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By: Andrew Bleiman & Chris Eastland
8/26/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to kids who like animals, more specially baby animals.
Review: This book provides information about different animals born at the zoo and one to two facts about when they are baby such as what they are called, what they eat or how big they will grow. I liked this book because it has a page for baby giraffes and informs the reader that giraffes stay very close to each other.
Teaching: I could use this book to teach students about certain animals as baby's and some fun facts about them.

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By: Mo Willems
8/26/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to kids who likes elephants, pigs, snakes, and for kindergarten level.
Review: This book is about Gerald, the elephant, and Piggie, the pig, playing catch and having a snake ask to play. Together they attempt to play catch but with the snake having no arms it is impossible. Gerald got the idea that in order for the three of them to enjoy the game they could throw the snake instead of the ball. They all have fun. I like this book, especially for kindergarten because it is very simple wording for them and also shows that friendship comes in all ways/sizes.
Teaching: I could use this book to teach young students about sharing and how that there is always a way for everyone to play (the snake could play catch even though he did not have arms).

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By: Donald Crews
8/27/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to kids who rides the school bus, most likely for pre-k, kindergarten and first grade.
Review: This book goes over what a bus does during the day and that there are small and big buses, but all fill up with children to get them to school and back home. I like the book because it does show that there are small and big buses but they are all the same in the aspects of what they do.
Teaching: I could use this book to teach students that no matter which bus you ride, short or long, they do the same thing. This helps prevent bullying from students making fun of someone who rides a smaller bus.

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By: Leo Lionni
8/27/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to kids who like chameleons and for lower elementary grades.
Review: The book shows that animals have their own color, except for chameleons. Chameleons change to their environment. My favorite part in the book is when the chameleon is on a polka dotted, red and white mushroom and changes to that pattern.
Teaching: I could use this book to teach students about how certain animals change to their environment for their safety. Also, I could use this to teach about color of animals because the book provides examples of animals and their colors (pigs, elephants, fish, tiger).

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By: Charlie Cantrell & Dr. Rachel Wagner
8/27/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to kids who like horses, most likely for third grade or higher.
Review: This book is about a mini miniature horse named Einstein. Einstein was born on a farm with many different animals and he adventures out to find a friend on the farm. The authors, who are the owners of Einstein, were set to find him a mate to play with. Ducks, rabbits, kittens, and turtles were all some of the animals put with Einstein but was not the match. Suddenly, their dog Lilly came up to him and the two instantly became friends. I really like this book, not only because it is about a small horse but because it shows him finally becoming friends with another animal who happened to be a dog.
Teaching: This book would be more so a pleasure book for a child to read but I could also use this book to show the difference in horse sizes, as well as that a find can come in all sizes and does not have to be the same as you. Einstein became friends with a dog rather than another horse.

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By: Mathew K Manning
8/27/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to kids who like any super hero and who likes action books. The grade level would be around third or fourth grade and higher.
Review: This book is about all the super heroes thought of and their battles with villains. My favorite super hero is spider man, so I devoted majority of my attention in the book to his battles. The battle that I enjoyed reading the most about was Spider Man vs. Carnage. Carnage had a team of villains on his side going against Spider Man. Spider Man knew it was going to end bad for him facing the team of villains alone, so he formed his own team to fight along side with him. The Super Hero team included Captain America, Firestar, Cloak, Dagger, and Venom. Together they defeated the villains and put them behind bars.
Teaching: This book is more for pleasure reading rather than teaching. Although I could use it to show my students that everyone is a super hero in their own ways. All of my students will be told that people look at each of us differently and that we have our own super heroes like the police, fireman and paramedic who saves lives on a daily basis.

