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So Much
Author: Trisha Cooke
Description: This lively and rhythmic text captures a family's loving feelings toward a newborn baby.
Grade Level: Pre-K-K
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Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse: A Book About Feelings
Author: Jeanne Modesitt
Description: This book introduces children to different emotions and emphasizes that it is okay to have all of them.
Grade Level: K-1
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Sheila Rae, the Brave
Author: Kevin Henkes
Description: Sheila Rae, the Brave walks around with a fearless attitude to all. That is, until she gets lost on her way home from school and depends on her “scaredy-cat” little sister, Louise, to lead them home safely.
Grade Level: K-1
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Go Away, Bad Dreams!
Author: Susan Hill
Description: Like the little boy in this story, your students will see that bad situations can be turned into good ones and that they can control their emotions of fear.
Grade Level:K-2
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Koko's Kitten
Author: Dr. Francine Patterson
Description: This heartfelt, real-life story describes the love and loss that Koko, the sign-language-speaking gorilla, feels when her young kitten passes away.
Grade Level: K-3
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Feelings
Author: Aliki
Description: Written in comic-book form, this story uses animated characters to describe what feelings are.
Grade Level: 1-2
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The Rag Coat
Author: Lauren Mills
Description: Minna’s family cannot afford to buy her a coat, so the local quilters make one for her one out of the old scraps. Minna’s classmates laugh at her coat of rags, until she explains the significance of each piece. Minna displays love and pride for both her new coat and for her classmates.
Grade Level:3
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The Hundred Dresses
Author: Eleanor Estes
Description: Wanda doesn't quite fit in with the other children in her neighborhood. They often tease Wanda for her odd speech and long foreign name. She wears the same faded blue dress to school everyday, but lies to the other girls about having 100 dresses in her closet. It isn’t until after Wanda moves away, that some of the kids realize how kind she is.
Grade Level:3-4
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Stone Fox
Author: John Reynolds Gardiner
Description: his is a touching story about the love, concern, kindness, strength and determination of Willie, a 10 year-old boy, who needs to do the impossible and win a big dogsled race to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm.
Grade Level:3-4
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