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• This Child, Every Child

  This book examines the rights that children are guaranteed under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.  The author allows readers to experience the lives of children in poor countries and draws awareness to the striking disparity...

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• Mama Panya's Pancakes: A Village Tale From Kenya

  The author creates a Kenyan version of the popular children’s book Stone Soup.  In this story a woman is headed to the market with her son to spend her meager wages on ingredients to make pancakes for supper.  Along the way amid her son’s...

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• Carolina's Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too

  This book follows the rescue and rehabilitation of a sea turtle affectionately named Carolina.  With the effective use of  close-up, colorful photos, the book details the treatment that Carolina receives from the Sea Turtle Hospital as she begins...

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• Talking About What You Eat

  When experiencing hunger, people often do not consider the impact that the food they choose can have on their bodies.  This book provides the framework for examining a healthy diet by beginning to explore whether the food they choose is providing...

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• The Secret River

  A young girl’s father’s business of selling fish is failing and she seeks out the advice of the wisest person in the forest to help her find fish to support her family and her village.  The young girl heads out into the forest and discovers...

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• The Goodbye Cancer Garden

  A young girl is told that her mother has cancer.  As she asks questions about her mother’s recovery, she is told that hopefully her mother will be better by pumpkin time.  This inspires the young girl to plant her own garden, and the book...

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• The Lorax

  The now remorseful Once-ler, our faceless, bodiless narrator, tells the story himself. Long ago this enterprising villain chances upon a place filled with wondrous Truffula Trees, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba- loots, and Humming-Fishes. Bewitched by the...

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• The Great Kapok Tree

  According to Publisher's Weekly, this book combines illustrations that reveal a naturalist's reverence for beauty with a myth-like story that explains the ecological importance of saving the rain forests. The text is not a didactic treatise, but a simply...

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• If The World Were A Village

  First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting "world-mindedness" by imagining the world's population, all 7+ billion of us, as a village of just 100 people. Now the book has been newly revised with...

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• Weslandia

  What do the children you know usually do when school is out for the summer? Go crazy with boredom? Head poolside with friends? Plan a self-sufficient civilization with its own staple food crop? That is precisely how Wesley decides to spend his summer...

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• What Does Peace Feel Like?

  This uniquely illustrated book offers an answer to the question, “What Does Peace Look Like?”  The answers are provided by students from an international school in Rome and convey images of peace through the eyes of a child.  The...

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• Where Once There Was a Wood

  This uniquely illustrated picture book explores the abundance of creatures that once inhabited a natural area before its conversion to a housing development.  The text is suited for young readers  but the concepts are appropriate for more advanced...

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• A Cool Drink of Water

  This book presents beautiful photographs of  people from around the world gathering water.  The text that accompanies each photograph is minimal, but supplies the basic message that “Everyone everywhere…enjoys a drink of water.” ...

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• A Little Peace

  This book presents beautiful photographs of people around the globe doing their part to contribute to a peaceful world.  The text is simple, yet efficient in sending the message to students that it is not just the responsibility of  adults...

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• Whoever You Are

  This book effectively delivers a powerful message that despite all of the differences that people may have, we are all the same deep down.  The author explains that there are children all over the world who may look different, live in different...

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• Something Beautiful

  This book begins with a young girl reflecting on the “ugliness” she sees when looking around her inner city neighborhood.  In her attempt to find something positive within this urban landscape, she polls those around her on the things...

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• Henry’s Freedom Box

  The books tells the true story of Henry Brown, a slave who mailed himself to freedom.  After watching his family be sold as slaves,  Brown visits an abolitionist who figures out a way to protect Henry from the impending slave auction.  He...

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• Sky Tree

  This book encourages students to look at the natural world around them through a different lens. Text and pictures are used to follow the journey of a single tree throughout an entire year.  The author weaves thoughts and emotions into the text...

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• The Black Book of Colors

  This book strives to develop understanding and appreciation for diversity.  It  includes detailed descriptions of objects that are depicted on black pages.  The objects described are illustrated only with embossed lines that force readers...

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• Ecological Footprints

  This resource examines the difference between consumption and waste. Students investigate the concept of an ecological footprint using a game format.  Afterwards they visit an interactive website that allows them to calculate their family's ecological...

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