7 must-read education books like The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students’ Thinking and Writing by Linda Rief

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The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students’ Thinking and Writing

By: Linda Rief

4.55

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" th…

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1. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)

By: Chris Grabenstein

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerKyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teac… read more

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"Knowledge not shared remains unknown"

-Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)

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2. The Crossover

By: Kwame Alexander

4.24

Format: 245 pages, ebook

"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all t… read more

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"Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you've already lost."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"Silence doesn’t mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

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3. Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading

By: Kylene Beers , Robert E. Probst , G. Kylene Beers

4.46

Format: 274 pages,

Beers and Probst offer insights into how to create text dependent questioning in assisting students… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
"Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully."

-Kylene Beers, Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading

"They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves."

-Kylene Beers, Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading

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4. Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers

By: Penny Kittle

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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5. Prisoner B-3087

By: Alan Gratz

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Survive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, … read more

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6. The Terrible Two (The Terrible Two, #1)

By: Mac Barnett , Jory John , Kevin Cornell

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that's famous for one thing … read more

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7. Monster

By: Walter Dean Myers

3.73

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The … read more

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8. Ban This Book

By: Alan Gratz

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Sta… read more

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"Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person"

-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

"She was disappointed, I could tell, and suddenly the only thing I wanted in the world was to please her."

-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

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9. Alone

By: Megan E. Freeman

4.14

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more

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10. A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

By: Lisa Yee

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonn… read more

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"They all perished. tragic deaths. sad parents. lawsuits.' Monica's words were met with stunned silence. ignoring the horrified looks on the student's faces, she shouted, 'Joking! We discovered that t…"

-Lisa Yee, A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

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11. Two Degrees

By: Alan Gratz

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Fire. Ice. Flood. Three climate disasters. Four kids fighting for their lives. Akira is ridin… read more

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"Cubs are super cute, but you do not want to come between a cub and it's mother. Momma Bear will wreck you."

-Alan Gratz, Two Degrees

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12. White Rose

By: Kip Wilson

3.97

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous and timely novel based on the incredible story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college … read more

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"I already know the idyll of my childhood is fading away, stomped flat by something that feels like doom."

-Kip Wilson, White Rose

"I close my eyes and pray that the world will somehow change. But I know it isn't going to change on its own, so I know I must pray for the courage to bring it about."

-Kip Wilson, White Rose

"We amble away from the city, away from all angst, into the heart of a fairy-tale forest that reminds me how very lucky we are to live and breathe on this great Earth flourishing with wonder."

-Kip Wilson, White Rose

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13. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)

By: Dan Gemeinhart

4.46

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Five years. That's how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus,… read more

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"But when someone's hurting, you gotta do something. Always kindness"

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)

"Driving toward something is better than driving away from something."

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)

"I guess that's how regrets are...they're anchors, not balloons. And we were sunk"

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)

"The best kind of goodbye is the kind where you don’t actually have to leave the person behind."

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)

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14. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel

By: Jason Reynolds

4.31

Format: 208 pages, None

Jason Reynolds's Newbery Honor, Printz Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honor–winning, #1 New York Tim… read more

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16. What Happened to Rachel Riley?

By: Claire Swinarski

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes, and other clues to find out why a formerly … read more

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17. 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents

By: Penny Kittle

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Teaching is art-creation-and a curriculum map is only as good as the teacher who considers it, who… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • writing
  • education
Cover of 4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency by Penny Kittle

18. 4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency

By: Penny Kittle

4.56

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Essay. Poetry. Book Clubs. Digital Composition. Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher extend their work … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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19. A Novel Approach: Whole-Class Novels, Student-Centered Teaching, and Choice

By: Kate Roberts

4.31

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

As an English teacher, Kate Roberts has seen the power of whole-class novels to build community in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • writing
  • education
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20. The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students’ Thinking and Writing

By: Linda Rief

4.55

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • writing
  • education
Cover of The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop (Professional Resources) by Kwame Alexander

21. The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop (Professional Resources)

By: Kwame Alexander

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Perfect Paperback

Imagine having a Newbery Medal-winning author in your classroom as an advisor and a friend, providi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • writing
  • education

8 Best nonfiction books like The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students’ Thinking and Writing by Linda Rief

Transform Your Habits

Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading

Kylene Beers , Robert E. Probst , G. Kylene Beers

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers

Penny Kittle

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Tommie Smith

4.46

Transform Your Habits

180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents

Penny Kittle

4.54

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5 Best historical books like Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Tommie Smith

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria

Muhammad Najem

4.56

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