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["Title","Author (Last name, First name)","Genre","Publisher's Interest Level","Format (Print, Ebook, Audio)","Positive Scholarly Review (source)","Currently in collection? (Y/N)","Request? (Student, staff, parent)","Comments/Rationale","Module #"]
["Each Kindness","Jacqueline Woodson","Fiction-Award winner","K-3rd","Hardcover Book","The Horn Book Publication","Y","Staff; Teachers & Counselors","Winner of Coretta Scott Honor    and the Jane Addams Peace Award  / Beautifly sad story about bullying.  This story offers eaching on kindness as it tells the story of a girl who is bullied and the bully who regrets not being kind on time. ",1.0]
["Juana & Lucas","Juana Medina","Fiction-Award winner","K-3rd","Hardcover Book","Common Sense ","Y","Staff; Teachers & Counselors","Pura Bulpre Award winner - . Common Sense gave it five stars  This is a funny and nostalgic story that makes the reader / audience think about hope, determination, and perseverance.  Juana leaves behind her best freind, Lucas, to take a trip to Florida.  In this place, she must speak English which she's not fond of but sees the importance.  She happily returns to tell Lucas about her adventure in the U.S.A. This story will invite students to discuss the importance of being bilingual and will inspire curiosity to read other bilingual books.  My students always laugh when I throw in a Spanish word here and there.",1.0]
["Big Cat, Little Cat","Elisha Cooper","Fiction- Award winner","3rd-8th","Hardcover Book","Kirkus and School Library Journal  Five stars by Library Things review","Y","TL","Winner of the Caldecott Medal --Funny and touching story about a special friendship.  Big cat takes the lead in training a kitty companion to be a cat.  This leads to a beautiful relationship between the cats.  Great story to list the way big cat helped little cat and how some students can help one another.  This relationship of helping others comes very handy, especially when we have a new student.",1.0]
["They all Saw A CAT","Brendan Wenzel","Fiction - Award winner","3+","Hardcover Book","Common Sense  five stars","Y","K Teachers","Winner of the Caldecott Medal - Great illustration, rythym and rhyme.  Audiences will find a close similarity to Brown Bear, Brown Bear.  This story can be used to expand on shadows and discuss science (light and shadows).",1.0]
["A Very Special House ","Ruth Krauss/ Illustrated by Maurice Sendak","Fiction - Award winner","4-8 ages","Paperback","Kirkus Review","Y","N/A","Winner of the Caldecott Medal - The illustration have vivid lines, space, shapes, and color as dominant elements",1.0]
["The Snowy Day","Ezra Jack Keats","Fiction - Award winner","lower grades","Hardcover Book","Common Sense","Y","K-2nd Teachers and Students","Winner of the Caldecott Medal - The author take the audience to a snowy setting where one can feel the cold, hear the steps in the snow, and feel the warmth of a bath.  Keats does an excellent job with lines in this story, specially, when the character climbs and slides down the mountain.  I have used this story to begin discussing about solids and liquids, clothes for different seasons, and weather.",1.0]
["My Lucky Day","Keiko Kasza","Fiction - Picture Book ; Read Aloud ","K-3rd","Hardcover Book","Kirkus","Y","Lower grade students","Picture book - The story sounds a little cruel as the fox does everything he can to EAT the pig.  It could be scary for little ones but 1st - 3rd graders will find how sly is the pig. This is a great opportunity to read similar books and do an activity of comparison.",2.0]
["How I became a Pirate","Melinda Long","Fiction - Picture Book ; Read Aloud in blog","K-3rd","Hardcover Book","Kirkus               Common Sense","Y","K Teachers and lower grades students ","Picture Book  - A delight to read if you enjoy David Shannon's illustrations.  Children who love pirates will ealily engage in this \"dream\" of a story where a little boy becomes pirate for a brief adventure and nobody notices.  This story can be used as an opener for Narrative writing.",2.0]
["No David!","David Shannon","Fiction - Picture book","K-1st","Hardcover Book","Kirkus                                  Common Sense ","Y","Children in lower grades","Picture Book - David Shannon continuous to be successful with this first David book.  Children do not stop requesting and laughing at the infamous picture of David running without pants!  A true classic that continues to be treated as a new title.  This, too, is a book to entice students to think about how they behaved when they were little.  Perhaps, also, can lead a conversation about rules and consequences.",2.0]
["Erandi's Braids","Antonio Hernandez Madrigal","Fiction-Picture Book","lower grades","Hardcover Book","Kirkus Review","N","Teachers ","Picture Book -Tommie dePaola worked on the illustrations for Antonio Hernandez Madrigal's book.  The story is set in a small village in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.  It's about a little girl who shows humility, caring, and courage. Erandi is the main character's name.  She makes a decision to help mom by selling her precious braids for money needed at home.  I used this story to practice open-ended questions and creating own sentence frames.  I shared this lesson in my blog.",2.0]
