Reading Online
Click the link and type in the login/password. Some sites do not require a password. You can always email Mx. Rohde for your own personalized book suggestions!
More resources:
- AADL (Ann Arbor District Library) ebooks are available with one click to all Ann Arbor students via the Sora app. Here's how to add them.
- All Ann Arbor students get an AADL library card for FREE, no matter where you live. Here's the application.
Summer Reading Suggestions
NEW! Summer Reading presentation - with clickable links!
The Ann Arbor District Library has recommended summer reading lists: Birth to Preschool | K-2 | 3-5 Here are Lee & Low's excellent K-8 Diverse Summer Reading Lists Clickable lists from Bookopolis: 2nd grade | 3rd grade | 4th grade Don't miss the Great Lakes Great Books nominees for 2018-19! Coming soon: links to the nominees at the AADL. Here's my 2017-18 Summer Reading letter. |
2017-18 Purchases
We received a Karen Thomas grant for a wonderful collection of picture books of black & brown characters. This was inspired by Verna Myers' TED talk on implicit biases and how we can reset our internal assumptions about who is safe and trustworthy by surrounding ourselves with pictures of black and brown people. These are contemporary fiction books with characters who happen to be black and brown.
We also received a DonorsChoose grant which enabled us to purchase three copies of each of the 2017-18 Great Lakes Great Books Award nominees.
Our school budget purchased all the best 2018 ALA Youth Media Award winning books, as well as replacements for many of our ripped, damaged and missing books.
Thanks to the Scholastic Book Fair, we were able to more than double our funding and to buy some wonderful new nonfiction titles in the most popular categories, including dinosaurs, cooking, places in the world, arts & crafts, space, robotics, vehicles, and pets.
In addition, we received over fifty free books from publishers who mailed them to Mrs. Rohde when she was a judge in the Cybils Award Easy Reader/Early Chapter Book category.
To see lists of these books, visit the Library Catalog, then click the Copy Categories tab in the upper right corner.
We also received a DonorsChoose grant which enabled us to purchase three copies of each of the 2017-18 Great Lakes Great Books Award nominees.
Our school budget purchased all the best 2018 ALA Youth Media Award winning books, as well as replacements for many of our ripped, damaged and missing books.
Thanks to the Scholastic Book Fair, we were able to more than double our funding and to buy some wonderful new nonfiction titles in the most popular categories, including dinosaurs, cooking, places in the world, arts & crafts, space, robotics, vehicles, and pets.
In addition, we received over fifty free books from publishers who mailed them to Mrs. Rohde when she was a judge in the Cybils Award Easy Reader/Early Chapter Book category.
To see lists of these books, visit the Library Catalog, then click the Copy Categories tab in the upper right corner.
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The Top 100 Children's NovelsThis list comes from a poll conducted by Betsy Bird, who was at that time a youth librarian at the New York Public Library. These are wonderful books for reading with and sharing with your children! You can view a detailed version of the list on her blog, as well as a printable version of the list. I'm happy to say I've read most of them.
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We Need Diverse (Children's) Books
There's a campaign afoot, led by two authors, to increase the diversity in libraries around the world! Read more about it at the official site. If you're looking for information on why, this position paper by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is a good place to start. Check out their brand-new book recommendation app "OurStory!" If you are looking for booklists, Pragmatic Mom has some good ones.