Text Sets
Body Image
- Appearing tonight: May Heather Elizabeth Livingstone (Olivier Dunrea)
- Dumpy LaRue (Elizabeth Winthrop)
Breaking Stereotypes
- All the colors of the race (Aronld Adoff)
- Summer wheels (Eve Bunting)
- Princess Smartypants (Barbara Cole)
- Paul and Sebastian (Renee Escudie)
- Teammates (Peter Escudie)
- Tusk tusk (David McKee)
- Loving (Ann Morris)
- My buddy (Audrey Osofsky)
- Daddy has a pair of striped shorts (Mimi Otey)
- My dad takes care of me (Patricia Quinlan)
- The true story of the Three Little Pigs (Jon Scieszka)
- People (Peter Spier)
- Three strong women (Claus Stamm)
- Angel child, dragon child (Michelle Maria Surat)
- Here comes the cat! (Valdimir Vagin)
- Kevin's grandma (Barbara Williams)
- Crow boy (Taro Yashima)
- William's doll (Charlotte Zolotow)
Bullying/Teasing (See Homophobia section as well)
- Creativity (E.B. Lewis)
- Hooway for Wodney Wat (Helen Lester)
- Oliver Button is a sissy (Tommy de Paola)
- Simon's hook (Karen Gedig Burnett)
- The sissy duckling (Harvey Fierstein)
- Willy and Hugh (Anthony Browne)
- Willy the Wimp (Anthony Browne)
Conflict/War
- Feathers and fools (Mem Fox)
- Gleam and Glow (Eve Bunting)
- My name was Hussein (Hristo Kyuchukov)
- One more border (William Kaplan)
- Passage to freedom (Ken Mochizuki
- Patrol (Walter Dean Myers)
- Playing war (Kathy Beckwith)
- Sami and the time of troubles (Florence Heide & Judith Gilliland)
- So far from the sea (Eve Bunting)
- Sweet dried apples: A Vietnamese wartime childhood (Rosemary Breckler)
- Tasting the sky: A Palestinian childhood (Ibtisam Barakat)
- The butter battle book (Dr. Seuss)
- The cello of Mr. O (Jane Cutler)
- The harmonica (Tony Johnston)
Gangs/Gun Violence
- Just one flick of a finger (Marybeth Lorbiecki)
- Making up Megaboy (Virginia Walter)
- Stars in the darkness (Barbara Joosse)
- Your move (Eve Bunting)
Gender Equity
- China's bravest girl: The legend of Hua Mu Lan (Charlie Chin)
- Just like Josh Gibson (Angela Johnson)
- Keep climbing, girls (Beah E. Richards)
- Miss Rumphius (Barbara Cooney)
- Pete & Pickles (Berkeley Breathed)
- Piggybook (Anthony Browne) Pair this with The giving tree (Shel Silverstein)
- Players in pigtails (Shana Corey)
- Princess Smartypants (Babette Cole)
- Ruby's wish (Shirin Yim Bridges)
Homophobia
- Antonio's card/La tarjeta de Antonio (Rigoberto Gonzalez)
- Asha's mums (Rosamund Elwin & Michele Paulse)
- Daddy's roommate (Michael Willhoite)
- Heather has two mommies (Leslea Newman)
- In our mothers' house (Patricia Polacco)
- King and king (Lindade Hann & Stern Nijland)
- Molly's family (Nancy Garden)
- Oliver button is a sissy (Tomie DePaola)
- The sissy duckling (Harvey Fierstein)
Homelessness, poverty
- A shelter in our car (Monica Gunning)
- Fly away home (Eve Bunting)
- Rent party jazz (William Miller)
- Selavi: That is life: Haitian Story of Hope (Youme Landowne)
- The lady in the box (Ann McGovern)
- The orange shoes (Trinka Hakes Noble)
Illness/Death
- Aunt Lucy has cancer (Connie S. Owens)
- Deshawn days (Tony Medina)
- I miss you (Pat Thomas)
- Missing Maggie (Connie S. Owens)
