Social+Issues


 * **PICTURE BOOKS** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Title** || **Author** || **Notes** || **Location** ||
 * Homelessness, Divorce, Alcoholism, Hoarding, Lying, Cheating, Bullying, Poverty, Foster Care, Run away children and parents ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Soccer Star ||  ||   ||   ||
 * My Brother Charlie || Holly Robinson Peete || Autism ||  ||
 * One || Kathryn Otoshi || Bullying ||  ||
 * Just a Dream || Chris Van Allsburg || Environment ||  ||
 * The Sissy Duckling || Harvey Fierstein ||  ||   ||
 * A Taste of Colored Water || Matt Faulkner || Racial Inequality ||  ||
 * Migrant || Maxine Trottier ||  ||   ||
 * Boundless Grace || Mary Hoffman || Divorce ||  ||
 * Amazing Grace || Mary Hoffman || Gender Roles ||  ||
 * The Butter Battle || Dr. Seuss || Respecting Differences ||  ||
 * The Christmas Menorahs || Janice Cohn || Hate Crimes ||  ||
 * The New Girl || Jacqui Robbins || New Kid at school ||  ||
 * The Lady in the Box || Ann McGovern || Homelessness ||  ||
 * Allie's Basketball Dream || Barbara Barber || Gender Roles ||  ||
 * Great Joy || Kate DiCamillo || Homelessness ||  ||
 * I Don't Want to Talk About it || Jeanie Franz || Divorce ||  ||
 * The Sissy Duckling || Harvey Fierstein || Gender Roles ||  ||
 * The Bully Blockers Club || Teresa Bateman || Bullying ||  ||
 * Summer Wheels || Eve Bunting || Angi likes this ||  ||
 * The Recess Queen || Alexis O'Neill || Angi likes this ||  ||
 * Ruby's Wish || Shirin Yim Bridges || Angi likes this ||  ||
 * Oliver Brown is a Sissy || Tomie dePaola || Gender Roles ||  ||
 * Ugly Fish || Scott Magoon || Bullying ||  ||
 * Enemy Pie || Derek Munson || Jealousy/ExclusionThe ||  ||
 * The Wall || Eve Bunting ||  ||   ||
 * Mama's Coming Home || Kate Banks || Working Mom ||  ||
 * Mr. Lincoln's Way || Patricia Polacco ||  ||   ||
 * Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys || Elizabeth Howard || Gender Equality ||  ||
 * Fred Stays with Me! || Nancy Coffelt || Divorce ||  ||
 * Creativity || John Steptoe || Poverty/Cultural Differences-Similarities ||  ||
 * Just Like Josh Gibson || Angela Johnson || Gender Equality ||  ||
 * Train to Somewhere || Eve Bunting || Orphaned life ||  ||
 * William's Doll || Charlotte Zolotow || Gender Equality ||  ||
 * Making the Team || Nancy Carlson || Gender Equality ||  ||
 * The Stories Julian Tells || Ann Cameron || Fibbing ||  ||
 * Bootsie Barker Bites || Barbara Bottner || Bullying ||  ||
 * The Meanest Thing to Say || Bill Cosby || Bullying ||  ||
 * Bully || Laura Vaccaro Seeger || Bullying ||  ||
 * Chick-O-Saurus || Lenore and Daniel Jennewein || Bullying ||  ||
 * Players in Pigtails || Shana Corey || Bullying ||  ||
 * The Other Side || Jacqueline Woodson || Race Relations ||  ||
 * A New Room for William || Sally Grindley || Divorce ||  ||
 * Coming on Home Soon || Jacqueline Woodson || Parent out of home ||  ||
 * Each Kindness || Jacqueline Woodson || Bullying ||  ||
 * The Tooth || Avi Slodovnick || Homelessness ||  ||
 * My Best Friend || Ann Rodman || Making New Friends/Exclusion ||  ||
 * Sometimes It's Grandma's and Grandpas || Gayle Byrne || Grandparent as parents ||  ||
 * Family Farm || Thomas Locker || Poor Times ||  ||
 * Enemy Pie || Derek Munson || Bullying ||  ||
 * Train to Somewhere || Eve Bunting || adoption ||  ||
 * Forbidden Schoolhouse ||  || Slavery, Intolerance, Biography || Intermediate ||
 * The Wall || Eve Bunting || Empathy, death ||  ||
 * A Day’s Work || Eve Bunting || Poverty, immigration ||  ||
 * I have a Sister… Deaf || Jeanne Peterson || Special needs ||  ||
 * Basket Moon || Mary Lyn Ray || Poverty, intolerance, visualization, details for writing ||  ||
 * The Braids Girl || Jack Canfield || Family Homelessness ||  ||
 * I Can Hear the Sun || Patricia Polacco || Homelessness/Orphan ||  ||
 * Flyaway Home || Eve Bunting ||  ||   ||
 * Those Shoes || Maribeth Bolts || Poverty, Charity ||  ||
 * Happy Like Soccer || Maribeth Bolts || Single Mother Family, Poverty, "Wrong Side of Town" ||  ||
 * Moses goes to a Concert || Issac Millman || Deaf child and his school go to a concert ||  ||
 * Moses Goes to the Circus || Issac Millman || Deaf child goes to the Circus ||  ||
 * Bully || Patricia Polacco || Bullying ||  ||
 * Two Homes || Claire Masurel || Divorce ||  ||
 * Armando and the Blue Tarp School || Edith Hope Fine || Access to schooling ||  ||
 * Lily and the Paper Man || Rebecca Upjohn || Homelessness ||  ||
