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Picture Book

Date Read- 8/31/18

Review- This book is a cute picture book about a puppy version of Scooby Doo. All he wants to do is play with a ball.I honestly believe there is no reason to call him scooby other than to get kids interested in the book. But, it also helps kids learn to read because some of the words are traded out for pictures.

Age/ Audience- Kindergartners or kids who are learning to read

Teaching Point- For kids to look at the pictures when they do not know a word.

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Picture Book

Date Read- 9/21/18

Review- The adorable depiction of mice in a snowman building contest shows how two friends can work together to do something better than when alone. The worked all day and night trying to win the town's contest. They started building two different snowman, but realized they are the same size. They decided to combine the snowman to make the biggest snowman ever.

Grade/ Audience- I think 3rd graders who love animal stories will love this book.

Teaching Point- Working together without fighting will always get the best results.

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Picture Book

Date Read- 9/25/18

Review- Most kids are going to be familiar with Disney. This book can help get them interested in reading, because they are reading something that they might have seen on TV. The Lion King is classic story that is based on Hamlet. It features Simba, whose life gets turned upside down when his Dad is murdered. He then runs away and finds the most peculiar and eccentric characters, Timone and Pumbaa. Years later, he returns and fights his uncle (and hundreds of Hyenas) for the crown.

Age/ Audience- Upper Elementary.
Kids who like animals, fighting, adventure, and humour will love this book.

Teaching Point- I would use this book in high school when they learn about Hamlet. You can ask them to compare and contrast.

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Picture Book

Date Read- 9/25/18

Review- This is a book based on the Disney movie Frozen. It has some gorgeously done illustrations. It also brushes over the more serious moments and intense action scenes from the movie. It never mentioned how or why Elsa became Queen, which was the death of her parents. It also never mentioned the wolf scene when Anna was attacked.

Age/Audience- Younger elementary school, like kindergarten or 1st grade. Kids who love the Disney princesses are the audience for this book.

Teaching Point- Always be yourself. Do not let what others think of you define who you are.

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Picture Book

Date Read- 10/5/18

Review- Martha is a dog who delivers flowers to an elderly couple who just moved in the house. Martha was scared and got under a sheet, but then the owner walked in and thought Martha was a ghost. Martha thought there was a ghost behind her and she ran away. She takes her owners back with her, and they scare the home owners in the end. It was sort of anticlimactic in the end, but it was cute and kids would like people getting scared.

Age/ Audience- Younger Elementary age, 1st grade maybe. Kids who like Dogs and ghosts.

Teaching Point- You can teach kids how to make predictions in a story.

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Chapter Book

Hot, New Book

Date Read- 8/30/18

Review- This book is about an extremely smart and educated, but anxious driven girl. She is constantly worrying that something is wrong with her, like she might have C. DIff. One day her friend and her hear on the radio that Mr. Pickett goes missing and there is a large reward. They decide to try and find him. The larger story is that a girl with severe anxiety is not taking medication, and therefore is having anxiety attacks through out the whole book. She has a cut on her finger that she constantly reopens just to prove that she is real.

Age/ Audience- This is a realistic teen drama, so kids in upper high school grades who likes realism.

Teaching Points- Take Your medicine when the doctors prescribe it, and there is no shame in it.

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Non fiction picture book

Date read- 10/7/18

Review- This book is a narrative on the life of Rosa Parks. I like it because it doesn't show Rosa Parks just as the girl who said no to stand up on the bus when a white man told her to. It shows that she had an active role in the NAACP. It also shows how they wanted her to be found guilty so that the NAACP could appeal to the Supreme Court.

Audience/ Grade- Elementary Schoolers because they need to hear more about her and her active role in the desegregation process. I think kids who are interested in history and the civil rights movement would be interested in this book.

Teaching Point- This is a book about history, so I could use this in a civil rights movement history lesson.

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Chapter Book

Date Read- 9/10/18

Review- This is the teen romance novel of the century. It deals with kids who are facing way more than they should have to in their short life so far. The two main characters have/ had cancer. Hazel is a feisty miracle that has lung cancer, but through a meeting that happens in the literal heart of Jesus, she finds her love. Augustus Waters melts her heart and ours. He is in remission when we first meet him, but as the story continues , we find out that his cancer came back with a nasty vengeance. This book is a tragedy, but is also a comedy and is phenomenally written.

