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Books on peace for elementary school children

Books about Gandhi:
  1. Be the Change, Arun Gandhi
  2. Eyewitness Gandhi
  3. Gandhi Young Nation Builder, Kudlinski, Kathleen
  4. Gandhi for Kids, Ellen Mahoney
  5. Gandhi, A photographic story of a life, Amy Pastan
  6. Gandhi: The Young Protester Who Founded a Nation, Philip Wilkinson
  7. Grandfather Gandhi, Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus
  8. A Taste of Freedom, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
  9. Who Was Gandhi? Dana Meachen Rau

Books about Cesar Chavez
1. Cesar Chavez, Lucile Davis, 0-7368-8425-4
2. Cesar Chavez, Ginger Wadsworth 978-1-57505-826-9
3. Cesar Chavez, Susan Eddy 0-516-27923-8 Scholastic
4. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, Kathleen Krull, 0-15-201437-3
5. Picture Book of Cesar Chavez, David A. Adler and Michael S. Adler, 9780823423835

Books about Martin Luther King, Jr.
  1. Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Dreaming of Change by Joel Kupperstein. (must order from Alphabet Station)
  2. I Have a Dream, Margaret Davidson 0-590-44230-9
  3. Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jean Marzollo Scholastic
  4. Marching to the Mountaintop, Ann Bausum
  5. Martin Luther King Jr. Let Freedom Ring, Michael Teitelbaum and Lewis Helfand (graphic novel)
  6. Martin’s Big Words, Doreen Rappaport
  7. Meet Martin Luther King, Jr., James T. deKay Landmark Books
  8. Martin Luther King, Jr, Frances E. Ruffin 0-448-42421-5
  9. Martin Luther King, Jr., Kitson Jazynka, National Geographic Kids

Other Books on Special People
  1. After Gandhi, One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance, Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmond O’Brien
  2. A Boy Named Beckoning, Gina Capaldi
  3. Chief Joseph, The Voice for Peace, Lorraine Jean Hopping, 978-1-4027-6842-2
  4. Claudette Colvin, Phillip Hoose, 978-0-374-31322-7
  5. Dolores Huerta, A hero to the migrant workers, Sarah Warren
  6. Dorothy Day, Maura Shaw 1-59473-011-3
  7. Her Right Foot, Dave Eggers (on Statue of Liberty.)
  8. Who was Frederick Douglass? April Jones Prince
  9. Emma’s Poem, Linda Glaser, 978-0-547-17184-5
  10. Liberty’s Voice, the story of Emma Lazarus, Erica Silverman, 978-0-525-47859
  11. John Lewis: March books 1, 2, and 3
  12. The Mangrove Tree, Susan L. Roth & Cindy Trumbore, 978-1-60060-459-1
  13. Mahavira, Manoj Jain
  14. For the Right to Learn Malala Yousafzai’s Story, Rebecca Langston-George
  15. I am Malala, Young Readers Edition, Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai
  16. March, Book One, John Lewis, 978-1-60309-3002
  17. Marching for Freedom, Elizabeth Partridge, 978-0-670-01189-6
  18. Molly Bannaky, Alice McGill 0-395-72287-X
  19. Moses, Carole Boston Weatherford 078685175-9
  20. Peace Warriors
  21. Rachel Carson, Thomas Locker 978-1555-9169-54
  22. Temple Grandin, Sy Montgomery 978 0547 44315 7
  23. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, Lynda Blackmon Lowery
  24. We’ve Got a Job, The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March, Cynthia Levinson
  25. When Marian Sang, Pam Munoz Ryan
  26. The Yellow Star, Carmen Agra Deedy 1-56145-208-4


Who Is/Who Was/What Was Series:
  1. Cesar Chavez
  2. March on Washington
  3. Sonia Sotomayor
  4. Who Is Malala Yousafzai? Dinah Brown
  5. Who Was Susan B. Anthony?, Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso

