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Book List

We’ve carefully curated book lists to go with each lesson.


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Be Prepared

The Name Jar

By Yangsook ChoiDragonfly Books

After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.

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Be a Neighbor

The Neighbors

By Einat TsarfatiAbrams Books for Young Readers

As a young girl climbs the seven stories to her own (very boring!) apartment, she imagines what’s behind each of the doors she passes.

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Be a Neighbor

The New Neighbors

By Sarah McIntyrePenguin Workshop

As young rabbit siblings excitedly share the news that rats have moved into their building, worried neighbors inform them that rats are dirty, thieving, and destructive–but are they?

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Be Prepared

The Night Before Kindergarten

By Natasha WingGrosset & Dunlap

Children from all over town prepare for their first day of kindergarten, imagining the wonders they will see.

Ok Book cover

Be Persistent

The OK Book

By Amy Krouse RosenthalHarper Collins Publishers

A character enumerates a great many things that it enjoys doing, although not great at any of them, knowing that someday it will excel at something.

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Be Prepared

The Pigeon Has to Go to School!

By Mo WillemsHyperion Books for Children

Why does the Pigeon have to go to school? He already knows everything! And what if he doesn’t like it? What if the teacher doesn’t like him? What if he learns TOO MUCH!?!

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Be Responsible, Be Yourself

The Pirate of Kindergarten

By George Ella LyonAtheneum Books for Young Readers

When Ginny goes to a vision screening at school and discovers that not everyone sees her way, she learns that her double vision can be cured.

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Be Green

The Pout Pout Fish Cleans Up the Ocean

By Deborah DiesenFarrar Straus Giroux

Children learn about pollution and what we can all do to help.

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