BOGOT, HOWARD I.SHALOM, SALAAM, PEACE
Bin #5
A landscape of words and images through which readers of all ages are invited to travel. The journey will be filled with opportunities to meditate about peace as a universal goal.
BUNTING, EVE
GLEAM AND GLOW
Bin #4
After his home is destroyed by war, eight-year-old Viktor finds hope in the survival of two very special fish.
CAREWHAT DOES PEACE FEEL LIKE?
Bin #4
Peace. What does that word really mean? Ask children from around the world, and this is what they say...
CAMPBELL, BEBE MOORE
SOMETIMES MY MOMMY GETS ANGRY
Bin #4
A little girl copes with her mother's mental illness, with the help of her grandmother and friends.
COLES, ROBERTTHE STORY OF RUBY BRIDGES
Bin #1, Bin #2
This is the true story of an extraordinary six-year-old girl. Ruby Bridges helped shape American history when she became the first African American sent to first grade in an all-white school. This moving picture book captures the courage of a little girl standing alone in the face of racism.
COOPER, MELROSE
GETTIN' THROUGH THURSDAY
Bin #5
Since money is tight on Thursdays, the day before his mother's payday, Andre is upset when he realizes that his report card and the promised celebration for making the honor roll will come on a Thursday.
GOLD, JULIEFROM A DISTANCE
Bin #4
Based on the folk hymn's lyrics. A message of hope in a troubled world.
HIGHWAY, TOMSON
FOX ON THE ICE
Bin #5
One winter afternoon, Joe and Cody went ice fishing with their papa, mama and Cody's little black dog, Ootsie. Cody helps Papa fish while Mama and Joe doze in the sled. Suddenly the sled dogs sit up and sniff. A fox is across the lake, her fur as bright as flames. The sled dogs give chase, pulling Mama and Joe along on a wild ride.
KHAN, RUKHSANATHE ROSES IN MY CARPETS
Bin #1, Bin #2
For a young refugee living with loss and terror-filled memories, time is measured by the next bucket of water, the next portion of bread, and the next call to prayer. Here, where everything -- walls, floor, courtyard -- is mud, a boy's heart can still long for freedom, independence, and safety. And here, where life is terribly fragile, the strength to endure grows out of need. But the strength to dream comes from within.
LUBA : THE ANGEL OF BERGEN-BELSEN
Bin #5
Why am I alive? Why was I spared? One cold December night in 1944, Luba Tryszynska's questions were answered when she found fifty-four children abandoned behind the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. And Luba knew the consequence of rescuing these children. If the Nazis caught her, she could be executed.Despite the mortal dangers, Luba and the women of her barracks cared for these orphans -- known to history as the Diamond Children -- through a winter of disease, starvation and war.Here is the true story of a hero of the Holocaust and the children who gave her a reason to live.
MILLER, WILLIAMRICHARD WRIGHT AND THE LIBRARY CARD
Bin #4. Bin #5
Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black Boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.
MOCHIZUKI, KEN
BASEBALL SAVED US
Bin #1, Bin #2
Surrounded by guards, fences, and desert, Japanese-Americans in an internment camp create a baseball field. A young boy tells how baseball gave them a purpose while enduring injustice and humiliation.
NIKOLA-LISA, W.BEIN' WITH YOU THIS WAY
Bin #1, Bin #2
Hey, everybody, are you ready?
Uh-huh!
Then snap those fingers
and tap those toes,
and sing along with me.
All right!
Here we go...
So begins a celebration of diversity in rollicking verse.
SHEA, PEGI DEITZ
THE CARPET BOY'S GIFT
Bin #4
Yearning for freedom and schooling for himself and the other children who toil in a carpet factory in Pakistan to repay loans from the factory owner to their parents, Nadeem is inspired by a former carpet boy named Iqbal to lead the way.
SISULU, ELINOR BATEZATTHE DAY GOGO WENT TO VOTE
Bin #1, Bin #2
Thembi's beloved great-grandmother, Gogo, is so old, she hasn't left the house in years. But when Thembi's parents announce that black South Africans will be allowed to vote for the very first time, Gogo announces she will travel to the polls, and that Thembi must come with her! Illustrated in rich pastels, this child's-eye view of a milestone in South African history allows readers young and old to experience every detail of this momentous day.
TSUCHIYA, YUKIO
FAITHFUL ELEPHANTS : A TRUE STORY OF ANIMALS, PEOPLE AND WAR
Bin #1, Bin #2
Recounts how three elephants in a Tokyo zoo were put to death because of the war, focusing on the pain shared by the elephants and the keepers who must starve them.
WINTER, JEANETTETHE LIBRARIAN OF BASRA
Bin#1, Bin #2
Alia Muhammad Baker is the librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library -- along with the thirty thousand books within it -- will be destroyed forever.
In a war-stricken country where civilians -- especially women -- have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us all of how, throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.
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