Author-Nicola Davies

Illustrator- Salvatore Rubbino

27 pages

Summary: Children's picture book consisting all thing ducks. Entertaining way to inform your students facts about their lifestyles. In this book you learn about how they eat, sleep, have eggs, swim, details of their feathers, and many more included facts

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Uses in the classroom: animal unit, learning about ducks

Author: Sherry Garland

Illustrator: Tatsuro Kiuchi

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This book is about Vietnamese culture including war, refugees, lotus seeds, and memories. This book is about a woman who saw the emperor cry, so she went and got a lotus seed from his garden that she would hold on forever for good luck. Years go by and the family moves to another country where her grandson soon looses the seed somewhere in the yard, which later grows into a beautiful lotus plant and the grandma is able to give each of her grandkids their own seed.

Uses in the Classroom: culture, beliefs, war, family, love

Author- Alison McGhee

Illustrator- Peter H. Reynolds

Summary- This book is about a mom and child and how the mother thinks about someday and all the wishes she has for her child. This book has themes of a mother love for her child, family, caring, and looking into the future.

Uses in the Classroom: timeline of life, predicting, retelling, Writing sentences (today...someday...one day...) family, family tree, growing up, mothers, baby to child

Author: Barbra Jean Hicks

Illustrator: Alexis Deacon

Summary: A young monster is afraid to go to sleep at night because of the boy he finds under his bed. The boy lurking under his bed is strange, with pink skin and orange fur on his head where his horns should be. This book is about addressing fear with young children. Once the monster sits down and talks with the weird-looking bov he finds out his name and what he likes to do and discovers that they both share some interests. The monster concludes that the boy is not so weird after all.

Uses in the classroom: the roots of prejudice, fears instilled in children

Author: Stacy McAnulty

illustrator: Stevie Lewis

17 pages

Summary-In this book, the sun is the narrator and talks about his role in space. The sun talks about who he is and what role he plays in our solar system. The sun talks about its characteristics and why he is there.

uses in the classroom: space, solar system, moon, stars, patterns

Author- Rachel Ignotofsky

Illustrator-Rachel Ignotofsky

Summary: This book is a picture book about the Earth and it’s ecosystems. This book dives into cycles of nature, ecology, and what we can do to help protect our Earth. This books talks about inhabitants of our ecyosystems and why we are all so important to Earth. This is a great book about nature, our planet, and ecosystems.

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Uses In The Classroom- Ecosystems, biodiversity, ecology, Earth, nature

Author- Candace Fleming

Illustrator- Eric Rohmann

40 pages

Summary: This book is about the lifecycle of the bee Apis. It follows her duties as a bee. It explores the different jobs she has as she takes on a new phase of life. This book talks about how honey is made and what the queen bee does.

Awards:
An Orbis Pictus Honor Book, Robert F. Sibert Medal Winner

Uses in the classroom: Bees, honey, nature, Summarize significant ideas and relevant information, Distinguish between fact and opinion, Draw conclusions, Recognize the author’s purpose and point of view

Author-Patricia C. McKissack

Illustrator- Jerry Pickney

40 pages

Summary: This book is about an African American family living in the time of segregation. The main character is a little girl named Tricia Anne, who does not understand why she can not go someplace, or sit in the same seats as others. She is looking for someplace special, that everyone is allowed to go, and at the end of the book, the readers discover that someplace special is the library.

Awards: Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Medal–winning

Uses in the Classroom: culture, history, African Americans

Author: Aliki

Illustrator: Aliki

32 pages

Summary: This book tells readers about dinosaurs and how they use to populate the heart millions of years ago. It talks about how they had gone extinct, and no one knew they existed for thousands of years. The book jumps to present-day archeologists digging up the fragile bones and taking them back to a museum to put them together.

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Uses in the Classroom: Fossils, precivilization, charts, graphs

Author: Lynda DeWitt

Illustrator: Carolyn Croll

32 pages

Summary: This book is about observable weather patterns. Rain, snow, sunshine, clouds, etc. This book uses diagrams and colorful charts to explain the weather and meteorology in a fun way. This book also provides clear explanations of everyday weather instruments like thermometers and barometers. In this book, the boy and the girl are looking at the weather to decided what they must wear everyday, shorts or jeans, shirt or jacket?

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Uses in the Classroom: Weather patterns, rain, meteorologist, weather recording instruments

Author: Patricia Polloco

Illustrator: Patricia Polloco

32 pages

Summary of Text: This book is about a little girl and a little boy who were invited to a neighbor’s family by a solemn backyard ceremony. The boy and the girl wanted to go buy a hat for the grandmother. Later in the book, they realize the right way to work together to buy the hat that their grandma had been keeping her eye on. This is a story about family and traditions from the authors childhood.

