 | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.75 This is one of my most favorite books. The kids LOVE this story. This is nice and gentle for September 11th. (For grownups, I recommend "Man on Wire." It's also awesome.)
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 | The Little Chapel that Stood by A. B. Curtiss
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $9.61 Gentle and moving. Another good September 11 book.
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 | Halloween (My First Discoveries Series) by David Grant
This book is a fun, simple history of the holiday.
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 | Barack by Jonah Winter
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $3.05 This one was great for the election last year.
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 | Grace for President by Kelly Dipucchio
Buy new: $10.74 / Used from: $3.86 This was a fun story to read.
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 | The Wall (Reading Rainbow Books) by Eve Bunting
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.23 Very touching story. Perfect for Veterans Day.
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 | America's White Table by Margot Theis Raven
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.35 I did not know about this tradition until I read this book.
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 | The First Thanksgiving (Picture Puffins) by Jean Craighead George
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A little dry, a little long.
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 | Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.00 This one was much more fun for the kids.
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 | Story of World War II (Dover Coloring Book) by Peter F. Copeland
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $3.39 I use this for Pearl Harbor Day.
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 | Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.44 Tells the story of the Christmas truce during World War I.
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 | Christmas and New Year (My First Discoveries Series) by Pascale de Bourgoing
Buy used from: $21.47 This book does a good job of explaining different Christmas traditions. I had a student who was visited by Belfana and she is in this book!
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 | One Candle by Eve Bunting
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Good for Hanukkah.
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 | Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.75 This is good for Dr. King's birthday. Awesome pictures, too.
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 | I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King Jr.
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 This one is really nice.
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 | A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.30 Good for February.
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 | Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Doreen Rappaport
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $5.18 This one is really nice. Goes good with Martin as well. I wish they would make one like this for JFK.
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 | The Gettysburg Address
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $5.92 This book is awesome! It's huge also.
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 | The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This one is a tad easier to handle and just as moving. I always get a little sad reading the Address.
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 | Presidents (Eyewitness Books) by James G. Barber
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.95 This is a good, UPDATED reference. Make sure you get the one that looks like this or President Obama won't be in it.
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 | First Ladies (Eyewitness Books) (DK Eyewitness Books) by Amy Pastan
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $2.99 I always put this one out with Presidents.
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 | John, Paul, George & Ben (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards)) by Lane Smith
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.75 The kids love this book. I love all of The Beatles references throughout.
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 | The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Awesome. The kids have acted out "one if by land, two if by sea."
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 | St. Patrick's Day Alphabet by Beverly Barras Vidrine
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.01 Good ABC book that includes some Irish history.
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 | The St. Patrick's Day Shillelagh by Janet Nolan
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 Story of Irish immigration and tradtions.
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 | When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.98 The kids like this one... especially since my name is Jessie. (They love that!)
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 | Titanic (DK Eyewitness Books) by Simon Adams
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $9.93 I do a big Titanic unit. This is always a popular book at our classroom library.
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 | Inside the Titanic (A Giant Cutaway Book) by Hugh Brewster
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $4.98 The kids love the pullout sections that show "inside" the ship.
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 | The Titanic Coloring Book by Peter F. Copeland
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is fun for the kids.
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 | The Titanic: Lost and Found (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4) by Judy Donnelly
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 Easy to understand info.
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 | DK Readers: Titanic: The Disaster That Shocked the World! (Level 3: Reading Alone) by Mark Dubowski
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 This one has real photographs in it.
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 | Titanicat (True Stories) by Marty Crisp
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $10.47 Strange title, I know, but gorgeous paintings inside and a true story that is easily understandable.
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 | Polar the Titanic Bear by Daisy Corning Stone Spedden
Buy new: $9.39 / Used from: $0.77 This one is quite long, so we skip around in it.
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 | Pig on the Titanic: A True Story by Gary Crew
Buy used from: $2.50 The kids love this story! They always giggle when the pig talks.
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 | Titanic by Jim Pipe
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $3.08 Like a scrapbook.
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 | On Board the Titanic: What It Was Like When the Great Liner Sank (I Was There) by Shelley Tanaka
Buy new: $9.95 This one is a great reference but long.
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 | Titanic
Buy new: $13.67 / Used from: $6.44 This has a big pop-up bow in it. Very popular.
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 | Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.16 We read this for Memorial Day. Goregous pictures and poetry.
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 | Memorial Day (Rookie Read-About Holidays) by Jacqueline S. Cotton
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $2.37 This does a good explaining the history of the holiday.
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 | America at War: Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $0.46 This book is amazing. It covers of-the-era poetry from the Revolution to Iraq.
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