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Review: The original story about Madeline where she needs to get her appendix taken out and all the other girls at the orphanage feel the sympathy pains from missing their friend.

Age Range: 7-10

Teaching Point: Rhyming

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Where the Wild Things Are -by Maurice Sendak

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Where the Wild Things Are -by Maurice Sendak

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Review: A book about a child's imagination - as the story grows, so does the forest. At the climax, the boy realizes that he misses home and the book focuses on the boy going home and the pictures reduce until the end when he is home.
Age Range: 5+

Teaching Point: Predicting (picture walks), repetition, use of descriptive words

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Review: A new take on the told tale. A ninja master uses a special recipe to create the ninjabread man. The ninjabread man then goes around fighting the other warriors until he meets a competitor worthy of him.

Age Range: 6-10

Teaching Point: Creative writing, different point of view writing, different take on a classic story, rhyming and poetry

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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs -by Jon Scieszka

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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs -by Jon Scieszka

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Review: A different point of view on the classic story of the three little pigs, as told by the wolf. His story goes that he ran out of sugar while trying to make a birthday cake. The reason the pigs houses were blown down was because he had a cold and sneezed. The third pig survives and arrests the wolf for killing his brothers.

Age Range: 6-9

Teaching Point: Point of view, taking a story that is known and putting your own twist to it

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Review:This is the story of a lovable and gentle bull by the name of Ferdinand who enjoys smelling the flowers and watching the day instead of bumping heads and fighting like the other bulls

Age Range: 3-5th

Teaching Point: This book could be used to show a different perspective of something that people might fear and tell a story from another side.

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Review: A book about a zombie trying to have a Halloween feast with friends, only to discover that they are actually afraid of him.

Age Range: 6+

Teaching Point: Life lessons about not judging people before getting to know them, creative writing, story telling

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Review: A story about a mysterious cat that shows up to entertain a brother an sister. This original story has the cat doing silly and crazy stunts to entertain the children while their mother is away. In the end, the cat produces a magical item that cleans the whole house just in time.

Age Range: 4-10

Teaching Point: Creative writing, rhyming

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Review: This book is about a tree that gives of itself to his favorite little boy as he grows through the ages and does so in a completely unselfish way.

Age Range: 5-10

Teaching Point: Thinking about others, imaginative writing that brings a tree to life

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Review: We follow a fish that steals a little hat from a very large fish. He thinks that he has gotten away with it but he in fact does not.

Age Range: 5-7

Teaching Point: Inferences, predictions, if/then statments

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Review: A cute story about a noisy neighbor trying to be helpful when it comes to a child that still likes to carry around his comfort blanket. The mother finds a creative way to still allow her child to bring the blanket with him to school.

Age Range: 6+

Teaching Point: Problem solving, interences

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar -by Eric Carle

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar -by Eric Carle

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Review: We follow a caterpillar on its journey to becoming a butterfly. It is so cute that you turn each page to see what the little caterpillar will eat next.

Age Range: 3-6

Teaching Point: Counting, butterfly life cycle, phonics, foods a caterpillar will eat, repetition of patterns

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The New Kid from the Black Lagoon - by Mike Thaler

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The New Kid from the Black Lagoon - by Mike Thaler

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Review: One  class is told that they are getting a new student and are not given any information on what the student is like. The children come up with very imaginative ideas about what this new student will be like.

Age Range: 5-8

Teaching Point: Imagery, inferences, adjectives and adverbs

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Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon -by Patty Lovell

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Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon -by Patty Lovell

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Review: A book about a very special little girl who is a little different from others kids her age. She employs a lesson that her grandmother taught her about standing up and being herself.

Age Range: 6-9

Teaching Point: Writing about a life lesson by telling a story

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Review: A cute story about a snake that wants to join in on a friendly game of catch. The snake learns the hard way that having no hands can be difficult for playing catch. In the end, Pig and Elephant find a creative way to help Snake enjoy the game.

