Genre: Informational
Title:My Brain!

Author–Kathy Furgang
Review- This book is very interesting because it deals with human brain. It’s the same series as the other book I did about the eyes. This book is great for kids who have to do a report on the human brain,

Summary : this book gives a brief over view of the human brain and what the functions and how the brains works. And different injury’s that can happen if the brain where to get hurt.

Content area: this book can be tied with the scene domain because of the biology factor.

Genre: Informational non- fiction

Title:My Eyes!

Author:Kathy Furgang

Review- This book is really good if a student has a report to due n the eyes. Or if are your doing a lesson a and what to start out the unit with an informational book.

Summary-This book is about the human eye, how the eye works. The different parts of the eye and what each part and what the job is for that certain part. . The book also discusses what are different problems people deal with when they lose their vision or if some people have vision problems.

Content area- This book is connected with the area if science because it deals with biology

Genre:Historical Fiction
Title:I am Rosa Parks
Author:Brad Meltzer

Summary – this book is about the major events that happened to Rosa parks and what happened during that time to those people in  those events. The one thing that make its historical fiction are many of the minor characters that are in the book they seem a little far fetched.

Content area- this would book would be tied under the history domain because it deals with Rosa parks events and the conditions for colored people of the 1960’s
Review- this book is really cute as well and the illustration style is adorable which in my personal opinion make it really accessible to children and would make them want to check this book out of library just for fun even if it wasn’t for school

Genre: Informational
Title:The wonder of Pandas
Author:Gareth Stevens Publishing
Summary-this book is all about Pandas. And how they live what they eat and how they behave in the environment. And also they interact with each other and stuff.
Review- This book is very cute and all the pages are an illustration. You wouldn’t think that with an informational book but they are which I thought was an interesting twist.
Content Area- this book can be connected to the area of science and art science f the students are learning about this certain type of animal. Art if you want to describe the different mediums that the illustrator used in the book.

Author Edward Lear
Genre: Traditional
Summary – a cat and owl decide to sail away together in a boat to a far away land so they can live together. While they are sailing the owl sings to the cat how much he loves her and then they reach the land and where married by a turkey and had a nice honeymoon and lived happily ever after.
Content area – the could be connected to social studies cause this is sort of like a folk tale
Review- the book was nice I found this in the cmc ( Curriculum materials center on campus) I thought it was a cute book just some of the language I thought was question able

Poetry- Sidewalk Chalk ( Poems of the City) –Carole Boston Weatherford

Summary- This is a book that has a whole bunch of poems that deal with living in the city or city life. The topic of the poems includes the following: On the corner, sidewalk chalk, cool pool, the Laundromat. Each poem gives a little lens of that place in the city.
Review: I really enjoyed this, and when I saw the cover it looked really familiar I think this may have crossed my path before college. I looked at the copy write date and it says 2001 so it’s a very great possibility that it has crossed in my school career.

Content Area; I would say that this book best fits under the social studies category because this book teaches about diversity and about community and being a community even in a big city, ked really familiar I think this may have crossed my path before college. I looked at the copy write date and it says 2001 so it’s a very great possibility that it has crossed in my school career.

Title:Loud! Sound Energy

Author:Emma Carlson Berne

Genre:Informational Text

Summary- This book is about sounds and how sound is made and different kinds of sound energy and the ways these energies are produced. . This book also teaches about sound waves, thunder, sonic booms, and pitch of sounds.

Review: My librarian in my town actually showed me this series of books when I had to do my book plan because we didn’t know what to do for energy so she helped me out. Turns out I couldn’t use that because its too boring to read to the children. But since I found out about the series I was able to use it for my second lesson plan. The book almost reads a s a text book but in a fun sort of way. I wouldn’t recommend reading as a story but still have it on your classroom bookshelf for when children have there own choice in reading when they have free time as a choice during that unit.

Content area. Besides ELA This book would be helpful for a second grade class room in the area of science because it has to deal wit h the science of sound energy

Genre :Literary non-fiction

Title:The Magic School Bus Plays Ball

Author: scholastic
Summary- the students on this wonderful adventure with Mrs. Frizzle inside of a textbook to find out more about forces and how they work and such things.. When they think they have a pretty good understanding of the subject content they then get stuck in the actual textbook and they have to work together to help them all get out of the textbook.

Content area- I would ties this in with science because it deals with different types of forces in the world.

Review- This book I enjoyed a lot. When my CT gave me m topic to do for my class book I had a heard time finding a book. In then end I didn’t use this book but I did for my fake lesson 1 so it did.

Title: Rude Cakes

Author: Rowboat Watkins

Genre:Fantasy – Rowboat Watkins

Summary- This book is about a pink cake that is really mean and very rude to other smaller pastries. He would say please or thank you and would push other pasties around and wouldn’t listen to his parents. Then one night a Cyclops picks him out of bed and decided to wear him as a hat. The rude cake doesn’t enjoy this very much. But turns out the Cyclopes are very nice and have manners and when the Cyclops hears his “hat” talking he lets the cake speak his mind and in the end he lets the cake go. When the cake gets back to his room the cake realizes that manner and being nice to other cakes really matters and he is never rude again.
Review: I thought that the book was quiet cute and so glad that I found a fantasy one. I didn’t know what to pick for this category because when I think of fantasy I think of comic books and there isn’t many comic books during this specific age range. But I went to library and found this little gem, I would recommend this mainly for kindergartens to teach them manners and such, The older grades I think would find it funny if you just wanted to read it for fun and not a educational purpose at least no in the older grades. Content Area: This could be used under the subject area of community when trying to establish friendship and relationships between others. Also in the same content area this could be used to make a connection to bullying.

Title: Peters Chair
Author: Ezra jack Kaets
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Summary: He has a blue chair and his parens what to paint it pink because they are about to have a little sister, but he doesn’t like that so he want to run away!. He hides with his dog in the house, then when he realizes that his sister is coming and decides that its okay and he wants to help with the preparation  of his new baby sister coming.
Review:I enjoyed this book a lot, i really enjoyed this the artistic illustrations that where presented in the book and the story it self i enjoy immensely.

Content Area Connection:Art the author uses collage to illustrate the book and the book can be uses to discuss about the this type of art form.

Social Studies: The author uses a sense of family to build a connection with sibling s.grades starts with them selves and work there ways out and family can be connected to that unit.