Grade/Audience- High school students who like sad stories but are realistic.

Teaching Point- I would teach kids about how a title of the book comes about, because this title isn't about the main problem and is vaguely mentioned in the story.

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Chapter Book

Date Read-9/21/18

Review- Amazing story about two kids in two different high schools in the same town that have the same name: Will Grayson. They have differing personalities. One is larger, in theatre, and is gay. The other is small and is a nerd. The meet by chance in a store when one tries to use an ID at the register. This is a phenomenal book that shows huge support for LGBT community and those who are different from other mainstream students.

Grade/ Audience- High School students who support the LGBT community.

Teaching Point- Don't let anyone tell you who you should be. Be who you want. Not everyone can be the best Jock. Some people are great at the arts.

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Chapter Book

Date Read- 10/1/18

Review- This is my favorite book of all time. It is riveting. It does not have normal chapters. It's chapters are a count down until the biggest event of the book. For example, the first "Chapter" is called "136 days before." That is a method to draw you in to this book. It's about a boy name Miles, who is socially awkward and moves from Florida to Alabama to go to a high school that you live in. He meets his best friend, Colonel, and the girl of his dreams, Alaska. Alaska is a wild girl, who wants to have fun but is wicked smart. She immediately captures his heart on first sight.

Grade/ Audience- There are some mature scenes in this book and deals with heavier topics, so I would use this for Junior or Seniors.

Teaching Point- I would do a lesson on themes for this book. It carries so much. It deals with intimacy, suffering, where your home is, what makes us mortal.

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Non Fiction Picture Book

Date read- 10/1/18

Review- This book is very informative. It tells about the problems leading up to the war, the battles of the war,and the consequences. I think if someone is interested in battles, they should read this book. Even though it is called the French and Indian War, that is just because that is the side who won the war. They fought against the British.

Audience/ Grade- Upper Elementary School- because it is about war. Kids who like battles and wars would love this book

Teaching Point- I would use this book to help learn about history.

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Non Fiction Picture Book

Date read- 9/30/18

Review- A detailed book about the creators of Apple. It demonstrates how they went from nothing and turned it into one of the most widespread personal computer company. It also shows how different they were but loved technology. One Steve was outgoing and adventurous, while the other Steve was shy and reserved. This is a well thought out book.

Age/ Audience- Upper elementary school for those who love technology.

Teaching Point- You could teach the kids how to ask Questions through this book. This is something most of them would have, but they all know what a computer is. Apple is the most widespread brand, in terms of all technology in first world countries.

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Non Fiction Picture Book

Date Read- 9/30/18

Review- The pyramids are one of the worlds wonders. The book describes their very purpose in Egyptian rituals and worship. It also shows how they were made and they were used to bury dead leaders. This book compares the different types of pyramids from different ancient societies.

Grade/Audience- Upper Elementary School. Kids who like ancient civilizations or Egyptian culture would like this book

Teaching Point- Not all pyramids are from Egypt. Almost all ancient civilizations had some sort of pyramid.

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Non Fiction Picture Book

Date Read- 9/29/18

Review- This is a all encompassing and broad book. It covers a vast amount of information, from farmers to government to military leaders. It talks mainly about the different roles that people might have in Ancient Greece and what level of society that they would be in.

Grade/ Audience- Kids who like history who like this book. Also would be good for kids in the third or fourth grades.

Teaching Point- This book is mainly about history, so you can use it to teach about Greece or to teach the kids how to ask questions. Like, "Why are they important?"

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Non Fiction Picture Book

Date read- 9/13/18

Review- This book is kind of dry. It is more of a list of facts about the present day country. It has very little facts on the arts or military, but has facts on the climate and the government.

Grade/Audience- Kids who like to travel or might travel to Greece. Elementary school

Teaching Points- I could use this book in how to use a glossary and index to find something in the book.