Age Range: 6-7

Teaching Point: Problem-solving

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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! - by Mo Willems

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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! - by Mo Willems

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Review: Short book about a bus driver's order not to allow a pigeon to drive a public bus. The pigeon tries very hard but is denied the chance to drive.

Age Range: 5-7

Teaching Point: Short story, creative writing (have them write a conclusion), inferences

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I Have A Dream - By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

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I Have A Dream - By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

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Review: A beautifully illustrated book that puts pictures to the words from Dr. King's famous "I have a dream" speech that he made in Washington, DC.

Age Range: 8-12

Teaching Point: American history - segregation and desegregation, intolerance, constitution

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Separate is Never Equal - by Duncan Tonatiuh

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Separate is Never Equal - by Duncan Tonatiuh

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Review: This book tells about the struggles of a Mexican-American family and going to school. The children speak English fluently, but because they are of Mexican decent, they must travel a far way to go to the Mexican school (that does not have the same clean conditions as the "white" school). The family is helped by a lawyer to declare this rule nonsense.

Age Range: 7-15

Teaching Point: Desegregation, Constitution, discrimination, acceptance, not making a judgement about someone based on appearance.

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Review: A great story, as told from a grandmother to her granddaughter, about living in Germany between World War I and II. What it was like for her family to be separated in different parts of Europe and how they all survived and found one another in America.

Age Range: 9+

Teaching Point: Holocaust, point of view, biography, World War II

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The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain -by Peter Sis

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The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain -by Peter Sis

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Review: This book follows one boy who grew up on the communist side  of Berlin and his hopes of leaving to come to America.

Age Range: 9+

Teaching Point: History, life stories

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Review: A book that has pictures and definitions about about what fossils are and what they can tell us today.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Life science, earth science

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Groundhog Gets a Say -by Pamela Curtis Swallow

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Groundhog Gets a Say -by Pamela Curtis Swallow

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Review: Written as one young groundhog writing a report on an adult groundhog. We learn why and how the groundhog gets a holiday, and how it is just as important as some of the other holidays.

Age Range: 7-8

Teaching Point: Point of view, identification of holidays, writing a story using facts that you know or learn.

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Review: An adorable animated book about why it is important to use commas when writing. A panda walks into a library, eats food, shoots an arrow, and leaves. The librarian questions why he did that and references a book about pandas and points out that he is following what the book says about what pandas do.

Age Range: 8-15

Teaching Point: All about the importance of grammar and correct punctuation

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! -by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld

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! -by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld

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Review: A cute tale about an exclamation mark and finding his purpose within a group of periods. The exclamation mark meets a questions mark that asks him why he is always shouting and from there he is able to figure out his true purpose.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Another great point about grammar, this one being about end punctuation.

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Review: This book is told as if from the point of view of a young Rosa Parks talking about some of the early parts of her life and leading up to the bus boycott and those results.

Age Range: 7-12

Teaching Point: Montgomery Bus Boycott, segregation, Constitution

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Why is the Sea Salty? And Other Questions about... Oceans - by 

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Why is the Sea Salty? And Other Questions about... Oceans - by 

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Review: This book just answers a lot of questions about the oceans and water on the planet in general. Very easy to understand and follow.

Age Range: 7+

Teaching Point: Life and earth science (life cycles of marine animals, water cycle, pollution, etc.)

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Chickens Aren't the Only Ones -by Ruth Heller

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Chickens Aren't the Only Ones -by Ruth Heller

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Review: A book about the fact that chickens are not the only animals that lay eggs. If explains that birds are not the only animals that have the ability to lay eggs and uses many proper scientific names for the animals (which might be a little advanced for younger students, but can still introduce them to animals)

Age Range: 8-11

Teaching Point: Science - discovering the different animal groups, life cycles and reproduction, scientific names

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From Caterpillar to Butterfly - by Deborah Heilgman

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From Caterpillar to Butterfly - by Deborah Heilgman

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Review: A story of a class that gets a caterpillar as a pet and they spend their days watching and waiting for the butterfly. They are able to identify the different stages and properly talk about them.

