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Check out the best of the best children's books!
This free website lets you gather and share notes, links, and resources with excellent privacy controls, making it good to use with students. |
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Help students manage these pressures and feel more at ease in the classroom try some of these practical strategies to support students dealing with school-related anxiety. |
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Youth Services Department
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Lets embrace the beauty of art in all its forms by preparing for our Summer Reading Program 2025! As you know, the summer learning gap is a real challenge that our students face. The Summer Reading Program (SRP) is a great way to keep kids engaged in reading throughout the summer, with some fun prizes along the way, including a free book when they finish! We are delighted to announce that the theme for this year’s program is Color Our World! We look forward to your journey of art and creativity celebrating the many ways in which art enriches our lives. We are very excited about this year’s theme and hope you are, too! In addition to SRP, we are planning engaging programs for children of all ages! We are working on a promotional video that you can send out to your students. Look out for it in one of our future newsletters! |
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Scholastic Teachables is a great resource for every grade! Teachables offers a vast collection of printable educational materials, perfect for
learning at home or in the classroom. Explore engaging worksheets,
activities, Mini-Books, and more! Under the "Differentiation Collections" tab, you will find ready-to-go differentiated skill and activity sheets to support each level of learner in your classroom. Usethe "Topics" tab to search for a particular grade, subject, theme, type, genre, Mini-Books, or Summer Reading resource. You can check out Scholastic Teachables by following this link: |
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Help fight summer learning loss by encouraging students to read. With eBooks, students have access to books wherever they have access to internet. |
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Tumblebooks has talking picture books, audiobooks, games, chapter books, and classics with a Read-Along feature that highlights text as it is read aloud! Text size and color is also adjustable. |
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A Pocket Full of Rocks
by Kristin Mary Mahoney
You can do a lot with a pocket full of rocks. Rocks make excellent chairs for fairies, they are perfect for writing your name on the sidewalk, or just to hold in your hand when you need reassurance. And so the rocks pile up, until the season turns and you need to make room for pockets full of petals. And shells. And acorns! Each season's treasure is kept and curated and loved, until it's time to give the treasures away and make room for new things to come.
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Just Like Millie
by Lauren Castillo
When they move to a new city, a shy young girl finds making friends overwhelming until she meets Millie, a rescue dog who helps her overcome her anxiety and shows her that saying hello to new people and maybe making a friend isn't so scary.
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Kid Reporter Field Guide: A How-To Book For Junior Journalists
by Hannah Holzer
Junior journalists learn how to write an assortment of news and features articles and how to interview sources, cover sports events, critique restaurants and write features on impactful people, in a field guide that includes biographies on famous journalists.
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The Sherlock Society
by James Ponti
Starting a detective agency instead of spending the summer babysitting, mowing lawns or cleaning, siblings Alex and Zoe Sherlock team up with their retired reporter grandfather to solve cold cases, including a long-lost treasure supposedly hidden near the Everglades linked to famed gangster Al Capone.
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Mixed-Up
by Kami Garcia
Stella knows fifth grade will be the best year ever. Her closest friends, Emiko and Latasha, are in her class and they all got the teacher they wanted. Then their favorite television show, Witchlins, announces a new guidebook and an online game! But when the classwork starts piling up, Stella struggles to stay on top. Why does it take her so long to read? And how can she keep up with friends in the Witchlins game if she can't get through the text-heavy guidebook?
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It's All or Nothing, Vale
by Andrea Beatriz Arango
Valentina Camacho was the top athlete at her fencing gym until a life-changing accident, but now her body doesn't move the same and there's a new number one, in a story about a girl finding her way back to her passion.
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