Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club: Peace on Earth

 In honor of the holidays, this edition of the Subversive Children's Book Club centers on themes of peace.  Peace on on Earth, Y'all. Enjoy.

For the Primary and Lower Elementary Set:
  • Our Peaceful Classroom by Aline D. Wolf
  • Sitti’s Secrets by Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter by Diane Stanley
  • Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: an adaptation for children 
           by Ruth Rocha & Otavio Roth
  • Cain and Abel:  Finding The Fruits of Peace by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
  • The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter 


For the Upper Elementary and Teen Set (several of these are pretty heavily Quaker-influenced):

  •  Crash by Jerry Spinelli
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  •  The Arrow Over The Door by Joseph Bruchac
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  • Summer’s End by Audrey Couloumbis
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  • Quaking by Kathryn Erskine
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  • The Eye of The Heron by Ursula K. LeGuin.

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