15+ Essential Reference Books for Your Classroom Library

The perfect dictionary for first-time readers contains over 800 words and pictures.

Early elementary school students will love using this dictionary specifically designed for them, featuring easy-to-understand definitions and color photographs that help illustrate meanings.

This version uses photographs instead of drawings for illustrations and includes modern vernacular, such as "chat room," and "mosh pit." Entries are in neat, clearly defined columns and a large, easy-to-read font. A brief history of each letter, precise word definitions, and illustrations are provided.

Students will love learning about the universe with this out-of-this-world classroom resource.

With more than 60,000 words, English makes spelling a challenge for the most diligent students. Now available in paperback, here's a handy, alphabetical guide of more than 15,000 words that kids can turn to for an instant spell-check.

This awe-inspiring updated edition of the Book of World Records comes complete with new entries in pop culture, science, tech, nature, sports, medicine, and more. This 2022 edition also includes "Trending" sections for each category, covering all the new cool social media facts, incredible stats, and facts you need to know from the past year.

From oxygen to hydrogen, carbon to plutonium, Animated Science: Periodic Table makes chemistry come alive! In this book you'll meet the building blocks of you, the world, and the universe and see how they come together to make everything you see, do, and use every day.

This accessible nonfiction compendium explores the creation of 10 global landmarks, from the first spark of an idea to the final layer of paint. Acclaimed educator Rekha Rajan encourages readers to see themselves as the engineers, builders, architects, and more through interactive stories and a unique structure.

This reference makes understanding idioms "as easy as pie" with explanations for, and origins of, more than 700 everyday American idioms.

Students will love exploring the maps and discovering the wealth of information on 195 countries plus other territories in this atlas.

This must-have reference for student writers includes more than 12,000 synonyms, 10,000 antonyms, and 2,000 homonyms.

Utilizing comic illustrations and cheeky characters, this book explores the substances that make up our Earth in a fun narrative format.