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Guided Reading Level: Q

Grades: PK-2.  Ages: 5-7

Both boys and girls would be interested in this book

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I would use this book when learning about time, earth rotation, and time zone studies.

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Grades: K-3. Ages 5-8.

With the pull-out world map, I would imagine that this would be a very popular book for both boys and girls.

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I could use this book to show how someone who grew up without an education, but with a dream and hard work, achieved her goals and then used those gifts to give hope to others.

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Guided Reading Level:

Grades: 1-3.  Ages:  6-8

Both boys and girls would like this book, especially those who need encouragement to pursue their dreams.

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Guided Reading Level: Z

Grades: 1-5. Ages: 5-10

This book is for both boys and girls who love history and libraries.

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I could use this book at the beginning of January to teach about snowflakes teaching the students to make cut out snowflakes to decorate a bulletin board making sure that each snowflake is unique.

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Guided Reading Level: N

Grades: PK-5. Ages: 5-10

This book would be interesting to boys and girls.

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I can use this book during art or art appreciation to encourage students to find what they love and continue to do it without giving up.

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Guided Reading Level: M

Grades: K-4.   Ages: 5-9

Boys and Girls would like this book, especially those needing encouragement in art.

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I would use this book to introduce synonyms and how to use a Thesaurus.

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Guided Reading Level:  M

Grades: PK-5. Ages: 5-10

This book would be interesting to boys and girls alike.

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I would use this book as an introduction to music. Its use would be enhanced by being accompanied by an audio that would give the students the chance to hear the actual instrument being followed by a video of an entire orchestra playing before a conductor. This would be a great series of lessons before a field trip to hear an orchestra.

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Guided Reading Level: O

Grades: K-2. Ages 5-7

This book would interest any boy or girl, especially those musically inclined.

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I would use this book as an introduction to seeds and plants perhaps germinating seeds in wet paper towels to see the development plus planting flower seeds in dirt that mature at a time that would be great to take home to parent(s).

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Guided Reading Level: N

Grades: 3-5. Ages: 7-10

This book is for boys and girls learning about seeds.

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I could use this book as an introduction to the Thanksgiving season with homework being to watch the parade and choose their favorite balloon. There could also be arts and crafts projects such as different types of puppets.

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Guided Reading Level: N

Grades: 1-5.  Ages: 5-10

This is a book for both boys and girls.

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I could use this book during a discussion about the solar system to give insight into the moon and its exploration.

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Guided Reading Level: N

Grades: 1-5. Ages: 5-10

This is a book for both boys and girls.

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This book is great for students to use for research over a historical figure or a culture/traditions research. I could also use this for shared reading using a particular section and have students share and explain any information that they liked or type of input that involves their use of high level thinking skills.

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Guided Reading Level: N/A

Grades: 3-7. Ages: 8-12 years.

Children who love history, the Native American’s stories and/or culture, Pocahontas, or even non-fiction books containing pictures.

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I would use this book around election time, during government studies, or looking at careers.

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Guided Reading Level: S

Grades: 1-8.  Ages: 5-12

Both boys and girls would find humor in reading this book.

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I would use this book as a character building book. If the students were having problems with sharing or being selfish, this would be a great book to bring out. The students would also love to read this book because it would give the beginner student confidence that they can complete a book by themselves.

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Guided Reading Level: G

Grades: PK-2. Ages: 5-7

Any boy or girl who likes to look at pictures of forest animals.

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I would use this book to show how, if you really want something, you can achieve it. It also would be a great book to read when the class needed to work together to achieve something.

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Guided Reading Level: O

Grades: PK-2. Ages: 5-7.

Boys and Girls who like animals especially chimps and reading biographies.

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I love how this book is done with conversation bubbles and Jane Goodall is illustrated as a little girl with a ponytail throughout her life in this book. In the books there are several turning points in Ms. Goodall’s life including getting a toy monkey as a child, reading Dr. Doolittle and the point where the monkeys linked together to make a bridge showing how working together anything is possible, meeting Dr. Leakey a paleontologist who hired Jane as a secretary and then talked her into studying chimps to learn more about prehistoric ancestors, and doing things her way like naming the animals instead of giving them numbers because she recognized them as having personalities. In the end Jane Goodall reminds us that we share this world and when someone is in trouble, we should help each other and build a bridge that will carry us all.

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This book is about Pocahontas’, the daughter of the Chief of the Powhatan Indian tribe, whose role became the peacemaker between her people and the settlers of Jamestown by giving them food and supplies to help them survive the winter. Pocahontas’ name means “mischievous or frisky” and was known for being playful. The book continues to predict Pocahontas’s culture and traditions based on emerging facts about the Powhatan Indians. The book goes on to relate how Pocahontas became “Rebecca”, married John Rolph and their journey to England ending with her death as well as her never-ending legacy.