Age Range: 7-9

Teaching Point: Life cycle, classroom pets

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Whole-y Cow! Fractions are Fun -by Taryn Souders

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Whole-y Cow! Fractions are Fun -by Taryn Souders

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Review: A fun way to help students see fractions in some way other than using number lines or pies. Different barn animals help the cow to display different fractions but painting her with spots of two different colors to determine how many are red versus blue, etc.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Math- fractions

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Review: An illustrated time line of different momentous events that have happened throughout our worlds space travels. From the early stages of rocket propulsion to the space station.

Age Range: 9-11

Teaching Point: Space race, technology advancement

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Riding the Bus with my Sister -by Rachel Simon

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Riding the Bus with my Sister -by Rachel Simon

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Review: A journey of one sister deciding to spend a year riding the public bus with her mentally disabled sister. While the sister is disabled, she is still independent. This journey helps Rachel to better understand her sister and see things from a different perspective.

Age Range: 14+

Teaching Point: Point of view, building a relationship, selecting a small piece of time from your life to write about (a single life experience)

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Review: A wonderful story about a girl and her best friend and what they plan to do over the summer. The main character expects that her best friend is going to want to do the same thing but she turns out to be wrong and they have a falling out.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Creative writing, telling a story, sharing experiences through writing, panel drawing

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck -by Jeff Kinney

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck -by Jeff Kinney

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Review: The story of a kid who deals with a friends that gets a girlfriend. He tries to find a replacement friend and things just never click and find the right rhythm for him.

Age Range: 7-10

Teaching Point: Life lessons, accepting things that cannot be changed, problem-solving

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Review: A book about a girl who would do anything to save her friend. She travels through space to save him and then in the end does not make it back to Earth using the portal and so starts her own journey home.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Fantasy writing, storyboard writing

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The Baby-Sitters Club -by Raina Telgemeier

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The Baby-Sitters Club -by Raina Telgemeier

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Review: In this book in the series, we learn more about Stacey, the newest member to the group and what she goes through with having diabetes. At the same time, we learn that the club has a new rival on the block that can work longer hours and are a threat to their very club.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Recognizing facial expressions, learning to read a story with more than just words, inference, sequencing, flashbacks

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The Bad Guys in Mission Unbluckable -by Aaron Blabey

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The Bad Guys in Mission Unbluckable -by Aaron Blabey

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Review: A group of animals that are typically seen as "bad" try to do something right by freeing a bunch of chickens from the factory where they are. Along this journey, they find that they all bring something different and unique to their mission. The reader finds out that the real bad guy is a cute hamster - looks can be deceiving.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Biases and making judgement before getting to know someone, predictions, using pictures for context clues

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Andy Shane and the Barn Sale Mystery -by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

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Andy Shane and the Barn Sale Mystery -by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

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Review: Andy is trying to find the perfect gift for his grandmother and uses a barn sale to make money to buy a binoculars cases. During the barn sale, someone buys the binoculars. Andy sells his bike to buy back the binoculars and a case and his grandmother sells her binoculars to buy Andy a new bike seat and bell.

Age Range: 7-9

Teaching Point: Problem solving

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Middle School: The Worst Years of my Life -James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts

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Middle School: The Worst Years of my Life -James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts

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Review: This book watched as one middle school student battled with himself as he learns to adjust to life in middle school. The main character has an "imaginary" friend that we learn was actually his twin brother that he lost as a small child. The character gets himself into trouble just for fun and to be different but finds a way to express himself and his feelings when an art teacher takes notice and spends time with him in several detention sessions.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Sequencing, context clues, plot twists, actions and consequences

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Martin Bridge in High Gear! -by Jessica Scott Kerrin

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Martin Bridge in High Gear! -by Jessica Scott Kerrin

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Review: A story about a boy who gets a new bike only to have it stolen the first time he takes it out to the store. Martin learns that there is a place that takes old bikes and fixes them up to give away to less fortunate and discovers his old bike there. He ends up working at the shop to learn how to repair his old bike and finds himself giving it away when an excited boy comes to pickup his new bike on the wrong week.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Sequence of events, acts of selflessness

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Completely Clementine -by Sara Pennypacker

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Completely Clementine -by Sara Pennypacker

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Review: We follow Clementine as she makes gets ready for her new baby sister. She goes to the hotel where her best friend is staying for the week with her dad and come home to find that her mom has had the baby.

