Peace: Social Justice Book List #3

Peace can be experienced as a global issue but also an internal one as one searches to attain inner peace. These youngCanLit books support the topic of Peace in social justice teaching.

Picture Books

The Boy in the Attic
by Paul Yee

Illustrated by Gu Xiong

Groundwood Books

31 pp.

Ages 6-8

1998

The Chinese Violin

by Madeline Thien

Illustrated by Joe Chang

Whitecap Books

32 pp.

Ages 4-8

2001

Jack the Bear

by Christine Leist

Simply Read Books

40 pp.

Ages 3-7

2009

Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion
by Jane Barclay
Illustrated by Renné Benoit
Tundra
24 pp.
Ages 4-8
2009

Red Parka Mary
by Peter Eyvindson
Illustrated by Rhian Brynjolson
Pemmican Publications
44 pp.
Ages 4-8
1996

The Roses in my Carpets
by Rukhsana Khan
Illustrated by Ronald Himler
Fitzhenery & Whiteside
32 pp.
Ages 7-9
2004

A Screaming Kind of Day
by Rachna Gilmore
Illustrated by Gordon Sauve
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
38 pp.
Ages 5-8
1999

Fiction

Betrayed: The Legend of Oak Island
by Christopher Dinsdale
Napoleon
292 pp.
Ages 10+
2009

Darkest Light

by Hiromi Goto

Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki

Razorbill (Penguin Group) 

327 pp.

Ages 12-15

2012

The Feathered Cloak

by Sean Dixon

Key Porter

196 pp.

Ages 9-12

2007

Good-bye Marianne: A Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany

by Irene N. Watts

Tundra

105 pp.

Ages 9-12

1998

A Hare in the Elephant's Trunk

by Jan L. Coates
Red Deer Press

291 pp.

Ages 13+
2010

Ned Mouse Breaks Away

by Tim Wynne-Jones

Illustrated by Dušan Petričić

Groundwood Books

68 pp.

Ages 8+

2003

Peacekeepers

by Dianne Linden

Coteau Books

193 pp.

Ages 11-14

2003

The Reunion
by Jacqueline Pearce
Orca Book Publishers
92 pp.
Ages 7-10
2002

 




Rex Zero, King of Nothing

by Tim Wynne-Jones

Groundwood Books

224 pp.

Ages 9-12

2007

Shattered

by Eric Walters

Viking Canada

192 pp.

Ages 12-16

2006

The Shepherd's Granddaughter

by Anne Laurel Carter

Groundwood Books/House of Anansi

222 pp.

Ages 11+

2008

Non-Fiction

Hana's Suitcase Anniversary Album (A Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers)
by Karen Levine
Second Story Press
176 pp.
Ages 9-13
2012

Hana's Suitcase
by Karen Levine
Second Story Press
120 pp.
Ages 9-12
2002

Hiding Edith: A True Story (A Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers) 
by Kathy Kacer
Second Story Press
151 pp.
Ages 9-11
2006

If I Had a Million Onions
by Sheree Fitch
Illustrated by Yayo
Tradewind Books
63 pp.
Ages 5-9
2005

In Flanders Field: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae

by Linda Granfield

Illustrated by Janet Wilson

Lester Publishing

32 pp.

Ages 9+

1995

Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War

by Marsha Skrypuch

Pajama Press

99 pp.

Ages 10-15

2011

My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary

by Nadja Halilbegovich

Kids Can Press

120 pp.

Ages 10-12

2006

Nobel's Women of Peace
by Michelle Benjamin and Maggie Mooney
Second Story Press
146 pp.
Ages 10+
2008
 

One Peace: True Stories of Young Activists

by Janet Wilson

Orca Book Publishers

48 pp.

Ages 8-12

2008 

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

by Deborah Ellis 

Groundwood Books

110 pp.

Ages 11-17

2004

 

Yeny and the Children for Peace

by Michelle Mulder

Second Story Press

118 pp.

Ages 8-13

2008