I got two copies, $1 each!!!!!!!! What!?!??

My best friends mom let me go through her classroom library for my birthday!! I got a trunk FULL of quality books!!!!!

Happy birthday to one of my favorite literature character and author, Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling!!

This amazing NF title is a picture book showing the actual size of all types of animals! No kidding! The pages fold out to show the mouth of a crocodile or the page is one giant eye of a squid! Each page has a short paragraph with size and type of animal information. This would be a great book for partner reading. Students can take turns reading a page and then do an activity from this resource link, teaching measurement in a group setting.

This adorable SF picture book tells the tale in the moon‘s perspective. Moon wants to have visitors but has to wait a very long time till Apollo 11. The moon watches the humans on earth as they invent was to travel but still not visit the moon. This book has a lot of knowledge about space exploration, scientists, and inventors of of planet. This book would be great as a storytelling to share with students how we made it to the moon.

A Stonewall Book Award winner, this MF is a wonderful tale of a little boy who wants to become a mermaid. With the help of his grandmother, he is able to become a mermaid and join the other mermaids in a huge parade. This book is a metaphor for being transgender. This book is best done as a RA to help answer the questions that most students will have and to help them receive the central message better.

A wonderful piece of TL passed down for years. The whimsical story of Alice going to wonderland is a fun story to share with your students. Students will love the ridiculousness in wonderland when Alice tries to find the rabbit and gets distracted along away. This book can be used in an author study with your students. This website can be used to retrieve information for the AS. https://www.lewiscarroll.org

This Picture book is a phenomenal poem about black history from the beginning to now. The beautiful artwork depicts the dreamers and the doers. The book does talk about black lives matter and Trayvon Martin making this a very emotional and moving piece of poetry. This book can be done as a storytelling, highlighting the images in a digital format. This lesson plan helps align storytelling with social studies in the classroom using this book.

This wonderful biography is about 52 women who made a tremendous impact on our world. Women like Sophie Blanchard and Kate Warne are given brief biographies of their amazing contributions to our world. This book can be used for DR as your students reenact a famous women‘s biography from the book. Students can dress up and act out their lives. Use this lesson plan to teach students acrostic poems and write one using a biography.

A Shel Silverstein classic, is a wonderful book of whimsical poetry. Pages and pages of poetry with characters that are silly and sometimes dark. This book would be great to use in choral reading in the classroom. This resource is great to pair with the choral reading for a poetry unit. https://b0f646cfbd7462424f7a-f9758a43fb7c33cc8adda0fd36101899.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.co...

This wonderful MF book is a great assets to your classroom library for students to IR. This Newbery Award winner and NY times bestseller is about a gorilla who is part of an attraction at a mall. Ivan thinks his life is fine till the day a new addition comes to the mall. Ivan, the gorilla, thinks differently and realizes it‘s not what it seems to be. This novel is based on a true story of a gorilla but the story is told in his POV.

This MF book is great for young readers for are learning how to count!! This book takes parts from the book “The Day the Crayons Quit,” and has the reader counting crayons! This book can be used as a RT with the accompanying puppets. This resource is a readers theatre script to use. https://sites.google.com/view/lae3414/readers-theater?authuser=0

This SF book is fantastic for reaching two content levels in your classroom. Using this book for storytelling, you can teach students about the solar system with Ms. Frizzle! In this book, Ms. Frizzle and the students go on another field trip, but this time it‘s to outer space! Of course things go wrong, but the students solve the problem and learn SO much about the solar system. You can use this website for activities to assess

This AMAZING RF novel is a fantastic independent read for all of your students! Melody is a young girl with CP who can not speak and is in a wheelchair. Though she can‘t speak, Melody has a LOT to say! One day she gets the ability for everyone to hear what‘s on her mind, and they won‘t be ready for it! This NY times bestseller can be used with this discussion guide and writing activities found on the author‘s website.

