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By: Raina Telgemeier
Illustrator:  Raina Telgemeier
Genre:Biography
Reading Level: 410L/4.3
Summary: This is a story of a sixth grade girl who has a mishap at girl scouts. She busts out her two front teeth. This begins many procedures of braces, retainers, and other orthodontics. Adolescence is hard enough with out braces for years.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read text and discuss what they read. Students t journal about the story and how it makes a personal connection with them.
Math: Students calculate how many girls scout cookies she needs to sell to pay for her two from teeth.

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By" Frank McCourt
Illustrator: n/a
Genre:Biography
Reading Level: 1110L
Summary: The story of an Irish immigrant growing up. His mother is Angela and despite being poor and having an alcoholic husband she finds humor in life. She shows her children that there is beauty.
Interdisciplinary connection:
Language arts: Read text and watch the movie. Compare contrast book and movie but also look at different countries and their benefits.
Math: Calculate how much money it takes to feed a family during this era.

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The color of water: A black man's tribute to his white mother 

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The color of water: A black man's tribute to his white mother 

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By: J McBride
Illustrator:
Genre: Biography
Reading Level: 1240L/11
Summary: A young woman who came to American when she was two was wanted to get away from her abusive family. She was pregnant with her first child and moved to Harlem and met her first husband. The founded a church and had more children. When James was 15 his step dad died of cancer. He was upset and his mother remarried having four more children. She had a dozen children and made sure they all went to college and she graduated from college also. In an interracial household she told her children that God was the color of water.
Interdisciplinary connection:
Language arts: Students to read books and watch the movie. Compare/contrast.
Math: STudenst o calculate how much money ot costs to send a dozen peple to college.

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By:Rachel Simon
Illustrator: n/a
Genre: Biography
Reading Level: 1090L/8.9
Summary: This is a sister's story about riding the bus with her sister who has an intellectual disability. The book chronicles a one year period where they ride the bus together.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Read the text as a whole class then watch the movie. Compare/contrast the differences.
Math: Count the calories in the junk food that Beth is eating that makes Rachel upset.

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Steve Jobs: The man who thought different

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Steve Jobs: The man who thought different

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By: Karen Blumenthal
Illustrator: n/a
Genre:Biography
Reading Level: 1110L
Summary: This man revolutionized how we communicate today. He is one of a kind for what he has done with technology today.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Student will read the text and do a brief biography on Steve Job's background and education.
Math: Students to create a phone bill and show results.

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Biography genre

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By: Carole Weatherford
Illustrator: Ekua Holmes
Genre: Informational
Reading Level: 820L
Summary: Messages of hope, determination and strength. Fannie fought for freedom and was even beaten for her beliefs.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read and answer extended response.
Math: Students to create a timeline of civil rights achievements.

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Turning 15 on the road to freedom: My story of the 1965 Selma voting rights march. 

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Turning 15 on the road to freedom: My story of the 1965 Selma voting rights march. 

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By: Lynda Lowry
Illustrator: PJ Loughram
Genre: Informational
Reading Level: 780L/5.1
Summary:A story of a young woman who was jailed nine times before she turned 15. She had things happen she never imagined for a young woman.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read text and look up historical events that correspond to the story and compare the two.
Math: Students to research how many youth march n that rally and compare it t how many student are in their grade/school.

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Drowned city: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

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Drowned city: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

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By: Don Brown
Illustrator: Don Brown
Genre: Informational
Reading Level: 920L
Summary: The city of New Orleans thought they had taken all the precautions hat needed to against flooding. they had flood walls and reservoirs built . Hurricane Katrina was too much to handle and areas has 20 feet of water.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Students to read book and watch news programs and write a news article for the paper.
Math: Students to calculate how fast the water rose in areas after reading news reports.

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Funny Bones: Posada and his day of the dead calaveras.

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Funny Bones: Posada and his day of the dead calaveras.

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By:Duncan Tonatiuh
Illustrator: José Guadalupe (Lupe) Posada
Genre:Informational
Reading Level: 800L
Summary: This is about Mexico's Day of the Dead celebrations. The story has skeletons doing ordinary things during this time.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read and learn about Mexico' celebrations and journals about how that is different from their own celebrations.
Math: Students to count how many bones are in the body and create a sequence of events for a sad skeleton. The sad skeleton will lose one bone per activity and create a sequence.

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The boys who challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the churchill gang 

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The boys who challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the churchill gang 

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By: Phillip Hoose
Illustrator: n/a
Genre: Informational
Reading Level: 970L/7.1
Summary: A pack of young boys were not happy with their governments decisions. The boys decided to fight against Hitler and the German army.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students o read text and journal after each reading. Students to answer extended response questions and participate with class discussion.
Math: Students to map out how the boys got around the cities and made their plans of destruction. There were nor phones so they had to be exact with their timing.

