Library: Children's and Young Adult Literature: Reading & Writing Across the Curriculum

Reading and writing across the curriculum

Children’s Book Guild of Washington, D.C. Nonfiction Award
The Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award honors an author or author-illustrator whose total work has contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children. Nonfiction is written or illustrated work which arranges and interprets documentable facts intended to illuminate, without imaginative invention, the following fields of knowledge: science, technology, social science, history, biography, and the arts.
National Council for the Social Studies Notable Tradebooks for Young People
The books that appear in these annotated book lists were evaluated and selected by a Book Review Committee appointed by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and assembled in cooperation with the Children's Book Council (CBC). NCSS and CBC have cooperated on this annual bibliography since 1972.

Classroom activity guides for children's books

Many publishers have a teachers page on their website.

In addition, try Googling the title of the book you'd like to use followed by the words activity guide or classroom guide or lesson plan. Below are a few teachers pages from some publisher's websites.