Book haul!!!!!!! Building the classroom library!!!!!
When there‘s so many books it can‘t fit in the picture!

I‘m so excited to get this in the mail today!!! For all my future Astrophysicist in the classroom! #amazonprimedaywin

The sweetest MF book written by Dan Santat warms my heart as I read it! The illustrations, which one the Caldecott Award, are absolutely stunning! Belle is an imaginary friend that is waiting to be picked by a child. But as Belle waited and waited, he became impatient. Belle goes out into the real world and searches for his friend to call him an imaginary friend! This book would be great as a RA book focusing on imagination and courage as a theme

J.K. Rowling‘s MF book that started it all! The British Book Awards Book of the Year introduces Harry Potter, the boy who lived. Only a baby, he beat/survived the darkest wizard alive. Sadly, he lost his parents to the dark lord and has to live with his terrible aunt and uncle. Dreaming of a day to escape the Dursley house, he finally gets his wish when a big scruffy man in a motorbike tells him, “Yer a wizard Harry.”

Another fantastic MF novel in the HP series by JK Rowling. NY Times Bestseller and 2nd book in the series, this would be a fantastic pick for LC. Harry Potter is back for his second year and thinks it will be a normal school year with friends. Not too soon into the new year do strange things start to happen when Harry is around. The chamber of secrets has been open by the heir of Slytherin and everyone thinks it Harry! Harry and his friends..

Oliver Jeffers creates another amazing RF book about a boy and his moose! A little boy stumbles upon a moose and makes him his pet. There‘s only two problems, 1, the moose doesn‘t listen to his rules and 2, the moose belongs to someone else! This book is great for RT using a moose props for each student. You can have each student make their own with this link! Just add a popsicle stick to it and they‘ll all be saying, “This moose belongs to me!”

Oliver Jeffers writes a fantastic MF book about a little boy who gets his kite stuck up in a tree. He has to get it down but how? Starting with throwing his shoe and eventually throwing a whale to get his kite down, things begin to escalate as he desperately tries to get his kite back. This fun book is great for S with fun props that you can get at this link!

One of the greatest MF series ever known, is perfect for a AS in the classroom. I excitedly got to rediscover this novel as an audiobook. Harry is in his third year at Hogwarts and is excited to be back with his friends. Hogwarts has exciting news as they bring back the Tri-Wizard Tournament!Of course, as has in the past, things start to get complicated for Harry and his friends. Harry, though underage, is mysteriously picked as.....

As someone with arthritis, I absolutely adored this SF picture book about a little boy who has arthritis. Eric explains to us what it‘s like to have arthritis and helps explain to his classmates what it is. This is an amazing informative text that is a great for RA to help students understand their peers with arthritis. This book already comes with a quiz, teacher tips, and arthritis resources. But this link gives teachers a guide on what......

The RF book that won three awards, including the Coretta Scott King award in 2016, is a fantastic RA! CJ and his Nana go on the bus every Sunday after church and ride all the way to the last stop of marks street. CJ is not so excited about this adventure and questions why they have to go to the last stop. And what is this last stop? Well you‘ll have to find out! This wonderful book by Matt de la Pena can be used with this link of activities.

This HF Newbery Honor winner tells the story of a little boy and his sister who is loved to Alcatraz island where his father has gotten a job. The little boy, Moose, his just trying to be a kid while taking care of his sister, playing baseball, and possibly having a side business working with Al Capone?! This would be great PR and LC. You can used the teachers guide from scholastic for guided reading questions.

El Deafo is a fantastic B graphic novel memoir for any LC! This book puts a spotlight on hearing impairments And how they can turn any kiddo into a SUPERHERO! Deserving of its Newbery Honor Award (2015), Author Cece Bell writes about her experience with her Phonic Ear as a kiddo. Cece soon finds out that the Phonic Ear gives her a superpower that turns her into El Deafo! This would be used well with the accompanying teacher guide.