["I am NOT a chair!","Ross Burach","Fiction - Picture Book","4+ ages","Hardcover Book","Publishers Weekly","Y","Teachers and lower grade students","Picture Book - Great and funny book about having the courage to stand up and speak up.  Giraffe tries to make all her new friends know her identity as a giraffe and not a chair until lion comes over and sits on her.  After we read this story, kindergarten classes and I, read about real giraffes.  We did some research on PebbleGo and wrote some facts about these amazing mammals.  The last activity was an art lesson; reproducing a giraffe figurine.",2.0]
["The Tale of Three Trees","Angela Elwell Hunt","Traditional Tale ","4th - 7th grades","Hardcover Book","Goodreads","N","N/A","Traditional Story - This is a touching story about thre aspiring trees who wish to be something special in their future.  I would use this story to brainstorm about future short and long term school goals, as well as to transition into careers for the future.",3.0]
["The Rough-Face Girl","Rafe Martin","Traditional Tale-Fantasy Fairy tale ","4-8 yrs old","Hardcover Book","Publishers Weekly","Y","Teachers/Students","Fairy tale version of the traditional Cinderella story.  The younger sister is caring and hardworker, while the two older sisters are selfish, greedy, and lazy.  The rough-face ignores the bullies in the village and follows her heart to find her happiness.  This is a great opportunity to teach about comparing and contrasting using different versions of this legendary tale.  It also it lends really well to discuss bullying.",3.0]
["The Lion and the Mouse","Jerry Pinkney","Traditional Tale - Aesop Fable","3-6 yrs ages","Hardcover Book","Kirkus","Y","K and 1st grade Teacher","2010 Caldecott winner - One of Aesop's fable which young students can releate to as they enter school and feel that sometimes, due to their size, they can not accomplish a task. Asking friends for help is the start of a relationship. The little mouse teaches the lion a lesson about the power to do something good for one another.  Not only can we, in a class setting, discuss friendship but also the fact that sometimes the size of a person is to somebody else's advantage.",3.0]
["Chicken Little","Rebecca Emberley","Traditional Folktale","4-8 yrs ages","Hardcover Book","Kirkus","Y","K-1 Students & Teachers","Fun way to teach inferences.  Young students fall in love with Chicken Little and realize how mean a fox can be.  Students, also seize the opportunity to point out to Chicken Little that the sky was never falling!  Great conversation prompter.",3.0]
["The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Spanish version)","Jon Sciezka","Traditional Tale","5-12 yrs ages","paperback ","Kirkus","Y","2nd  and 3rd grade Teachers","This story is a spin off from the traditional tale of the three little pigs that get harrassed and eaten by the big bad wolf.  It's told from the wolf's point of view.  It is this component that twists the story for a more engaging listening session.  Students have a chance to discuss Point of View, Compare and Contrast and Opinion witing.",3.0]
["Goldilocks and the Three Bears","Jari Huomo","Traditional Folktale","3-6 yrs ages","i-pad app","Kirkus","N","K teachers (have requested for their centers)","According to the reviews on this scholary site, this story's electronic version has nothing new.  Only difference between this e-book and a hardcopy is the high quality of images.  First time listner will sure enjoy this story where they will have conversations about respecting people's properties.",3.0]
["Chicken Soup with RIce","Maurice Sandeck","poetry","4-7 yrs ages","small book hardcover","Common Sense","Y","K teachers & 1st grade","It is said that Chicken Soup with rice is a book with a warm poem and illustration for each month of the year.  Also, each month's poem has some type of soup theme.  This is a great book for a Family literacy center.  Parents can share this book with young children and in return children will accompany parents to read it along together.  This is a great opportunity to talk about months of the year.  Perhaps families will extend this reading by cooking the soup of the month together as students recite or sing the poems.",4.0]
["Brown Girl Dreaming","Jacqueline Woodson","poetry","Age Range: 8 - 12","Hardcover Book","Kirkus & Goodreads","Y","New arrival to our library /  Used by 6th grade ELA teacher","Multiple award winner; Newbery, National Book Award, and Coretta Scott King Award.  I shared this book with a sixth grade class to begin our Six-word memoir assignment.",4.0]
["Fly Jazz 2","Matthew Gollub","poetry;song ","Age Range: 5 - 8","Hardcover with CD","Kirkus","Y","Band, Kinder and First grade teachers","Multiple award winner and honorable mention: Best Books of the Year, Gold Award Winner 2010, USA Book News International Book Awards Winner, Parents’ Choice Award, and Moonbeam Children’s Book Gold Medal.  My students enjoy the music, the story, and learning Spanish.  By the end of the week we can sing the song pretty well.   Repetition of sounds, rhythm and words assists students in language development (ELD)",4.0]