- Old people, frogs, and Albert (Nancy Wilson) Easy Chapter Book
- The hope tree (Laura Numeroff & Wendy S. Harpham)
- What's happening to Grampa? Maria Shriver)
Immigration/Migrant families
- Amelia's road (Linda Jacobs Altman)
- Coolies (Yin)
- Friends from the other side/Amgios del otro lado (Gloria Anzaldua)
- Home at last (Susan Middleton Elya)
- How many days to America: A Thanksgiving story (Eve Bunting)
- Molly's pilgrim (Barbara Cohen)
- The name jar (Yangsook Choi)
- When this world was new (D. H. Figueredo)
Non-Traditional Families
- If only Daddy knew me (Lila McGinnis)
- Jin Woo (Eve Bunting)
- Mommy near, Mommy far (Carol Peacock)
- Our Gracie Aunt (Jacqueline Woodson)
- Visiting day (Jacqueline Woodson)
Our Global Society
- Sugar changed the world (Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos
- Mirror (Jeannie Baker)
- Zora and me (Victoria Bond & T. R. Simon)
- Birmingham Sunday (Larry Dane Brimner)
- They called themselves the KKK (Susan Campbell)
- Seeds for Change: Planting a path to peace (Jen Culleron)
- The firefly letters (Margarita Engle)
- Warriors in the crossfire (Nancy Bo Flood)
- Goal (Mina Javaherbin)
- Five flavors of dumb (Antony John)
- A million shades of gray (Cynthia Kadohata)
- Thunder over Kandahar (Sharon E. McKay)
- The good garden (Kate Smith Milway)
- Yummy: The last days of Southside shorty (G. Neri)
- A long walk to water (Linda Sue Park)
- Bamboo people (Mitali Perkins)
- Heart of a Samurai (Margi Preus)
- The dreamer (Pam Munoz Ryan)
- Black jack: The ballad of Jack Johnson (Charles R. Smith)
- Fly Free (Roseann Thong)
- Saltypie: A Choctaw journey from darkness into light (Tim Tingle)
- Dear Primo: A letter to my cousin(Duncan Tonatiuh)
Racism
- Coolies (Yin)
- Freedom summer (Deborah Wiles)
- Goin' someplace special (Patricia McKissack)
- Granddaddy's gift (Margaree King Mitchell)
- Grandmama's pride (Becky Birtha)
- Henry's freedom box (Ellen Levine)
- Major Taylor: Champion cyclist (Lesa Cline-Ronsome
- Martin's big words (Doreen Rappaport)
- More than anything else (Marie Bradby)
- Ron's big mission (Rose Blue & Corinne J. Naden)
- Sister Anne's hands (Marybeth Lorbiecki)
- Skin again (bel hooks)
- The other side (Jacqueline Woodson)
- The skin you live in (Michael Tyler)
- The story of Ruby Bridges (Robert Coles)
- When Marian sang (Pam Munoz Ryan)
- White socks only (Evelyn Coleman)
- Whitewash (Ntozake Shange)
Social Class/Getting along with others who are different
- One green apple (Eve Bunting)
- Score one for the sloths (Helen Lester)
- Smoky night (Eve Bunting)
- Somebody loves you, Mr. Hatch (Eileen Spinelli)
- The summer my father was ten (Pat Brisson)
- Voices in the park (Anthony Browne)
Special Learners
- Ian's walk: A Story about Autism (Laurie Lears)
- My friend Isabelle (Eliza Woloson)
- The big box (Toni Morrison)
- What's wrong with Timmy? (Maria Shriver)
Taking Social Action
- Click, clack, moo: Cows That type (Doreen Crownin)
- Giggle, giggle, quack (Doreen Cronin)
- Nasreen's secret school (Jeanette Winter)
- Si, se puede! Yes, we can! The janitor strike in L.A. (Diana Cohn)
- The streets are free (Kurusa)