BUNTING, EVETHE WALL
A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.
LUDWIG, TRUDY
MY SECRET BULLY
A girl confides to her mother that her best friend is treating her badly, and together they figure out what to do about it.
PATTERSON, HEATHERA POPPY IS TO REMEMBER
Simple text calls to mind the rich symbolism of the poppy we wear so proudly on Remembrance Day...lest we forget.
SHEA, PEGI DEITZ
THE WHISPERING CLOTH
A young girl in a Thai refugee camp in the mid-1970's finds the story within herself to create her own pa'ndau.
SKARMETA, ANTONIOTHE COMPOSITION
"Goal!" screamed Pedro. He waited for his friend's applause. But no one was paying any attention. Everyone was staring at Don Daniel's grocery store...Daniel's father was being dragged down the street by two men. A group of soldiers were pointing machine guns at him. When Daniel tried to approach his father, a soldier pushed him back.
"Calm down," said the soldier.
Don Daniel looked at his son. "Take care of the store for me," he said.
Humourous, serious and intensely human, this powerful picture book by a Chilean writer presents a situation all too familiar to children around the world. It provides food for thought about freedom, moral choices, and personal responsibility.
TSUCHIYA, YUKIO
FAITHFUL ELEPHANTS : A TRUE STORY OF ANIMALS, PEOPLE AND WAR
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.
UNICEFI DREAM OF PEACE : IMAGES OF WAR BY CHILDREN OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
The drawings and writings reproduced in this book are created by children from the former Yugoslavia. They reveal the hopes, and fears of thousands of children from the region whose world has been shattered by the death and destruction of war.
WINTER, JEANETTE
THE LIBRARIAN OF BASRA
Alia Muhammad Baker is the librarian in Basra, Ira. 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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