Backpacks, notebooks & crayons, oh my! 🏫😏👩‍🎓👨‍🎓✍📚Watch my Back To School 2019 selections

For kids: Get Out of Bed & No Help Wanted help to ease kids back into the 'treadmill' of returning to school. Boonoonoonous Hair! & Bilal Cooks Daal both celebrate diversity and are great reads to give kids the perspective to accept and celebrate our differences.

For middle graders and young readers: Since this year commemorates the 75th Anniversary of

D-Day, War in My Town & Uncertain Soldier are perfect reads for novel study based on this theme. Hard lessons should never be lost and these two books allow kids to see the harsh reality of war through the eyes of a child. Also ideal for independent reading.

For the young adult reader, Breaking Faith & Chicken Girl both hold strong messages about the importance of acceptance, the effects of bullying on those kids who are marginalised and how simple acts of kindness can make a world of difference in terms of teen mental health and self esteem. Novel study or independent reading time well spent.