Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club: Democracy!

While I like to save this list as a patriotic post on the 4th of July, we are in some desperate times when citizens need to step up and I do not think we can wait.  

Because your children need you to call your Senators every day about the health care bill and insist on a bill that will protect them if they are or become sick or disabled, because your children need you to protect the safety of the air they breathe and the water they drink, because your children need you to stand up for their friends who are so hurt when people treat them badly because of their race or ethnicity or faith....this edition of Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club is about citizenship and participating in the democratic process.  Save our democracy and start modeling citizenship now.

Primary and Lower Elementary:

• Click, Clack, Moo:  Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
• A Is For Activist by Innosanto Nagara
• The Streets Are Free by Kurusa
• Si, Se Puede!: Janitor Strike In L.A. by Diana Cohn
  
• You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! by Shana Corey
• Sit-In:  How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• If A Bus Could Talk:  The Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold
• Ruby Bridges Goes To School:  My True Story by Ruby Bridges
• The Ballot Box Battle By Emily Arnold McCully
• Wangari's Trees of Peace By Jeannette Winter 

 
Upper Elementary and Teen Books:

• The Landry News by Andrew Clements
• The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman
• Crash by Jerry Spinelli.
• Standing Up to Mr. O by Claudia Mills.