Palestine

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(*).

After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives

By Edward Said, Jean Mohr (Photographer)

The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East

By Naomi Shihab Nye (Selected by)

 

Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine

By Refaat Alareer (Editor)

 

Habibi

By Naomi Shihab Nye

 

A Little Piece of Ground

By Elizabeth Laird, Sonia Nimr (With)

 

P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book

By Golbarg Bashi (Illustrator), Golrokh Nafisi (Editor), Kourosh Beigpour (Editor)

Palestine

By Joe Sacco, Edward W. Said (Introduction by)

Sharing Our Homeland: Palestinian and Jewish Children at Summer Peace Camp

By Trish Marx, Cindy Karp

 

Sitti's Secrets*

By Naomi Shihab Nye, Nancy Carpenter (Illustrator)

 

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood

By Ibtisam Barakat

 

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

By Deborah Ellis

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer

By Phyllis Bennis

Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation

By Anthony Robinson, Annemarie Young