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By: Charles Reasoner
8/27/17
Audience: This book would be best for children in pre-k to kindergarten, as they are learning colors and shapes.
Review: This book gives examples of shapes by using a picnic setting with  ants picking up different foods. The foods represent different shapes, such as the pizza represents a triangle, a slice of cheese represents a square, even a piece of jello represents a cube. I like this book because it makes it easy for small children to remember shapes because they are using real life food objects to remember the shapes.
Teaching: I could use this book to teach pre-k the diffferent shapes and colors. I could also use it for kindergarten to refresh their memory of shapes and colors. Another use would be to let kindergarten use the book to practice reading since the reading is very simple and goes right along with the pictures.

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By: Fritz Eichenberg
8/27/17
Audience: This book would be best for kindergarten or higher while learning the alphabet.
Review: This book is an alphabet book different from others, the reason I chose the book, because it gives examples of the letters with words that do not go by the standard alphabet book. This book also has sentences to go along with the words. One example would be for the letter "C", instead of using the common word "cat" it uses "Carp with a harp".
Teaching: I could use this to teach not only the alphabet, but simple sentences as well we widen their word span and vocabulary.
Award: Caldecott Honor

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By: Eve Bunting
8/27/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to kids who like turtles, who like to explore and most likely for children from third to fifth grade.
Review: Emma's Turtle is about a little girls turtle who lives in a pin in her backyard. Emma reads to the turtle about different animals and places all over the world. Turtle decides one day that he wants to explore outside of his house, so he adventures off into the backyard. To him, the back yard resembled all of the places Emma had read about (China, India, Africa, Australia..). He comes across a cat, who reminds him of the tiger he has heard about and other animals that resemble the animals in the stories he's heard. He later returns back to his pin and to Emma. I like this book because it expresses other countries and the animals that live there.
Teaching: This book could be used when touching on the topics of other countries and the animals from there.

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By: Katie Davis
8/27/17
Audience: This book would be great for kids in pre-k going into kindergarten and also kindergarten classes.
Review: This book tells the story of Dexter going to his first day of kindergarten. Dexter decides to bring along his stuffed puppy Rufus. He has all of these worries about kindergarten and how it will be but his older sister Jessie assures him that he will do fine. Dexter goes on to tell about his day (playing dress up, eating lunch, blocks, recess) and how at the end of the story he thinks kindergarten rocks. I picked this book because I actually read it to my daughter the night before school started because she was scared to go to "big girl school". She loves the book and we still read it.
Teaching: I could use this book and read it the first day of kindergarten for my students. I would start the day off by reading this book to ease their nerves and show them that it will be fun.

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By: Lydia Carlin
8/29/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to children who are into animals. The grade level would most likely be second grade or higher do to the word choice.
Review: This book is extremely simple in terms of the information that is given. I did learn that the smallest mammal is a bumblebee bat, some only get to be one inch long. The largest mammal is the blue whale, which can get up to 100 feet long.
Teaching: This book would be great to use when introducing the word "mammal" and talking about some of the different types of mammals. Also when the class starts to learn about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.

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By: Sharon Coan
8/29/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to children who like science.
Review: This book talks about the basics of heat and how you measure heat. It puts the information in simple terms for the child to understand, such as it uses the example of hot chocolate. When the outside temperature is cold, we tend to want hot chocolate because it warms our body up.
Teaching: This would be great to read to a class about to learn about energy and conductors. Also when the class goes to learn about what you use to measure the temperature. The book would be great for the students to understand what are good conductors and what is not.

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By: Christina Hill
8/29/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to kids who like nature, plants and outdoors. The book could be shown in kindergarten or first but would not be able to be read on the students own until around third grade.
Review: This book is actually very informational about the entire plant life. The book talks about how certain plants have now adapted to certain habitats in order to survive. One feature I do like about this book is that it has diagrams and pictures with labels to show exactly what is happening during the processes.
Teaching: Plants are introduced in kindergarten but are not talked about in detail until around second grade. This book would be a great read-a-loud book for kindergarten through third grade, even if they are not learning in detail yet, just to expose them to the terms used.

