{"id":170252,"date":"2025-08-23T22:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170252\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:57:14","slug":"check-it-out-books-relate-to-returning-to-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170252\/","title":{"rendered":"Check It Out: Books relate to returning to class"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\tBeth Wood is the senior collection development librarian for the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries. Email her at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.
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As usual, the summer has fairly flown by, and the new school year is approaching. Our children or grandchildren might be thinking about the new school year with a variety of emotions, based on everything from perceived social standing to preferred level of sleep and general inactivity.<\/p>\n

And, of course, as parents and grandparents, we look at the start of the school year differently based on what our relationship to our progeny has been like over the summer. We may miss them terribly, every moment they are out of the house. Or not.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what age the child is, or how they feel about the new school year, we have delightful books for all. Here are some favorites:<\/p>\n

Picture books<\/p>\n

\u201cBus! Stop!\u201d by James Yang (2018): When a boy misses the city bus he takes to school, each vehicle that arrives at the bus stop is increasingly odd.<\/p>\n

\u201cBest Frints at Skrool\u201d by Antoinette Portis (2018): Two aliens go to school with experiences that Earth children can relate to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI Walk With Vanessa: A Story About a Simple Act of Kindness\u201d by Kerasco\u00ebt (2018): This wordless picture book about bullying is great for beginning a conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Don\u2019t Eat Our Classmates!\u201d by Ryan T. Higgins (2018): T. rex Penelope keeps getting reprimanded for ingesting her classmates, and she just doesn\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

\u201cMae\u2019s First Day of School\u201d by Kate Berube (2018): Mae hides in a tree so she won\u2019t have to go into school. She is joined there by another child \u2014 and a teacher.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pigeon Has to Go to School!\u201d by Mo Willems (2019): Like he always does, the pigeon has feelings about starting school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Koala Who Could\u201d by Rachel Bright (2017): Kevin never leaves his tree, until it falls down, and he learns that the ground isn\u2019t as scary as he thought.<\/p>\n

Middle school<\/p>\n

\u201cInvisible\u201d by Christina Diaz Gonzalez (2022): This graphic novel brings together five overlooked Hispanic middle school students. Will they be able to work together to make a difference at their school?<\/p>\n

\u201cUnschooled\u201d by Allan Woodrow (2017): Best friends end up on opposing teams during Spirit Week.<\/p>\n

\u201cDread Detention\u201d by Jennifer Killick (2022): In this horror book, four students must work together to survive Saturday detention.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimon Sort of Says\u201d by Erin Bow (2023): After suffering a trauma, Simon and his family move to a small town where cellphones and the internet are banned.<\/p>\n

Nat Enough series by Maria Scriven (2020): This graphic novel series focuses on Nat as she goes into middle school and learns to focus on who she is instead of who she isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

There are many more titles I haven\u2019t listed that cover new friends, new situations and new feelings. Feel free to look for your own at the library!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth Wood is the senior collection development librarian for the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries. Email her at [email\u00a0protected].…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-170252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115080557061728154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}