Osborne, Mary Pope (Author), Sal Murdocca (Illlustrator) Civil War on Sunday Published by Random House Books for Young Readers in 2000.

Book for ages 6 and up. The illustrations are very ordinary, exactly what you see in your head when you're reading this story.

Teachers can use this book to begin teaching about the Civil War, giving the students personal feelings towards what happened at that time.

Teachers can also use this book to have the students write out a creative paper about what they would do if they ended up in the children's predicament in the tree house.

This story is about one of the many adventures of Jack and Annie! They must help a famous, historical nurse with helping wounded soldiers during the Civil War.

http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Sunday-Magic-Tree-House/dp/067989067X

Stine, R.L. (Author), n/a (Illustrator) How I Got my Shrunken Head Published by Scholastic in 2003.

Book for ages 8 and up. The cover is a dramatic drawing of a typical young boy's room with a detailed, scary shrunken head sitting on his dresser.

Teachers can use this book around Halloween to teach students the origin of the holiday.

Students can also write their own scary story that has to involve a shrunken head from a relative.

This story is about a young boy named Mark. He has just received a shrunken head that glows at night and gives him a special power.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Shrunken-Head-Goosebumps-Book/dp/0439568358/ref=cm_lmf_tit_39

Park, Barbara (Author), Denise Brunkus (Illustrator) Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine Published Random House Books for Young Readers in 1999.

Book for ages 6 and up. The illustrations are real life picture with lots of color and exaggerations.

Teachers can use this book to teach students that you don't always know what to expect from other people and that they should treat everyone kindly because you never know what they will do for you in the future.

Teachers can read this before Valentine's Day to show how much fun it can be to give one another Valentine cards and how happy it makes the other person.

This book is Junie B. Jones's experience with Valentine's Day in her Kindergarten class. On Valentine's Day she gets a huge Valentine   from someone unexpected. 

http://www.amazon.com/Junie-Jones-Mushy-Gushy-Valentime/dp/0375800395

Dr. Seus (Author/Illustrator) Horton Hears a Who Published by Random House Book for Young Readers in 1954.

This book is for ages 5 and up. the illustrations are creative takes on real life animals that live in a different kind of jungle.

Teachers can use this book to teach them that no matter how young, small, or different you are everyone has a voice.

Teachers can have students write out where they think the flower should have ended up so that it would remain safe forever.

This book is about an elephant that finds a small town on a spec and how he goes about protecting them.

http://www.amazon.com/Horton-Hears-Who-Dr-Seuss/dp/0394800788

Dr. Seus (Author/ Illustrator) The Lorax The Random House Books for Young Readers in 1971.

This books is for ages  and up. The illustrations are different, colorful, and use all sorts of different shapes, exactly what you'd expect from the creative mind of Dr. Seus.

Teachers can use this book to start a lesson on taking care of the environment.

Teachers can have each student write out what they would do if they were the Lorax to protect the forest, have them put on a giant mustache and tell the entire class their plan.

This book is a book from the future where there isn't any trees left in the world. It's about an older creature telling a young boy where all the trees have gone.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Lorax-Classic-Seuss-Dr/dp/0394823370

Silverstein, Shel (Author/Illustrator), A Light in the Attic Published by HarperCollins in 1981.

For ages 6 and up. The drawings are simple and silly, almost every poem has a drawing to emphasize it.

Teachers can use this book to teach several lessons on the different things that go into a poem.

Teachers can use this book to teach them how simple it can be to write a poem about anything they want.

This book is a collection of different poems covering several different topics that would make little kids chuckle.

http://www.amazon.com/A-Light-Attic-Shel-Silverstein/dp/0060256737