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Non Fiction Picture Book

Date read- 9/25/18

Review- This book reviews how Ninjas were in real life and not cartoons. They came from Japan and were warriors for their leaders during feudalism. They were often sent on missions in order to invade the enemy's castle. This book is highly interesting, and I think kids will enjoy reading it.

Grade/ Audience- Any kids who like super heroes or fighting will like this book. THe grade I would choose is 4th grade.

Teaching Point- I would do the chart that you write down what you know, what you wonder, what you learned from the book.

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Non Fiction Picture Book

Date Read- 9/25/18

Review- This is an informative text on what it takes to train in the marine corps. It goes through some of the different training methods and routines of the marines in order to train for combat. It also shows some of the different weapons, such as the rifle or gas bomb, that they use in times of war.

Grade/Audience- I would use this in a 4th or 5th grade classroom for kids who are interested in the military.

Teaching Points- You can use this book to teach about how to ask questions in a text. Kids know about the army, but not much about the marines.

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Non Fiction Picture Book

Hot New Book

Date Read- 9/25/18

Review- This is an excellent book. While it is pretty much just straight listing off facts, it is about a women who is the reason we were able to make it into space and onto the moon. It is a shame I never heard about her until after high school. We only learned about the men involved. This book is amazing to point out a smart women of colour who successfully made it in a man's world.

Age/Audience- Upper elementary school, for girls who need to know that they can do whatever they put  their minds to.

Teaching Point- Education on woman of coulour who more than helped put a man on the moon.

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Graphic Novel

Date Read- 9/14/18

Review- Doctor Who is a time traveling alien that travels in the Tardis. He faces various enemies, one of which is the Weeping Angel. When you look at them, they seem like a statue, but when you look away, they move so fast you can't even blink without them getting you. This was an excellent depiction of this story. It features all of that within world war 2. They are seeking to stop the weeping angels from attacking the soldiers and the nazis.

Age/ Audience- Middle Schoolers who love sci fi.

Teaching Point- You can teach how different genres can mix, such as historical fiction and sci fi.

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Non Fiction Picture Book

Date Read- 9/13/18

Review- This book features stadiums from across the world and across history. It goes from the ancient Romans with the Colosseum to modern day Wembly Stadium in the UK. I personally am not into sports, so I did not think it was interesting. But, Sports are extremely popular around the world, so it is definitely useful in the classroom.

Age/ Audience- Upper elementary students for kids who like sports.

Teaching Point- How things in the past affect our interests today. Example: The Colosseum is one of the most spectacular stadiums, but we model the olympics based on what happened there.

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Non Fiction Picture Book

Date Read- 9/23/18

Review- This book is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's speech set to various illustrations. Of course the speech is one of the most famous speeches in American History, but the pictures are spectacularly done.

Age/ Audience- I think that this book is meant for elementary schoolers, but the speech is good for everyone to hear.

Teaching Point- In terms of reading, you can use the pictures to figure out the unknown words and difficult vocabulary.

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Picture Book

Date Read- 10/3/18

Review- This is a cute book about some dragons who don't know how to read, and when a wizard asks them to take care of his cats, they say that they can. He gave them instructions, but they didn't know what to do. The Good Knight was watching them do crazy stuff with the cats. Finally he helped them read the instructions.

Grade/ Audience- I think the audience is younger elementary, like 1st grade. It is a simple book and is easy to read.

Teaching Points- If you don't know what to do or how to do something, ask for help.

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Picture Book

Date Read- 8/31/18

Review- This book is beyond creative. Dr. Seuss uses his rhyming skills to teach such an important lesson:A person's a person no matter how small. Horton, the main character, repeats this over and over as he tries to save a speck of dust from crashing or drowning. Everyone judges him for it, but he keeps doing what is right. Ultimately, everyone realizes that Horton was right all along.

Grade/ Audience- Kindergarten, Kids who like rhyming and colourful animals.

Teaching Point- We should treat everyone the way we want to be treated. Everyone is a person just like we are.

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Picture Book

Date Read- 8/31/18

Review- A very cute story about a boy and his stuffed rabbit that he got for Christmas. He loved it so much, and it helped him go to sleep. They would spend their days together, but then the boy grew up. He decided that the rabbit was just a Toy.

