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Jake’s 100th day of school

2006

by Lester L. Laminack and Judith DuFour Love

Jake is so excited about his 100th day of school, he runs to catch the school bus without his project, but fortunately, with the help of his principal, Jake is able to find a perfect substitute for his project

It’s back to school we go!

2003

by Ellen Jackson and Jan Davey Ellis

In easy-to-read text, describes what the first day of school might be like for a child in Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Peru, Germany, India, Russia, and the United States

Amik loves school

2015

by Katherena Vermette and Irene Kuziw

Amik tells his grandfather (Moshoom) about his school. Then Moshoom tells Amik about the residential school he went to. Amik decides to show his grandfather how different his school is. One book in The Seven Teachings Stories series. The Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe—love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty and truth—are revealed in seven stories for children. Set in urban landscapes, Indigenous children tell familiar stories about home, school and community. --publisher

Busing Brewster

2010

by Richard Michelson and Robert Roth

Bused across town to a school in a white neighborhood of Boston in 1974, a young African American boy named Brewster describes his first day in first grade. Includes historical notes on the court-ordered busing

The soda bottle school

2014

by Laura Kutner and Suzanne. Slade

In a Guatemalan village, students squished into their tiny schoolhouse, two grades to a classroom. The villagers had tried expanding the school, but the money ran out before the project was finished. No money meant no wall materials, and that meant no more room for the students. Until one boy got a wonderful, crazy idea: Why not use soda bottles, which were scattered all around, to form the cores of the walls?

Elizabeti’s school

2002

by S. A. Bodeen and Christy Hale

Although she enjoys her first day at school, Elizabeti misses her family and wonders if it wouldn't be better to stay home

Freedom’s school

2015

by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome

Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves

Rain school

2010

by James Rumford

The children arrive on the first day of school and build a mud structure to be their classroom for the next nine months until the rainy season comes and washes it all away