Open for Discovery:

Stories about Peace, War, Refugees and Race

 

SUBJECT HEADINGS:

 

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Country or nationality you are searching for – juvenile fiction

Country or nationality you are searching for – juvenile literature

Citizenship – juvenile

Emigration and immigration – juvenile

Ethnicity – juvenile

Identity – juvenile

Multiculturalism – juvenile

Peace – juvenile

Race – juvenile

Race relations – juvenile

Refugees – juvenile

Self-esteem – juvenile

War – juvenile

 

Stories about race and identity:

 

The name jar by Yangsook Choi (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)

Everybody cooks rice by Norah Dooley (Carolrhoda Books Inc., 1991)

Whoever you are by Mem Fox (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1997)

All the colors of the earth by Sheila Hamanaka (Morrow Junior Books, 1994)

Skin Again by Bell Hooks (Hyperion Books for children, 2004)

Hands Can by Cheryl Willis Hudson (Candlewick Press, 2003)

Let’s talk about race by Julius Lester (HarperCollins, 2005)

Here are my hands by Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault (Henry Holt & Co., 1985)

We all sing with the same voice by Philip Miller & Sheppard M. Greene HarperCollins, 2001)

Children Around the World by Donata Montanari (Kids Can Press, 2001)

It’s okay to be different by Todd Parr (Little, Brown & Co., 2001)

The other side by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 2001)

 

Stories about war and peace:

 

If peace is… by Jane Baskwill (Mondo Publishing, 2003)

Playing war by Kathy Beckwith (Tilbury House, 2005)

One Candle by Eve Bunting (HarperCollins, 2002)

So far from the sea by Eve Bunting (Clarion Books, 1998)

The wall by Eve Bunting (Clarion Books, 1990)

The Cello of Mr. O by Jane Cutler (Dutton, 1999)

A brave soldier by Nicolas Debon (Groundwood Books, 2002)

I call my hand gentle by Amanda Haan (Viking, 2003)

Sami and the time of the troubles by Florence Parry Heide (Houghton Mifflin, 1992)

The peace book by Todd Parr (Little, Brown & Co., 2004)

Casey Over There by Staton Rabin (Harcourt Brace, 1994)

 

Stories about refugees and immigration:

 

From far and wide by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet (Tundra Books, 2000)

Gleam and Glow by Eve Bunting (Harcourt Inc., 2001)

My grandmother’s journey by John Cech (Bradbury Press, 1992)

The long road by Luis Garay (Tundra Books, 1997)

When Jessie came across the sea by Amy Hest (Candlewick Press, 1997)

The colour of home by Mary Hoffman (Frances Lincoln, 2002)

Anna’s Goat by Janice Kulyk Keefer (Orca Books, 2000)

The roses in my carpets by Rukhsana Khan (Stoddart, 1998)

All the lights in the night by Arthur A. Levine (Morrow, 1991)

My Chinatown by Kam Mak (HarperCollins, 2001)

An Mei’s strange and wondrous journey by Eve Bunting (Dorling Kindersley, 1998)

From Far Away by Robert Munsch (Annick Press, 1995)

The keeping quilt by Patricia Polacco (Simon & Schuster, 1988)

Little Dog Moon by Maxine Trottier (Stoddart Kids, 2000)

The butterfly seeds by Mary Watson (Tambourine Books, 1995)

Klara’s new world by Jeanette Winter (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992)

Share the sky by Ting-Xing Ye (Annick Press, 1999)

 

Children’s Services, Red Deer Public Library/2006