I loved this books. I believe it is the first in a series and I feel that it would really attract girls that are growing older and creating great relaI loved this books. I believe it is the first in a series and I feel that it would really attract girls that are growing older and creating great relationships. The main character Amber Brown is about to experience a great change. Her best friend Justin is moving but will she be able to survive without him or will his moving create strife in their relationship.
This book is just great for any girl. Especially girls that a growing up....more
Jack and Annie are to curious about the tree house. They have to return and find out more about the magic world they were teleported to. When the treeJack and Annie are to curious about the tree house. They have to return and find out more about the magic world they were teleported to. When the treehouse sends them back in time they stumble upon an ancient castle. They find a secret passage into the castle and realize that some of the people in the castle don’t want them there. But will jack and Annie get back to the tree house safely?
This is a great book for any child. If you can get a child into the magic tree house series then they won’t stop. The books continuity brings kids coming back to the literature.
Junie Bs parents are having a baby. The surprise was not something that she was looking foreword to! The babies new clothes and new room are so differJunie Bs parents are having a baby. The surprise was not something that she was looking foreword to! The babies new clothes and new room are so different for junie B. Junie B ends up getting in trouble with some confusion about her little brother being a monkey.
I would use this for students who are getting ready to have a new sibling. That’s a hard time for a lot of students an can cause lots of problems at school (which this books shows) so it’s good for them to be able to connect. ...more
This book is absolutely flawless. The poetic words and the brilliant illustrations really give a reader a love for the flag and for America. The book This book is absolutely flawless. The poetic words and the brilliant illustrations really give a reader a love for the flag and for America. The book makes reference to American history and American landmarks. This book is great to read to remember how America got to were it is today and how free of a country we are.
I would use this book in a unit about America and maybe use it as a way to talk about the civil war and what America was intended to stand for and how it got us to where we are today....more
This is a very intricate book that is full of fun facts about the white house. With the book being a pop-up almost all the pages are interactive and gThis is a very intricate book that is full of fun facts about the white house. With the book being a pop-up almost all the pages are interactive and go along with the information that the book gives helping students have a greater chance of remembering things.
I would use this book in a unit on presidential candidates. I would talk about how many presidents have lived in the white house and how they all make little changes to it....more
This book is about a child named Ruthie who has this thing call a snurtch that bothers her and her classmates. It makes pencils fly aI love this book!
This book is about a child named Ruthie who has this thing call a snurtch that bothers her and her classmates. It makes pencils fly across the room and it scribbles all over a classmates paper. It sits in Ruthie's seat and it makes her burp and laugh loudly. Everyone in the class has a snurtch but no one knows how to control it.
I love this book because I feel like it sheds light on whats going on in some students heads. They know whats right and wrong but sometimes they just can't resist from doing wrong. I also feel like this could connect to all students, students with behavior disorders, students with bad home lives and people with social or personality disorders.
This book had a unique way of telling the classic snow white story. The story was told in a graphic novel context and It was placed in an urban area tThis book had a unique way of telling the classic snow white story. The story was told in a graphic novel context and It was placed in an urban area that was modern day. There is still the 7 "dwarfs" who are just children and the evil stepmother still tries to kill snow by hiring someone and by giving her a poison apple. Snow is awoken by the cities magic and not by a kiss.
I would like to use this to reach some of my more artistic students, showing them how they don't have to use their words to tell a story. I would also use this book with other snow white stories to show kids perspective taking and how people interpret things differently than other people....more
Lily is a little girl at the time of WW2. Lily does everything she can to help including starting a victory garden, the problem is Lily is just a littLily is a little girl at the time of WW2. Lily does everything she can to help including starting a victory garden, the problem is Lily is just a little girl and the local gardening club won't let Lily have her own lot so she decided to ask a neighbor. The neighbors have lost their child in war and since then the mom has grown sick. The neighbor gives the little girl a plot of land to plant the garden but gives very specific rules. When the neighbor and her parents are at work lily goes to her garden. eventually, the neighbor wife who was sick is now getting better and helping Lily with the garden.
I would use this book to empower my students. Showing them that they can do anything if they have enough faith in themselves. This is also a good book to talk about WW2...more
This book is about an African American girl who has an amazing voice. She grows up singing and ends up singing to people all over the world. While herThis book is about an African American girl who has an amazing voice. She grows up singing and ends up singing to people all over the world. While her amazing voice has won over people globally she still faces racism back at home in America. There are still places that won't let her sing in their auditoriums because of the color of her skin.
I would use this book in a unit on slavery or talking about racism.
This is a very powerful wordless picture book. There is a girl who realizes that there is an escaped slave who is living in their families barn, but iThis is a very powerful wordless picture book. There is a girl who realizes that there is an escaped slave who is living in their families barn, but instead of turning the slave in she instead takes leftovers out and gives it to the slave. She continues to do this throughout the book until the slave leaves and leaves the girl with a gift, a corn husk doll.
This would be a great book to be used when teaching about the underground railroad and about slavery. It would also be a good book to show kids examples of kindness and taking care of other people.
I thought this was a gorgeous book that was well informative of gravity in a simple way. This book explains gravity the simplest but best way possibleI thought this was a gorgeous book that was well informative of gravity in a simple way. This book explains gravity the simplest but best way possible. The illustrations very much help tell the story of how and why gravity works.
This would be a great book to have in a space unit! I would read this aloud to intro a unit about space....more
Junie B is a sassy kindergarten girl who is just starting school. On the First day of kindergarten, Junie B has to ride the bus to and from school. HeJunie B is a sassy kindergarten girl who is just starting school. On the First day of kindergarten, Junie B has to ride the bus to and from school. He mom makes her get on in the morning and Junie B has an "awful" experience all the way to school. Once she gets to school she ends up loving it, but at the end of the day, she remembers she has to ride the bus. Will the Sassy Junie B ride the bus home with her new friends?
