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2007 Teacher's Choices-Primary Readers (Grade K-2)

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Since 1989,  the International Reading Association started the Teachers' Choices project  that will encourage young people to read. These are books that kids will enjoy—and that contribute to learning across the curriculum. Teachers and parents will  find exceptional for curriculum use or reading aloud uses.

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Why Do You Cry?

by: Kate Klise
release date: May 30, 2006
Why Do You Cry?
As his fifth birthday party approaches, Little Rabbit decides to invite only those friends who are also too old to cry until he learns that others of all ages weep for all sorts of reasons.

Thanks a Million

by: Nikki Grimes
Thanks a Million

What makes you thankful?

A book?
Weekends?
Your family?

How do you say thanks?
With a flower?
With a chocolate bar?
With a surprise?

In sixteen extraordinary poems that range in form from a haiku to a rebus to a riddle, Nikki Grimes reminds us how wonderful it is to feel thankful, and how powerful a simple "thank you" can be.

One Green Apple

by: Eve Bunting
release date: Jan 01, 2006
One Green Apple
While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks perfectly complements the other students' red apples.

Night Boat to Freedom

by: Margot Theis Raven, E. B. Lewis
release date: Dec 23, 2008
Night Boat to Freedom

What scares the head is best done with the heart.

When Granny Judith asks twelve-year-old Christmas John to row Molly across the river from Kentucky to the Free State of Ohio, he's terrified. But Granny Judith reassures him. So Christmas John begins the first of many dangerous journeys. And each passing day brings hope that Granny and John can find their own freedom, just across the river.

Night Boat to Freedom is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

The Journey

by: Cynthia Rylant
release date: Feb 01, 2006
The Journey
In this culminating work of a lifetime, the remarkable Billy Graham invites you to join him in discovering God's plan for this exciting journey called life. The good news is that we aren't alone, says Graham. Not only did God carve out the path for us, but He wants to join us on the journey -- to help us with challenges along the way, and eventually lead us home.

For You Are a Kenyan Child

by: Kelly Cunnane
release date: Jan 03, 2006
For You Are a Kenyan Child
A little boy who is supposed to be tending his grandfather's cows when... well, there are so many other interesting things to do!

Cookies

by: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
release date: Apr 25, 2006
Cookies
Everyone knows cookies taste good, but these cookies also have something good to say. Open this delectable book to any page and you will find out something about life. Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons is a new kind of dictionary, one that defines mysteries such as "fair" and "unfair" and what it really means to "cooperate." The book is by turns clever, honest, inspirational, and whimsical. Go ahead, take a bite!

Brothers

by: Yin
Brothers
Having arrived in San Francisco from China to work in his brother's store, Ming is lonely until an Irish boy befriends him.

Across the Alley

by: Richard Michelson, E. B. Lewis
release date: Oct 05, 2006
Across the Alley
Jewish Abe's grandfather wants him to be a violinist while African-American Wille's father plans for him to be a great baseball pitcher, but it turns out that the two boys are more talented when they switch hobbies.

3-D ABC

by: Bob Raczka
3-D ABC
This museum without walls combines the perfect introductions to modern art and the alphabet.
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