The Books Teachers Are Stocking Up On All Year

With light-footed rhymes and high-stepping illustrations, this tale is gentle inspiration for every child with dreams of greatness.

The silly, funny, fantastic story of a boy who didn't wash his hands and the crazy consequences that ensue as he spreads a bit of grossness around.

In plain language, parents of a brightly colored rockfish share lessons about how to swim joyfully through life.

When a generous boy shares a cookie with a hungry mouse, it is the beginning of a chain of events that keeps the boy busy all day long, and might keep him busy for days to come. If you give a mouse a cookie, after all, he's bound to ask for a glass of milk, for which he'll certainly need a straw, not to mention a napkin, and a mirror to check for a milk mustache, which will only lead to him noticing that he needs a haircut. 

This inclusive picture book rejoices in the specialness of each person's beauty and ability.

A girl in a red hat finds the courage to be kind to the new student in class. Her kindness spreads, until her whole community experiences the magical shift that happens when people understand what it means to be kind, and act on their best impulses!

Is it time yet? This STEM-focused romp about pupation will tickle little ones who know how hard it is to wait.

It's a whale of a tale in which a terrible misunderstanding escalates, putting Rainbow Fish and his friends in great danger, and Rainbow Fish must try to make peace with a big blue whale to save them all from disaster. 

Frog does not want to sit on a log! But Cat tells him that's where he belongs. Doing his best to find an alternative place to sit, Frog asks Cat a whole lot of questions. For every answer Cat has, Frog has another question, until he finds out what dogs sit on! A silly read-aloud story with funny rhymes and hilarious illustrations.

Some kids have dogs and some kids have cats, but Buzz has a pet fly! In this first book of the hilarious series, Buzz enters his winged buddy in the Amazing Pet Competition. The judges scoff until they see all the extraordinary tricks the little fly can do.

It tackles the problem of handling disappointment in a clever and straightforward way. Melvin throws a fit whenever he doesn't get what he wants. Apparently this is tolerated at home and he always gets his way, but at school the rule is "You get what you get if you don't throw a fit." Melvin learns to control his behavior at school pretty quickly and when he spills the beans at home, his parents take on a new philosophy as well.

This upbeat tale features easy-to-follow rhyming text, expressive illustrations, and familiar classroom scenes that will help get little ones excited for their first day of school.

Organized into color-coded levels, these short, compelling stories will have both emergent and more advanced readers entertained and engaged as they explore new stories with their favorite characters.

Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don't like them. Camilla Cream is very worried about what other people think about her, but at the very moment she most wants to fit in, she becomes completely covered in colorful stripes! Worse yet, she seems to change colors to match whatever is happening around her. When the class says the Pledge of Allegiance, she turns red, white, and blue! Instead of blending in, she's standing out.

The Gingerbread Man runs as fast as he can in this fast-paced classic about a very determined little cookie!

Many claim to have caught a mermaid, but can YOU?

This latest book by the winning team who gave readers If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Give a Moose a Muffin tells the tale of a little girl who tries to keep up with the demands of a bossy little pig.

Everyone's favorite dinosaurs are back, and this time they are going to school. More fun dinosaur antics await. These prehistoric pupils are in a class of their own! As in their previous books, Yolen and Teague capture children's rambunctious natures with playful read-aloud verse and wonderfully amusing pictures.

This rhyming guide to social skills is a good introduction for young children to the power of kindness. Includes helpful times and activities.

Clemont's little sister, Bonnie, is too young to be a Trainer; but she wants a Pokemon of her own. Then she finds a tiny green Pokemon and names it Squishy. But there's a lot more to this cute little Pokemon than meets the eye ...

This boy visits friends in 13 different countries spanning all six populated continents. Along the way, he introduces readers to each friend's environment and customs.

What would happen if a Tyrannosaurus rex and a Velociraptor met each other? What if they had a fight?

History's most exciting and terrifying events come to life in these stories of amazing kids and how they survived.

Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy. At least he was, until the night his bulletin board fell off the wall and flattened him. All of a sudden, Stanley can slide under doors, mail himself across the country in an envelope, and fly like a kite!

At a time when being a woman and an African American limited what a mathematician might achieve, meet women who helped NASA win the space race.

Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, 13-year-old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house. But even in his fortified tree house, Jack alone is no match for the hordes of zombies and winged wretches and vine thingies, and especially not for the eerily intelligent monster known only as Blarg.

Steve's new neighbor is Jackie Robinson! Steve is beyond excited about living two doors down from the Robinson family. He can't wait to meet Jackie. This is going to be the best baseball season yet! How many kids ever get to become friends with their hero?

Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own. Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding it pretty hard to figure out where he fits in. Joe and Ravi don't think they have anything in common, but soon enough they have a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and a common mission: to take control of their lives over the course of a single crazy week.

This story will inspire many as it shows how, even in the worst of times, a great idea and a lot of hard work can still rock the world.

Marcus Robinson is psyched! Tomorrow, his class is going on a field trip to a professional basketball arena to meet the one and only Jason Carter, Marcus's hero. Marcus usually ignores everything except for basketball, but this time he studies for hours to win the math contest, for the prize of being the official Jason Carter greeter!

But when Jason tells Marcus some things he didn't expect to hear about professional basketball, Marcus is confused. He thought that all he'd ever need in life was basketball. Thanks to Jason, Marcus is about to learn the meaning of a real slam dunk.

An eighth-grader with an talent for shooting winning hoops learns that winning a basketball game takes practice and teamwork on and off the court.

Inspired by the true story of a gorilla who spent 30 years alone in a cage at an indoor zoo, this beautiful book imagines what that gorilla might have felt and said about his life. 

Separated by continents and decades, the harrowing escape stories of Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud intertwine in this timely and powerful novel.

A story of survival and of transformation, this riveting book has sparked many a reader's interest in venturing into the wild.

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.

Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico, but a sudden tragedy forces her to flee to California during the Great Depression and settle in a camp for Mexican farm workers. 

Jess and his new neighbor Leslie become instant friends, spending hours in the woods near their houses, creating a magical kingdom—until tragedy strikes.

The heartwarming story of Auggie’s struggles to thrive at his new school will help readers learn about bullying, acceptance, peer pressure, and courage.

Wendy Wan-Long Shang, the critically acclaimed author of Asian/Pacific American Library Association Award for Children's Literature winner The Great Wall of Lucy Wu, weaves a timely and deeply moving portrait of all the secret battles Evan Pao must fight as he struggles to figure out how he fits into this country's past, as well as his own family's...and where that leaves him in the present.

The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. And now, two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker...

This winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award features Stanley Yelnats, a kid who is under a curse and unjustly sent to a boys' detention center. 

Based on an astonishing true story, this tale of survival centers on one young boy’s terror-filled journey through 10 concentration camps during World War II.