Books for your Classroom
Need some extra materials to support independent reading in your classroom? Want a wider variety of high-interest fiction and non-fiction books to supplement your classroom library? Our staff can create and deliver a collection of books with an extended checkout time to suit your students’ needs. We’ll deliver the books and pick them up! We’ll be happy to show you how to use your teacher card to request materials to support a special assignment or unit.
Contact Education and Outreach at 414-286-3076 or booksforyourclassroom@milwaukee.gov to learn more.
Book Bundle Lesson Plans and Reading Tips
Simple lesson plans, reading tips, and ideas for any book to accompany a set of 10 books that are loaned to our summer reading outreach partners to help make reading in summer as easy as 1-2-3.
Fun and Easy Activities for Any Book | Read-aloud Quick Tips
Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
Explore the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals including actual size representations with collage style illustrations. Grades K5-6th
Elephant & Piggie series by Mo Willems
Best friends Elephant and Piggie may have opposite personalities, but together they know how to have fun and early readers will too as they follow this duo. Grades K5-3rd
- Lesson Plan
- Elephant & Piggie Mad Libs
- Make Your Own Elephant & Piggie Story 1*
- Make Your Own Elephant & Piggie Story 2*
- Make Your Own Elephant & Piggie Story 3*
*Make Your Own Elephant & Piggie Stories 1-3 provided via Pinterest.
EllRay Jakes series by Sally Warner; illustrated by Brian Biggs or Jamie Harper
Join EllRay Jakes as he navigates school, friendship, family and more! Grades 2nd-5th
Fly Guy series by Ted Arnold
In this beginning reader series, Fly Guy and Buzz have adventures and often avoid disaster with comical flair. Grades K5-3rd
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña; illustrated by Christian Robinson
A young boy, CJ, rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things. Grades K5-5th
Mercy Watson by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Chris Van Dusen
Mercy Watson is a pig who has a snout for hot buttered toast and trouble, making for hilarious tales for emergent readers. Grades K5-3rd
PICKLE: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School by Kim Baker; illustrated by Tim Probert
Using a bogus name, the League of Picklemakers, sixth-grader Ben and three recruits start a prank-pulling club and receive funding from their middle school's PTA. Grades 3rd-6th
The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman; illustrated by David Roberts
When their cruel teacher, Miss Breakbone, confiscates Junkyard's crucial find, Wheels, Pencil, Spider, and the rest of the Dunderheads plot to teach her a lesson. Grades 2nd-6th
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by A. Wolf ; as told to Jon Scieszka; illustrated by Lane Smith
The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs. Grades K5-6th
Weird But True (Series)
Learn 300 wacky, wild, mind-bending facts about everything on Earth and beyond. Grades 1st-6th