School's story / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Bus driver / Matt Forrest Esenwine -- Crossing guard / Ann Whitford Paul -- Principal / J. Patrick Lewis -- Teacher / Joan Bransfield Graham -- Spanish teacher / Alma Flor Ada -- Lunch lady / Robyn Hood Black -- Custodian / Darren Sardelli -- Art teacher / Michele Krueger -- Music teacher / Irene Latham -- Coach / Charles Ghigna -- Theater teacher / Renée LaTulippe -- Librarian / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Nurse / Amy Ludwig VanDerwater -- School's story reprise / Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Welcome to school, a building of brick full of soul and heart, eager for students and staff to fill its halls with sounds. This anthology of fifteen poems celebrates the grown-up people that children encounter throughout the course of their school day: the school bus driver with her morning smile, the teacher who inspires imagination, the rarely seen, yet caring custodian, and the nurse who heals hurts, big and small

PK1

640L

Decoding demand: 71 (high) Semantic demand: 87 (very high) Syntactic demand: 82 (very high) Structure demand: 86 (very high)