Grade/ Audience- Younger elementary kids. Kids who like stuffed animals or rabbits would like this book.

Teaching Points- BME Chart- You could use this to help teach what a summary is. The beginning, middle, end chart is helpful.

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Picture Book

Date Read- 10/2/18

Review- "Train To Somewhere" is about an orphan girl trying to be adopted. They are traveling by train stopping in various places in the country while prospective parents are meeting them. The girl's best friend is chosen in the first stop. When the train stops at the last station, the girl is the last kid chosen by an elderly couple who wanted a young boy.

Age/ Audience- Elementary schoolers. This book is for kids who like realistic events,

Teaching Point- You might not end up with what you expect.

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Chapter Book

Award Winner

Date Read- 9/8/18

Review- This is a heartwarming story about a girl who is brave enough to face the Germans during the Holocaust. Her best friend and neighbor is Jewish and she helps to hide Ellen during a Nazi raid. This remains to be one of my favorite books from when I was a kid. It is inspiring to read about the bravery that these family faced. This feeling is greater now that I have more knowledge of what the holocaust was really like and not the kid friendly version that they share in Elementary schools.

Audience/Grade- Upper Elementary Aged. This book is chilling and about war but also is about interpersonal relationships.

Teaching Point- When I was in Elementary School, there was this lesson strategy called Plot Mountain. You use it to label the beginning, rising action, climax, falling action, and the end.

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Chapter Book

Hot, New Book

Date Read- 10/2/18

Review- This is one of the best books I have read. It is filled with diversity and excitement. It was written by 13 different authors for that purpose. The book mentions in the foreword how diversity of the heroes in literature is limited. When you see a black boy as a good guy, he is normally the token black character used for comic release. In other words, not the main super hero. These authors set out to make sure that diversity is the main focus of this novel. As an anthology, this book is not one single story, but a collection of different stories put together.

Audience/ Grade- High School. I would promote this book to everyone. This book has a little something to satisfy several different types of interests, but is crazy diverse and I think that is something everyone should be exposed to.

Teaching Point- I would use this book to show that not all heroes are white males but can be anybody.

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Chapter Book

Award Winner

Date Read- 9/14/18

Review- In this exciting adventurous book, Meg, a shy and awkward girl, is on a quest in order to find her Dad. He has been missing for over a year, and Meg is deeply worried about him. She teams up with several people, such as her brother and Mrs. Whatsit, into a wrinkle in time. Through out the process, Meg grows up into realizing that Fathers are not your saviour, but are people with actual faults. But, she also realizes that her ability to love is her biggest weapon. Overall, this is a great book with some great plot twists.

Audience/Grade- I would use this book in a middle school classroom. It is good for people who like magic and love conquers all themes in books.

Teaching Points- You can teach on static and dynamic characters, specially in the views of the main character.

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Early Chapter Book

Date read- 9/25/18

Review- High Tide in Hawaii is an excellent book for kids. It is filled with engaging characters and an exciting plot. My favorite part is when Jack and Annie realize that a Tsunami is about to strike the Island and they have to race up to the highest point with the rest of the islanders.

Audience/ Grade- I think that this book is good for kids in 2nd grade or for kids who are just starting out in chapter books.

Teaching Point- For a literary lesson, you could teach about settings, because they transition from their present day to the past in Hawaii. There are also quick transitions between lower ground and higher ground. For a life teaching point, you could teach kids that in the event of tsunami, you need to get to higher ground.

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Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories

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Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories

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Picture Book

Date Read- 10/7/18

Review- This book is a collection of several short stories by Dr. Seuss. I like it because the ever changing plots can help keep a kid focused, but could also be a downside because they might get lost in the book. They might not realize that the story has changed and their comprehension is effected. The first story is about Horton and the Kwuggerbug's quest to find the beezlenut tree. They face several daunting tasks, but in the end they are victorious (sort of).

Grade/ Audience- Younger elementary school. I think kids who like bright colourful animals and wacky characters would like this book

Teaching point- You could teach kids how to read anthologies/ other texts where multiple stories are involved.

