Adept Summer Institute History Book List These

ADePT Summer Institute History Book List

These books focus on issues of racial discrimination, segregation, integration, and civil rights.

# Title Authors Grade level 1 Paula Young Shelton K-3 Child of the Civil Rights Movement Raúl Colón 2 Walter Dean Myers K-3 Malcom X: A Fire Burning Brightly Leonard Jenkins 3 Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her K-3 Family’s Fight for Desegregation Duncan Tonatiuh 4 Andrea Davis Pinkney K-3 Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation Brian Pinkney 5 K-3 We March Shane W. Evans 6 Michael S. Bandy K-3 White Water Eric Stein 7 Andrea Davis Pinkney K-3 Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation Brian Pinkney 8 Susan Lynn Meyer K-3 New Shoes Eric Velasquez 9 Carole Boston Weatherford K-3 Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins Jerome Lagarrigue 10 The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Susan E. Goodman 1-4 Trial E.B. Lewis Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Carole Boston Weatherford 1-4 Black and White America Jamey Christoph 9 Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Andrea Davis Pinkney 2-5 Down Brian Pinkney 10 Robert Coles 2-5 The Story of Ruby Bridges George Ford 11 Angela Johnson 2-5 A Sweet Smell of Roses Eric Velazquez 12 The Little Rock Nine: A Primary Source 3-5 Exploration of the Battle for School Integration Brian Krumm 13 Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed 4-5 the Fight for Integration Shelley Tougas 14 Dear America: With the Might of Angels: The 3-5 Diary of Dawnie Ray Johnson Andrea Davis Pinkney 16 4-5 The Lions of Little Rock Kristen Levine 17 Calvin Alexander Ramsey 3-5 Ruth and the Green Book Gwen Strauss 18 3-5 Stella By Starlight Sharon M. Draper 19 Patricia Hruby Powell 3-5 Josephine: the Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker Christian Robinson 20 Carole Boston Weatherford 3-5 Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Ekua Holmes

Teacher Resources

Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice, edited by Wayne Au (2014)

Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms, Sara Schwebel (2011)

Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High, Melba Beals (1994)

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Phillip Hoose (2010)

ADePT Summer Institute Immigration Book List

These books tell varied stories about the experiences of immigration, nationality, and adjustment to new cultures.

# Title Authors Grade level 1 Naming Liberty Jane Yolen, Jim Burke 1-3 2 Hello, Amigoes! Tricia Brown, Fran Ortiz K-1 3 Welcome to My Community Auiara Lageria, Shino Aribara K-1 4 Silent Movie Avi, E.B. Mordan K-3 5 Henry Cisneros: A man of the people Maritza Romero 2-3 6 Elizabeth, a Puerto Rican-American child Joe Molner 2-3 tells her story 7 You Wouldn't Want to Sail on an Irish Jim Pipe; David Antram 5.7 Famine Ship! 8 Louise Peacock; Walter Lyon Krudop 5 At Ellis Island 9 Elaine Landau 4.5 Ellis Island 10 We are Americans: Voices of the Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler 4-5 Immigrant Experience 11 Monica Gunning, Ken Condon 4-5 America, My New Home 12 Shaun Tan 7 The Arrival 13 Eve Bunting 3.7 Dreaming of America Ben F. Stahl 14 Nancy Price Graff 6.5 Where the River Runs 16 Elvira Woodruff 5.5 The Orphan of Ellis Island 17 Sarah De Capua 6 How People Immigrate 18 Sarah De Capua 4.5 Becoming a Citizen 19 Tui T. Sutherland; John O'Brien 3.4 Who Was Harry Houdini? 20 William Durbin 6.1 The Journal of Otto Peltonen 21 Michele Maria Surat 2.8 Angel Child, Dragon Child 22 Ellen Levine; Wayne Parmenter 3.9 If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island 23 Betsy Maestro; Susannah Ryan 4.8 Coming to America 24 Elvira Woodruff; Michael Dooling 3.7 The Memory Coat 25 Kathryn Lasky 4.8 Dreams in the Golden Country 26 Amy Hest; P.J. Lynch 3.5 When Jessie Came Across the Sea 27 Maryann Cocca-Leffler; 1.5 Let It Shine 28 Deborah Hopkinson 4.4 Hear My Sorrow 29 Minfong Ho 5.9 The Stone Goddess 30 Barry Denenberg 3.5 So Far from Home 31 Juan Felipe Herrera 4.4 Downtown Boy 32 Kathryn Lasky 3.9 Home at Last 33 Kathryn Lasky 3.6 Hope in My Heart 34 Jim Murphy 3.7 The Crossing 35 Angela Cervantes 3.7 Gaby, Lost and Found

ADePT Summer Institute Civics Book List

These books tell stories about civic engagement and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The books provide material for thinking through what it means to be a “good citizen” in our families, schools, communities, nation, and world.

