Caring Hands: Social Justice Book List #6

This book list, titled Caring Hands, focuses on how we can help the world become more loving and caring. 

Picture Books

Anna's Goat
by Janice Kulyk Keefer
Illustrated by Janet Wilson
Orca Book Publishers
32 pp.
Ages 6-9
2000

The Baritone Cat 

by Mora Skelton
Illustrated by Janet Wilson
Lester Publishing
32 pp.
Ages 4-6
1994

Boo Hoo Bird
by Jeremy Tankard
Scholastic Canada
28 pp.
Ages 3-5
2009

King of the Skies
by Rukhsana Khan
Illustrated by Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson
Scholastic Canada
32 pp.
Ages 4-8
2003  

 

Lumpito and the Painter from Spain
by Monica Kulling
Illustrated by Dean Griffiths
Pajama Press
32 pp.
Ages 5+
2012

A Man Called Raven
by Richard Van Camp
Illustrated by George Littlechild
Children's Book Press
32 pp.
Ages 7+
1997 

 

The Man Who Walked the Earth
by Ian Wallace
Groundwood Books
38 pp.
Ages 6-8
2003

Nokum is My Teacher
by David Bouchard
Illustrated by Allen Sapp
Red Deer Press
32 pp.
Ages 6-9
2007

 

The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing
by Maxine Trottier
Illustrated by Al Van Mil
Stoddart
32 pp.
Ages 4+
1995

Virginia Wolf
by Kyo Maclear
Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 5-10
2012

Fiction

40 Things I Want to Tell You
by Alice Kuipers
HarperTrophy Canada
283 pp.
Ages 13+
2012

Before We Go

by Amy Bright

Red Deer Press

222 pp.

Ages 12+

2012

crush. candy. corpse.
by Sylvia McNicoll
Lorimer
219 pp.
Ages 12+
2012

Cuts Like a Knife
by Darlene Ryan
Orca Book Publishers
109 pp.
Ages 14+
2012

Fostergirls
by Liane Shaw
Second Story Press
256 pp.
Ages13-16
2011

The Glory Wind
by Valerie Sherrard 

Fitzhenry & Whiteside
 222 pp.
Ages 11+
2010

Half Brother
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada
377 pp.
Ages 12+
2010
 

Home Truths
by Jill MacLean
Dancing Cat Books
282 pp.
Ages 11-14
2010

 I’ll Be Watching
by Pamela Porter
Groundwood Books
280 pp.
Ages 12+
2011

 

 

The Nine Lives of Travis Keating

by Jill MacLean

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

217 pp.

Ages 8-12

2008

Nix Minus One

by Jill MacLean

Pajama Press

Ages 12+

296 pp.

February, 2013

Not with a Bang

by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Magpie Books
118 pp.
Ages 14+
2012

The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy 

by Jill MacLean

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

217 pp.

Ages 8-12

2009

Rescue Pup
by Jean Little
Orca Book Publishers
101 pp.
Ages 8-10
2004

 

The Third Eye
by Mahtab Narsimhan
Dundurn Press
240 pp.
Ages 10-14
2007

Watching Jimmy

by Nancy Hartry

Tundra Books

144 pp.

Ages 10-14

2009

Non-Fiction

The Birdman
by Veronika Martinova Charles
Illustrated by Anouchka Gravel Galouchko and Stéphan Daigle
Tundra Books
32 pp.
Ages 4-7
2006

The Bite of the Mango
by Mariatu Kamara with Susan McLelland
Annick Press
216 pp.
Ages 14+
2008

Courage and Compassion: Ten Canadians Who Made a Difference
by Rona Arato
Maple Leaf Press
96 pp.
Ages 11-13
2008 

It Takes A Child
by Craig Kielburger
Greystone Books
46 pp.
Ages 4-12
2008

Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Pajama Press
99 pp.
Ages 10-15
2011

No Shelter Here: Making the World a Kinder Place for Dogs
by Rob Laidlaw
Pajama Press
64 pp.
Ages 9-12
2011

One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way

by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Pajama Press
978-1-927485-02-6
128 pp.
Ages 8-12
2012

Saving Lives and Changing Hearts:  Animal Sanctuaries and Rescue Centres
by Rob Laidlaw
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
62 pp.
Ages 10-14
2013