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Books for Education

The CSI library has a variety of print and electronic books. To find print books, use our OneSearch catalog; if you have trouble try these How to find a book instructions. For online books, you can also use OneSearch or try one of the databases below. 

Need some online children's books? Try the Juvenile Literature section in our Ebook Central database. Need some physical children's books? Check out our K-12 Texts Collection.

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Featured Books on Education and Instruction

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Diversifying Digital Learning

Diversifying Digital Learning outlines the pervasive problems that exist with ensuring digital equity and identifies successful strategies to tackle the issue.

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Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom

An in-depth look at assessment and how differentiation can improve the process in all grade levels and subject areas.

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The Dyscalculia Toolkit

Materials and resources to support the needs of learners, aged 6 to 14 years, who have difficulty with maths and numbers.

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Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification

Guidance on specific learning disability (SLD), with the most up-to-date information on assessment, identification, interventions, and more. 

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Tribal Strengths and Native Education

Explores how Native educators perceive pedagogical strengths rooted in their tribal heritage and personal ethnicity. 

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The Wiley Handbook of Social Studies Research

A wide-ranging resource on the current state of social studies education.

Black Women and Social Justice Education

Focuses on Black women's experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.

Featured Books for Elementary School Students

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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

The 1619 Project's lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States.

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A Plan for Pops

In this illustrated picture book, a child helps their grandparents deal with a difficult change in abilities

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Bilal Cooks Daal

Bilal and his father invite his friends to help make his favorite dish, daal, then all must wait patiently for it to be done.

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The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?

The Duckling asks for a cookie -- and gets one! Do you think the Pigeon is happy about that?

Featured Books for Middle School Students

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Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna

Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and lead her family to safety during the Mexican Revolution.

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Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!

Eleven-year-old Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player.

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.

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After Gandhi

Over the last century brave people across the world have taken a stand against violence and oppression. After Gandhi profiles some of the major figures of nonviolent resistance from around the world.

Featured Books for High School Students

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We Are the Weather Makers

A look at the history of climate change and how it will unfold over the next century.

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The Hired Girl

Fourteen-year-old Joan yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends?

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We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults

Intimate, eye-opening stories of nine undocumented young adults living in America. 

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Rated

A dystopian novel where a group of six students team up to question an unfair society. 

Featured Books for Spanish-Speaking Students

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El Nuevo Hogar de Tía Fortuna

Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.

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El Aprendiz

This is the moving story of Honguito, a 13-year-old orphan living in 12th-century Korea. 

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La Selva (Forest World)

Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza.

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Un Gato y un Perro

Sworn enemies become staunch friends in this bilingual edition of the popular picture book by Claire Masurel with pictures by Bob Kolar. It's a great way to introduce a second language to very young children, be they English- or Spanish-speaking.