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Chapter Book

Award Winning

Date Read- 10/1/18

Review- This dystopian novel features a world where books are illegal, and firemen are supposed to light books and houses on fire. When listing some of the characteristics of the novel it is interesting to see how it compares to our world today. In today's society books are viewed by many as non essential, we spend less time in nature, watch excessive amounts of TV, and many people wear headphones constantly. These are several of the characteristic of the society in Fahrenheit 451, which was written in 1952. This book is phenomenal, and should be read in order to see the real value of books.

Audience/ Grade- Either upper Middle school or High School aged kids. This book is amazing for kids who love dystopian literature.

Teaching Point- You can teach about dystopian literature and to show why books are valuable to society.

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Magic Tree House: Vacation Under The Volcano

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Magic Tree House: Vacation Under The Volcano

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Early Chapter Book

Date Read- 9/6/18

Review- This book has wonderful insight into one of the first recorded natural disasters in history. Pompeii killed thousands of people. Jack and Annie are transported to Pompeii on this day. They stroll around town while reading different facts and attributes of Roman society. An Example is " Most families did not have private baths in their homes but used community baths. That is until they find out that Mount Vesuvius is going to erupt that day.

Grade/ Audience- Earlier grades that are starting out in chapter books. It would be great for kids who like natural disasters, like volcanoes.

Teaching Point- You can use this book to reinforce a history lesson on Pompeii and its significance in the world.

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Graphic Novel

Date Read: 9/28/18

Review- Personally, I would not have this book in my classroom. It is extremely violent, which I would make an exception if it was a   history lesson. I am not a big fan of violence for no reason. The entire book is based on Sonic and Tails trying to stop the bad guy, Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik. There is also oversexualization in a few of the female character’s depictions in the book.

Audience/Grade- I would use this for the upper elementary school grades, like 4th or 5th grade. I think it is fairly violent but is of high interest in those grade bands.

Teaching Points- This book could be used to showing how illustrations are used to depict action. There are several instances where there are few words but lots of pictures. You can use those pictures to figure out what is happening in the story.

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Magic Tree House: Thanksgiving on Thursday

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Magic Tree House: Thanksgiving on Thursday

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Early Chapter Book

Date read- 10/1/18

Review- Jack and Annie are back at it again on another adventure, but this time the Magic Tree House  is going to the First Thanksgiving. Knowing a good amount of history, I feel like it is an oversimplified version of what happened and with the relationships between the Europeans and the Native Americans. But, this book constructed a story based on history that gave it more of a story feel rather than a distant history, which I liked.

Audience/ Grade- I would use this book in an early elementary classroom, 2nd grade for example, for kids who are learning how to read chapter books while learning about the 1st Thanksgiving.

Teaching Point- A seasonal lesson on the First Thanksgiving.

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Picture Book

Read On: 10/1/18

Review- Nate Likes to Skate is about a cat who likes to skate and tries to get his friend Kate to skate. She doesn't want to, but she likes hats and wants Nate to wear hats. This is a great book for kids to read, and if I teach this age group, I would have this in my class. It helps kids with rhyming words and has a good moral lesson as well. It teaches kids to be nice to their friends.

Audience/ Grade- This book is for kids in kindergarten or 1st grade. It will help kids who need help with the "A" sound in hate and in hat.

Teaching Point- The "A" sound in hate vs hat and other words that rhyme with those words.

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Chapter Book

Award Winning

Date Read- 9/18/18

Review- This powerful book has an amazing view on dystopian societies. Somebody's utopia will be someone else's dystopian society, and that is what we see depicted in this novel. The Giver also shows the power in youth when they have something to fight for. The main character, Jonas, has to fight the larger society in order to gain individualism and freedom through restoring the memories of the pre-dystopian society.

Audience/ Grade- I would use this text for approximately 8th grade. This piece of literature allows students to think of a society that is different than ours, or maybe similar, which I think is good for that age group to explore.

Teaching Point- The Giver is good as an introduction to dystopias and dystopian literature.

