Sign from March to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in 2010All around the world, including our own state, there are some amazing things happening. Kids and teens are hearing about it on television and around the dinner table, and maybe even participating in demonstrations themselves. Why not tap into this energy with a book display that ties in to some of these issues? Here’s a small sampling of some of the titles you might pull:
Labor/Labor Unions
Fiction:
Bread and Roses by Katherine Paterson
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
Boys without Names by Kashmira Sheth
Nonfiction:
Labor Unions: Opposing Viewpoints
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell Freedman with photographs by Lewis Hine
Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers’ Rights by Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Stolen Dreams: Portraits of Working Children by David L. Parker with Lee Engfer and Robert Conrow
Kids on Strike! Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Iqbal Masih and the Crusades Against Child Slavery by Susan Kuklin
Organizing/Demonstrating/Standing Up for What You Believe
Fiction:
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth
That Girl Lucy Moon by Amy Timberlake
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Vote for Larry by Janet Tashjian
Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School by Ruth McNally Barshaw
Outcasts of Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
Nonfiction:
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge
It’s Our World Too! Young People Who Are Making a Difference by Phillip Hoose
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote by Ann Bausum
Law-making
Making Laws: A Look at How a Bill Becomes a Law and other series titles on law-making
Also consider making a display of your collections about Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa that are experiencing turmoil.