness that pets can bring to humans and in the end everyone agrees that the little girl was right all along.

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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins is a Science Fiction book. I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to read it, Katniss Everdeen is a strong female role and I think a very good role model for children to look up to because she is always fighting for what she believes in. She is trying to lead a resistance against the capital and save all the districts from having to go to the hunger games, she is trying to get rid of the hunger games. My advice for reading this book would be to go read it with an open mind and to admire Katniss for what she is trying to do for all these districts. I would probably recommend this book to more middle school aged kids because it is kind of a difficult read and there is some violence in it, but it gives these kids a strong role to look up to as well.

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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer- Carole Weatherford. 

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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer- Carole Weatherford. 

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The Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Weatherford is a Caldecott Award Winner book. Here is my story map for the book.

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Brown Girl Dreaming- Jacqueline Woodson.

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Brown Girl Dreaming- Jacqueline Woodson.

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The book Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson is a poetry book. "Jackie and Jacqueline- gather into one world called You where You decide what each world and each story and each ending will finally be". This quote is at the very end of the book and I just find it very empowering because you have the choice of who you want to be you are your own voice and you hold the pen to the story that you write about your life and do not let anyone else write your story for you. I believe this is empowering for children too because they're young and still trying to figure out who they are and who they want to be and this story also shows them that its okay to be yourself.

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The One and Only Ivan by K.A. Applegate is a Newberry Award Winner book. This book is about a Gorilla and how he lives in a mall and is not treated very well and one of his best friends Stella who is an elephant ends up dying and there is another baby elephant names Ruby who Ivan promises that he will save and get her to a zoo. In the end all the animals either end up finding a home or are put in a zoo where they live happy and free. I really enjoyed this book and it is a great example of not giving up on something that you really want and keeping promises to friends. I think this book is great for children because they can see how important the relationships they form with their friends are and how to persevere when faced with something difficult.