Publisher: Candlewick Press

Year: 2017

Learn the basics about coding skills, building an app, creating an HTML file, using CSS  classes, and building a web page with this step by step user friendly book.

Book includes a table of contents and an index.

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Subjects: HTML, javascript, build a website, coding, computer programming, informational. Ages 9-15.

Author: Larry Dane Brimner

Year: 2017

Thirteen protesters (Freedom Riders) of racial segregation plan to celebrate the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision by traveling by bus and train to New Orleans, Louisiana. This unanimous court ruling states that segregation in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause.

Book includes several civil rights court rulings and examples of peaceful protests, a bibliography, website resources, and recommended titles for young readers.

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Subjects: civil rights court cases, southern states , peaceful protests, 20th-century history, informational. Ages 9-15.

Author: Shane Burcaw

Year: 2017

Looking for a book to talk to your child about disabilities? Shane Burcaw answers questions people might have about living with SMA. The simple and honest narrative intertwines graciously with the perky photography to appeal young audiences. 

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Subjects: Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Shane Burcaw, biography, informational. Ages K-6.

Author: James M. Deem

Year: 2008

58 pages

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BL: 8.3

AR: 2 pts

This informational book will take the reader to glaciers and frozen lands in Austria, Italy, Canada, and the Andes where bodies of men, women, and children have been preserved under the ice. 

Contains a table of contents, suggested websites, a bibliography, and an index.

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Subjects: iceman, glaciers, frozen children of the Andes, informational. Ages 9-14.

Author: Sneed B. Collard III

Year: 2008

48 pages

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BL: 7.6

AR: 2 pts

This non-fiction book will inform readers about animals that impact the environment such as the brown tree snakes, fire ants, melaleuca trees, and the zebra mussels. 

Contains a glossary, suggested website, and an index.

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Subjects: nonindigenous pets, invasive species, informational. Ages 9-14.

Author: Jim Murphy & Alison Blank

Year: 2012

149 pages

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BL: 9.5

AR: 4 pts

This informational book will take the reader to a journey through history to learn about the earliest trail of tuberculosis in human history, its cause, social struggles, and its cure. 

Contains a table of contents, a bibliography, source notes, and an index.

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Subjects: tuberculosis, microorganisms, sanatoriums, social struggle, vaccinations, informational. Ages 9-14.

Author: John and Jennifer Churchman

Year: 2017

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Maisie arrives to the farm as a puppy on a winter snowy day. There, she learns how to be a sheepdog with the help of Farmer John and Laddie, another  sheep dog. Primary grade kids will love the  expressive close up photographs. 

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Subjects: farm life, working dogs, sheep dogs, informational picture books. Ages K-3.

ISBN: 9781561459049

Author: Farhana Zia

Year: 2016

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Basanta works in the Big House for a young and unpredictable mistress. Basanta cannot seat in a chair, or eat off a nice plate or call family members by their names, but use the polite form of their social status. But no matter good or rotten days at work, the routines at the Big House becomes tense when a ring goes missing. Teachers can use this realistic fiction story as part of their social sudies common core curriculum or on a unit on child labor.

Subject: fiction, India, children's workers, social studies. Gr 6-8

ISBN: 9781419718663

Author: Teri Kanefield

Year: 2016

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Fearing religious persecution, Quacker and frontierswoman Suzy Wright left her life in England to settle in the colony of Pennsylvania. With primary source quotations,  illustratons and photograps of period facsimiles, the author refers to the achievements of a woman, who pledged for education, the rights of Native Americans and women. Teachers can recommend this book when covering a unit on women's rights, American history during the colonies and early civil right movements.

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Subject: non-fiction, colonial woman, American history: frontier and Quaker pioneer life in Pennsylvania, woman's rights, civil rights movement. Gr 4-8. 64 pages.

ISBN: 9781250068385

Author: E. F. Abbott

Year: 2016

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This is a fictional work based on the true story of Mary Jemison, a girl who was captured and traded to the Seneca Indians, where she found a home during the French and Indian war. Teachers can suggest this book to complement a unit on American History: The French and Indian War or a unit on colonial America.

Subject: Historica fiction, Pennsylvania, 1758, Seneca Indians, colonial America. 213 pages. For ages 8 & up.

ISBN: 9780763681005

Author: Martin Jenkins

Year: 2016

Teachers can use this non-fiction picture book on a science unit covering amphibians. The book depicts different types of frogs such as the goliath frog,  the Darwin's frog, the bullfrog and the hairy frog, among others. The mixed media illustrations will atract the eyes of  your students with brightly colored illustrations, providing a great setting for a read aloud classroom activity.

Subjects: non-fiction, frogs, amphibians. For preschoolers and kindergarteners

ISBN: 9780525428374

Author: Lita Judge

Year: 2016

As Peep is of age to learn the ways of the owls with its big brother Hoot, Peep gets in trouble when in terms of "hooo" says "schweepty peep." In this story characters will learn to believe in the individuality of others.  Kindergarten teachers can use this picture book to talk about personal qualities and creativity.