This is very much an easy to read the book. One thing that I love about it the simplicity of all the words and how well they explain new things. I would read this to my students as an example in order for them to write their own stories. I feel like this is a realistic book in the sense that my students could write about an experience where they didn't like something or didn't want to do something....more
Ghosts is about a family who moves to the Coast of California so the main character Cats sister whose name is Maya can have easy access to her treatmeGhosts is about a family who moves to the Coast of California so the main character Cats sister whose name is Maya can have easy access to her treatments for cystic fibrosis. While Cat is having trouble adjusting to the move Maya continues to get sicker. Ever since moving to the town Cat has been terrified with all the talk of the ghost and the town. Cat and Maya both end us seeing the ghost and get to interact with them. At the end of the book, we see a total transition in the view of ghost that Cat has and the view of the afterlife that Maya has as she gets sicker and sicker.
I think this book is a really good connection book. One way it could connect with students is through the Hispanic heritage and culture it takes place in. There is a good amount of Spanish in the book that gives an interesting aspect to a connection. It would also be a good connection for someone who has a chronic illness or whose family member has a chronic illness like Maya does in the book....more
This book was my first graphic novel and I very much enjoyed it. Although it had 200 pages it didn't take me very long to read. I felt like the story This book was my first graphic novel and I very much enjoyed it. Although it had 200 pages it didn't take me very long to read. I felt like the story was one that students really needed to hear. The story covers a girl a girl in elementary navigating through friend groups, social anxiety, and school bullies. This book could be very helpful for any student who has trouble fitting in. One thing that I loved about this book was how it also talked about her home life and also it shows her praying to God about things.
I would love to have this book in my life to help struggling readers and for students that have a hard time fitting in socially. I also think that this book would give students the ability to power through hard friendships....more
The Book was amazing and I'm so glad that I read it. The short chapters and the changing of character really kept the story moving. This is a book thaThe Book was amazing and I'm so glad that I read it. The short chapters and the changing of character really kept the story moving. This is a book that I would highly suggest to my students and I feel that the series would be a good escape for a lot of students. The one problem that I had with the first book is the language. The whole book was clean of bad words until the final chapters and I've heard that the bad words pick up in the 2nd and 3rd books.
I think that I could possibly use this book to talk about either war or different cultures and poverty levels. I feel that this book does a great job of displaying the war zone and how biased that war reporting can be. I also feel that this book shows the drastic difference between rich and poor and how they connect with June and Day, and how the people from different financial backgrounds can still be friends.
I would probably only have this in a classroom of 5th grade or higher....more
This story is very fun. It starts out with 2 different kinds of Sneetches. The Star-bellied Sneetches and the plain belly Sneetches. All the plain belThis story is very fun. It starts out with 2 different kinds of Sneetches. The Star-bellied Sneetches and the plain belly Sneetches. All the plain belly Sneetches want is to have to stars upon their belly so that they can be as cool as the other Sneetches. A man comes into town and creates a star on machine. Once they all look the same the same man creates a machine to take off the stars. Eventually, all the Sneetches run through the machine until they have no money. The man leaves the Sneetches on the beach and says they never will learn their lesson about caring about appearances, but did they?
I would use this to teach a lesson about popularity and about students looking different than each other. It is normal for kids to love everyone but sometimes they learn to discriminate against other people. I feel like this is a good book to bring kids back to that innocence. ...more
This book is all about getting Marvin K. Mooney to leave. It talks about how many ways there are to leave and gives him a lot of different ways to getThis book is all about getting Marvin K. Mooney to leave. It talks about how many ways there are to leave and gives him a lot of different ways to get out of there. This would be a good book to encourage kids creativity. It would be fun to have this as an assignment where you have the kids create ways for Marvin K Mooney to go....more
The story is about a woman who swallows a lot of random objects hoping that they will keep her warm from the snow. She swallows a lot of random thingsThe story is about a woman who swallows a lot of random objects hoping that they will keep her warm from the snow. She swallows a lot of random things but can she keep it all down or will she hiccup and It all come back?
I would use this in a winter unit as a fun book about snow and winter. I could talk about the history of a snowman. This is also a good example of a fiction book that I think would help kids understand the difference between fiction and nonfiction....more
This is a very simple book about everything that the cat did throughout the week. This is a book for beginning readers but it could be a good book to This is a very simple book about everything that the cat did throughout the week. This is a book for beginning readers but it could be a good book to use to encourage beginning writers. I would use this book as an example of what I want the kids to write about. I could use this as an example of a journal that I want my students to write. I could do this as a spring break journal. I could also partner this book with flat Stanly as we talk about all the ways we want students to document what flat Stanly does....more
Ferdinand is about a sweet bull who just wants to sit around and smell the flowers. All the other bulls Ferdinand's age want to ram heads and fight buFerdinand is about a sweet bull who just wants to sit around and smell the flowers. All the other bulls Ferdinand's age want to ram heads and fight but not Ferdinand. One day people from Madrid came to pick out a bull to fight, and on the very same day, Ferdinand happened to sit on a bee. After being stung by the bee Ferdinand ran wild. He was then picked for the bullfight. He was taken to Madrid, but would sweet Ferdinand fight the humans?
I would use this book to teach about culture. I could talk about Madrid and Spain with this book and it would be very beneficial to give my students this cultural expansive perspective. ...more
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