ILA Teachers' Choices Reading List, 2015-2019
Resources for a selection of titles recognized by this list since 2015 -- recognizing books evaluated and recommended by teachers to encourage young people to read
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- 1,988 Resources including
- 167 Videos
- 118 Book Readings
- 201 Lesson Plans
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Showing 1-48 of 150 book results
Last Stop on Market Street
by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
(Selection, 2016)
47 Resources14 Awards
Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship
by Jessica Kensky, Patrick Downes, and Scott Magoon
(Selection, 2019)
39 Resources5 Awards
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
(Selection, 2015)
34 Resources15 Awards
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
(Selection, 2015)
32 Resources13 Awards
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
(Selection, 2015)
32 Resources12 Awards
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
(Selection, 2015)
29 Resources13 Awards
Before She Was Harriet
by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome
(Selection, 2018)
29 Resources11 Awards
Stella by Starlight
by Sharon M. Draper and Sarah Jane Coleman
(Selection, 2016)
25 Resources10 Awards
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
by Roxane Orgill and Francis Vallejo
(Selection, 2017)
25 Resources9 Awards
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
by Helaine Becker and Dow Phumiruk
(Selection, 2019)
24 Resources8 Awards
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art
by Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPre
(Selection, 2015)
23 Resources5 Awards
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
(Selection, 2016)
23 Resources8 Awards
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
by Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis
(Selection, 2015)
21 Resources4 Awards
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
by Cynthia Y. Levinson and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
(Selection, 2018)
21 Resources4 Awards
Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
by Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy
(Selection, 2019)
20 Resources10 Awards
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
by Katherine Applegate and G. Brian Karas
(Selection, 2015)
19 Resources6 Awards
A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat
by Emily Jenkins and Sophie Blackall
(Selection, 2016)
19 Resources2 Awards
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story
by Marc Tyler Nobleman and Melissa Iwai
(Selection, 2019)
17 Resources7 Awards
Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories
by Jack Gantos
(Selection, 2018)
16 Resources2 Awards
The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs
by Kate Messner and Matthew Forsythe
(Selection, 2019)
16 Resources8 Awards
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen
(Selection, 2015)
15 Resources7 Awards
Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans
by Phil Bildner and John Parra
(Selection, 2016)
15 Resources3 Awards
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
by Susan E. Goodman and E.B. Lewis
(Selection, 2017)
15 Resources7 Awards