Uses in the Classroom: Russian and African American stories, multigenerational families, easter

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Author: David Catrow

Illustrator: David Catrow

32 pages

Summary: This story is about three kids and their dog as they are getting ready to go on a camping trip. This story is about the Constitution and the preamble. This book describes the historical document that states "We the People of the United States", forming a more perfect union, promoting general warfare, and securing the blessing of liberty. This story is a great introduction to our country's history, the constitution, and important things that happened to make us where we are today. At the end of the book, the kids lie down and go to sleep.

Uses in the classroom: Constitution, Preamble, History of USA, war

Awards: NY Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year

Author: Roger McGough

Illustrator: Holly Swain

32 pages

Summary: This book is about a little girl who is on her way to present her new invention at a national museum. She realizes that things that she uses in her everyday life were once a new invention. With this, she started thinking about what all it took to lead up to that invention, the trial and error, and the idea for and progressions of each invention.

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Uses In The Classroom: Wants and Needs, change, geography, values

Author: Roda Ahmed

Illustrator: Stasia Burrington

40 pages

Summary: This book is about a young girl who wants to go to space, it's her biggest dream. Throughout her childhood, she spent a lot of time looking up in the sky at night to see the stars. She dreams about being an astronaut and can see herself floating among the stars. In this book, Mae becomes the first African-American woman to go to space. She proves that if you can dream about anything, it can be done.

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Uses in the Classroom: space, inspirational goals, never give up, NASA, African-American history

Author: Gene Baretta

Illustrator: Frank Morrison

40 pages

Summary: This book is about a little boy, George Washington Carver, who had a secret garden of his own in the forest. At his garden, he spent a lot of time with the plants that he was caring for. He spent the winter protecting them from the cold, studies their soil, trimmed flowers, studied life cycles. Throughout this book, George shows his love for nature, and turns his passion into a career.

Awards: Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2023

Uses in the Classroom: life cycles, gardens, soil, plants, ecosystems

Author: Jacqueline Davies

Illustrator: Melissa Sweet

32 pages

Summary: This book is about a little boy who loves to draw. Not only did he love to draw, he loved to draw birds. The little boy would go outside to study birds and look at the way they fly, they move, they sit, they talk to each other, and other characteristics. He loved to draw birds. In the fall of 1804, he was determined to find out of the birds that were nesting near his house in Pennsylvania would really return after their migration in the spring. This book lays the foundation for all that we know about migrating birds today.

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Uses in the Classroom: Science, Migrating birds, birds, migration, observation

Author: Dean Robbins

Illustrator: Lucy Knisley

40 pages

Summary: Margaret Hamilton loves math, and loves solving problems. She knew all kinds of facts, like how many miles it was to space and how many back. She loved to use math to solve real world problems. Soon, this math lead her to working for NASA and MIT and she helped put a man on the moon. She coded computers, Apollo and software to solve any issues that might arise. Apollo 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 10, and Apollo 11 have all been successful space missions, and without her code, none of them would have been possible.

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Uses in the Classroom: space, missions, math in science, dreams, spacecraft, moon, process it took to put a man on the moon, women in science, lunar landings

Author: Margot Lee Shutterly

Illustrator: Laura Freeman

40 pages

Summary: This book is about four African American women who worked at NASA. They were limited in their careers and could do very little with no say. During this time, African American women were very limited in what they could do, but this did not stop the women. They go on to participate in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. These women made history at NASA.

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Use in the Classroom: NASA, African American history, space, America's first journey to space

Author: Stephanie Roth Sisson

Illustrator: Stephanie Roth Sisson

42 pages

Summary: this book is about a little boy named Carl Sagan who's life was changed forever when he went to the 1939 World's Fair. From that day forward, he never stopped thinking about the universe and what lies up there. He was determined to understand it better. This book follows Carl from his days star gazing from the bedroom window of his Brooklyn apartment, through his love of speculative science fiction novels, to his work as an internationally renowned scientist who worked on the Voyager missions exploring the farthest reaches of space.

Uses in the Classroom: space and science, scientist, stars

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Author: Kim Tomsic

Illustrator: Bret Helquist

56 pages

Summary: This book is about how Les Paul created the world's first solid-body electric guitar and several other inventions that changed modern music forever and highlights his epic rock and roll career. This inspiring true story of rock and roll legend Les Paul teaches lessons of perseverance, overcoming obstacles, and following your dreams. This book also proves that not all scientists have to work in a lab conducting experiments with test tubes.

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Uses in the Classroom: inventions, music, untypical scientists

Author: Ashley Spires

Illustrator: Ashley Spires

32 pages

Summary: This book is about a little girl who gets an idea. She wants to build something, and she knows exactly what it is. She has this big plan in her head about how she wants it to look, how she is going to make it, how it is going to work, and what she is going to use it for. She gathers all this information, and begins building and inventing. She soon realized that making her magnificent thing was much much harder than she anticipated. She tries and fails and tries and fails, and gets so mad that she quits. Her dog convinces her to take him on a walk, and once she gets back to her project with a new clear mindset, she is able to finish her invention just the way she wanted it.