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Early Chapter Book

Date Read- 10/5/18

Review- This book’s adventure is constantly engaging and interesting. It gives a fantastic perspective on the civil war and what it was like to be a nurse during that time. This book features how it was to be a slave during this time as well, mentioning that slaves were desperate enough to escape 30 miles barefoot to get to the north for freedom. This perspective is not mentioned enough in elementary school.

Audience/ Grade- I would use this in a 2nd or 3rd grade class, a younger grade where they are just starting chapter books. Because it is a topic about war, many boys would be interested in this book.

Teaching point- You can use this in a history lesson about the civil war. It shows different view points from nurses, slaves, and soldiers.

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Chapter Book

Award Winner

Date read- 9/9/18

Review- Charlotte’s Web is a timeless classic about a pig who befriends a spider. This book starts out with an exciting beginning when the farmer almost kills the pig because he is a runt, but he is stopped by his daughter. The rest of the book deals with the spider and the rest of the animals trying to save the pig’s life and the whole farm. This is a heart-warming story that is exciting and is filled with interpersonal relationships, while entirely fictional due to them being farm animals.

·         Audience/Grade- This book is good for younger middle school, around 6th grade, because of its thickness and its fairly simple vocabulary.  Would suggest this book for kids who like animals.

·         Teaching Point- One lesson you can teach is characterization because of the growth of the characters and the vast differences in the characters of the story. For example, you can ask “what do you infer bout the girl in the first chapter and how she felt for the pig when her dad tried to kill it?”

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Fiction Picture Book

Hot New Book

Read on 9/24/18

Review-I think this book is extremely cute. I know, for me, it is relatable. There are several people who constantly run late and need that extra help. Also, there are people, like this book demonstrates, who try to juggle too much and end up needing help, like Splat the Cat.

Age- This book is good for kids in first grade, who are still learning to read and are reading short simple sentences.

Audience- Kids who like rhymes and humor, especially when people get hurt and fall down.

Teaching Point- I would use this book in a phonics lesson in rhyming. This book contains several examples of the "ah" sound.

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Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds) 

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Graphic Novel

Read On 9/20/18

Review- This edition of Captain Underpants is extremely funny and really plays up the humor in kids getting to fight their enemies. The kids in this book face an alien attack of epic proportions and also get to live out every kids dream of beating up their lunch ladies for making an awful batch of "Kruppcakes."

Audience- Because of some of the potty humour and some of the difficult language, I would place this in the upper elementary age range, like 4th or 5th grade. This is for kids who like more of the superhero books and comic books.

Teaching Points- This genre is under appreciated in literature, so I would use this book to introduce graphic novels.

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Siberian Tigers: The World's Biggest Cat

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Siberian Tigers: The World's Biggest Cat

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Nonfiction Picture Book

Read on 8/30/2018

Review- This is a great book! It is super informative about Siberian Tigers. Did you know that Siberian Tigers are the World's Largest Cat?. While it was very informative, it does contain a graphic image of a Tiger eating another animal.

Audience- I would pick this book for 3rd Grade or up and for kids who like science.

Teaching Point- This is a book I could use in order to teach about animals that we do not find in this country.

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Early Chapter Book

Read on 9/12/18

Review- This is one of my favorite books from when I was a kid. I love Junie B as a character and think a lot of kids can relate to her, especially how scared she was to go on the bus for the first time.

Audience- I think this is a good book for a first grader. It has a really basic vocabulary and is short enough to be a good introduction into chapter books. This could be great for kids who might be nervous about going on the bus and also how to treat or friends in the same grade.

Teaching Points- This is a good introduction into chapter books for kids who are ready. You could also use this to point out how kids are supposed behave in lines and at the end of the day in bus call, especially when she runs away.

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The Turkey Girl: A Zuni Cinderella Story

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The Turkey Girl: A Zuni Cinderella Story

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Fiction Picture Book

Read on 9/6/2018

Review- I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I slightly judged a book on the cover when I realized that this book was about Native American culture. I didn't like the term "Turkey Girl," I thought it to be mocking Native American culture. But when I read this book, it was shocking how good it was. While, Turkey Girl is a mocking term, it was showing how the rich people around this turkey farm looked down upon her. I thought it was a great take on Cinderella.

