pickI love this HF book about escaping slavery. This story uses symbolism in a great way to tell a touching story about a boy and his grandmother. The boy helps countless people escape slavery to freedom. Then the night comes to escape himself and he won't leave without his grandmother. #ucflae3414f19
This book won the Bank Street Children's Book of the Year in 2007.
pickThis biography tells the story of legendary baseball player Yogi Berra and was written by Barb Rosenstock. It all begins in Yogi‘s childhood and his difficulties in school, and goes through his lengthy baseball career. It even includes a few of his famous yogi-isms. #ucflae3414f19
pickThis is a fantastic HF book by David A. Adler. It tells the story of a young boy and his father struggling to make ends meat during the Great Depression. The young boy has to sell newspapers when he realizes that his father is unemployed. The son won‘t tell his father about the newspaper job so the father doesn‘t know that his son is helping out. The two grow and realize a lot about each other and a certain baseball player may make an appearance.
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pickBook #40: Similar to Frankenstein and Dracula, The Time Machine represents one of the world's earliest cases of science-fiction. Starting in a time when Jules Verne and other H.G. Wells classics were pushing the bounds of conventional fiction, The Time Machine shows us what Wells' view of the future might look like as his time traveler takes a...
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pick"Corduroy" is a sweet, enjoyable, toy-comes-alive picture book written and illustrated by Don Freeman. It is a fictional (F) story that could be read aloud (RA) to younger students in a classroom environment. "Corduroy" is a story about a teddy bear in a department store that is almost adopted by a young girl named Lisa; however, Lisa's mom refuses to pay for the teddy bear because he is missing a button on his clothing. Determined to find the
pick"Sideways Stories from Wayside School" is a fun, fictional (F) novel written by Louis Sachar and illustrated by Adam McCauley. This story could be read aloud (RA) to the class by the teacher. Sachar's book is exciting and different! When I was in the second grade, my teacher introduced the class to this book; she read a few chapters aloud to the class every day. "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" left an impact on me because it was the first
pick"Goodnight Moon", written by Margaret Wise Brown/illustrated by Clement Hurd, is a classic traditional literature (TL) picture book that has touched the hearts of many children! It could be used in a variety of ways in a classroom setting, including a storytelling (S) session. My mother used to read this story to my sister and I when we were younger, so "Goodnight Moon" holds a special place in my heart! "Goodnight Moon" is about a bunny who is