Age Range: 8-12

Teaching Point: Sequence, prediction, point of view, theme

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Poppy the Pirate Dog and the Missing Treasure -by Liz Kessler

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Poppy the Pirate Dog and the Missing Treasure -by Liz Kessler

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Review: We follow a story of a dog named Poppy as he tries to help his human brother and sister create a pirate show for mom. Poppy ends up having an accident and needs to wear a cone and decides that a pirate dog can wear a cone.

Age Range: 7-9

Teaching Point: Point of view

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Review: A story about a girl who has become very good about hiding her inability to read. She is afraid to be considered dumb and she moves around a good deal so she is typically never in one place long enough for anyone to find out the truth.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Not afraid to ask for help, point of view, sequence of events

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Review: A beautiful story about a diplomat visiting another country for his birthday because he enjoyed the singing of the opera singer that would be present to entertain for the evening. All of the party-goers lives are changed when a group of terrorists take everyone hostage for months.

Age Range: 15+

Teaching Point: Creating a story from real events (this really happened, but we do not know the actual conversation that took place), perspective, point of view, climax

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Review: This book follows two brothers through an important basketball year, told from the point of view of only one of the brothers. They suffer several hardships along the way, including the death of their father.

Age Range: 9+

Teaching Point: Rhyming, incorporating a sense of hip/hop into words, poetry, non-traditional writing

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Harry Potter and the Cured Child -by J.K. Rowling

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Harry Potter and the Cured Child -by J.K. Rowling

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Review: This book follows Harry's child, Albus, as he joins school but it is written as a play with acts and stage directions. A little hard to follow if you are not used to reading a play format.

Age Range: 8+

Teaching Point: Writing dialog, different format writing

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Review: A very relate-able book about about a short girl who joins a play. Why in the play she gets some helpful advise from a woman with dwarfism that helps to encourage her to hold her head up high because she is so much more than her height.

Age Range: 10+

Teaching Point: Everyone is unique and has something to be proud of, acceptance of self

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Brown Girl Dreaming -by Jacqueline Woodson

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Brown Girl Dreaming -by Jacqueline Woodson

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Review: A beautifully written book about a girls journey to living in Greenville, SC and how their lives are affected by the time period as segregation is still found in a lot of places in the South and the girls are learning about different movements (like the Black Panthers).

Age Range: 9+

Teaching Point: History (segregation), poetry, find a voice, the impacts of different places and time periods

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Review: This is a story about a young girl who has everything and has her world turned upside-down when her father is killed. She must learn to adapt and change in order to survive her new world.

Age Range: 9+

Teaching Point: Writing about a difficult time, social studies

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Review: This is a mystery/suspense novel that follows one woman's attempt to find a mystery figure that caused her to crash her car in the middle of a dark country road.

Age Range: 15+

Teaching Point: Creative writing

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Review: An interesting novel based on the idea that technology can become so advanced that it can imitate a human and take over the population. A husband becomes worried about his wife who is spending so much time working, only to find out that the nano-bots they were working on have taken over and disguised themselves as several people in the laboratory where the work is being done.

Age Range: 16+

Teaching Point: Science-fiction, technology, opinion writing (could something like this happen)

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Dragon Stones (book 1) -by Kristian Alva

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Dragon Stones (book 1) -by Kristian Alva

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Review: A fantasy book that follows the life of a young man on his journey to discover who he is and what his life is meant to be. The stories are filled with dragons, magic, and kings.

Age Range: 12+

Teaching Point: Creative writing