Peace Page

War and Oppression

Thomas Allen, Remember Pearl Harbor, National Geographic, 2002

Avi, Don't You Know There's a War On? HarperCollins, 2001

Eve Bunting, Gleam and Glow, illus. by Peter Sylvada, Harcourt, 2001

Eve Bunting, The Wall, illus. by Ronald Himler, Clarion, 1990

Eve Bunting, Terrible Things, illus. by Stephen Gammell, Jewish Pub. Soc., 1989

Jim Carnes, Us and Them: A History of Intolerance in the United States, Oxford University Press, 1999. Introduction by Justice Harry Blackmun

Jane Cutler, My Wartime Summers, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994

Patricia Reilly Giff, Lily's Crossing, Delacorte, 1998

Alison Leslie Gold, A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust, Scholastic, 2000

Florence Parry Heide, Sami and the Time of the Troubles, Clarion, 1992

Norman Jorgensen, In Flanders Fields, illus. by Brian Harrison-Lever, Simply Read Books, 2003. Picture book for older children.

Kathy Kacer, Clara's War, Second Story Press, 2001

Judith Kerr, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

M.E. Kerr, Linger

M.E. Kerr, Slap Your Sides

Rukhsana Khan, The Roses in My Carpets, Stoddart Kids, 1998

Ji Li Liang, Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, HarperCollins, 1998

Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

George Ella Lyon, Cecil's Story, illus. by Peter Catalanotto

Toshi Maruki, Hiroshima No Pika, HarperCollins, 1982

Milton Meltzer, Warfare: From the Stone Age to Space Age

Walter Dean Myers, Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam, HarperCollins, 2002

Han Nolan, If I Should Die Before I Wake, Harcourt, 1994.

Linda Sue Park, When My Name Was Keoko, Clarion, 2002

Graham Salisbury, Under the Blood Red Sun

Mervet Sha'ban and Galit Fink, If You Could Be My Friend, Orchard, 1998

Maxine Trottier, Flags, Stoddart Kids, 1999

Hana Volavkova, I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, Schocken Books, 1994

Andrea Warren, Surviving Hitler

Peace and Peacemaking

Deepa Agarwal, ed., There's Another Way! Stories of Peace, Love & Friendship, Madhuban/Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1998

Jimmy Carter, Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation, Puffin, 1995

Caroline Castle, For Every Child: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Phyllis Fogelman Books, in collaboration with UNICEF, 2001

Cathryn Clinton, A Stone in My Hand, Candlewick, 2002

Eleanor Coerr, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. illus. by Ronald Himler, G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Barbara Cohen, The Secret Grove, illus. by Michael J. Deraney, McIntosh and Otis, Inc. and Union of American Hebrew Congregation, 1985.

Jane Cutler, The Cello of Mr. O, illus. by Greg Couch, Dutton, 1999

Tomie DePaola, The Knight and the Dragon, Putnam, 1980

Laurie Dolphin, Georgia to Georgia: Making Friends in the USSR, photos by E. Alan McGee, Tambourine Books, 1991. A boy from Atlanta, Georgia, has the opportunity to stay with a boy his age in Tbilisi, Georgia. This Georgia was then a republic of the Soviet Union--now it is independent.

Ann Durell and Marylyn Sachs, Editors, The Big Book for Peace, Dutton, 1990

Sheila Hamanaka, ed., On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, Clarion, 1995

Georgia Heard, ed., This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort, Candlewick, 2002

Roberto Innocenti, Rose Blanche, Creative Editions 1985; Harcourt 1996. Picture book for older children.

Jane Kurtz, The Storyteller's Beads, Harcourt, 1998

Judy Lalli, 40 Ways to be a Peaceful Person

Judy Lalli, I Like Being Me (Poems for children about Feeling Special, Appreciating Others and Getting Along)

Judy Lalli, Make Someone Smile

Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand, Viking, 1936

Barbara A. Lewis, The Kid's Guide to Social Action: How to Solve the Social Problems You Choose-And Turn Creative Thinking into Positive Action,

Margaret Read MacDonald, Peace Tales: World Folktales to Talk About, Linnet Books, 1992

David McPhail, Mole Music, Henry Holt, 1999

Milton Meltzer, Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers

Lauren Murphy Payne, M.S.W., We Can Get Along: A Child's Book of Choices Leader's Guide also available for this book

Thomas Pettepiece and Anatoly Aleksin (Eds.), Face to Face, Philomel Books 1990. Young adult. "A collection of stories by celebrated Soviet and American writers." A portion of the sale of each book is donated to UNICEF.

Todd Parr, The Peace Book, Megan Tingley Books, 2004

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Editor, Stories for Free Children

Vladimir Radunsky, Manneken Pis: A Simple Story of a Boy Who Peed on a War, Atheneum, 2002

Star Rowe and Katya Lycheva, Making Friends, Henry Holt, 1987. The organization Children as the Peacemakers, conductor of international peace trips for children ages 8-14, honored the memory of Samantha Smith by inviting a Russian girl to visit the U.S. for a peace trip like the one Samantha had made to the Soviet Union. She would stay with an American girl her age. The book is subtitled "Katya from Moscow and Star from San Francisco: two eleven-year-olds discover America together."

Katherine Scholes, Peace Begins With You

Pete Seeger, Abiyoyo, illus. by Michael Hays, Macmillan, 1986

Samantha Smith (and her dad, both of whom were later killed in a plane crash), Journey to the Soviet Union, Little, Brown and Company, 1985. Middle grade photo essay. First-person account of Samantha's historic journey of friendship at age 10 to the Soviet Union. She was invited to visit by Russian leader Yuri Andropov after she wrote a letter telling him she was worried about the United States and Russia getting into a nuclear war.

Anais Vaugelade, The War, Carolrhoda, 2001

Jacqueline Woodson, The Other Side, illus. by E.B. Lewis, G.P. Putnam's, 2001

Virginia Euwer Wolff, Bat 6, Scholastic, 1998

The Nature of Conflict

Avi, Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel, Flare, 1993

Andrew Clements, The Landry News: A Brand New School Story, Simon & Schuster, 1999

Audrey Couloumbis, Summer's End, Putnam, 2005

David McKee, Tusk Tusk, Kane Miller, 1990

Dr. Seuss, The Butter Battle Book, Random House, 1984