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Appearing tonight: May Heather Elizabeth Livingstone (Olivier Dunrea)
Dumpy LaRue (Elizabeth Winthrop)

Breaking Stereotypes

All the colors of the race (Aronld Adoff)
Summer wheels (Eve Bunting)
Princess Smartypants (Barbara Cole)
Paul and Sebastian (Renee Escudie)
Teammates (Peter Escudie)
Tusk tusk (David McKee)
Loving (Ann Morris)
My buddy (Audrey Osofsky)
Daddy has a pair of striped shorts (Mimi Otey)
My dad takes care of me (Patricia Quinlan)
The true story of the Three Little Pigs (Jon Scieszka)
People (Peter Spier)
Three strong women (Claus Stamm)
Angel child, dragon child (Michelle Maria Surat)
Here comes the cat! (Valdimir Vagin)
Kevin's grandma (Barbara Williams)
Crow boy (Taro Yashima)
William's doll (Charlotte Zolotow)

Bullying/Teasing (See Homophobia section as well)

Creativity (E.B. Lewis)
Hooway for Wodney Wat (Helen Lester)
Oliver Button is a sissy (Tommy de Paola)
Simon's hook (Karen Gedig Burnett)
The sissy duckling (Harvey Fierstein)
Willy and Hugh (Anthony Browne)
Willy the Wimp (Anthony Browne)

Conflict/War

Feathers and fools (Mem Fox)
Gleam and Glow (Eve Bunting)
My name was Hussein (Hristo Kyuchukov)
One more border (William Kaplan)
Passage to freedom (Ken Mochizuki
Patrol (Walter Dean Myers)
Playing war (Kathy Beckwith)
Sami and the time of troubles (Florence Heide & Judith Gilliland)
So far from the sea (Eve Bunting)
Sweet dried apples: A Vietnamese wartime childhood (Rosemary Breckler)
Tasting the sky: A Palestinian childhood (Ibtisam Barakat)
The butter battle book (Dr. Seuss)
The cello of Mr. O (Jane Cutler)
The harmonica (Tony Johnston)

Gangs/Gun Violence

Just one flick of a finger (Marybeth Lorbiecki)
Making up Megaboy (Virginia Walter)
Stars in the darkness (Barbara Joosse)
Your move (Eve Bunting)

Gender Equity

China's bravest girl: The legend of Hua Mu Lan (Charlie Chin)
Just like Josh Gibson (Angela Johnson)
Keep climbing, girls (Beah E. Richards)
Miss Rumphius (Barbara Cooney)
Pete & Pickles (Berkeley Breathed)
Piggybook (Anthony Browne) Pair this with The giving tree (Shel Silverstein)
Players in pigtails (Shana Corey)
Princess Smartypants (Babette Cole)
Ruby's wish (Shirin Yim Bridges)

Homophobia

Antonio's card/La tarjeta de Antonio (Rigoberto Gonzalez)
Asha's mums (Rosamund Elwin & Michele Paulse)
Daddy's roommate (Michael Willhoite)
Heather has two mommies (Leslea Newman)
In our mothers' house (Patricia Polacco)
King and king (Lindade Hann & Stern Nijland)
Molly's family (Nancy Garden)
Oliver button is a sissy (Tomie DePaola)
The sissy duckling (Harvey Fierstein)

Homelessness, poverty

A shelter in our car (Monica Gunning)
Fly away home (Eve Bunting)
Rent party jazz (William Miller)
Selavi: That is life: Haitian Story of Hope (Youme Landowne)
The lady in the box (Ann McGovern)
The orange shoes (Trinka Hakes Noble)

Illness/Death

Aunt Lucy has cancer (Connie S. Owens)
Deshawn days (Tony Medina)
I miss you (Pat Thomas)
Missing Maggie (Connie S. Owens)
Old people, frogs, and Albert (Nancy Wilson) Easy Chapter Book
The hope tree (Laura Numeroff & Wendy S. Harpham)
What's happening to Grampa? Maria Shriver)

Immigration/Migrant families

Amelia's road (Linda Jacobs Altman)
Coolies (Yin)
Friends from the other side/Amgios del otro lado (Gloria Anzaldua)
Home at last (Susan Middleton Elya)
How many days to America: A Thanksgiving story (Eve Bunting)
Molly's pilgrim (Barbara Cohen)
The name jar (Yangsook Choi)
When this world was new (D. H. Figueredo)

Non-Traditional Families

If only Daddy knew me (Lila McGinnis)
Jin Woo (Eve Bunting)
Mommy near, Mommy far (Carol Peacock)
Our Gracie Aunt (Jacqueline Woodson)
Visiting day (Jacqueline Woodson)

Our Global Society

Sugar changed the world (Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos
Mirror (Jeannie Baker)
Zora and me (Victoria Bond & T. R. Simon)
Birmingham Sunday (Larry Dane Brimner)
They called themselves the KKK (Susan Campbell)
Seeds for Change: Planting a path to peace (Jen Culleron)
The firefly letters (Margarita Engle)
Warriors in the crossfire (Nancy Bo Flood)
Goal (Mina Javaherbin)
Five flavors of dumb (Antony John)
A million shades of gray (Cynthia Kadohata)
Thunder over Kandahar (Sharon E. McKay)
The good garden (Kate Smith Milway)
Yummy: The last days of Southside shorty (G. Neri)
A long walk to water (Linda Sue Park)
Bamboo people (Mitali Perkins)
Heart of a Samurai (Margi Preus)
The dreamer (Pam Munoz Ryan)
Black jack: The ballad of Jack Johnson (Charles R. Smith)
Fly Free (Roseann Thong)
Saltypie: A Choctaw journey from darkness into light (Tim Tingle)
Dear Primo: A letter to my cousin(Duncan Tonatiuh)

Racism

Coolies (Yin)
Freedom summer (Deborah Wiles)
Goin' someplace special (Patricia McKissack)
Granddaddy's gift (Margaree King Mitchell)
Grandmama's pride (Becky Birtha)
Henry's freedom box (Ellen Levine)
Major Taylor: Champion cyclist (Lesa Cline-Ronsome
Martin's big words (Doreen Rappaport)
More than anything else (Marie Bradby)
Ron's big mission (Rose Blue & Corinne J. Naden)
Sister Anne's hands (Marybeth Lorbiecki)
Skin again (bel hooks)
The other side (Jacqueline Woodson)
The skin you live in (Michael Tyler)
The story of Ruby Bridges (Robert Coles)
When Marian sang (Pam Munoz Ryan)
White socks only (Evelyn Coleman)
Whitewash (Ntozake Shange)

Social Class/Getting along with others who are different

One green apple (Eve Bunting)
Score one for the sloths (Helen Lester)
Smoky night (Eve Bunting)
Somebody loves you, Mr. Hatch (Eileen Spinelli)
The summer my father was ten (Pat Brisson)
Voices in the park (Anthony Browne)

Special Learners

Ian's walk: A Story about Autism (Laurie Lears)
My friend Isabelle (Eliza Woloson)
The big box (Toni Morrison)
What's wrong with Timmy? (Maria Shriver)

Taking Social Action

Click, clack, moo: Cows That type (Doreen Crownin)
Giggle, giggle, quack (Doreen Cronin)
Nasreen's secret school (Jeanette Winter)
Si, se puede! Yes, we can! The janitor strike in L.A. (Diana Cohn)
The streets are free (Kurusa)