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By: Kate Waters
8/29/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to kids who like the ocean, animals and any type of water animal.
Review: I actually learned some facts from this book while reading it. It talked about the largest ocean animal, the length some can get, what they eat, and where they live. My favorite was the killer whale and what I did not know what they killer whales are actually from the dolphin family, not the whale.
Teaching: I could use this book when talking about animals that live in the ocean and talking about bodies of water. The book is aiming more towards third grade and higher but is a book I believe even higher grades would enjoy.

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By: Lola M. Schaefer
8/29/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who are into social studies, history and presidents. Presidents are often introduced in kindergarten but not picked up in detail until about third or fourth grade.
Review: This book is all about George Washington. The book starts from where and when he was born, where he lived, what he did. Then goes and talks about how he got married to a women that had two kids of her own and then how he led the war. The people of the community can be thanked for making him the first president, as it was them who proposed the idea to him.
Teaching: This book could be brought up when teaching about the presidents and their background and life.

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By: Suzy Kline
8/31/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who like going on boats and also falls under about a third to fourth grade reading level.
Review: This book is about Harry and his class going on a field trip to the "sea", meaning the river close by to their school. They talk about the pirates and their ancestors. I like this book because it talks about certain history moments that happened in real life, such as the titanic and some of the wars.
Teaching: This book would be a great book to get students curious as to what their ancestors did and the history behind their family.

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By: Valerie Bodden
9/2/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to kids who like giraffes. The grade level that it accommodates the most would be starting with first or second grade.
Review: This book is all about giraffes facts. There are nine different types of giraffes in the world. One fact I found interesting and weird is that a giraffes tongue is 21 inches long.
Teaching: I could bring this book to my classroom when talking about giraffes, animals who live in Africa or some of the worlds largest animals.

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By: Melissa Stewart
9/2/17
Audience: This book would be best for kids who like snakes. It would be best for second grade or higher.
Review: Snakes are all over the world and this book gives details about which snake is the most poisonous, smallest and largest. I have always thought that a cobra was the most poisonous but I found out by this book that it is really the Beaked Sea Snake. This snake lives in the shallow waters of the Indian Ocean and can stay in the water for five hours.
Teaching: I could use this book to teach with when talking about reptiles.

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Junior Woodchuck Jamboree: An Adventure in the USA

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By: Walt Disney
9/6/17
Audience: This book is at a third grade level or higher. The kids who would be interested in this book the most would be children who like Disney characters, specifically Donald Duck, as well as important places in the USA.
Review: I really enjoyed this book on a personal level, not only because it is Disney themed but because it provides information about our very own country and specific details about a few states. In one part of the book it talks about the Washington Monument and where it is and the importance.
Teaching: This book would be good to pull out while learning about certain places in the United States because the book talks about it in kid term while using Disney characters to explain it.

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By: Frank Asch
9/6/17
Audience: This book would be good starting to read independently about 1st grade, but could be read to the class in kindergarten.
Review: This book is about a bear throwing a party with his friends and he told his friends to bring a snack. When his friends started to show up he realized that every one brought popcorn so it filled the entire house and they had to eat their way out.
Teaching: This book could be used in kindergarten when learning about speech bubbles. The book has several pages with speech bubbles, so it will show the class the use while also keeping their attention because popcorn is every where.

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By: Jennifer Fandel
9/14/17
Audience: This book would be great and in the interest of children who enjoy history and that like cameras.
Review: This book is a great children's version of how the camera was made. The book goes into such detail, from the year to the price the camera was sold at. In 1900 the Brownie Camera was sold for $1.
Teaching: This book could be used when talking about history and certain devices made. This would show the students when and what the thought was behind the camera.

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By: Renee Gary Wilburn
9/14/17
Audience: This book would be good for about second grade or higher and for students who are interested in forces.
Review: The book is in very simple terms but provides the important facts about earthquakes. Some facts that were included were how to stay safe, how they are measured, and that a 3.0 is not felt but a 5.0 can cause damage. This book also provides a dictionary of some of the words that might be unknown for the student, which I feel is important.
Teaching: This book will be brought out when talking about the different forces, in specifically earthquakes.

