K-Gr 2—In Jennifer Richard Jacobson's story (Candlewick, 2008) for beginning readers, Andy Shane is assigned to show the new student, Lark Alice Bell, around his classroom...

Gr 8 Up—This outstanding collection of short stories and poetry (Candlewick, 2011), written by celebrated authors such as Walter Dean Myers, Robert Burleigh, and Joseph Bruchac and edited by Marc Aronson and Charles R...
Gr 8 Up—On the surface, Mal Peet's novel (Candlewick, 2005) is a book about soccer, but the heart of the story is cloaked in mystery and addresses family, poverty, environmentalism, colonialism, spiritualism, and capitalism...

Gr 5—7—Jessica Almasy's performance of Sara Lewis Holmes's contemporary tale (Arthur A...
K-Gr 4—In this Australian tale by Adrian Plitzco, a young kookaburra names Pirate finds himself on an unfamiliar farm after a storm...
Gr 2—4—Global Protection Force secret agent Jack Stalwart is only nine years old, but that doesn't stop him from travelling the world and thwarting evil...
K-Gr 3—Gail Gibbons's wonderful book (Holiday House, 1989) on the life cycle of the monarch butterfly is still one of the best basic resources on the topic for use with primary students...
Gr 5—8—Circumstances bring four youths from different backgrounds together on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic in the first title in a trilogy by Gordon Korman (Scholastic, 2011)...
PreS-Gr 1—Kevin Roth—singer, songwriter, and innovative dulcimer player—reads his own story in a mellow, expressive, deep voice accompanied by soft dulcimer picking...