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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: Crankenstein is an angry, grumpy person when he doesn't get his way.
Age/Audience: K-3
Possible Teaching Points: good attitudes, character traits

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Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School

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Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: Ike, a dog, writes persuasive letters to Mrs. LaRue about why he should be allowed to let leave obedience school.
Age/Audience: Kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: Letter writing/formatting, persuasive writing

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: Duck was not happy about the way Farmer Brown ruled over the farm.  Duck decides he wants to be president so he can make up the new rules....until he finds out just how much work being the president can be.
Age/Audience: Kindergarten +
Possible Teaching Points: government, persuasive writing

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review:  Go along on Amelia Bedelia's first day of kindergarten where she takes everything the teacher and her friends say LITERALLY!
Age/Audience: Kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: First Day of school, idioms

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: A modern twist on The Three Little Pigs.  Each pig performs a different martial art to stand up to the big bad wolf
Age/Audience: Kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: fairy tales, comparing two similar stories

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: Rosa's apartment that she shares with her mother and grandmothers burns down and they lose all of their possessions.  They save up their change in a jar to buy a comfortable chair for the hard-working mother.
Age/Audience: Kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: math, saving/economics, non-traditional families

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: Owen takes his yellow blanket everywhere.  Owen is about to go to school for the first time and his parents don't want him to take his blanket with him.
Age/Audience: K-2
Possible Teaching Points: comparing two similar stories and/or authors (with Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes).

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: Olive, a dog, goes on a journey to deliver a heart
Age/Audience: K-3
Possible Teaching Points: Valentine's Day, comparing texts by the same author (multiple books about Olive by Vivian Walsh), writing in sequential order.

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review:  A boy catches a whole jar of fireflies.  He is so proud of his bright jar until it starts to dim and then realizes he need to set them free.
Age/Audience: kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: inferencing, making predictions

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: A twist on Goldie Locks and the Three Bears.  The three bears are auditioning singers for their band, looking for the one that is 'just right'.
Age/Audience: Kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: Fairy tales, comparing similar stories.

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: A story of an native American girl that gives up most valued possession as a sacrifice for rain.  The tale tells of why the bluebonnet flowers grow in Texas
Age/Audience: second grade +
Possible Teaching Points: Folk tales, comparing two stories from the same author (Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola).

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: CJ and his Grandmother ride a city bus to a soup kitchen every Sunday.  CJ questions things on the trip but his grandmother assures him that they have everything they need and to look for the good things.
Age/Audience: kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: non-traditional families/situations

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: Wesley decides to start his own civilization over summer vacation.  He plants a magical flower that provides everything they need in his new community.
Age/Audience: Kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: Indian Civilizations, making predictions

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: Stink Moody, brother of Judy, is full of adventures.  In this installment, he is waiting to spot the Sherman Holm Comet.
Age/Audience: 1-4 grade
Possible Teaching Points: fluency

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Genre: Fiction Picture Book

Review: Rumors swirl about Mr. Peabody stealing apples from the local grocery store.  Mr. Peabody sets the gossipers straight by telling them the whole story.
Age/Audience: 3-5th grade
Possible Teaching Points: dangers of gossip

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: A detailed account of Rosa Parks' famous bus ride
Age/Audience: 2nd grade
Possible Teaching Points: Rosa Parks, Civil rights

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: Informational text on the life cycle of a bear
Age/Audience: kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: text features, mammals, life cylces

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: Informational book on how to read and make pictographs
Age/Audience: kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: pictographs, text features

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: A beautiful story about how Emma Lazarus wrote the famous poem that is at the base of the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses....".
Age/Audience: 3rd grade+
Possible Teaching Points: American symbols, poetry

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: A low level book explaining details of the spring season.
Age/Audience: kindergarten-1st grade
Possible Teaching Points: Seasons, text features

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: A detailed account of the failures and successes of Orville and Wilbur Wrights as they attempt to build the first ever flying aircraft.
Age/Audience: 3-5 grades
Possible Teaching Points: text features, the first airplane flight

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: A true story of 12 brothers that formed their own semi-professional baseball team.
Age/Audience: kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: telling events in chronological order

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: Lots of facts about the American Flag.
Age/Audience: kindergarten+
Possible Teaching Points: American symbols, text features

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: Detailed information about the U.S. House of Representatives.
Age/Audience: 3rd grade+
Possible Teaching Points: government, text features

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: The story of Kate Sessions as she turned San Diego (a desert town) into a lush, green city.  Sessions planned and planted thousands of trees and gardens more than one hundred years ago that still stand today.
Age/Audience: 2nd grade+
Possible Teaching Points: biographies, Earth Day

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: Monique's mother harbors a Jewish family during the Holocaust.  They have a daughter that is the same age as Monique.  When a neighbor sees that this is happening, they must move them to a safer place.
Age/Audience: 5th grade+
Possible Teaching Points: Holocaust

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Bored Bella Learns About Fiction & Non-Fiction

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Bored Bella Learns About Fiction & Non-Fiction

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: A fun story about learning the differences between fiction and non-fiction books.
Age/Audience: first grade+
Possible Teaching Points: fact/fiction, text features

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: A fun tale about the many hats Ben Franklin wore.  He have countless achievements and discoveries!
Age/Audience: 3rd grade+
Possible Teaching Points: biographies, colonial times