Historical Fiction on Movements
  1. A Band of Angels, Deborah Hopkinson 0-698-81062-8
  2. Belle, the Last Mule at Gee’s Bend, Calvin Alexander Ramsey & Bettye Stroud
  1. Freedom on the Menu, Carole Boston Weatherford, 0-8037-2860-3
  2. Inside Out & Back Again, Thanhha Lai, 978-006-196-278-3
  3. A Long Walk To Water, Linda Sue Park, 978-0-547-25127-1
  4. Lillian’s Right to Vote, Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans
  5. One City, Two Brothers, Chris Smith, 978-1-84686-042-3
  6. Ruth and the Green Book, Calvin Alexander Ramsey, 978-0-7613-5255-6
  7. Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A., Diana Cohn 0-938317-66-0
  8. Sit-In, Andrea Davis Pinkney, 978-0-316-07016-4
  9. Sylvia & Aki, Winifred Conkling, 978-1-58246-337-7
  10. We March, Shane W. Evans

General Books on Peace, self-respect, getting along, etc.

  1. Anh’s Anger, Gail Silver
  2. Buzzy the Bumblebee, Denise Breenan-Nelson and Michael Glenn Monroe, 1-58536-366-6, Sleeping Bear Press
  3. The Crayon Box that Talked, Shane DeRolf, ISBN: 0-679-88611-7
  4. Enemy Pie, Derek Munson, ISBN 0-8118-2778-X
  5. I Came from the Water, Vanita Oelschlager 978-0-9832904-5-2
  6. Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed, Emily Pearson
  7. In Our Mothers’ House, Patricia Polacco 978-0399-25076-7
  8. PEOPLE, Peter Spier, 0-385-24469-x
  9. The Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister 9781558580091
  10. Sneetches and Other Stories, Dr. Seuss, , 0-394-80089-3, Random House
  11. Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace, Shelley Moore Thomas and Eric Futran, ISBN-13: 978-0-8075-7544-4; ISBN-10: 0-8075-7544-5
  12. Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon, PattyLovell, ISBN 0-399-23416-0
  13. The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamilllo, 2003
  14. And to Think That We Thought That We’d Never Be Friends, Mary Ann Hoberman, ISBN 0-440-41776-7
  15. What does Peace feel like? V. Radunsky
  16. Whoever You Are, Mem Fox and Leslie Staub, 0-15-216406-5

Books from Peaceabilities
  1. The Other Way to Listen, Byrd Baylor, 9780-6898-10534
  2. Stone Soup, Heather Forest, 9780-8748-34987
  3. Stone Soup, Jon J. Muth, 9789-0-43933-9094
  4. Smoky Night, Eve Bunting, 9780152-699543
  5. Old Turtle, Douglas Wood, 31120-02379-5577
  6. The Honest-to-Goodness Truth, Patricia C. McKissack, 0-689-82668-0
  7. The Quilt makers Gift, Jeff Brumbeau, 0-439-30910-7
  8. Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, 3 1120 04094 8142

Other DVD :
  1. Gandhi (dvd)
  2. Force More Powerful (dvd)

Removed books no longer available:
  1. Young Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream” Joanna Mattern
  2. I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., foreword by Coretta Scott King
  3. Sheila Rivera, Mohandas Gandhi 978-0-8225-6383-9
  4. Peter and Connie Roop, Let’s Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. 0-439-55443-8, Scholastic
  5. No One Makes it Alone, Andrew Valdez
  6. Demi, Gandhi 0-689-84149-3
  7. Shaw, Maura D., Gandhi: India’s Great Soul 1-893351-91-8
  8. Thich Nhat Hanh, Maura Shaw 1-893361-87-X
  9. Farmworker’s Friend, David R. Collins
  10. Logue, Mary, Forgiveness the Story of Mahatma Gandhi
  11. Give a Goat, Jan West Schrock, 978-0-88448-30104
  12. Luba, Luba Tryszynska-Frederick, 1-58246-098-1
  13. Sawyer, Kem Knapp, Mohandas Gandhi,
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    • Peace among nations
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    • Books for elementary students
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