First Day Jitters by: Julie Danneburg (realistic fiction)

Throughout the whole story, the author portrays a girl named Sarah Hartwell, being scared of her first day of school. She's scared to get out of bed, and doesn't want to go to a school where she doesn't know anyone. Soon enough, Mr. Hartwell drags her out of bed and forces her to go to school. Once Sarah gets to school the principal shows her around. At the end of the book, the reader discovers that Sarah is in fact a teacher nervous about her first day of school.

I would read this book to students on my first day, as a teacher. I love this book because I think that students can relate to the nervousness of a first year teacher. I would then have a classroom discussion about instances where the students were nervous about their first days of school.