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Peace Booklist

I am working on a booklist which promotes peace, demonstrates conflict resolution, and helps clarify what peace is for children. Here are some titles, and I will add more soon!

14 Cows for America by Carmen Deedy
The Enemy by Davide Cali
Seeds of Freedom : the peaceful integration of Huntsville, Alabama by Hester Bass
Who is Malala Yousafzai? 
Who Was Martin Luther King?
Who Was Mother Teresa?
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Truce by Jim Murphy 
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Twenty-two cents : Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank by Paula Yoo
Why Do We Fight: conflict, war and peace by Niki Walker
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall



Books Recommended for Younger Students:

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst.
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat
A Bargain for Frances by Russell Hoban
Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Paulie Pastrami Achieved World Peace by James Proimos
When Sophie Gets Angry, Really, Really, Angry by Molly Bang
Pay it Forward: young readers edition by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Peace Book by Todd Parr
Shooting at the Stars: the Christmas truce of 1914 by John Hendrix
Can you say Peace by Karen Katz
All the World by Elizabeth Garton Scanlon
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
The Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania
Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed by Emily Pearson
Peace Week in Miss Fox's Class by Eileen Spinelli
Mother Teresa : a life of kindness by Ellen Weiss
Somewhere Today: a book of peace by Shelley Moore Thomas
The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade by Justin Roberts
Because Amelia Smiled by David Ezra Stein
One Smile by Cindy McKinley
Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rapport

Since 1953 The Jane Adams Peace Organization has honored outstanding children's books promoting peace and justice with the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards.View the website and booklist here:http://www.janeaddamspeace.org/jacba/docs/JACBAawards.pdf

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