| Title |
Author |
Subject |
Brief Description |
| "In Response to Executive Order 9066" in Celebrate
America in Poetry and Art* |
Dwight Okita |
Japanese internment during WWII |
A moving poem that tells about a Japanese-American's
loss of her best friend because of the relocation order. The child
hopes her friend will miss her and not forget her when she is
gone. |
| A Long Way to Go |
Zibby Oneal |
Women's suffrage movement |
Lila is the 8-year-old daughter of a wealthy family
living in New York City. She never questions her father's authority
until her grandmother is arrested in a suffrage demonstration.
Chronicles young Lila's political awakening. |
| Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair |
Patricia Polacco |
Free expression and free press |
Highlights what happens when a city sacrifices its
right to read books. Town's librarian takes to her bed for 50
years but reemerges when youngsters show interest in reading. |
| Baseball Saved Us** |
Ken Mochizuki |
Japanese internment during WWII |
Tells the story of a family who is forcibly relocated
by the US government and how they turn to baseball in the camp
in order to pass the time and gain dignity and self-respect. |
| Escaping to America: A True Story* |
Rosalyn Schanzer |
Immigration |
This book is based on the true story of the authors
relatives who fled Poland after WWI due to anti-Semitic violence.
The family's relatives had already established themselves in America
and would vouch for them. However, they still had to escape from
the war zone in Poland and survive the voyage to the U.S. |
| For Every Child* |
text adapted by Caroline Castle |
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child |
This book explains fourteen of the more prominent
rights of the child under the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child. Each article is accompanied by a two page illustrated spread.
There is a compassionate forward by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
and the full text of the Convention featured at the back of the
book. The book is illustrated by fourteen acclaimed artists. |
| Freedom School, Yes!* |
Amy Littlesugar |
Civil Rights during the Summer of 1964 |
This story is based on the 1964 Mississippi Freedom
School Summer Project. Despite the church where the Freedom
school was to be taught being burnt down and other hardships,
the freedom school is established, and Jolie, he main character
learns about her Black-American heritage. Illustrated by Floyd
Cooper. |
| Freedom Summer* |
Deborah Wiles |
Cilvil Rights during the Summer of 1964 |
This book takes place during the Summer when the
Civil Rights act of 1964 was passed. Segregation, southern white
retaliation to the law, and the willingness to stand up for what
you believe are exposed through the friendship of two young boys,
one white and one black. |
| I Remember China |
Raintree/Steck-Vaughn (1995)- publisher |
Freedoms and democracy |
Tells the story through a child's perspective of
a Chinese family who supported the Tiananmen Square demonstration
and since the family no longer felt safe in China, they emigrated. |
| In America |
Marissa Moss |
Immigration and rights |
Tells a grandfather's story of coming to America
from Lithuania to gain religious freedom |
| The Ballot Box Battle |
Emily Arnold McCully |
Women's right to vote |
Tells parallel stories of a young girl's struggle
for acceptance and her neighbor's efforts to vote (her neighbor
is the suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton) |
| The Bracelet** |
Yoshiko Uchida |
Japanese internment during WWII |
Story of a young girl who loses the bracelet a friend
gives her. Girl's mother tells her that she can still remember
the friend without the bracelet, just as they can remember the
grandfather who has been sent to an internment camp in Montana. |
| The Conversation Club |
Diane Stanley |
Conflict between rights and values |
Peter is invited to join neighbor's conversation
club but quickly leaves when everybody talks at once. Forms his
own "listening club" where nobody except Peter can speak. Changes
the rules to only one person can speak at a time and then everyone
is happy. |
| The Day Gogo Went to Vote** |
Elinor Batezat Sisulu |
Right to vote |
Tells the story of an elderly South African woman
who votes for the first time in the 1994 South African elections
after the end of apartheid. |
