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Jane Addams Children's Book Award

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Social Justice Picture Books

All Families Are Special by Norma Simon; Teresa Flavin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0807521752
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki; Dom Lee (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781880000199
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Best Friends Forever by Julianne Moore; LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781599901077
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Four Feet, Two Sandals by Karen Lynn Williams; Doug Chayka (Illustrator); Khadra Mohammad
ISBN: 0802852963
Publication Date: 2010-06-23
Giant Steps to Change the World by Spike Lee; Tonya Lewis Lee; Sean Qualls (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689868153
Publication Date: 2011-01-04
How Many Days to America? by Eve Bunting; Beth Peck (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780395547779
Publication Date: 1990-10-01
I Dissent by Debbie Levy; Elizabeth Baddeley (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781481465595
Publication Date: 2016-09-20
In Our Mothers' House by Patricia Polacco (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399250767
Publication Date: 2009-04-30
A Is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
ISBN: 9781609805395
Publication Date: 2013-11-19
It's Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr
ISBN: 9780316043472
Publication Date: 2009-04-01
Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai; Kerascoët (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780316319577
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
March by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell
ISBN: 9781603094023
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Graphic Novel - Grade 8 and up
My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris; Chris K. Soentpiet (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689843884
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
My Pen by Christopher Myers (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1423103718
Publication Date: 2015-03-10
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson; Earl Lewis (Illustrator); E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0399231161
Publication Date: 2001-01-15
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN: 9781419710544
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton; Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781524741723
Publication Date: 2017-05-30
Steamboat School by Deborah Hopkinson; Ron Husband (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781423121961
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles; George Ford (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780439472265
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
A Taste of Freedom by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel; Guiliano Ferri (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780802794673
Publication Date: 2014-02-11
Teacup by Rebecca Young; Matt Ottley (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780735227774
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
Tricycle by Elisa Amado; Alfonso Ruano (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780888996145
Publication Date: 2007-05-16
We Are All Born Free by Amnesty International Staff (As told to)
ISBN: 9781845076504
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
We March by Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781596435391
Publication Date: 2012-01-03
What Does It Mean to Be Kind? by Rana DiOrio; Stephane Jorisch (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781939775092
Publication Date: 2015-08-22
Whoever You Are by Mem Fox; Leslie Staub (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780152060305
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson; Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781481400701
Publication Date: 2017-01-17

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Teaching Peace and Social Justice with Picture Books

Always Remember Me by Marisabina Russo (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0689869207
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Brave Girl by Michelle Markel; Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780061804427
Publication Date: 2013-01-22
Composition by Antonio Skármeta; Alfonso Ruano (Illustrator); Elisa Amado (Translator)
ISBN: 0888993900
Publication Date: 2000-03-17
Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
ISBN: 9781609806323
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle; Rafael López (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780544102293
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399246524
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
The Forgiveness Garden by Lauren Thompson; Christy Hale (Illustrator); Christine Hale Apostolou (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0312625995
Publication Date: 2012-10-30
Grandfather Gandhi by Arun Gandhi; Bethany Hegedus; Evan Turk (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781442423657
Publication Date: 2014-03-11
Grandmama's Pride by Becky Birtha; Colin Bootman (Illustrator)
ISBN: 080753028X
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
I Can't Find My Manners by Gail Reed
ISBN: 9781480814127
Publication Date: 2015-01-19
I Have the Right to Be a Child by Alain Serres; Aurélia Fronty (Illustrator); Helen Mixter (Translator)
ISBN: 9781554981496
Publication Date: 2012-05-22
The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig; Patrice Barton (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781582464503
Publication Date: 2013-10-08
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De la Peña; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399257742
Publication Date: 2015-01-08
Lost and Found Cat by Doug Kuntz; Amy Shrodes; Sue Cornelison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781524715472
Publication Date: 2017-01-31
Nasreen's Secret School by Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781416994374
Publication Date: 2009-10-06
Old Turtle and the Broken Truth by Douglas Wood; Jon J. Muth (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0439321093
Publication Date: 2003-10-01
Our Rights by Janet Wilson
ISBN: 9781926920955
Publication Date: 2013-04-15
Somewhere Today by Shelley Moore Thomas; Eric Futran (Photographer)
ISBN: 0807575453
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun by Maria Dismondy; Kim Shaw (Illustrator); Kathy Hiatt (Editor)
ISBN: 9780984855803
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
Stepping Stones by Margriet Ruurs; Nizar Badr (Artist)
ISBN: 9781459814905
Publication Date: 2016-10-18
Stone Soup by Jon J. Muth (Illustrator)
ISBN: 043933909X
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
A Stranger at Home by Christy Jordan-Fenton; Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; Liz Amini-Holmes (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781554513628
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689832529
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts; Noah Z. Jones (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0763624993
Publication Date: 2007-09-11
Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago; Rafael Yockteng (Illustrator); Elisa Amado (Translator)
ISBN: 9781554987412
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
The Voice That Challenged a Nation by Russell Freedman
ISBN: 9780618159765
Publication Date: 2004-05-25
We Shall Overcome by Debbie Levy; Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781423119548
Publication Date: 2013-12-17
What Does Peace Feel Like? by Vladimir Radunsky (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0689866763
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
When the Horses Ride By by Eloise Greenfield; Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781584302490
Publication Date: 2006-05-01