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Informational genre

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By: Merilyn Nelson
Illustrator: Merilyn Nelson
Genre: Poetry
Reading Level: 890L/7.1
Summary: George Washington Carver was a man who freed the southern economy. He worked at Tuskegee University and had agricultural contributions that are still used today. This text is a collection of Carer's work found by the author and the quest for understanding.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read works and examine the contributions of Carver. Students to work in small groups and complete a KWL chart.
Math: Students to analyze how Carver traveled across the south as a youth. Measuring the miles he walk in search of education.

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By: Paul Fleischman
Illustrator: Eric Beddos
Genre: Poetry
Reading Level: 5.2
Summary: Award winning poetry that describes the life of different insects meant to be read aloud with a partner. This is a fun activity to create happy class time.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read poems aloud with group and act out scenes.
Math: Students to work with scansion and count and match measures.

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By: Shel Silverstein
Illustrator: Shel Silverstein
Genre: Poetry
Reading Level: 3.2
Summary: A book of light humorous poems that have accompanied pictures. Students of all ages will enjoy reading about what happens when you have no knees.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Poetry lesson with light whimsical ideologies. Student o learn to read with inflections and have fun.
.Math: Students to begin counting with the rhythm of poetry. Beginning scansion.

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By: James Merrill
Illustrator: n/a
Genre: Poetry
Reading Level:
Summary: This is poem book two in a series of three texts. This is a difficult read and a very advanced poet.
Interdisciplinary connections:
This would be another introduction to poetry with the students. Verses and sections would be looked at as a group and evaluated with partners as to what is happening this text.
Math: Students will work with scansion.

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By: Dr. Seuss
Illustrator: Dr. Seuss
Genre: Poetry
Reading Level:500L/3.7
Summary: A young boy is a Paige to the king. He watches and tried to help him make good decisions but sometimes goofy things happen. The king tries to control what comes from the sky and that is when trouble really starts.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts:
Students to read story out loud in small groups with emphasis. Students to make connections when working and listening to others and write about it in their journals.
Math: Students to create an idea of how things can bounce. Students to work word problems and analytical thinking. Students must show work.

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Poetry genre

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By: Madeline L'Engle
Illustrator: Hope Larson
Genre:Traditional Fantasy
Reading Level: 740 L/4.7
Summary: A young girl named Meg and her friend Charles are visited by a creepy old lady on a stormy night at Meg's house. The meet a new friend named Calvin and embark on an epic journey to find Meg's father. They travel to another dimension "It" t save Meg's father and return home.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read text and discuss with the class. Have students create a fantasy land.
Math: Have students create a time line of the story and explain how time in a fantasy land is different that actual time.

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By:  Erin Kelly
Illustrator: Janina Domaniska
Genre: Traditional Fantasy
Reading Level: 1200L/5.5
Summary: A story of a 15th century family fleeing the Ukraine for the safety of Poland. This story discusses the family's journey and how they protect items for the King. Read and find out how the trumpets save the life of the boys father.
Interdisciplinary connection:
Language arts: Students to read text with partner. Students to discuss with class about reading and answer extended response questions.
Math: Students to map out distance family walked and then map out street where the trumpets blew. Measuring the distance to scale.

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By: Lois Lowry
Illustrator:Cliff Nielson
Genre: Traditional Fantasy
Reading Level: 760L/5.9
Summary: In a utopian society a young boy, Jonas, is chosen to be the receiver on memory. He knows things now that no one else does and he cannot tell anyone.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts:
Students to write a reflection after text is complete. Students are answer extended response questions about eh reading with their own thoughts.
Math: Students to pick groups create a measured drawing of what the utopian society would be like. This can be a map with a legend showing measurements of artifacts.

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By: Paul Goble
Illustrator: Paul Goble
Genre:Traditional Fantasy
Reading Level: 670L/4.0
Summary: In Native American history it is always said that they are ancestors of horses. This is the story that explains how a young girls became one with the wild horses.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read fantasy and journal if they want it to be true or now.
Math: Students to count up how many horses there should be in the world if a horse was given to their family every year as a present. Add up everyone in the class and see what the number is. Discuss population and use grade/school size as an example.

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By: Marcia Brown
Illustrator:  Marcia Brown
Genre: Traditional Fantasy
Reading Level: 530L/3.4

Summary: This is an ancient story about a magical hermit who turns a mouse into a create that can defend itself with the other jungle creatures. It finally made it up to be a tiger lording over the jungle and the hermit made him a mouse again to teach humility.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Student to read text and write a story to see what would happen next. The students will carry on a "what happen's next saga."
Math: Students to work with probability to guess how many times the hermit turns something into another creature.

