Window Music (train)

Window Music by Anastasia Suen
Picture Book

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Hardcover/Paperback: 32 pages

Publisher: Viking/Puffin

This train ride was A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year!

Photos:

Visit Union Station in Los Angeles where the train ride began.

The Union Pacific Railroad photo gallery has LOTS of trains!

Follow the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway freight map.

Use Amtrak’s Interactive Route Atlas to explore all the places Amtrak goes.

Activities:

Print these trains activity and coloring pages.

Try this train track maze and this train shape maze.

Put this online train puzzle together.

Can you find all of the words in this train word search?

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The Story of Hockey (easy reader)

The Story of Hockey by Anastasia Suen
A Sports History easy reader

“A brief history of the sport for beginning readers.”
~School Library Journal

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Hardcover/Paperback: 24 pages

Publisher: Rosen/Rigby

Activities:

See the latest hockey news and videos at NHL.com.

Explore the Science of Hockey.

Try this hockey maze puzzle.

Can you find all of the words in this hockey word search?

Make your own Hockey Word Search.

Also available in Spanish:

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The Story of Soccer (easy reader)

The Story of Soccer by Anastasia Suen
A Sports History easy reader

“A brief history of the sport for beginning readers.”
~School Library Journal

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Hardcover/Paperback: 24 pages

Publisher: Rosen/Rigby

This book is also available in Spanish.

Activities:

Preview the book.

Try these soccer puzzles and word searches.

Soccer Printables has puzzles, word searches, and coloring pages.

Play Soccer Mania online.

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Raise the Roof (home/community theme)

Raise the Roof by Anastasia Suen
Picture book

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Hardcover: 32 pages

Publisher: Viking

“Here is a picture book that has done a remarkable thing—the author has reduced the steps of building a new home, from blueprint to welcome mat, to its bare essentials and written the story in jaunty rhyme that very young readers will both understand, and enjoy.” ~ Children’s Literature

Activities:

Learn about construction workers and their tools.

Compare Native American homes and the first homes built by European settlers inWhat Should a House Do?

Use these Home and Houses Activites and Crafts.

Make these Houses and Other Dwellings.

Think about Houses and Communities and children who are homeless.

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Go-Kart Rush

Go-Kart Rush by Anastasia Suen (writing as Jake Maddox)
A go-kart novel

Reading level: Ages 9-12

Library Binding / Paperback: 72 pages

Publisher: Stone Arch Books

Tony is used to being the best. With his old kart, he won every single race. But now he’s twelve, and he’s moved up to the next class of racing—TAG karts. Sure, he gets to drive a cool new kart that goes faster than anything he’s ever driven. But he has to race against kids three years older than him, who aren’t nice to him, and who have been driving TAG karts for years. How is Tony supposed to get used to losing? And when Jon, one of the older kids, invites him to practice, is Jon just setting Tony up for more embarrassment?

Activities:

Play the online Go-Kart Racing Game. (Control your Go-Kart by using the 4 arrow keys.)

Download the free KartingRace Game and practice by yourself or race against 1-5 opponents.

Use math to win the Go-Go Go-Karts online racing game. You can play by yourself or with a friend.

Watch the Rotax US Grand Nationals this month to see who will be going to the World Finals in Egypt!

Visit the World Karting Association’s webpage to find out when the next karting race is in your area.

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Block Party (for Labor Day)

Block Party by Anastasia Suen
A Bebop Easy Reader

Reading level: Guided Reading™: E DRA: 6 Reading Recovery®: 7

Paperback: 16 pages

Publisher: Bebop Books

Join two friends, Tanya and Rosa, as they ride in a patriotic bike parade through their neighborhood and end up at fun-filled block party.

Also available in Spanish as Fiesta de barrio.

Activities:

Host your own block party.

Have a block party for kids.

Play the online Block Party Game by moving the blocks to select the members of your party band.

Have a bike parade birthday party!

Use these Block Party book lesson plans with your class.

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Here Comes the Bus

Here Comes the Bus by Anastasia Suen
A Bebop Easy Reader

Reading level: Guided Reading™: B DRA: 2 Intervention: 2

Paperback: 8 pages

Publisher: Bebop Books

A Chinese American girl takes the bus to school and greets her friends, one by one, at each stop.

Also available in Spanish as Ya viene el autobús

Activities:

Use the lesson plans from the 91 page Illinois School Bus Safety Program.

First School has school bus music, coloring pages, crafts, and online games.

Play the online School Bus Safety Games.

Visit the Traffic Safety Kid’s Page for coloring pages, puzzles and a word scramble.

Download Free Bus Safety Presentations in PowerPoint.

Use these lesson plans with your class.

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Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam by Anastasia Suen
American Symbols Picture Book

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Library Binding: 24 pages

Publisher: Picture Window Books

He has become one of the country’s most well-known characters. Tall and firm, Uncle Sam stands for a strong U.S. government. Join meatpacker Sam Wilson in Uncle Sam as he shares the wild story of how he, a clown, and countless artists shaped this American symbol.

Activities:

September 13th is Uncle Sam Day!

Bake and paint an Uncle Sam hat.

Try this online Uncle Sam coloring page.

Make an Uncle Sam pin with seed beads and a safety pin.

Find lesson plans, crafts, puzzles and writing activities at abcteach.

Use these six trait writing activities as students create their own Uncle Sam comic.

Are you attending ALA in Chicago? On Monday, July 13 from 11-12 in Booth #1940, I’ll be signing 100 copies of Uncle Sam…and Capstone is giving them away!

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The Story of Soccer

The Story of Soccer by Anastasia Suen
A Sports History easy reader

“A brief history of the sport for beginning readers.”
                                                    ~School Library Journal

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Hardcover/Paperback: 24 pages

Publisher: Rosen/Rigby

This book is also available in Spanish.

Activities:

Try these soccer puzzles and word searches.

Soccer Printables has puzzles, word searches, and coloring pages.

Play the Soccer Mania game online.

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The Story of Hockey

The Story of Hockey by Anastasia Suen
A Sports History easy reader

A brief history of the sport for beginning readers.

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Hardcover/Paperback: 24 pages

Publisher: Rosen/Rigby

Activities:

See the latest hockey news and videos at NHL.com.

Explore the Science of Hockey.

Try this hockey maze puzzle,

Make your own Hockey Word Search.

Also available in Spanish:

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