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Uses in the classroom: Inventions, trial and error, experiments

Author: Janna Cole

Illustrator: Bruce Degen

40 pages

Summary: The Magic School Bus is a series about a teacher who takes her students on field trips on the bus. The bus seems to turn into different vehicles and things that get them from place to place. In this book, Ms. Fizzle is taking her students to the planetarium museum, just to get there and find out they had closed it for the day. The students were sad, but Ms. Fizzle saved the day. She turns the school bus into a spaceship and takes her students to space to see all the different planets, stars, moons, and objects in the sky.

Uses in the Classroom: Solar System, space, planets, stars

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Author: Janna Cole

Ilustrator: Bruce Degen

48 pages

Summary: The Magic School Bus is a series about a teacher who takes her students on field trips on the bus. The bus seems to turn into different vehicles and things that get them from place to place. In this book, Ms. Fizzle thinks that her students deserve a more authentic experience while learning about dinosaurs. The magic school bus turns into a time machine and takes the class back millions of years to prehistoric days. the students learns all about dinosaurs on their adventure, including what they eat, different species, their habits, and how they survive.

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Uses in the classroom: Pre-civilization, dinosaurs, fossils

Author: Kelly DiPucchio

Illustrator: LeUyen Pham

40 pages

Summary: In this book, Grace's class is learning about presidents and elections and politics. Grace is reading about it and realizes that there has never been a female president in the United States. When her classroom has a mock election, Grace decided to run for president. This be tougher than she thought, she was determined to beat her opponent, who had all the votes from the boys. Grace decided that even if she can't be the best man for the job, she can still be the best person she can be.

Uses in the classroom: elections, presidents, leaders, American electoral system, hard work, courage, independent thought

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Author: Kelly DiPucchio

Illustrator: LeUyen Pham

40 pages

Summary: In this sequel to Grace for President, Grace is learning about the three branches of the United States government. Grace, president, with the rest of her student council has a meeting trying to decide how to spend their money from the school fundraiser. The class goes to D.C. for a field trip, and Grace feels like she is closer to being president than ever. Grace feels that her classroom needs to learn more about what it means to be a leader and serve the needs of the people, especially when they all want different things.

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Author: Sean Rubin

Illustrator: Sean Rubin

48 pages

Summary: This book is about 9/11. The book introduces a tree that was planted in NYC in 1970, and how over the years it provided shade to many and a safe home for birds. On 9/11, the tree and its home was destroyed, and buried underneath rubble. A month goes by, and someone discovers that the tree had actually survived. The tree was relocated for its recovery. Almost a decade later, the tree was transferred back to it's home and was planted in the 9/11 memorial.

Uses in the classroom: 9/11, regrowth

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Author: Jeff Gottesfeld

Illustrator: Matt Tavares

32 pages

Summary: This book is about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The sentinel guards look over the tomb and with every step and turn are honoring and remembering America's fallen. The tomb is always protected and makes sure that the soldiers are never alone. "To stand there—with absolute precision, in every type of weather, at every moment of the day, one in a line uninterrupted since midnight July 2, 1937—is the ultimate privilege and the most difficult post to earn in the army." This book tells the story of how the unknown soldier's tomb came to be and why and how their fellow soldiers have come to keep vigil over them.

Uses in the classroom: Veterans Day, War

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Author: Mike Allegra

Illustrator: David Gardner

32 pages

Summary: This book is a non-fiction picture book that tells about how Thanksgiving became to be a holiday. Sarah Hale is the woman who organized the movement to make Thanksgiving a national holiday in the United States. When Sarah's husband died, she decided to become an author to support her family. She was an editor of a magazine, wrote letters, and worked hard to make Thanksgiving a holiday. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday, and all of Sarah's hard work paid off.

Uses in the classroom: Thanksgiving Day

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Author: Doreen Rappaport

Illustrator: Bryan Collier

40 pages

Summary: This book is a biography of Martin Luther King Jr. and all of his speeches. This book tells about how he was so influential and really touched people. This book uses quotes from his most famous speech through the book and tells the story of his life in a simple way.

Uses in the Classroom: Martian Luther King Jr.

Awards: Caldecott Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor, and New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book picture book

Author: Deborah Underwood

Illustrator: Cindy Derby

40 pages

Summary: This book is about the world we live in, and how if we are technically outside, we are still inside our planet. This story reads as a poem about nature calling us outside. This book communicates the way that nature affects our lives, and how we would be unable to notice it if we spent all of our time indoors.

Awards: 2021 Caldecott Honor Book

Uses in the Classroom: Earth Day, nature