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Teacher Guide for AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet by Jon Scieszka

By On November 6, 2019 · 1 Comment · In Asking Questions, Characterization, Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Compare/Contrast, Figurative Language, Literature Circle/Book Clubs, Making Connections, Read Aloud, Teaching, Text Features, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development
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AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet
Author: Jon Scieszka
Illustrator: Steven Weinberg
Published: September 10th, 2019 by Chronicle Books

Summary: AstroWolf, LaserShark, SmartHawk, and StinkBug are animals that have been hybridized to find other planets for humans to live on once we’ve ruined Earth. So off […]

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Educators’ Guide for The Trouble with Shooting Stars by Meg Cannistra

By On October 30, 2019 · Leave a Comment · In Allusion, Asking Questions, Characterization, Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Compare/Contrast, Figurative Language, Literature Circle/Book Clubs, Magical Realism, Making Connections, Novel, Personification, Read Aloud, Simile/Metaphor, Teaching, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development
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The Trouble with Shooting Stars
Author: Meg Cannistra
Published: August 20th, 2019 by Simon & Schuster for Young Readers

Summary: Twelve-year-old Luna loves the nighttime more than anything else. It’s when no one gives her “that look” about the half mask she has to wear while healing […]

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Teachers’ Guide for Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo

By On October 23, 2019 · 1 Comment · In Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Figurative Language, Imagery/Descriptive Language, Literature Circle/Book Clubs, Making Connections, Novel, Personification, Read Aloud, Setting, Simile/Metaphor, Symbolism, Teaching, Theme, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development, Voice
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Beverly, Right Here
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Published: September, 2019 by Candlewick Press

Summary: Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.
This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted. To get away. To get away as fast as she could. […]

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Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial by Linda Booth Sweeney

By On October 9, 2019 · 4 Comments · In Asking Questions, Author's Purpose/Perspective/Bias, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir, Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Informational Nonfiction, Inquiry, Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday, Picture Book, Read Aloud, Theme
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Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial
Author: Linda Booth Sweeney
Illustrator: Shawn Fields
Published September 3rd, 2019 by Tilbury House Publishers

Summary: This is the story of how a farmboy became America’s foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan […]

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Educators’ Guide for Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Write Turns the Heartland Into a Home by Barb Rosenstock

By On October 4, 2019 · Leave a Comment · In Biography/Autobiography/Memoir, Characterization, Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Figurative Language, Imagery/Descriptive Language, Literature Circle/Book Clubs, Personification, Picture Book, Prediction, Read Aloud, Simile/Metaphor, Teaching, Text Structure, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development
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Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Wright Turns the Heartland Into a Home
Author: Barb Rosenstock
Illustrator: Christopher Silas Neal
Published: September 10th, 2019 by Calkins Creek

Summary: The early life and creative genius of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, as a maker of American buildings—highlighting his passion, imagination and […]

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Educators’ Guide for Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker by Mara Rockliff

By On August 30, 2019 · 1 Comment · In Cause/Effect, Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Literature Circle/Book Clubs, Picture Book, Read Aloud, Reflection, Setting, Symbolism, Teaching, Theme, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development
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Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker
Author: Mara Rockliff
Illustrator: Simona Ciraolo
Published: September, 2018 by Chronicle Books

Summary: Meet Alice Guy-Blaché. She made movies—some of the very first movies, and some of the most exciting! Blow up a pirate […]

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Educators’ and Discussion Guide for What Can a Citizen Do? by Dave Eggers

By On August 23, 2019 · Leave a Comment · In Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Literature Circle/Book Clubs, Picture Book, Read Aloud, Reflection, Symbolism, Teaching, Theme, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development
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What Can a Citizen Do?
Author: Dave Eggers
Illustrator: Shawn Harris
Published: September 11th, 2018 by Chronicle Books

Summary: This is a book about what citizenship—good citizenship—means to you, and to us all: Across the course of several seemingly unrelated but ultimately connected actions by different […]

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