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

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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

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Cover of "Why?"
Cover of "Odder, an Otter's Story"
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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 Bartleby by Matt Phelan, Together, A Forest by Roz MacLean, Odder: An Otter’s Story by Katherine Applegate, A Snow Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead; illustrated by Erin E. Stead; The Princess and the Grain of Rice by Tina Cho; illustrated by Honee Jang, Bread is Love by Pooja Makhijani; illustrated by Lavanya Naidu, Beware the Sock Monkeys! by Jonathan Stutzman; illustrated by Heather Fox, 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

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

Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for How a Bear Became a Book by Annette Bay Pimentel; illustrated by Faith Pray, Alberto Salas Plays paka paka con la papa by Sara Andrea Fajardo; illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal, Do You Know the Dark? by Roz MacLean, 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

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Cover of Let it Glow by Marissa Meyer and Joanne Levy
Cover of Tuck Everlasting
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Pocket Bear cover
Cover of Busted by Dan Gemeinhart
Cover of Dream by Barbara O'Connor
Cover of A Method for Magic and Misfortune by Craig Kofi Farmer
Cover of The Experiment by Rebecca Stead
Cover for "A Wrinkle In Time"
Cover for "Wishtree"
Cover for "The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise"
Cover of "Frizzy"
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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 Shook by Julian Randall, The Lions’ Run by Sara Pennypacker, A Sea of Lemon Trees by María Dolores Águila, The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan by Jasmine Warga, Spark by Chris Baron, Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate, Let it Glow by Marissa Meyer and Joanne Levy, Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel by K. Woodman-Maynard, the novels of Amber McBride, Busted by Dan Gemeinhart, Dream by Barbara O’Connor, A Method for Magic & Misfortune by Craig Kofi Farmer, The Experiment by Rebecca Stead, 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, 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, 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

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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"
Cover of Power To The Parasites

Scroll through the images above to find teacher’s guides for Reading the Bones by Marc Aronson and John S. Mead, Double Crossed by Rebecca E.F. Barone, Diamond Fever by Steve Sheinkin; with comics and art by Jon Chad, Sole Survivor by Norman Ollestad and Brendan Kiely, Malcolm Lives! by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Graphic Novel Memoirs by various authors, 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, Power to The Parasites by Chelsea L. Wood, and Latinitas by Juliet Menéndez.

Young Adult: Fiction

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Cover of "Speak"
Cover Promise Boys
Cover of "Shadow and Bone"
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Cover of "The Lost Dreamer"
Cover of "So Many Beginnings"
Cover of "Shadow & Bone"
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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 novels of Amber McBride, Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley, 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

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Cover for Loudmouth by Deb Heiligman
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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 White Lies by Ann Bausum, King: A Life (Young Adult Edition) by Jonathan Eig; adapted for young adults by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, Loudmouth by Deb Heiligman, 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.