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Find more resources for teaching about War at the Zinn Education Project, including Teaching the Vietnam War: Beyond the Headlines and Ten Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War
See more related titles on this list: Early Childhood: Conflict Resolution with Young Children
Teaching for Change carefully selects the best multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. Learn about our criteria for selecting titles. Feedback on these lists and suggestions for additional titles are welcome. Most of the books on these lists are linked for more information or purchase to Powells, an independent, union labor bookstore. Titles with reviews on this site are noted with an asterisk(*).
The Brave Cyclist: The True Story of a Holocaust Hero
By Amalia Hoffman and Chiara Fedele (Illustrator)
Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War
By Mónica Montañés, Eva Sánchez Gómez, (Illustrator), and Lawrence Schimel (Translator)
Lost Words: An Armenian Story of Survival and Hope
By Leila Boukarim and Sona Avedikian (Illustrator)
Miep and the Most Famous Diary: The Woman Who Rescued Anne Frank's Diary
By Meeg Pincus and Jordi Solano (Illustrator)
The Moon from Dehradun: A Story of Partition
By Shirin Shamsi and Tarun Lak (Illustrator)
Nour's Secret Library
By Wafa' Tarnowska and Vali Mintzi (Illustrator)
Swimming Toward a Dream: Yusra Mardini's Incredible Journey from Refugee to Olympic Swimmer
By Reem Faruqi and Asma Enayeh (Illustrator)
Three Lines in a Circle: The Exciting Life of the Peace Symbol
By Michael G. Long and Carlos Vélez (Illustrator)
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs *
By Chana Stiefel and Susan Gal (Illustrator)
The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan
By Salma Hussain
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
By Anne Frank, Ari Folman (Adapted by) and David Polonsky (Illustrator)
¡Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War *
By Fraser M Ottanelli, Miguel Ferguson, and Anne Timmons (Illustrator)
Camouflaged: Investigating How the Military Affects You and Your Community
Edited by Edwin Mayorga, Bree Picower, and Seth Rader
Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance
By Shourideh C. Molavi
Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage (Young Readers Edition)
By Tilar J. Mazzeo and adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire Abroad and at Home
By Deepa Kumar
The Raft is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness
By Thich Nhat Hanh and Daniel Berrigan
Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War
By David Cortright and Barbara Doherty
The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Dahr Jamail, forward by Chris Hedges
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations
By Iraq Veterans Against the War, Aaron Glantz, Jared Rodriguez