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: The story of how Anne Carroll Moore opened the first libraries for children in New York City.
Age/Audience: second grade+
Possible Teaching Points: library skills, biographies

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Genre: Non-Fiction Picture Book

Review: Detailed information about the U.S. Senate.
Age/Audience: 3rd grade+
Possible Teaching Points: text features, government

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Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine

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Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine

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Genre: Early Chapter Book

Review: Junie receives a valentine from an admirer in her class.  She must now solve the mystery of who it is
Age/Audience: 2-5 grades
Possible Teaching Points: grammar, making predictions

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The Tales from Maple Ridge: Logan Pryce Makes a Mess

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The Tales from Maple Ridge: Logan Pryce Makes a Mess

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Genre: Early Chapter Book

Review: Young Logan goes to work at the local grocery store when his father loses his job.
Age/Audience: 1st-5-grade
Possible Teaching Points: little people can do big things

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Ready Freddy: The One Hundredth Day of School

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Ready Freddy: The One Hundredth Day of School

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Genre: Early Chapter Book

Review: Freddy needs to bring exactly 100 of something for show and tell.  He is struggling to find just the right thing.
Age/Audience: 1st - 4th grades
Possible Teaching Points: 100 hundredth day, addition

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Genre: Early Chapter Book

Review: Over a long weekend, Henry and his dog, Mudge, build a castle out of a giant box.
Age/Audience: kindergarten-2nd grade.
Possible Teaching Points: text features, telling a story in chronological order

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Genre: Early Chapter Book

Review: Mercy the pig lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson.  When the Watson's bed falls through the floor, Mercy springs to action to save the day.
Age/Audience: 2nd-5th grade
Possible Teaching Points:  making predictions, inferring

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Genre: Graphic Novel

Review: The everyday adventures of middle schooler Nate Wright.
Age/Audience: 4th grade+
Possible Teaching Points: text features, inferring

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Genre: Graphic Novel

Review: The story of a deaf girl as she navigates through childhood and learns to live with her disability.
Age/Audience: 5th grade+
Possible Teaching Points: inferring, text features

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The Babysitter's Club: The Truth About Stacey

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The Babysitter's Club: The Truth About Stacey

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Genre: Graphic Novel

Review:
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Genre: Graphic Novel

Review: Catrina and her family move away from the city in hopes of helping her sister who has cystic fibrosis. They new town they live in has been rumored to have ghosts.
Age/Audience: 4th grade+
Possible Teaching Points: inferring, text features, folk tales

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Genre: Graphic Novel

Review:  The one child per family rule in China makes for young children alone with the parents are at work.  This story is imaginary and told by young boy.   There are no words to the story.
Age/Audience: 3rd grade+
Possible Teaching Points: inferencing, listening skills

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Genre: Chapter Book

Review: A story about a girl names Flora and a squirrel named Ulysses that has super hero powers. Flora works to get down the bottom of where the super powers came from.
Age/Audience: 4th grade+
Possible Teaching Points: fluency

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Genre: Chapter Book

Review: Ally has dyslexia.  She hides it as well as she can but knows that peers know there is something different about her.  A great book to help understand what a student with a disability deals with regularly.
Age/Audience: 5th grade+
Possible Teaching Points: fluency

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Dory Fantasmagory: Dory Dory Black Sheep

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Dory Fantasmagory: Dory Dory Black Sheep

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Genre: Chapter Book

Review: Reading is tough for Dory but not for her friend, Rosabelle. Dory's archnemesis/imaginary friend shows up to get to the bottom of the problem.
Age/Audience: 1st-3rd grade
Possible Teaching Points: fluency

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Genre: Chapter Book

Review: As part of a series, this book is about a robot revolt.  Sammy and her sister Maddy worked together to keep the peace.
Age/Audience: 5th grade+
Possible Teaching Points: fluency

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Genre: Chapter Book

Review: Kate loves the home she lives in but her family finds themselves in the position of having to put it up for sale.  To keep it from selling, Kate sabotages the realtor and anyone who looks at the house.
Age/Audience: 5th grade
Possible Teaching Points: fluency

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Genre: Chapter Book

Review:  A book of poems written by the same student as he learns to write poetry in school.
Age/Audience:  5th grade
Possible Teaching Points: poetry

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Genre: Chapter Book

Review: Follow first grader Billy Miller through his school year.
Age/Audience: first grade-5th grade
Possible Teaching Points: fluency, comparing pieces by the same author (Kevin Henkes)

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Genre: Chapter Book

Review: Entirely written in poems, The Crossover tells the story about 2 brothers who play basketball for their school team.
Age/Audience: 4th grade +
Possible Teaching Points: poetry

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Genre: Chapter Book

Review: A story book within the Harry Potter series.  It includes five separate stories.
Age/Audience: 5th grade+
Possible Teaching Points: compare 2 texts by the same author (J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series).

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Genre: Chapter Book

Review: Ivan, a gorilla, and other animals live in a sub-par petting zoo. Ivan makes a promise to a dying friend to get the new baby elephant out and to a better place.  (Written in short, one line thoughts much like we would imagine an ape to think.)
Age/Audience: 4th grade+
Possible Teaching Points: text features