Subjects: individuality, owl stories. For kindergarten.

Teachers can use this humorous book on a math class unit on place value. Children will have fun following the big-number-recipe these charming mokeys are using to make a colossal banana muffin.

Subjects: non-fiction, math, place value. For ages 5-8.

ISBN: 9780545825023

Author: David Milgrin

Year: 2016

Humorous story with a brief and easy narrative about a bird, who likes to "moo" instead of "tweet." Kindergarten teachers can suggest this book for students, who are learning to read.

Subjects: bird stories

ISBN: 9781596438521

Author: Julie Morstad

Year: 2016

Teachers can use this colorful poetry book about the four season of the year on poetry month or a classroom unit on the seasons.

Subject: poetry, four seasons. Ages 5-8

ISBN: 9780766029217

Author: Rebecca Wingard

Year: 2009

Teachers can use this book on a class unit on ratio, proportion and math word problems. In this easy to read book, children will find plenty of examples, solving steps for word problems and tips on logical reasoning.

Subjects: non-fiction, math word problems, ration, proportion, space. Ages 6-10

ISBN: 9780766031517

Author: Ann Benbow

Year: 2010

Teachers can assign this non-fiction book when covering the science method and experiments. This easy to read book will use experiments to formulate a question, follow procedure, make observations, collect data, organize data, make conclusions and communicate your findings.

Subjects: non-fiction, science methodology, biology, experiments. For ages 6-10

ISBN: 9780766039858

Author: Sara L. Latta

Year: 2012

With generous font and appealing photograps, this book answers such questions as: why the leaves change colors, why some animals migrate and what happens to other plants in the fall, among others. Teachers can use this book on a class unit on weather and the seasons. For primary grades.

Part of the series: Why do we have seasons? the series includes books for all four seasons.

Subjects: non-fiction, seasons, Autumn. Ages 6-8

ISBN: 9781481449380

Author: Carole Weatherford

Year: 2016

Teachers can assign this free verse poetry book to complement a history class unit on the pioneering African-American pilots of WW II.

Subjects: poetry, African American, WW II, army air forces. Ages 9-12. 80 pages.

ISBN: 9781580896382

Author: jane Sutcliffe

Year: 2015

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Teachers can recommend this book when covering a unit on English language or William Shakespeare. Children will enjoy learning about the origin of popular English language expressions such as "for goodness's sake," "cold-blooded," "dead as a doornail," and "foal play," among others. This is a picture book for older kids with colorful and amuzing drawings.

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Subjects: non-fiction, English language, terms and phrases, William Shakespeare. Includes time line and bibliography. Gr 3-6

ISBN: 9781467780544

Author: John Coy

Year: 2016

Teachers can use this brief non-fiction book on a history class unit on immigration. With big font and a mixture of color and black and white photographs of immigrants, this is a great book for a read aloud activity in the classroom. Perfect for second and third grades.

Subjects: non-fiction, immigration, United States history. For ages 5-8. 32 pages

ISBN: 9781626722361

Author: Bob Raczka

Year: 2016

Teachers can suggest this inventive book on a classroom unit on poetry. Children will be inspired by the use of familiar objects to draw poetry in the shape of a clock, a sunset , and even cross-words. The creativity of this book will surely inspire students to create their own concrete poetry. 

Subject: poetry, shape poems. Ages 8-12. 42 pages.

ISBN: 9781481423557

Author: Judith Viorst

Year: 2015

Teachers can use this poetry book to talk about human emotions. Children will enjoy the humorous narrative used to express different types of feelings. 

Subjects: poetry, emotions. Ages

ISBN: 9780766042520

Author: Rebecca Wingard-Nelson

Year: 2014

Teachers can recommend this book to students, who are struggling understading fractions, mixed fractions, equivalent fractions, multiplying, dividing and estimating with fractions and  comparing, rounding, adding, regrouping, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with decimals, etc. Students will navigate easily this book thanks to its easy to follow definitions, appealing graphics, and wide array of examples that relate to students. 

Subjects: non-fiction, decimal fractions. Middle grades. 64 pages.

ISBN: 9780766042896

Author: Rebecca wingard-Nelson

Year: 2014

Teachers can recommend this book to students, who are struggling with ratios and percents.  Students will navigate easily this book thanks to its easy to follow definitions, appealing graphics, and wide array of examples that relate to students. This book is a step-by-step-guide to ratios, equivalent ratios, rates, proportions, and percent change, etc.

Subjects: non-fiction, math, ratios, percents, proportions, scale drawings. For 6th grade. 64 pages.

ISBN: 9781481442251

Author: Henry Cole

Year: 2016

Ask your students to find Spot as he visits the city in this wordless picture book. You can use this book on a creative writing lesson. The detailed pencil drawing illustrations will challenge students to find Spot as he wonders through the streets.

To use in a creative writing lesson. For grades 1-3.