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By: Scott Nickel
9/14/17
Audience: Students who are interested in space ships and aliens would enjoy this book. I would say it would become an independent read book once in first grade.
Review: Aaron was playing outside in his backyard with his space men when he noticed a spaceship. The book is about him venturing out into space to find a theme park. It is a good book for creative students.
Teaching: This book would be a great book to teach about speech bubbles in kindergarten. The book sparks the interest of young minds because it is about space ships making it a great book to use to teach with.

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9/14/17
By: Katherine Krohn
Audience: This book would interest students who like make up or fixing their hair.
Review: This book is solely about a woman who started from having nothing to having everything she ever wanted. In 1905 she was just a sales agent selling hair products on the side for 25 cents. In 1907 she opened a training school. By 1918 she had built her dream home in New York and was making $250,000 a year. It was a very good book and I believe that the students should read it!
Teaching: This book would be a book I will definitely be bringing out. I will use it to talk about success, and that no matter where they come from that they can go where ever they believe. It could also be used during Black History Month.

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8/25/17
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Audience: Students who likes adventure would be interested into this book and all of the Magic Tree House series.
Review: #23 in the series is Twister on Tuesday from the Magic Tree House. Jack and Anne go to a prairie where they attended the school, which was a sod house made from dirt. Then a twister comes through and Jack and Anne help protect the children in the school. I have always been a fan of the magic tree house.
Teaching: This book teaches that even if people do not have as much as others that they can be happy. The students in the sod school were just as happy as Jack and Anne were in a normal home and school.

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By: Stephanie R. Pearmain
9/20/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who like animals in general.
Review: I thought this book was extremely cute. The book talks about the true stories of all different animals all over the world that are friends. My favorite story it showed was of Bea and Wilma (Bea is a giraffe and Wilma is an ostrich). The two of them are located in Florida at Busch Gardens. They walk around together and Bea even cleans Wilma with her tongue.
Teaching: This could be brought up as an example of friendship and being nice to others. These two animals are completely different but have a friendship, which goes for us as well. Everyone is different but that does not mean we can not be friends with some one different than us.

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By: Tish Rabe
9/20/17
Audience: Children who like Cat in the Hat and animals would like this book. The book would be good for I would say 3rd grade or higher for them to read on their own.
Review: I enjoy the Cat in the Hat anyway, so this book was enjoying to me. This book even though is considered fiction, has facts about animals who are awake at night. The book is all about animals who are nocturnal. One thing that I did like about the book was that words that are a little more complex the book had it to the side and broke up to how it is pronounced and the definition. The pictures were also very detailed.
Teaching: I could use this book to teach about nocturnal animals and some specific types and facts. It would catch the attention of the students because it is Cat in the Hat.

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By: Tom Brenner
9/25/17
Audience: This book would be good for students who like summer, being outside, and for any younger even some older elementary students.
Review: I love this book!! I bought it just for this class and it will definitely be a book I read to my students close to the last day of school. The book talks about different things that happen over summer such as lighting bugs come out, the sun stays out longer. My favorite is when it says when the town turns red, white and blue it means it's time to pull out the blanket and decorations for your bike and watch the fireworks and be in the parade.
Teaching: I could use this book to get the students excited about summer and ideas for them to do over summer break.
New Release: 2017 - found from #bookaday

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By: Susan Verde
9/25/17
Audience: This book would interest young, African american girls but also other girls as well.
Review: This book is so inspiring. It is based off of the fashion model Georgie Badiel's childhood. It shows the struggles of not having water at their house and having to travel everyday with her mom to get water. Throughout the book they mention some of the African words that was used as she was growing up, which I liked.
Teaching: This book could be used when talking about taking care of the environment, people are polluting the water we have when some people such as Africa have to travel far just to get water for the day. It brings culture into the classroom, in which I think is important.
New Release: 2016 - found from #bookaday

