| Title |
Author |
Subject |
Brief Description |
| A Kid's Guide to America's Bill of Rights: Curfews,
Censorship, and the 100-Pound Giant |
Kathleen Krull |
Bill of Rights |
This book takes the first ten amendments and made
their often difficult language understandable for students. Using
anecdotes, sidebars, and political issues, the author helps kids
understand not only the meaning of amendments but also their relevance
and how they apply to our daily lives. |
| Bad Girls |
Cynthia Voight |
Classroom Rules |
Hilarious look at school rules in the classroom of
a fifth grade teacher who is extremely strict. |
| Fighting for Honor* |
Michael Cooper |
Japanese internment and the 442nd Regimental Combat
Team |
An easy to understand, captive history of the long-standing
prewar prejudice against the Japanese Americans, the Japanese
internment during World War II, and the experiences of the Japanese
American infantry battalion, the most highly decorated unit in
U.S. Military history. Also explores the problems the Japanese
Americans faced after the war. Excellent photographs. |
| Grandpa's Mountain |
Carolyn Reeder |
Taking property away from people to make the Shenandoah
National Park. The Great Depression |
Carrie spends her summers with her grandparents in
the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. This particular summer they
must all grapple with the decision of the government to clear
all homesteads out of the area that is designated to become the
Shenandoah National Park. Grandpa uses every legal means to try
to stop the movement. Others are happy with the offer of a home
and land near schools and hospitals to replace their poorer accommodations
in the mountains. Economic themes as well. |
| Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters* |
Andrea Davis Pinkney |
Black Freedom fighters and civil rights. |
This book is a compilation of short biographies about
black women who fought for their rights and the rights of other
people. The women covered in this book are; Sojourner Truth, Biddy
Mason, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune,
Ella Josephine Baker, Dorothy Irene Heights, Rosa Parks, Fannie
Lou Hamer, and Shirley Chisholm. Illustrated by Stephen Alcorn.
|
| Nothing But the Truth* |
Avi |
First Amendment and Respecting Rules |
Main character is suspended for humming during the
playing of national anthem during morning school announcements.
Case becomes about First Amendment and the truth as reported by
various sources who witnessed the incident. |
| Public Defender: Lawyer for the People |
Joan Hewett |
Rules and Laws |
Photoessay which describes the typical day of an
Asian American public defender. Straightforward account of a public
defender's work with clients charged with serious crimes. |
| Sleds on Boston Common: A Story from the American
Revolution* |
Louise Borden |
Bill of Rights |
This is a folk story of four school children who
want to go sledding on the Boston commons in 1774 where British
troops are located, and how they deal with their predicament.
|
| The Bill of Rights |
Patricia Ryon Quiri |
Bill of Rights |
This books explains what the Bill of Rights is, and
what rights these amendments bestow upon us. The author clearly
paraphrases each of the ten amendments and discusses why and how
they are continually interpreted by the courts. |
| The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito |
Sheila Garrigue |
Bill of Rights |
Sara, a World War II British evacuee in Vancouver,
is powerless to stop the detention of her friend Mr. Ito, along
with other Japanese Canadians. |
| The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Cold War Ends* |
Nigel Kelly |
Communist vs. capitalist government |
This books explains how the Cold War began, persisted,
and ended in a way that elementary students can understand. |
| The Giver** |
Lois Lowry |
Rules and Values |
Main character, Jonas, is given the assignment of
being the receiver of memories no longer available to the people
in society. Jonas and his mentor decide on a new system of laws
in order to restore memory to the community. |
| The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism, and Renewal |
Sheila Hamanaka |
Bill of Rights |
Using details from a five-panel mural, the author
depicts the plight of Japanese Americans in World War II. |
| The Printer's Apprentice |
Stephen Krensky |
Bill of Rights
|
This story presents the trial of John Peter Zenger,
a 1700s New York newspaper publisher, whose landmark case significantly
affected American journalism. |
| There's an Owl in the Shower |
Jean Craighead George |
Environmental Laws |
Young boy brings home a spotted owl that is in trouble;
however, the boy's father, a lumberman, lost his job due to the
spotted owl legislation. Stimulates discussion on the cost and
benefits of various environmental laws. |
| Through My Eyes: The Autobiography of Ruby Bridges* |
Ruby Bridges |
Bill of Rights |
This is Ruby Bridge's personal account of when, as
a six-year-old African American, she integrated the New Orleans
public schools in 1960. |
| When Justice Failed: The Fred Korematsu Story* |
Steven A. Chin |
Constitutional rights violation |
Fred Korematsu, a law-abiding American citizen, challenged
the internment of himself and other Japanese Americans.
His case is heard in the U.S. Supreme Court, and he loses his
case. In 1983, evidence that had been suppressed by government
lawyers, was presented in San Francisco Federal Court, and the
government had to admit its error in the Supreme Court case.
Ultimately, the government apologized and made reparations to
all of those internees still alive. |
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