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If Not For The Cat by Jack Prelutsky is a great poetry RA that would be great for any classroom library. There are seventeen haikus in this picture book. The illustrations in this book are so amazing. I encourage you to read this book and look at the beautiful pictures in it. On these amazing and colorful pictures you will meet a mouse, a skunk, a beaver, a hummingbird, ants, bald eagles, jellyfish, and many other. This book inspires

The Beautiful Lost by Luanne Rice is a RF novel. Teens and adults would love this book. I encourage you to read this book if you haven‘t. The Beautiful Lost tells a story about Maia, a girl who struggles with depression who takes off on a road trip in search of her mother. She falls in love with this boy, Billy. Billy runs away with her to help find her mother. This is a really good book to read if you have ever struggled with depression before.

The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne is a great RD MF book for any classroom library. The King Who Rained is about a little girl who confused different meanings of words that sound alike, a little girl imagines such unusual sights as “a King Who Rained” and “the foot prince in the snow.” Her mother and father use clear homophones, but the young girl has no clue of such. The illustrations are done from her perspective, which are totally off of what

Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens is a MF Caldecott award winner RA picture book that would be great for your students to read in your classroom library. Clever Hare solves his problems by tricking bear. Hare and Bear get involved in a gardening business where Hare‘s tricks and hard work allow him to reap all the vegetables profits, while lazy bear sleeps through every planting season and doesn‘t make a profit. Students will learn the value of hard

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen is a great RA, 1988 Caldecott award winner that would be great for your classroom library. A little girl and her father go owling. The father calls for the owls but there is no answer. You don't need anything but hope. Sometimes there isn't an owl, but sometimes there is. It is a loving story about a special companionship of a young child and her father as well as humankind's close relationship to the natural world.

Hey, Al by Arthur Yorkins is a great TA and PR that is also a 1997 Caldecott winner that would be great for your classroom library. Al, a janitor and his faithful dog, Eddie, live in a single room on the West side. They do everything together. Their room is very crowded and cramped. Al and Eddie are practically at each other throats when a large bird offers them a new life in paradise. After they talk about the offer, they accept. They were

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn is a great modern fantasy RA book that is also a New York Times #1 Best Seller for a classroom library. School is starting in the forest, but Chester Raccoon does not want to go. To help ease Chester's fears, Mrs. Raccoon shares a family secret called the Kissing Hand to give him the reassurance of her love any time his world feels a little scary. This heartwarming book has touched millions of lives, especially

Miss Rumphuis by Barbara Clooney is a realistic fiction American book award winner that would be a great RA and S for your classroom library. Miss Rumphuis is the story about Alice Rumphius and her desire to do three things: live by the sea, go to far away places, and make the world a more beautiful place. This is a great story to share with students because it will encourage them to make the world a more beautiful place in their own way.

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin is a great modern fantasy RA notable children and Theodor Seuss Honor book for any classroom library. Pete the Cat kept loosing his buttons one after another. When one falls off, does Pete cry? No way, he keeps on singing his song "my buttons, my buttons, my four groovy buttons." Petes "it's all good" attitude and standard coolness provides some subtle humor as he loses his buttons in

Swimmy by Leo Lionni is a great MF RA, S, and SE Caldecott award winning book that would be an excellent selection for your classroom library. A little black fish is stuck in a school of red fish that have all been eaten by a large tuna. Swimmy, being the only black fish finds himself alone and frightened, but eventually he meets many new friends in the ocean. But then he learns their is also still danger, a big fish that eats other creatures.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems is a MF read aloud that would be great in your classroom library. The pigeon that is trying to drive the bus is doing everything in his power to convince readers to let him drive the bus even though he knows he's not allowed to. The issue with this book is persuasion. The students will think upon a time that he/she was trying to convince someone to do something. The student will most likely believe

I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Is a great nonfiction read aloud and author study book for students. I think it is important to have this book in your library because it is history of freedom and equality for all. On August 28th, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the march on Washington Martin Luther King gave one of the most powerful and memorable speeches in our nations history. "I Have a Dream" speech brings his

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss is a SF read aloud that you should consider having in your classroom library. The Lorax is a great children's story about environmental issues. The Lorax was sent to conserve the earths precious and infinite natural resources. In real life, we are at risk of loosing Brown Bar-ba-loots, Swomee-Swans, Humming-Fish, Truffula Trees, and the forests they all inhabit. The Lorax project inspires earth-friendly action worldwide.

The True Story of The Three Little Pigs by Job Scieszka is a TL read aloud for a perfect addition to your classroom library. The Story of The Three Little Pigs is great for students to read because it shows the truth to how there's always three sides to every story. The wolf is saying he got framed and had a cold. Well the Three Little Pigs didn't agree with that. Every individual's experience is influenced by his or her own thoughts and feelings.

A picture book of Helen Keller by David A. Adler is a great biography RA for a classroom library. This particular picture book is a great for children to read that may have a disability. Helen Keller shows children with disabilities that you can do everything others can do. She brought hope and love to so many disabled people. This book is also great for children that do not have disabilities because it shows them to be thankful for being able to

No, David! by David Shannon is a RF read aloud, Caldecott award winner. This book would be very useful in your classroom library. David is constantly doing what he isn't suppose to be doing. No, David teaches children to listen to listen to their elders and do what they are told. No means no. I'm sure a lot of children would be able to relate to this book.

Rainbow fish by Marcus Pfister is a MF read aloud, Christopher Award winning book that would be a great addition to your classroom library. The theme for this book is to be kind and share your most prized possessions. This fish had no friends because he would not share his beautiful shimmering scales that all the other fish wanted. By the end, he knew having friends was more important then having a prized possession.

(One Crazy Summer made me think of a crazy summer trip I once had!!)

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is a great HF novel that has won 4 awards, Scott O'dell, Newberry, Coretta Scott King, and the National Book Finalist Award. This would be a great novel to have in your classroom library. One Crazy Summer teaches children about a past history in 1968 having to do with The Black Panthers.

(MY FACE WHEN I SAW THE COVER OF THIS BOOK, THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE SCARY) I don't like scary things..
What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler is a RF novel. Adults & teens would be more interested in this type of book. What We Saw teaches young adults the closer you look, the more you see. When something bad happens to someone, don't be a follower. Be yourself and try to help the one in need. In the end, it will all be worth it.

Wonder by R.J. Palacio is a New York Times Best Seller RF novel. This would be an amazing book to have in your classroom library! This book shows students how to always be kind no matter who is around because you never know who is really listening. The UDL for this novel would be 3.3, guides information processing, visualization, and manipulation. Students can process and visualize what is happening as it happens.