Book-Based Lessons for Your Class
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Teacher Book Wizard beta
Teacher Book Wizard Beta: Kevin O'Hare, Woodbrige, NJ, reading a book

Designed by teachers! Match the right children's books to your students.

Books & Author Quick Search
Go to Book Clubs
Bookfairs
Book Fairs
Book Fairs connect kids with books they want to read.
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Suzanne Collins Reads From Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins reads the first chapter of the thrilling, powerful and haunting final installment of The Hunger Games trilogy.


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Booktalks
Elijah of Buxton
Elijah of Buxton
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Grades 3–5

Elijah was special. He was the first free baby born in Buxton, the first person there who had never been owned by a slave master.


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Discussion Guides
Angel Child, Dragon Child
Angel Child, Dragon Child
by Michele Maria Surat
Grades PreK–2

A Vietnamese girl attending school in the U.S. misses her mother, but makes a new friend.
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Book-Based Lesson Plans
Go, Go America
Go, Go America
by Dan Yaccarino
Grades K–5

Far-out festivals, kooky contests, ludicrous laws, peculiar people, and oodles of oddities across America...fasten your seat belt and get ready to go, go through fifty states of fun!
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Activities for Students
Angel Island: Li Keng Wong's Story
Angel Island: Li Keng Wong's Story

Follow the story of Chinese American immigrants who came through Angel Island to America in the 1930s.
Story Starters
Story Starters

Students generate a creative writing prompt and pick one of four formats to print their finished story.
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Books Come Alive Give your students an inspiring, enriching, and fun reading experience by using audiovisual adaptations of picture books in your classroom. These unique videos motivate beginning, struggling, reluctant, and limited English language proficient readers to want to read.
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
by Barbara Kerley
Grades 2–5

See how the first life-sized dinosaur models stunned the world.
Inch by Inch
Inch by Inch
by Leo Lionni
Grades PreK–2

The Caldecott Honor author follows a worm who inches his way out of being eaten.
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