Sharing Our Lives: Social Justice Book List #2

In this second book list of youngCanLit that can be used to embed social justice issues, the theme of Sharing Our Lives involves examining how our lives are similar and different from those of others.

Picture Books

Dear Baobab
by Cheryl Foggo
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Second Story Press
24 pp.
Ages 6-8
2011

Everybody's Different on Everybody Street
by Sheree Fitch
Illustrated by Laura Jolicoeur
Nova Scotia Hospital Foundation
2001

Goodnight, Canada
by Andrea Beck
North Winds Press/Scholastic Canada
32 pp.
Ages 3-7
2012

Jeremiah Learns to Read
by Jo Ellen Bogart
Illustrated by Laura Fernandes and Rick Jacobson
North Winds Press
32 pp.
Ages 6-8
1997

The Legend of Ninja, Cowboy, Bear
by David Bruins
Illustrated by Hilary Leung
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 3-7
2009

Migrant
by Maxine Trottier
Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Groundwood
40 pp.
Ages 7-13
2011

No Two Snowflakes
by Sheree Fitch
Illustrated by Janet Wilson
Orca Book Publishers
32 pp.
Ages 4-8
2001

Small Saul
by Ashley Spires
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 3-7
2011

Tadeo’s Search for Circles
by Marion Brooker
Illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
32 pp.
Ages 4-7
2011

Fiction

The Boy from Left Field

by Tom Henighan
Dundurn
209 pp.
Ages 9-14
2012

 

The Breadwinner Trilogy

by Deborah Ellis

Groundwood Books

Ages 9-12 

The Breadwinner 

170 pp.

2000

 Mud City

164 pp.

2002

 Parvana's Journey

199 pp.

2003

A Group of One
by Rachna Gilmore
Henry Holt
184 pp.
Ages 13+
2001

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

The Moon Children
by Beverley Brenna
Red Deer Press
140 pp.
Ages 9-12
2007

The Paper House
by Lois Peterson
Orca Book Publishers
108 pp.
Ages 8-11
2012

Non-Fiction

If the World were a Village: A Book about the World’s Children
by David J. Smith
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 8-13
2011

Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-ending War 
by Deborah Ellis
Groundwood Books
143 pp.
Ages 12+
2012

Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War

by Marsha Skrypuch
Pajama Press
99 pp.
Ages 10-15
2011

No Borders
by Darla Evyagotailak and Mindy Willet
Photos by Tessa Macintosh
Fifth House
40 pp.
Ages 10+
2012

Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World
by Susan Hughes

Owlkids Books

64 pp.

Ages 8-13

2011

Piece by Piece: Stories About Fitting Into Canada
Edited by Teresa Toten
Puffin Canada
183 pp.
Ages 12-17
2010

This Child, Every Child: A Book About the World's Children
by David J. Smith
Kids Can Press
36 pp.
Ages 9-12
2011

We Want You to Know: Kids Talk About Bullying
by Deborah Ellis
Coteau Books
120 pp.
Ages 9-14
2010