This F book is a great RA for the classroom. An owl tries to ho to sleep but can't because he hears a squeaking. He spends all night trying to find the squeaking and even goes through some drastic measures. This book is a fun read for the kids and they would love to see what the owl does because he can't sleep. More on the author at https://www.gregpizzoli.com/

This F book is great for a S in the classroom. An old lady went on a walk and as she walked different types of clothing would appear in front of her and she would tell them go away I am not afraid of you but she would always walk faster. For the storytelling you can be each thing that comes up to her and you can do the stomp, wiggle, clap, and so on that the book tells you about. About author: https://filmmedia.berkeley.edu/people/linda-williams/

This RF Sunshine State Young Reader award winning book is great for an IR or LC book. This book is about a society in which families cannot have more than 2 kids but Luke is one of the shadow children that are not supposed to be alive but is hidden. He had no idea what the outside world was like until he saw a light go on in the neighbors house when no one was home. More on the author at http://haddixbooks.com/

This P book is great for a RA in the classroom. This book has many silly poems that would interest the students and it even has a great variety of poems. My personal favorite was Deep In Our Refrigerator which talked about the food that you leave and let get all moldy because you don't want to throw it away which I can relate to. You can find the author's website at http://jackprelutsky.com/

This TL book is great for a DR for the kids. Someone can be the gingerbread baby and others can be the characters that tried to catch him. This is a story about kids who accidentally cooked a gingerbread baby because they didn't wait long enough for him to cook. The gingerbread baby runs out the door and the whole town including the animals try to catch him but don't succeed. Luckily Matty comes up with a plan on how to catch him.

This RF book is great RA for teaching acceptance for yourself and your culture. When Unhei moves to America from Korea she does not like her name and decides to tell her class she does not have a name and that they should put names in a jar to help her decide. She befriends a boy named Joey and with his help she starts to appreciate her name. More on the author at https://www.yangsookchoi.com/

This RF Newberry award winning book is great for a LC. A boy names Stanley Yelnats has been cursed with the rest of his family and ends up at the wrong place at the wrong time. Thanks to a pair of stolen sneakers that fell on him, it caused him to go to a camp in substitution for juvenile detention. During his time there he meets a new friend zero and tries to figure out why they are digging holes as well as how to break the curse.

This is an amazing RF Napra Nautilus award winning novel. This is a great IR for the classroom. This is a story of a boy named Cole who beat up a kid terribly because he was a bully. Instead of getting jail time Cole chooses to go to a remote island and do work. He encounters a spirit bear instead of leaving it at peace he attacks it and gets mauled. He learns a lot after he leaves the island early due to injuries and returns with a new heart.

This RF caldecott award winning book is PR. Since it is about two strangers who meet and one finds out the other has no friends and decides to make him his friend, it is great to have students make a friend through a partner read. You can also play this song that goes along with the reading of the book: https://youtu.be/SjjR6snoQN8. You can also find more about the author at https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Chris-Raschka/1786251

This is such a great RF book to bring in an Elementary classroom and use as a RA. It is a cute take on don't do to other what you wouldn't want done to yourself. Poor Penelope the dinosaur wants to fit in, but keeps trying to eat the other students. Thanks to the help of the class goldfish she learns her lesson of why you shouldn't eat your classmates. More on the author at https://www.rodeenliterary.com/ryan-t-higgins.

This NF Caldecott award winning book is a great RA for an Elementary classroom. It tells the story of a veterinarian who is off to war to help with the horses and on the way there he buys a young bear from a trader and names it Winnipeg. The after a while he decides to take the bear to the zoo where a young child named Christopher Robin names his stuffed bear based off of miss Winnipeg. This a great story to build text to text connections.

This RF Newberry award winning book is great for a middle school GR. This boy named Brian ends up in a plane crash after the pilot has a heart attack and he has to live in the woods on his own with nothing but a hatchet he found in the crashed plane. Slowly he finds ways to survive while going through a lot of mental hardship. More on the author at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/23384/gary-paulsen

This F book is a great DR for the classroom. A student can play the wolf, another the goose, and the rest of the class can be the chicks. The students would have fun yelling out, " that is not a good idea!". This story about a wolf trying convince a goose to come over and he plots to eat him has a very surprising ending that students would love. More on the author at http://www.mowillems.com/.

The RF Newberry award winning book is great for an Elementary classroom IR and LC. The story of a gorilla who considers himself an artist talks about his everyday life inside of a circus within a mall. His friends a dog, elephant, and little girl make his cage seem like a domain but within time he realizes it is just a cage. A great conversational piece for students and evokes many emotions. Authors website: https://katherineapplegate.com/

This B book would be great to use for spanish heritage month for the classroom. It talks about the life of the Cuban queen of salsa Celia Cruz and how she changed her path of being a teacher and became the wonderful singer she was. It was not an easy path as it never is and has a great theme of if you pursue your dreams and work hard enough they can come true. Great for a SR and presenting to the class when talking about famous people's history.

This SF New York Times bestseller book is great option for a LC or an AS since her works have plot twists and a peace full ending and are usually in the perspectiveof two characters. It consists of two stories in one. One a normal girl who wants to know the secrets of where she lives but is confined because of her parents and one who is a replica trying to survive after their building has been burned down. Each story intertwines into one another.

This MF book is about two stories in one. In a society where one baby is given up every year a baby named Luna becomes raised by a witch named Zan. Antain from the society wants to know why they sacrifice a baby every year and their stories slowly get intertwined. This book got the Newberry award and is great for a LC. https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/

A HF book about Kim Há who has to move to America after the Vietnam war had reached her hometown. She ends up in Alabama where she struggles with a bully. In the end she celebrates her new life in America. Great book for a LC and would be great to use to talk about culture change. Great to link lesson topic to students‘ prior knowledge (ESOL strategy 4) since they know what it is like to not know English and culture change while in America.

This RF cadecolt winning book tells about a boy and his most loved part of the day, when he delivers newspapers while everyone is asleep. This is a great RA to sit on the carpet and read with students. UDL standard you can use is activate or supply background knowledge (3.1). You can do this by asking students what they wake up early for and if they have seen the newspaper in their yard.

This book is a great F caldecott award winning book to add to your collection! It is perfect for an RA and throughtout the story you can ask questions and go through vocabulary.It is about a rabbit who loves carrots but all of a sudden starts to see them everywhere he goes. Throughout the book it is questioned whether it is his imagination or real life. He comes up with a great plan to help stop this from happening.