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I love how this book details each section, “families”, of the orchestra including the string, woodwind, brass, and percussion and gives the individual instruments along with a picture and lovely sound description of each. The way each instrument is handled is also demonstrated by an animal musician illustrated playing each instrument. This is a great introduction to music and the orchestra.

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I love this book for the humorous way it tells fun facts about the men who have held the office of President of the United States. It shouldn’t be hard to add our current president as, though he may go by Donald, joins four other Johns, replaces Ronald Reagan as oldest elected president, and does have a dog – a snickerdoodle named Patton.

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Non- Fiction Picture Book

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9/20/2017

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I love this book because it tells the biography of Willie “Snowflake” Bentley who worked his whole life in order to get pictures so he could share the beauty of snowflakes with the world.  It was he who determined that no 2 snowflakes are alike but that each individual snowflake was there for an instant and then lost and he was determined to use any funds he received to share the beauty of these tiny miracles to the world. Willie was born and lived in Jericho, Vermont and sadly, also died there of pneumonia two weeks after walking six miles in a blizzard to get home to photograph more snowflakes.

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I love this book because it puts a personal spin on the flight of Apollo 11 along with expressive imagery that makes the story come alive in the mind of the reader and those who listen. From the sounds of putting on their space suits to sights and sounds of take-off for the astronauts and those watching, the voyage to the moon with descriptions of their ships and events such as meals and even use of the toilet, to the landing on the moon that didn’t quite go as planned and the waiting Houston personnel and those listening to their broadcast as they landed and took their first steps on the surface of the moon, to the journey home and splash down in the warmth and light of earth, the simple words bring a complicated subject to a level the elementary school students can understand. There is a more advanced account that starts at John F. Kennedy’s challenge to NASA that goes more in depth into the space race and details about the Apollo 11 mission that is suitable for the older elementary student.

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I love this book because it shows how hope leads to achievement in what would seem a hopeless atmosphere. This is the story of Dr. Tererai Trent who grew up in what is now Zimbabwe where, though girls did not go to school, learned to read from her brother eventually being allowed to go to school. Encouraged by Jo Luck, an American aid worker, she followed an ancient ritual and wrote her dreams of furthering her education with the additional dream of bringing that education back to her homeland, then burying this list in a can for Mother Earth to feed and help them grow. She indeed came to America and earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate and returned home where, with help from Oprah Winfrey, Save the Children and others, started a school where girls attend in great numbers from all around the area.

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I love how this book starts out talking about planting crops such as tomatoes, carrots and cabbage but when the bunny and mouse start to enjoy the fruits of their labor, a variety of birds show up. The book then turns to the choice between planting a seed of selfishness and how it grows into trouble versus planting kindness whose fruits quickly grows and multiplies the bounty which is now shared by even more forest friends. Many pages are void of words and the reader must infer the emotions by looking at the expressions on the animal faces.

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Annie Carroll Moore grew up in Limerick, Maine in the 1870s when girls were expected to act in a certain way. Annie loved books, being outdoors, and being unmarried at nineteen, instead of doing what is assumed at that age, Annie decided to work with her father and become a lawyer. Unfortunately, her parents both died from the flu and she helped her brother take care of his 2 children until he married again and Annie found out that libraries were hiring women librarians. She moved to New York City and went to school and began working in a library taking a special interest in the children’s section reading aloud to the children. As she was given more responsibility she removed the rule of silence, made it possible for children to check out their books, had tiny chairs and tables made, used happy tiles on the floor, put pieces of nature on the shelves, made sure there were exciting books for them to read, and wrote book reviews and encouraged publishers to make better children’s books available. From her example other cities across America, and around the world, based their children’s library on Miss Moore’s library. I love this book because my great-grandmother, who lost her mother at three years old, lived with a step-grandmother who died when she was twelve, was the first female of Cumberland County, Kentucky to graduate from high school and college, was a one-room school teacher during the 1920s who loved teaching children, didn’t marry until she was thirty, gave her first born daughter the middle name of Carroll, who gave it to her daughter, who gave it to me, in honor of this great lady.

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I love that this book uses lists of synonyms as page fillers which is appropriate as this book is a biography of Peter Mark Roget who wrote the first thesaurus. The book begins where Peter begins his list at his father’s death from tuberculosis in Switzerland and tells the story of a boy who, because his family moves so much, doesn’t make many friends. He enjoyed writing lists instead of stories and these lists grew from translations of Latin words, to plants, insects, and eventually became a list of synonyms so he could have one place where he could find the exact right word. He worked on his lists his entire life including before and after he first published his Thesaurus, meaning “treasure house” in 1852.

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I love this book because it tells how Tony Sarg, a marionette maker, became the architect of the giant balloons in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. After a quick background of Tony Sarg, the book talks about how he immigrated to New York City, began working for Macy’s, and was asked by Macy’s to help them begin a new holiday tradition that was based on their immigrant worker traditions of music and dancing in the streets. Beginning in 1924, the parade progressed from a few balloons and animals from the Central Park Zoo, to the parade of today with the help of the makers of the rubber used in the Goodyear blimp which were needed so that the growing crowd could see the parade.