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By: Lindsay Mattick
9/25/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who like bears or likes Winnie the Pooh (this is the original Winnie). This book would be good for third or higher to read alone.
Review: This book explains where Winnie the Pooh, the Disney character everyone knows, came from. It gives a detailed timeline and pictures that go along with every little detail. My favorite part of the book was the end because it included pictures from the original guy who saved Winnie up to the distant great, great, grandson.
Teaching: This book would be a good book to show different styles of speech and typing, such as the speaking is in italics and shows a ton of quotations. This would also be a "good read" for my students.
New Release: 2015-16 - found from @ColbySharp
Award: The Caldecott Medal

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By: Holly M. McGhee
9/25/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who like dogs, but more toward girls just because of the outer cover and because it is a girl on the page and no boys.
Review: I truly enjoy this book because it relates so well to what is going on in the world right now. It puts it in kid terms as far as the news always says things bad going on but you can make a difference by doing even the slightest thing. I think this book is important because it is showing kids that their good is making a difference even if they do not notice it.
Teaching: I will use this book to teach students that they might be small but they still make an impact and to be brave and stand up for something even if you are the only one.
New Release: 2017 - found from @ColbySharp

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By: Ammi-Joan Paquette & Laurie Ann Thompson
9/1/17
Audience: This book would interest students who enjoy science and learning interesting facts about certain living things. Grade level would be 5th to late middle school.
Review: This book is scattered around with topics but provides very factual information with one false bullet or question to test the student. The book has many chapters, all of which are about a specific topic; such as humans, odd plants, fungi. I like the book because it gives facts but also makes it an interesting way of learning new information with out just reading from a plain book.
Teaching: I could easily use the book to pull lesson ideas with a topic, if they are learning about something in specific that is in the book I wold have them look over the chapter and have them take notes on specific facts.
New Release: 2017 - found from @ColbySharp

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By:Arnold Lobel
9/26/17
Audience: This book would be good for grades first or second to read independently. The book would be interesting to students who are familiar with Frog and Toad books, like frogs, and friendships.
Review: I personally enjoy Frog and Toad books and have read a few of them. My favorite chapter in this book is Tomorrow. It gives the children examples as to why they shouldn't keep putting off something.
Teaching: I could use this book to teach my students not to procrastinate because if you pick up or do little things each day then it never piles up to the put it takes the whole day and use doing homework or projects as an example.

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By: Shana Corey
9/26/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to most predominately boys but also girls. Children who like monsters and dress up. The reading level is around first to second grade.
Review: The book is mainly about what is happening toward and on Halloween and how people dress as monsters. I was not to interested in the book as something I would recommend my students to read but I found something I could use it to teach with.
Teaching: While I was reading the book I thought that it would be a great book to use for learning adjectives. The book has so many adjectives whether it is describing the weather, the monsters or the pumpkins.

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By: Annie Barrows
9/10/17
Audience: This book would be most interesting to mainly girls but also to students who like mystery and who have read other books in the series. The grade level would be toward fourth and fifth grade.
Review: This book was not my type of book, I am not a mystery book person. I did however like how the author used different names, such as the names of the teacher or the street name like Pancake Court. I also liked that when the author was mentioning that the room was dark, the page was dark and the font color changed from black to white to make it look as if it were dark on the page.
Teaching: This book is more of a good read for students but I could use the book to mention different techniques and ways to investigate and find something out. I could read parts during science when they are learning about how to find clues to come to conclusion that a rock is a certain type of rock.

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The Case if the New Year's Eve Nightmare

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The Case if the New Year's Eve Nightmare

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By: Nancy Star
9/9/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who enjoy mystery books, as well as students who have read some of the series. The grade level would be end of third to fifth.
Review: This is not the best book I would say but it does describe the scenes well enough that the reader can picture it in their mind, at least I was able too. The book also stays with the levels vocabulary but a few higher words to get the reader to think about what it could mean.
Teaching: This book could be brought out in the month of December, each book is based off a month. It would be a great class book to read, a book to relate to the month they are in.