["Hi Koo! A Year of Seasons","Jon J. Muth","poetry","Age Range: 3 - 18","Hardcover","Kirkus","Y","Third grade teachers","Caldecott Honoree Jon Muth introduces the history of Hikus allowing us to get away from the 5,75, pattern.  This book is full of poetry for all seasons.  With the freedom to write haikus of different number of syllables, Muth makes it fun to read a \"poetry book\".  I used this book to introduce poetry.  My third grade students were able to write haikus for Mother's Day.",4.0]
["This is the House that Jack Built","Simms Taback","cumulative story","Age range 4-8","Hardcover","Publishers Weekly","Y","students (k-3rd) & Second grade teachers","Simms Taback, Caldecott winner of \"Joseph Had a little Overcoat\" comes with this Cumulative story version titled \"This is the house that Jack Built\".  Mr. Taback engages the reader with this repeative and colorful story. This is another opportunity to use in ELD as a language development activity.",4.0]
["Gathering the Sun","Alma Flor Ada","poetry-bilingual; Eng/Span","all ages","Hardcover","Goodreads","Y","4th grade teachers and Art teacher have requested this book during the year.","Alma Flor Ada's work at her best, in my opinion.  The poems are so close to home and the vivid images take me back to the years as a farmworker.  Back then it was hard but now I'm proud of the work I did.  My experience in this \"field\" helped me assist one of the fourth grade teacher who wanted to plan a lesson using poetry that describes an everyday life experience.  Her students wrote about: Going to School, Daily chores, Weekends at home, Sunday-a-break-Day, among others.",4.0]
["The Hundred Dresses","Eleanor Estes","contemporary realistic fiction","3rd-6th grades","paperback","Kirkus","Y","Librarian to read to Sixth graders","This is a Newbery award winner book.  The story follows a narrative about a girl who feels bad about herself after realizing she had been a bully to a former classmate. I use this book on the first week of school and share it with sixth graders.  We follow each chapter with a creation of an open ended question and a reason to explain the answer.  In the middle of the book, we stop and begin a brainstorm of reasons how Wanda, in the story, gets bullied.  How do students in our school get bullied?  What can you do if you are being bullied or if you are the bully?",5.0]
["Frindle","Andrew Clements","contemporary realistic fiction","3rd-8th grades","hardcover & paperback","Scholastic","Y","4th and 5th grade teachers and students","Like most realistic fiction books, I use this story as a read aloud with fourth graders.  We write open-ended questions and look for text evidence.",5.0]
["Diary of a Wimpy Kid","Jeff Kinney","contemporary realistic fiction","ages 9-11","hardcover & paperback","Kirkus","Y","3rd-6th graders (always out!)","This is  very popular title.  It's rare when it's not checked out.  I have not used this book for a lesson but I'm ready to do so.  We have a book club that I run (4th-6th) and the students were asking to read this book in a group for a Book Talk.  After the discussion sessions, students will illustrate a tri-fold as a book talk.",5.0]
["Because of Winn Dixie","Kate Dicamillo","contemporary realistic fiction","9 plus","paperback","Commonsense","Y","Third and fourth grade students","Third grade teachers and studens love this story.  Teachers use RIRA to tackle vocabulary, comprehension, and text evidence."]
["No Talking","Andrew Clements","contemporary realistic fiction","ages 8-12","hardcover","Kirkus","Y","Fourth and Fifth graders students and teachers & Librarian","Students in fourth grade enjoyed Frindle so much.  When I told them about this book, they were interested, instantly.  I'll be using this book to read aloud with a fourth grade class.  We will be taking notes about our favorite event on each chapter and we will create a book trailer as our end product."]
["Pasquala","Gail Faber","Historical Fiction","4th grade","papeback","Goodreads","Y","Fourth and Fifth graders students and teachers & Librarian","Fourth grade read to enhance lessons about California Natives and California Missions",6.0]
["My Name is Georgia","Jeanette Winter","Historical NonFiction/Biography","ages 4-10","hardcover","Kirkus","Y","Kinder Tachers, Third grade teachers and Sixth grade students","Third grade teachers have Georgia O'Keeffe in their \"core-artist\" list.  For these \"core-artist lessons, the teachers and I prepare a writing and an art lesson.  Sixth grade students use this book as another source when they are creating biographies.",6.0]
["A Girl Named Rosa","Denise Lewis Patrick","Historical NonFiction","ages 7-10","hardcover","Scholastic","Y","2nd - 6th grade Teachers / 3rd - 6th grader","Sixth grade teacher and I used this book to conduct a biography source.  Students who wanted to research about Rosa Parks, were eager to use this book sample.",6.0]
["Frida ","Jonah Winter","Historical NonFiction/Biography","ages 4-10","Online/Youtube","Publishers' Weekly","Accessible","K grade teachers/Librarian","This is an online/youtube resource.  Mrs. D'Escoto (K) and I utilized this video to introduce her class to the life of Frida.  Students then, painted \"Frida Flowers\".  ",6.0]
["Little House in the Big Woods","Laura Ingalls Wilder","Historical Fiction","ages 7+","Hardcover","Commonsense","Y","third grade students","This friendly autobiography is an educational tool to introduce students to this author.  It is also a way to introduce narrative writing.",6.0]

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