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Educator Resources

This guide outlines services and resources for the teachers and educators in the community

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Chalkboard with Classroom Sets written on it with drawings of school supplies.

 

  • There are two collections of classroom sets. One is a set of juvenile titles and the other is a set of teen titles. There are 50 titles altogether and each title has 25 or more copies. See below for the titles in both the juvenile and teen classroom set collections.
  • To order a classroom set, use an order form below. (Please note, that you will use your own PPLD library card, an Educator Card or your school's organizational library card to check out the set for 8 weeks.)
    • To order a juvenile classroom set, click here
    • To order a teen classroom set, click here
  • ​​​​​​​We require at least one week to process requests.
  • Your classroom set of books will arrive at the PPLD location that you indicated on the form. The books will be in a black bag or black rolling bin, depending on how many copies of the book you have requested. The tag on the container indicates how many copies you requested.
  • Your check-out receipt will have the due date on it. Return this classroom set with all copies in the container to any PPLD location.
  • Again, a classroom set is checked out for 8 weeks. You may check out 3 sets at once, depending on availability. 
  • IMPORTANT: If you need to renew a classroom set, contact Rachel Martin (rmartin@ppld.org). We will renew the set, if possible.

Juvenile Classroom Sets

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The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich

New Kid by Jerry Craft 

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

*The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

Clean Getaway by Nic Stone

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

El Deafo by Cece Bell 

Pie in the Sky by Remi Lai 

Extra Credit by Andrew Clements 

Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin 

Front Desk by Kelly Yang 

Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan

Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen by Sarah Kapit

Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper 

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo 

Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell

When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mahmood Mohamed

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai 

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

*Wonder by R.J. Palacio

* These titles include an additional five copies in Spanish.

Teen Classroom Sets

 

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds 

Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 

Monster by Walter Dean Myers 

The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds

Monster: A Graphic Novel by Walter Dean Myers 

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass 

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson 

**The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero 

Odyssey: A Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds

The Giver by Lois Lowry 

Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee 

*The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez

Refugee by Alan Gratz

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda, and Liz Welch

Scythe by Neal Shusterman 

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

**Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust by Joshua Greene and Renee Hartman

*The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

*Titles include five addtional copies in Spanish

**Titles were generously donated to the YA collection by the Greenberg Center for Learning and Tolerance