# Title Authors Grade level 1 Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Michelle Markel K-3 Makers’ Strike of 1909 Melissa Sweet 2 Ann Berlak K-3 Joelito’s Big Decision Jose Antonio Galloso; Daniel Camacho 3 Doreen Cronin K-3 Eleanor, Quiet No More Gary Kelley 4 Jacqueline Woodson K-3 Each Kindness E.B. Lewis 5 Amy Ehrlich K-3 Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson Wendell Minor 6 Doreen Cronin K-3 Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type Betsy Lewin 7 Kelly DiPucchio 1-4 Grace for President LeUyen Pham 8 Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for Anne Malaspina 1-4 President Steve James 9 Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Dean Robbins; Sean Qualls 1-4 Frederick Douglass Selina Alko 10 The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Vanda Michequx Nelson 2-5 Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore R. Gregory Christie 11 Kira Vermond 3-5 Why We Live Where We Live Julie McLaughlin 12 3-5 The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes 13 Elissa Grodin 3-5 D is for Democracy: A Citizen’s Alphabet Victor Juhasz 14 Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the 3-5 Vote Kerrie Logan Hollihan 16 That’s Not Fair! Getting to Know Your Danielle S. McLaughlin 3-5 Rights and Freedoms Dharmali Patel 17 David J. Smith 3-5 If America Were a Village Shelagh Armstrong 18 Valerie Wyatt 3-5 How to Build Your Own Country Fred Rix 19 4-5 The Pushcart War Jean Merrill 20 Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of 4-5 People Who are Helping to Protect Our Harriet Rohmer Planet Julie McLaughlin

Teacher Resources

Teaching For Change Books: http://www.tfcbooks.org/

A Mighty Girl: http://www.amightygirl.com/

ADePT Summer Institute Economics Book List

The compelling narratives and sympathetic characters in these books can be used to help students understand and care about economic concepts such as human and natural resources, scarcity, interdependence, entrepreneurship, innovation, and consumer decision-making. Teachers can also use the books to help students talk about how economic issues affect their own lives.

# Title Authors Grade level 1 Dianna Hutts Aston K-2 An Orange in January Julie Maren 2 K-2 Grandpa’s Corner Store DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan 3 Korky Paul K-2 Winnie's New Computer Valerie Thomas 4 Jennifer Larson K-2 What Can You Do With Money? Robin Nelson 5 K-2 At the Supermarket Anne Rockwell 6 K-2 Hogwash Arthur Geisert 7 K-2 Up Goes the Skyscraper Gail Gibbons 8 K-2 The Lorax Dr. Seuss 9 Round and Round the Money Goes: What Melvin Berger K-2 Money is and How We Use It Jane McCreary 10 David M. Schwartz K-2 If You Made a Million Steven Kellogg 11 Ann McGovern K-2 The Lady in the Box Marni Backer 12 Maribeth Boelts K-4 Those Shoes Noah Z. Jones 13 Prudence Breitrose 3-5 Mousenet Stephanie Yue 14 3-5 Swindle Gordon Korman 16 3-5 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 17 Jeff Brumbeau 3-5 The Quiltmaker’s Journey Gail de Marcken 18 3-5 A Basket of Bangles Ginger Howard 19 Frances Park 3-5 Have a Good Day Cafe Ginger Park 20 3-5 The Lucky Star Judy Young

Teacher Resources

The Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children: http://econkids.rutgers.edu/econkids-home-econmenu-154

Rodgers, Yana V., Shelby Hawthorne and Ronald C. Wheeler. “Teaching Economics Through Children’s Literature in the Primary Grades.” The Reading Teacher 61.1 (2007): 46-55.

ADePT Summer Institute Global Book List

These books focus on human rights, global human rights leaders, interdependence, how children live around the world, and conceptualizing the world and our place in it.

# Title Authors Grade level 1 Arun Gandhi K-3 Bethany Hegedus Grandfather’s Gandhi Evan Turk 2 Denize Lauture K-3 Running the Road to ABC Reynold Ruffins 3 Naomi Shihab Nye K-3 Sitti’s Secrets Nancy Carpenter 4 The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from K-3 Iraq Jeanette Winer 5 Alain Serres K-3 I Have a Right to Be a Child Aurélia Fronty 6 Planting the Trees of Kenya: the Story of K-3 Wangari Maathai Claire A. Nivola 7 Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Donna Jo Napoli K-3 Trees of Kenya Kadir Nelson 8 Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Margarita Engle K-3 Changed Music Rafael López 9 Our Rights: How Kids are Changing the 1-5 World Janet Wilson 10 Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan / Iqbal, 1-5 a Brave Boy from Pakistan: Two Stories of Jeanette Winter Bravery 11 Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story 2-4 from Afghanistan Jeanette Winter 12 Karen Leggett Abouraya 3-5 Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words L.C. Wheatley 13 For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai’s Rebeca Langston-George 3-5 Story Janna Bock 14 Jorge Argueta 3-5 Talking with Mother Earth Lucia Angela Perez 16 We are All Born Free: The Universal 3-5 Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures Amnesty International 17 Na Liu 3-5 Little White Duck: A Childhood in China Andres Vera Martinez 18 David J. Smith 3-5 If the World were a Village Shelagh Armstrong 19 This Child, Every Child: A Book About the David J. Smith 3-5 World’s Children Shelagh Armstrong 20 Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Jessica Dee Humphreys 5 Used for War Michel Chikwanine; Claudia Dávila

Teacher Resources

We Need Diverse Books: http://diversebooks.org/