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I love that Henri Rousseau did not start painting until he was 40 years old and loved it so much he did it regardless of all of the bad reviews he received. He did not have the money to take lessons so he would go into nature and observe, visit the Louvre to examine artwork, and learn anatomy from pictures on postcards, catalogues, and magazines. Every year he would paint and take his work to the annual art festival only to have the critics make fun of him. He finally earned respect in his old age with artists, including Picasso, and painted his finest work, “The Dream”, which earned respect from critics too.

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I love this book because along with being informative, the pages are filled with beautiful illustrations of seeds, plants, and trees. With each characteristic of a seed, the illustrations give examples and also enhance the information with amazing facts. The “Some seeds are ancient” was of most interest to me as it told about a seed of an extinct date palm tree being excavated in Israel and, after being planted, sprouted four weeks later.  The book also depicts the life cycle of a seed and progress from a seed to its final plant form.

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I love that this book explains time zones in a way young minds can understand. The book starts and ends in Dakar, Senegal and with each hour tells about something going on in each time zone. The evolution of time zones, Coordinate Universal Time vs. Greenwich Mean Time, along with a coordinating world map of time zones all help round out the book’s message.

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I love this book because it’s another example of someone who stepped out of the norm to do something that they love that betters the lives around them. Kate Sessions loved trees from her childhood and was the first woman to graduate from the University of California with a science degree. When her job took her to San Diego, which had few trees at the time, Ms. Sessions quit her job, opened a nursery, found trees from around the world that would grow in that climate, then found people to help her make Balboa Park beautiful by planting millions of trees and plants.

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9/20/2017

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Non-fiction Picture Book

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9/19/2017

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Non-fiction picture books

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9/17/2017

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Juvenile Literature

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9/17/2017

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Hopkins, H. Joseph, and Jill McElmurry. The Tree Lady: TheTrue Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever. Beach Lane Books, 2013.

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Markel, Michelle, et al. The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2012.

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Perrin, Clotilde. At the Same Moment, Around the World. Chronicle Books LLC., 2014.

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Sweet, Melissa, et al. Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story Of The Puppeteer Of Macy's Parade. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011.

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Non-fiction picture book

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9/17/2017

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Non-fiction Picture Book

Juvenile Literature, Nonfiction Science/ Life Science/ Nature Seeds/ Poetry

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9/17/2017

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Bryant, Jennifer, and Melissa Sweet. The Right Word: Roget And His Thesaurus . Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2014.

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Aston, Dianna Hutts, and Sylvia Long. A Seed Is Sleepy. Amicus Publishing, 2014.

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Non-fiction Picture Book

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9/18/2017

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Pinborough, Jan, and Debby Atwell. Miss Moore Thought Otherwise. National Braille Press, 2015.

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Non-fiction Picture Book

Juvenile literature

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9/18/2018

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Martin, Jacqueline Briggs, and Mary Azarian. Snowflake Bentley. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

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Non- Fiction Picture Book

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9/21/ 2017

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Nelson, Kadir. If You Plant a Seed. Balzer Bray, 2015.

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Children’s Literature, Non- Fiction Picture Book

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9/17/2017

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Floca, Brian. Moonshot: The Flight Of Apollo 11. Scholastic, 2012.

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Non-fiction Picture book

Juvenile literature, Informational Text

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9/17/2017

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Non-fiction Picture Book

Children’s picture book, Autobiography

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9/19/2017

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Trent, Tererai, and Jan Spivey Gilchrist. The Girl Who Buried Her Dreams In a Can. Viking Childrens Books/Penguin Group, 2015.

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George, Judith St., & Small, David. So You Want To Be President? Philomel Books, 2012.

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Hayes, Ann, and Karmen Thompson. Meet the Orchestra . Harcourt Brace, 1995.

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Non- Fiction Picture Book

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9/21/2017

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Meltzer, Brad, and Chris Eliopoulos. I Am Jane Goodall. Penguin Group (USA), 2016.

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Non- Fiction Picture Book

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9/28/2017

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Sonneborn, Liz. Pocahontas, 1595-1617. Blue Earth, 2003.

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H. Joseph Hawkins

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By: Clotilde Perrin

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By: Michelle Markel

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By:  Melissa Sweet

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2015 Sibert Medal Winner

2015 Caldecott Honor Book

By: Jen Bryant & Melissa Sweet

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IRA Teachers’ Choice, 2008
By: Diana Hutts Aston & Sylvia Long

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Triple Crown National Book Award 2016-2017
By: Jan Pinborough

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(Caldecott Winner)
By: Jacquielire Briggs

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By: Kadir Nelson

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By: Brian Floca