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By: Arnold Lobel
9/26/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who enjoy the Frog and Toad series, as I do. The level would be second to third.
Review: I enjoy all of the Frog and Toad books but this book in specifically is a book based on friendship, whether it be Frog writing Toad a letter to make him happy or taking care of each other when they are sick.
Teaching: I can use this book to encourage and teach the importance of friendship. I currently am reading to my kindergarten class during snack time and they love it.
Award: Caldecott Honor

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By: National Geographic
9/26/17
Audience: This book would interest students who enjoy history and social studies. The grade level for this book would be fifth grade or higher because of the information it provides.
Review: I am not a social studies person but I got this book a few years ago and have never fully read through it until now. This book is outstanding! Each page is so detailed in description from the sound of the birds to screams, the pictures are photos of the time and go along with the text. In some parts of the book there are interviews with people who were there, witnesses, survivors. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.
Teaching: This book would be good to bring out with the older students who are learning about the day and just pick out bits and pieces to read for them to really understand how it was rather than just read a text book about it.

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By: Dwight Kuhn
9/27/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who enjoy animals, plants, outdoors, and curious. The grade level could go from kindergarten to look at pictures to fifth grade reading.
Review: I have had this book since I was little and for a good period I referenced back to it for certain information. The book describes plant cycles, animal growth and processes and even fungi. It has a lot of good information in the book with great photos. For example one page is on butterflies, it shows every stage from caterpillar to pupa to butterfly.
Teaching: I think this book could be used as a reference to students if they have projects on a certain animal or plant. This book would give them some of the information needed.

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By: Suzy Kline
9/27/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who like boats and sailors. This would be at a second to third grade reading level.
Review: This book was about Herbie going to for his first day for second grade and he gets surprises from him teacher to make him excited for the school year. I like this book because it goes against scenario of females being the teacher and the teacher ended up being a male and the students thought it was amazing and cool.
Teaching: This would be a good book to read to first graders before the end of school making them excited to go to second grade and even have the second grade teacher read it for the first few days.

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The 100th Day Of School From The Black Lagoon

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The 100th Day Of School From The Black Lagoon

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By: Mike Thaler
9/27/17
Audience: This book would be good for students who like monsters and adventures. The grade would be good with for second to third or higher.
Review: This book was funny but at times confusing when it came to which speech quote to read first. It was talking about the 100th day of school celebration and what everyone was going to bring in for that day to present. It would be a book I would give young boys to read.
Teaching: This book could be used to read to any grade level when approaching the 100th day of school and have them participate in an activity like bringing 100 of something or drawing 100 of something.

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By: Susan Cappadonia Love
9/11/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to girls who have an "our generation" doll and who like the beach. This book would be more toward fourth or fifth grade students.
Review: This book is actually super cute. It came with my daughters doll last year for Christmas and of course we had to read the story behind her doll. Coral has just moved to the island and feels as if there is nothing to do. She discovers the beauty of living on an island and her dad owns a surf shop and teaches her to surf. This book was a good read to myself and my daughter, we both love the beach and have both been to islands several different times.
Teaching: This book would teach students to give places a chance. The student can find the good out of all places and see some aspects that they really do enjoy about it, just as Coral did.

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By: Kate DiCamillo
9/15/17
Audience: The students who would be most interested in this book would be students who enjoy adventure and action books but also more advanced readers. This book would be recommended for advanced fifth grade readers onto middle school.
Review: This was one of my favorite books through out school. I think I read it at least five different times all because the ending is the best, in which of course he gets his love. Despereaux is in love with Pea and has to go through all of these battles with dungeon rats in which the story has the perfect ending of him getting Pea. Through out the story though Pea's parents do not care for him because she is a princess so her parents do not think he is good enough for her, but he proves his braveness to them.
Teaching: This book is all about bravery and going against what you are afraid of to get what you want. I think this is a great book for students to view bravery in example.
Award: Newbery Medal

