25 Book Guides to Pair with Bestselling Books

This teaching guide includes detailed lessons, a book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

This Caldecott Honor Book invites beginning readers to celebrate the wonder of friendship in happy stories they can read by themselves.

Everything you need to conduct a lively literature group based on Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad are Friends!

An imaginative story about longing and friendship, perfectly brought to life through gorgeous collage illustrations.

This teaching guide for Leo Lionni’s beloved book includes a summary, four detailed lessons, author information, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

A humorous story with a very real twist about how weather can affect people's environments.

This teaching guide for Judi Barrett’s book includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension questions, mini-lessons, a graphic organizer, writing activities, and more.

Arnold has swallowed the Magic School Bus! Now the class is taking a look at Arnold's stomach, his intestines, his bloodstream, and more.

This teaching guide includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

Introduce students to E.B. White's Newbery Award-winning classic that has warmed the hearts of young readers for generations.

This teaching guide for E.B. White’s book includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

This teaching guide includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

One day, Armand's simple life becomes complicated when he discovers a family under his bridge, complete with a working mother and, ugh, three children.

This teaching guide for includes a book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

Full of humor and drama, this brief novel captures the mix of emotions and experiences that accompanies the transition to fourth grade, or any grade.

This teaching guide for Jerry Spinelli’s book includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

Poignantly illustrating this important account by a seminal American voice are black-and-white photographs contributed by the Library of Congress, the NAACP, and Rosa Parks, herself.

This teaching guide includes a book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

Caleb and Anna's father places an advertisement in a newspaper for a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home. All the way from Maine, a woman named Sarah answers the ad.

This teaching guide includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

In this Newbery Honor Book, a young girl comes to terms with the effect that the teasing of her friends has had on a shy classmate.

This teaching guide includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

Author E.L. Konigsburg's modern classic tale of a young girl's escape into a search for identity in one of the world's greatest museums.

This teaching guide includes a book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

Gripping, relatable, and very emotional, this powerful tale touches hearts with its wonderful portrayal of love and friendship.

This teaching guide for Katherine Paterson’s book includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

The first installment of C.S. Lewis' renowned series, The Chronicles of Narnia.

This teaching guide for C.S. Lewis’s book includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

In 1940, the German army invades Norway and 12-year-old Peter Lundstrom's life is changed forever. Based on events that were said to have actually taken place during World War II.

This teaching guide for Marie McSwigan’s book includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

When 11-year-old Marty finds a young beagle, he is certain that the dog is being abused by his owner. Marty names him "Shiloh" and immediately feels that he will do anything to save the dog from further harm.

This teaching guide includes a book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

As German troops begin to "relocate" the Jews of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend and conceals her by pretending she's part of the family.

This teaching guide for Lois Lowry’s book includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

A coming of age fantasy that will capture students' imaginations as they join Meg, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin on an unforgettable adventure through time.

This teaching guide for Madeleine L’Engle’s book includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

This Newberry Honor Book combines recipes, drawings, diary entries and narration to create an enthralling portrait of a boy's self-sufficiency after he runs away from his home in New York City to live in the Catskill Mountains.

This teaching guide includes a book summary, detailed lessons, author information, vocabulary builders, ddiscussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

When Billy's much-beloved prize dogs are killed in a tragic fight with a mountain lion, he finds solace in old legends.

This teaching guide for Wilson Rawls’s beloved book includes a summary, four detailed lessons, author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

Milo's exciting adventure in lands of edible words and mysterious creatures—Dictionopolis, the Mountains of Ignorance, the Kingdom of Wisdom, and more!

This teaching guide for Norton Juster’s book includes a book summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

The story of Cassie Logan, an independent girl growing up relatively protected in a loving family, stands as an important addition to the cumulative record of the African-American experience.

This teaching guide for Mildred D. Taylor’s book includes a summary, four detailed lessons, author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

A poem cycle that reads as a novel, Out of the Dust tells the story of a girl named Billie Jo, who struggles to help her family survive the dust-bowl years of the Depression.

This teaching guide for Karen Hesse’s book includes a summary, four detailed lessons, author information, vocabulary builders, comprehension questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.

First published in 1903, this is the story of a sled dog in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush.

This teaching guide for Jack London’s book includes a summary, author information, vocabulary builders, discussion questions, graphic organizers, writing activities, and more.