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Traditional Fantasy Genre

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By: Sal Silverstein
Illustrator:Sal Silverstein
Genre:Picture book
Reading Level: 5.30L/2.6
Summary: This is a story of giving. The little tree gave and gave. This is an inspirational story for older kids.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read story/ poems/parables and write their own version of giving. This can be how they have given on the past or even how they have been helped by someone else.
Math: Students t

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By: Watty Piper
Illustrator: George & Doris Hauman
Genre:Picture book
Reading Level: 680L/3.1
Summary: This is a story of never giving up. The little train had to climb such a big mountain full of food and toys. With positive thinking the little train made it over the mountain.
Interdisciplinary connection:
Language arts: The students to read story and apply it to their daily lives and the challenges they face. This is a journal entry.
Math: Students to use this story and philosophy when completing daily drills. A chart can be created.

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By: Robert McCloskey
Illustrator: Robert McCloskey
Genre:Picture book
Reading Level: 890L/4.1
Summary: An adventure about picking berries and meeting baby bears. This is a story for the ages especially if you read it in Ohio during berry picking season.
Interdisciplinary connection:
Language arts: Students to read book in groups and discuss deeper meanings of this text. Students to write in their journal about how Sal must have felt being alone and seeing a bear.
Math: Students to use spinner to evaluate probability of meeting a bear while picking berries. Compare results. Team work.

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By: Hans Christain Andersen
Illustrator: Jan Lewis
Genre: Picture book
Reading Level:650L/3.1
Summary: This is a story of mistaken identity. A little bird was born in a barnyard to mother duck and did not look like the rest of the nest-mates. Eventually, everyone figured out that this was no duck but a beautiful swan.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Give the older students this picture book and have them create their own story about mistaken identity and mistaken beauty.
Math: Have students calculate gestation periods. This is ore science but I teach math.

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By: Maurice Sendak
Illustrator: Maurica Sendak
Genre:Picture book
Reading Level: 740L/3.4
Summary: max is a little boy looking for adventure. He is sent to his room and that is where the real adventure begins when his room becomes a jungle.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read text and compare/contrast with movie.
Math: Students to calculate ow much time Max spent in his room in real time. His food was still warm on the table.

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Picture book genre

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By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustrator: n/a
Genre: Historic Fiction
Reading Level: 950L/5.0
Summary: Bud is a foster kid living from home to home during the great depression. He gets into some trouble at one house so he decides to leave on his own. He meets up with one of his friends on a journey to find his biological father.
Interdisciplinary connection:
Language arts: Students will read text and write an essay about his adventures and compare how hard life was for Bud compared to the world we live in today.
Math: The students can calculate how fast a train goes down the track and measure how long it will take getting to a destination using the distance formula.

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Historic Fiction genre

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By: Armstrong Sperry
Illustrator: Armstrong Sperry
Genre:Historic Fiction
Reading Level: 830L/5.8
Summary: A Polynesian king was afraid of the sea. The tribe worshiped courage. He set out in a canoe to find his find his courage and conquer his fear.
Interdisciplinary connection:
Language arts: Students to read story and create a poster about a legendary sea voyage.
Math: Students to make measure how big of a boat he would have had and mark it out on the floor with masking tape.

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By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustrator:n/a
Genre:Historic Fiction
Reading Level: 1070L/6
Summary: This is a story about the first child born as a free person from a family of runaway slaves. This takes place in Canada.
Interdisciplinary connections:
Language arts: Students to read story and answer prepared extended response questions.
Math: Students to use vocabulary words from the story and create a game of jeopardy with them. As the students progress they are to create a math problem to put into a jar. The math problems will be their problems of the day. They must have their name on the paper for accountability. This is a story about

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By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator: Garth Williams
Genre: Historic Fiction
Reading Level: 720L/3
Summary: This is based on the true story of the Ingalls family. Events that happened to the were recorded. This story entails a blizzard and a grasshopper plague.
Interdisciplinary connection:
Language arts: Students to fill out a KWL chart before reading text. Students to compare what they thought they knew and discussed what they learned.
Math: Students to measure how far the Ingalls wagon rode with their family and how long it took them to reach their deistination.

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By: Elizabeth Yates
Illustrator: Norma Unwin
Genre: Historic Fiction
Reading Level: 1090L/5.8
Summary: He was born the son of an African King and brought to American as a slave.  He was a slave until things started changing for him at the age of 60.
Interdisciplinary connection:
Language arts: Student will research how wars were fought  in African during that time period and compare them to our countries history (almost social studies).
Math: Students to calculate how long he was in bondage and compare that to a typical life of an American citizen.