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By: Mildred D. Taylor
9/20/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who enjoy history and to African Americans as well. This grade level would be high school or high middle school.
Review: I read bits and pieces of this book in high school and never touched again until a few days ago. This book really put it in perspective for people in this time period as to how it really was back in the day. I truly had tears at some points. I think it is important for students to not necicarrily bring it up as an arguement but to read it to be imformed. A part that really touched me and that is seen still sometimes in lower income area schools was when Little Man and Cassie refuse to use the book the teacher gave them. The two threw the book to the ground and got whipped because of it without the teacher even having in mind the reason. They did not want to use the books because they were so old and they were given to them because the whites were done and the condition the books were in and on the first page it had a chart that said with the white folks the book was in good condition and then when the black folks got them the chart had "very poor condition - nigra" (pg 17). That is reality now, not color wise but income wise it still happens, but Cassie and Little Man and the family still stay strong through the house fire and the treatment they faced from the white folks.
Teaching: This book would not be a book I brought to my elementary class but it could certainly be read by or to students in high school just to show how the world was a long time ago.
Award: Newbery Medal

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By: Lois Lowry
9/23/17
Audience: This book would be most interesting to students who enjoy history because it is revolved around the Nazi time period. This would be around middle school grade level.
Review: I liked this book to an extent. I would not read this or give this to my students, just for the fact that yes it informs students of how it was like for a family and what they went through but it is not something I would recommend my students to read. I will say the chapters I enjoyed the most would be chapter 11 to the end of the book. That is when Annemarie and her family begin their journey and then mama gets hurt and Annemarie must go on a journey alone without letting the solders see her.
Teaching: I would not use this as a teaching book or even a reference book. If I had to it would be brought up when they are learning about the Nazis and to give them an idea as to how families got through it.
Award: Newbery Medal

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By: Kitson Jazynka
9/28/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who like social studies. This book is about third grade level.
Review: This book is a good book for students especially if they need pictures to go along. I liked that the pictures are so detailed and that it provided definitions with words that are most likely unknown to the students. The book goes to talk about Sacagawea's life and background and how she helped lead the way with Lewis and Clark.
Teaching: This book would be good to bring out when talking about Lewis and Clark in social studies.

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By: Sarah Phillips
9/28/17
Audience: This book would be great for any grade level in elementary school and would be appealing to just about anyone.
Review: I love this book! My daughter uses this book to help her write and she's only in kindergarten. I love that the book has pictures so if a child can't think of how to spell it they can just go to the letter and find the picture and then it gives the definition.
Teaching: This book would be great to have in a classroom of any grade because it has many of the common words for a child. The student could use it to write with.

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By: E.B.White
9/26/17
Audience: This book would be interesting for students who have seen the movie and for students who like animals or live on a farm. The grade level would be about fourth to fifth grade.
Review: This book relates so much and makes you picture the movie. Not only is the text so similar but the pictures that are drawn in the book relate so much. The best picture to me was in chapter 16 when Mr. Zuckerman had dreamed about Wilbur being the biggest pig and winning the first prize award.
Teaching: This book would be a great book, along with Holes, to use for the students to compare the book to the movie. I could have them read the book as a class and then watch the movie and make notes what is similar between the two and what is different.
Award: Newbery Medal

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By: Judith Viorst
9/28/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who like dogs and most likely girl students would read this. The grade level is about fifth grade.
Review: The only reason why I picked up this book was because it said Lulu (which is my nickname) and it involved a dog. The story ended up being about a selfish girl whose parents decided it was time for her to earn her money if she wanted something. She started a dog walking business in which she had trouble handing without her neighbor Fleischman. She ended up dealing with him and they had a great business and in the end she got what she wanted. The pictures also corresponded well with the text.
Teaching: This could be shown as an example as to why working together is sometimes better and that kids should earn their money in order to get something.

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By: Christina Hill
9/29/17
Audience: This book would be interesting to students who enjoy Science.
Review: This book gives the full cycle of a plant from the seed to growing and dying to produce new plants. I liked this book because it provided the definition of certain words such as "life cycle" so the student knew what it was.
Teaching: I can use this book along with the book Inside a Plant to teach about plant cycles in science.