 * Eagle Eyes || Jeanne Gehret || ADHD ||  ||
 * The Junkyard Wonders || Patricia Polacco || Learning differences ||  ||
 * One Green Apple || Eve Bunting ||  ||   ||
 * A New Room for William || Sally Grindley ||  ||   ||
 * **CHAPTER BOOKS** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Title** || **Author** || **Notes** ||  ||
 * Zebra Forest ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Freaky Fast Frankie Joe ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Rain Reign ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Almost Home ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Saturday Boy ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Homesick ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Graham Cracker Plot ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Mountain Dog ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Chasing the Milky Way ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Out of My Mind || Cynthia Lord || Genius cerebral palsy girl || NF ||
 * Summer of the Gypsy Moths || Sara PennypackerA || A girl whose Mother is away "finding" herself meet an foster girl while on vacation. || NF ||
 * Love, Aubrey || Suzanne La Fleur || Girl survives a car crash, but Father and little sister do not. Mother has disappeared and girl has gone to live with her Grandmother after this tragedy. || PPL ||
 * The Chalk Box Kid || Clyde Robert Bulla || Moving/New School || NF ||
 * Fig Pudding || Ralph Fletcher || Tough Times/Family death || NF ||
 * Wish On a Unicorn || Karen Hesse || Poverty || NF ||
 * Just Juice || Karen Hesse || Non-reader || NF ||
 * The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room || Patricia Reilly Giff || Student held back || NF ||
 * Hey, New Kid! || Betsy Duffey || New Kid/New School || NF ||
 * The Unforgotten Coat || Frank Cottrell Boyce || Homeless immmigrants in new school (High Level) || NF ||
 * Kizzy Ann Stamps || Jeri Watts || New School/Racism || NF ||
 * The Family Under the Bridge || Natalie Savage Carlson || Homeless Family || ILL ||
 * Mississippi Bridge || Mildred Taylor || Racism || DON ||
 * Chance and the Butterfly || Maggie de Vries || Problem child in school || ILL ||
 * Sarah, Plain and Tall || Patricia MacLaughlin ||  || NF ||
 * Runaway Twin || Peg Kehret || Foster Child/Runaway || NF ||
 * Missing May || Cynthia Rylant || Death in the Family || NF ||
 * A Taste of Blackberries || Doris Buchanan Smith || Death of a Friend || NF ||
 * Some Frog! || Eve Bunting || Divorce || PPL ||
 * Amber Brown series || Paula Danziger || Divorce ||  ||
 * Dear Mr. Henshaw || Beverly Cleary || Divorce || NF ||
 * Blubber || Judy Blume || Bullying || DON ||
 * Locomotion || Jacqueline Woodson || Foster Kid || PMS ||
 * Clay || Colby Rodowsky || Stolen Children || PPL ||
 * Young Man and the Sea || WR Philbrick || Alcoholic Parent/Missing Mother || NF ||
 * Me and Rolly Maloo || Janet Wong || Cheating || PPL ||
 * DeDe Takes Charge || Johanna Hurwitz || Divorce || ILL ||
 * Homesick || Kate Klise || Hoarding || NF ||
 * Buttermilk Hill || Ruth White || Divorce || LH ||
 * Jake Drake || Andrew Clements || Bullying || LH ||
 * Eggs || Jerry Spinelli || Friendship btwn. two kids with family problems || PPL ||
 * Rules || Cynthia Lord || Girl with autistic brother struggles with outward appearances. || NF ||
 * Pictures of Hollis Woods || Patricia Reilly Giff ||  || NF ||
 * The Higher Power of Lucky || Susan Patron || Girl struggles with foster care and family alcoholism || PPL ||
 * Mick Harte Was Here || Barbara Park || Girl struggles with the death of her beloved brother || NF ||
 * Waiting for Normal || Leslie Connor ||  ||   ||
 * Small as an Elephant || Jennifer Richard Jacobson || Boy struggles with parental abandonment || NF ||
 * The Sorta Sisters || Adrian Fogelin || Two foster system girls create a friendship out of their common experience || PPL ||
 * Touch Blue || Cynthia Lord || Girl and Family board a foster child and struggles with that decision and their relationships || NF ||
 * Shoe Shine Girl || Clyde Robert Bulla ||  || ILL ||
 * Spider Boy || Ralph Fletcher ||  || DON ||
 * Surviving Brick Johnson || Laurie Meyer || Bullying || NF ||
 * Touch Blue || Cynthia Lord || Girl and Family board a foster child and struggles with that decision and their relationships || NF ||
 * Shoe Shine Girl || Clyde Robert Bulla ||  || ILL ||
 * Spider Boy || Ralph Fletcher ||  || DON ||
 * Surviving Brick Johnson || Laurie Meyer || Bullying || NF ||