Barn
by Debby Z. Atwell
(1996). New York:
Houghton Mifflin
a barn narrates its history from the time of
the American Revolution
The Wall
by Eve Bunting
a boy and his father go to the Vietnam
Memorial Wall to see his grandfather's
name
Rose Blanche
by Roberto Innocenti (may
be out of print)
a German girl takes food scraps to the
fence of a concentration camp
The Butter Battle Book
by Dr. Seuss (1984). New
York: Random House
a grandfather tells his grandson about the
brinksmanship struggle between the Zooks
and the Yooks over how their bread
should be buttered
Sitti's Secrets
by Naomi Shihab Nye
(1994). New York: Four
Winds Press
a Palestinian girl visits her grandma in
Palestine.
The Orphans of Normandy by Nancy Amis
a true story of World War II told through
drawings by children
Peace Crane
by Sheila Hamanaka
(1995). New York:
Morrow Junior Books
a young African American girl wishes the
peace crane would take her away from the
violence in her own world
The Color of Home
by Mary Hoffman
a young boy comes to American when his
family flees Somalia
The Breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
an Afghani girl masquerades as a boy to
help feed her family
I Never Saw Another
Butterfly
"edited by Hana
Volavkova, foreword by
Chaim Potok (1994). U.S.
Holocaust Museum"
children's drawings and poem from the
Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-44
The Voices of Silence
by Bel Mooney
Flora and her family are part of the
overthrow of Ceausescu in Romania in
1989
Flowers on the Wall
by Miriam Nerlove. New
York: Margaret K.
McElderry Books
"in Poland in 1938, Rachel and her family
are struggling to survive as Jews"
Bosnia: Civil War in
Europe
by John Isaac
"Isaac, a UN photographer in Bosnia,
describes the conflict, especially how it
affects children"
So Far From the Sea
by Eve Bunting
Laura and her family visit the relocation
camp where her Japanese-American
grandfather was buried