Audience- 2nd or 3rd grade. I think  any girls who like princesses who like this book.

Teaching Points- This is a good book for multicultural appreciation. I also think that it shows you to be nice to someone and to always be yourself.

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Nonfiction Picture Book

Read on 8/30/2018

Review: I thought this book, which is a fact book about one of the Magic Tree House Adventure books, was a cool book to read. It told facts about Da Vinci and the Renaissance, but not listing just facts, it made it more like a story in order to appeal to kids more, which I thought was clever.

Age- 2nd or 3rd grade
Audience- Kids who like art or history.

Teaching Points- When talking about the Renaissance, you could use this book to talk about one of the most inventive and artistic minds of the time period. You could also use this book to talk about historical fiction and how you can use facts from history in order to create stories within history.

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Fiction Picture Book

Read on 9/4/18

Review- Clark the Shark is a great book for younger elementary kids. It features a character who is excited to read and do a book report, which kids do not see that in mainstream media enough.

Audience- 1st or 2nd grade. For kids who are still fairly new at reading and like more comical light books.

Teaching Point- If a kid is struggling to speak out loud or present, this could be a good book for them to read. I could also read this to my class and use it to say that it's okay to mess up when speaking.

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Fiction Picture Book

Read on 9/6/2018

Review- I did not like this book because I went in to reading the book thinking it was the story of The Last Jedi, but it was just a list of characters, a brief synopsis of who they are, and how they relate to the story.

Audience- I would place this in a 1st or 2nd grade class, because it has a very simple vocabulary for those just learning to read. The only thing that might be difficult is some of the names. This book is good for kids who like aliens and sci-fi.

Teaching Points- This book could be used for learning how to describe different characters and how they contribute to a story.

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Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000

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Graphic Novel

Read on 9/19/2018

Review- This adventure of Captain Underpants is one of my least favorite Captain Underpants books. While the story is okay, I was not a fan of how many butts were illustrated in various characters that were pantsed and during the crude nature of how one character was beat up using the butt of a toilet. I feel like this was extreme for Captain Underpants.

Audience- This is for upper elementary school, such as 4th or 5th grade, because of the crude jokes in the book and the more advanced vocabulary.

Teaching Points- This book is an excellent example of how some books don't end the way the main characters want it to end. Their town was destroyed and the villain was barely stopped. I think it is important for kids to know that they will not always get what they want.

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Captain Underpants and the attack of the talking toilets

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Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

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Graphic Novels

Read On 9/21/2018

Review- When Principal Krupps strikes with a convention on a Saturday, George and Harold strive to make this day interesting. I think this is a realistic expectation for kids to want to do when class is boring. While most days won't end up with a ton of toilets that attack a school and require Captain Underpants to save the day, kids that are not engaged with a lesson can act out in order to be entertained.

Audience- There is some crude humor and some upper level vocabulary, so I would put this in the 4th or 5th grade levels.  This is especially for kids who like graphic novels and books about super heroes.

Teaching Points- Because of the use of some flash backs, you could use this to teach about how a transition in the tense of verbs can lead into flashbacks.

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Nonfiction Picture Book

Read on 8/30/2018

Review- This book is an exceptional book to read. I thought it was very informative on the various types of performing arts, which the book ranged outside of the basic theatre, chorus, and orchestra. It was very inclusive to the different types, and gives the differing opinions to why one type of art could be considered art or not be considered art.

Teaching Point- This book could be included when talking about culture. Art is an extremely important part of viewing culture and features performing art from various cultures. You could also include this if you were doing a lesson on art to show how art is more than sculptures or paintings.

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Nonfiction Book

Read on 9/6/2018

Review- This book is pretty good. I don't like books that spout off straight facts, which is what this book does, but It is fairly interesting. I thought it was pretty cool to know that Killer Whales have no known Natural Predators when they are healthy.

Audience- 2nd or 3rd grade. This is good for kids who like the ocean or animals.

Teaching Points- I would use this book to teach about Killer Whales. Or in a unit about the ocean, I could use this to talk about one of the many different organisms that live there.