RealismChildrenLit

=Children's Literature and Social Responsibility= Steven Wolk's article "Reading for a better world: Teaching social responsibility with young adult literature"asserts that it is our responsibility as educators to equip students to address the many difficult social issues the we as human beings face. Literature provides a framework for such an investigation and discussion.

Global Awareness
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 * //Chanda’s secrets – // Stratton
 * //Pedro and me – Judd Winick //
 * //Persepolis – Marjorie Satrapi //
 * //Taste of salt - Frances Temple//
 * //Fresh girl - Jaira Placide//

Child Labor & Human Traffikking

 * //Sold – Patricia McCormick//

Caring & Empathy

 * //Goats - Cole//
 * //Whirligig - Fleischman//
 * //Stuck in neutral - Trueman//

Historical

 * //Before we were free - Julia Alvarez//
 * //Tree girl - Ben Mikaelson//
 * //The poet slave of Cuba - Margarita Engle//

Immigrants

 * //Ask me no questions - Budhos//
 * //Lost - Davies//
 * //The orange houses - Griffin//
 * //The namesake - Lahiri//
 * //The arrival - Tan//
 * //First crossings: stories about teen immigrants//

Genocide & Child Soldiers

 * //Chanda’s wars// – //Allan Stratton//
 * //Beasts of no nation//- //Uzodinma Iweala//
 * //Say you're one of them - U. Akpan//
 * //Over a thousand hills I walk with you - Jansen//
 * //Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda// - //Stassen//
 * //Forgotten fire// - //Bagdasarian//

**War, Peace & Nonviolence**

 * //Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers//
 * //Sunrise over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers//
 * //Pride of Baghdad - Vaughn//
 * //Real time - Klass//

Power & Propaganda

 * //Daniel half human - Chotjewitz//
 * //Little brother - Doctorow//
 * //Brave new world - Huxley//

Refugees

 * //Forest gate - Akinti//
 * //Two suns in the sky - Bat-Ami//
 * //Shadow of the dragon - Garland//
 * //Kiss the dust - Laird//
 * //The other side of truth - Naidoo//

Social Problems & Social Justice

 * //Buried onions - Soto//
 * //Make lemonade - Wollf//
 * //The perfect shot - Alphin//
 * //Devil on my heels - McDonald//
 * //The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian - Alexie//

Environmental Consciousness

 * //California blue - Klass//
 * //Firestorm - Klass//
 * //Animal dreams - Kingsolver//

Poverty and Homelessness

 * //Bastard out of Carolina - Allison//
 * //Lupita Manana - Beatty//
 * //Tyrell - Booth//
 * //My abandonment - Rock//