Genre: Non Fiction, Juvenile Literature
Age/Audience: Middle Graders
Review: Readers will learn how large teams of specialized workers come together to design, plan, and program today's cutting edge video games.
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature
Age/Audience: Middle Graders
Review: This book profiles some of the deadliest locations on Earth, describing the conditions that make each place so dangerous.
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature
Age/Audience: Middle Graders
Review: This book is about French sculptor Auguste Rodin who is known for creating several iconic works, including "The Age of Bronze," "The Thinker," "The Kiss" and "The Burghers of Calais."
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary and increase background knowledge. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, History
Age/Audience: Elementary-Middle Graders
Review: This book is filled with pictures, facts, and new vocabulary that describes the life and time of Pocahontas and the First Colonies
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary, increase background knowledge, and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, History
Age/Audience: Elementary-Middle Graders
Review: This book is filled with pictures, facts, and new vocabulary that describes the life and time of the first Americans.
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary, increase background knowledge, and improve comprehension. 

Genre: Narrative NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, History
Age/Audience: Grades 2nd-5th
Review: You just tried out for the school play. Who wants the lead part more than anyone? YOU! Imagine riding in horse-drawn carriages. Dining with the finest silverware. Wearing fancy clothes and powdered wigs. But be careful what you wish for. That might not be the way it was for a settler in Colonial America .
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary, increase background knowledge, and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, History
Age/Audience: Grade 2nd-5th
Review: This book describes what people wore in the days of the Civil War, discussing Union and Confederate uniforms, women and children's clothes, and slave's clothes.

Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary, increase background knowledge, and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, History
Age/Audience: Grade 2nd-5th
Review: This book describes what people wore in the days of the Civil War, discussing Union and Confederate uniforms, women and children's clothes, and slave's clothes.

Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary, increase background knowledge, and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, History
Age/Audience: Grade 2nd-5th
Review: There are places around the world that seem to be under a dark spell. Mysterious events happen on these grounds, and many visitors report experiencing paranormal activity. Among the 11 cursed places in this book, children will discover a city in ruins that people are afraid to enter to this day; a rocky creek that may be inhabited by a dead woman's spirit; and the frozen grave of a man who lived more than 5,000 years ago.
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary, increase background knowledge, and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, History, Biography
Age/Audience: Grade 2nd-5th
Review: An iconic figure of the abolitionist and women's rights movements, Sojourner Truth famously spoke out for equal rights roughly 100 years before the civil rights movement. Her remarkable true life story is here told by acclaimed author Ann Turner and award-winning illustrator James Ransome. Written in the fiery and eloquent voice of Sojourner Truth herself, this moving story will captivate readers just as Sojourner's passionate words enthralled her listeners.
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary, increase background knowledge, and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, History, Biography
Age/Audience: Grade 2nd-5th
Review: This poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human's capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom's heart. 

Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary, increase background knowledge, and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, Nutrition
Age/Audience: 3-5 years/preschool-kindergarten
Review: Food critic Joshua David Stein whets the appetite of young readers with a wondrous and informative approach to talking about food. This humorous, stylized and entirely unexpected set of food facts will engage both good eaters and resisters alike. With questions both practical (-Can you eat a sea urchin?-) and playful (-Do eggs grow on eggplants?-), this read-aloud text offers young children facts to share and the subtle encouragement to taste something new food. 

Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary, increase background knowledge, and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, Recycling, Green Living
Age/Audience: 4-8 years/Preschool-3rd grade
Review: Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on a landfill. She dreamed of playing the violin, but with little money for anything but the bare essentials, it was never an option...until a music teacher named Favio Chávez arrived.

Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary, increase background knowledge, and improve comprehension and for character development.

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature, Science
Age/Audience: 5-8 years/Kindergarten-3rd grade
Review: Pinkalicious meets National Geographic in this nonfiction picture book introducing the weirdest, wildest, pinkest critters in the animal kingdom!


Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary and improve comprehension. 

Genre: NonFiction, Juvenile Literature
Age/Audience: 4-8 years Preschool-3rd grade
Review:Somewhere in Brooklyn, a little boy dreams of being a famous artist, not knowing that one day he would make himself a king. 
Jean-Michael Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. 
Possible Teaching Points: I would use this book to help students expand their vocabulary and increase background knowledge.