Teacher’s Guides for Every Occasion! – MacKids School & Library

Cover image that reads "Teacher's Guides for every occasion" white text on a red background, framed by cover images.

If you’re looking to boost your lesson plans with great reads and important classroom discourse, we have a selection of guides to help! This list of teacher’s guides for every occasion can help you plan for the year! From well-loved canon to important historical moments, you’ll find pre-reading questions, discussion topics, and common core ties that are evergreen conversation starters.

Picture Books: Fiction

Cover of "Why?"
Cover of "Odder, an Otter's Story"
Cover of "I wish you knew"
Cover of "Together, a Forest"
Cover of "Anh's New Word"
Cover of "Abuelo, The Sea, and Me

Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Together, A Forest by Roz MacLean, Odder: An Otter’s Story by Katherine Applegate, Abuelo, the Sea, and Me by Ismée Williams; illustrated by Tatiana Gardel, Ánh’s New Word by Hanh Bui; illustrated by Bao Luu, I Wish You Knew by Jackie Azúa Kramer; illustrated by Magdalena Mora, and Why? A Conversation About Race by Taye Diggs; illustrated by Shane W. Evans.

Picture Books: Non-Fiction

Cover of "Choosing Brave"
Cover of "Ida B. Wells: Voice of Truth"

Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Choosing Brave by Angela Joy; illustrated by Janelle Washington, and Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth by Michelle Duster; illustrations by Laura Freeman.

Middle Grade: Fiction

Cover for "A Wrinkle In Time"
Cover for "Wishtree"
Cover for "The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise"
Cover of "Frizzy"
over of "The Lost Year"
Cover of "Onyx and Beyond"
Cover for "The Song of Orphan's Garden"
Cover of "Greta"
Cover for Odder
Cover of "Farther Than The Moon"
Cover of "The Gray"
Cover of "Eagle Drums"
Cover of "The Marvellers"
Cover of "In the Key of Us"
Cover of "Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa"
Cover of "Cuba in my Pocket"

Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle; Wishtree by Katherine Applegate, Odder by Katherine Applegate, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart, Onyx & Beyond by Amber McBride, The Song of Orphan’s Garden by Nicole M. Hewitt, Greta by J. S. Lemon, Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega; illustrated by Rose Bousamra, Farther than the Moon by Lindsay Lackey, The Gray by Chris Baron, by Eagle Drums by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson, The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh, The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton; illustrated by Khadijah Khatib, In the Key of Us by Mariama J. Lockington, Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa by Julian Randall, and Cuba in my Pocket by Adrianna Cuevas.

Middle Grade: Non-Fiction

Cover of "Latinitas"
Cover of "Three Summers"
Cover of "Torpedoed"
Cover of "My Selma"
Cover of "Betty Before X"
Cover of "The Girl Who Sang"

Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Three Summers by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan, The Girl Who Sang by Estelle Nadel with Bethany Strout; illustrated by Sammy Savos, Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz, with Renee Watson, My Selma by Willie Mae Brown, Torpedoed by Deborah Heiligman, and Latinitas by Juliet Menéndez.

Young Adult: Fiction

Cover of "Speak"
Cover Promise Boys
Cover of "Shadow and Bone"
Cinder Cover
Cover of "The Lost Dreamer"
Cover of "So Many Beginnings"
Cover of "Shadow & Bone"
Clash of Steel
Cover of "Librarian of Auschwitz"
Cover of "Under the Same Stars"
Cover of "Thirsty"
Cover of "Saints of the Household"
Cover of "Warrior Girl Unearthed"
Cover of "Himawari House"

Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson; illustrated by E.M. Carroll, The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe; adapted by Salva Rubio and illustrated by Loreto Aroca; translated by Lilit Thwaites; Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray, Thirsty: A Novel by Jas Hammonds, Saints of the Household by Ari Tyson, Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley, Promise Boys by Nick Brooks, Himawari House by Harmony Becker, Cinder by Marissa Meyer, The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow, Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo, A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix by C.B. Lee, and Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angelline Boulley.

Young Adult: Non-Fiction

Cover of "Accountable"
Cover of "The Impossible Escape"
Cover of "True or False"
Cover of "Call Him Jack"
Cover of "The Sun Does Shine"
cover of "Jane Against The World"
Cover of "Fallout"
Cover of "Whose Right Is It"
Cover of "Don't Look Back"
Cover of "The 57 Bus"
Cover of "Duet"
Cover of "Rise up"
Cover of "Strongman"

Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater, Accountable by Dashka Slater, Impossible Escape by Steve Sheinkin, The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Don’t Look Back by Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, Call Him Jack by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, Duet by Phillip Hoose, Jane Against The World by Karen Blumenthal, Rise Up! by Crystal Marie Fleming, Fallout by Steve Sheinkin, Strongman by Kenneth C. Davis, Whose Right Is It? The Second Amendment and the Fight Over Guns by Hana Bajramovic, True or False by Cindy L. Otis.