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* Top Five - First Pick

SUMMARY: This

book touches on how cruel peers can be and the challenges some students may face with trying

to build peer relationships. The overall theme of this book is friendship and overcoming bullying

that children could encounter durning their time in school. This book featured a young man

named August and his journey through attending school after being homeschooled for years.

Durning Augusts transition into school he encounters a new friend named Jack who made himself known that he is there from the start despite his deformities he has to face in his daily life. However, later in the book Jack is influenced by his peers and begins to say that he is forced to be Augusts friend. This leaves August devastated and he starts questioning as to why he looks the way he does. Through all the ups and downs August is faced with him and Jack rekindle their friendship while completing a science project. Jack later begins to start sticking up for August, which causes him to get suspended after punching August bully (Julian).

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book book is a great way of showing the moral that people should not let their judgements effect how they are towards a person.

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* Top Five - Fourth Pick

SUMMARY: This picture

book is about a little girl named Camilla Cream. She was a girl who loved lima beans. All her other friends hated them, and she wanted to fit in, so she completely stopped eating them. Well, that wasn’t a good thing on her part to stop eating them because I made her get a bad case of stripes that were rainbow all over. Camilla started changing like crazy and all her peers started making fun of her for something she couldn’t control. In the end, Camilla realizes that she was having all these issues because she stopped eating her lima beans.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great way for talking about ones self-image and that not everyone has to like and dislike the same things.

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* Top Five - Second Pick

SUMMARY: The overall summary of the picture book is the empowering and respect for female diversity. This book teaches that you should always be yourself. Only one person was created to be you and someone shouldn’t have to strive to become more worthy, valued or loved because these are the things that already make up who someone is.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great book to introduce diversity and how to show kindness and respect to others.

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* Top Five - Fifth Pick

SUMMARY: This book talks about a seed who considers himself to be bad because of all the things he has gone through and all the not so nice things he has done. Later in the story the seed talks about how he considers himself to be bad but wants to prove to others that he isn’t so bad after all.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a way of showing the reader good versus bad.

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* Top Five - Third Pick

SUMMARY: This book is about two children that have a relationship through being pen pals but live in two completely different countries. One of the children is named Elliot that lives in America and the other child is Kailash who lives in India. They constantly write letters and send them back and forth to one another so they can stay in touch about life in each other’s countries.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great way to introduce cultures all around the world.

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SUMMARY: This book is about a elephant named Gerald who is upset and his friend Piggie is

determined to do everything to make Gerald happy again.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great read for students because it shows the importance of friendship.

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A Pig, A Fox, and A Box by Jonathan Fenske

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A Pig, A Fox, and A Box by Jonathan Fenske

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SUMMARY: After finding a box just the right size to hide in, a little fox tries to play some tricks on his big friend, Pig, but things do not work out exactly as he planned.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great way of showing that friendship is important and the ways to create meaningful relationships.

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Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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SUMMARY: This book is about two boys named Donte and Trey who are brothers. Both boys are attending a prep school and Donte who is of color is really struggling with being bullied for the tone of his skin from the peers he is around in school. Alan who is Dontes bully consistently picks on him. While Donte is in school and having to face the struggles he encounters he finds a African-American former Olympian coach to help train him in

fencing so he can defeat Alan for the respect Donte deserves. Donte also has to deal with his own

legal troubles he has and the civil rights case his mother had filed.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great way of introducing racism and how kids feelings matter.

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SUMMARY: This book is such a powerful book and teaches everyone who reads it that they should celebrate themselves for the person that they are.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great way of showing the reader ways to make a difference and how to be confident in ones own body.

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

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SUMMARY: This book is about a rabbit named Edward Tulane who become missing from a little who is absolutely in love with him. Edward Tulane travels around the world to find the happiness he once had with his former owner. Along the way Edward experiences a lot of ups and downs with his emotions

with being depressed to finding happiness again over and over. While Edward Tulane is on his

journey to finding his former owner, he meets many people along the way including a fisherman and his wife, a hobo and his dog, a railroad conductor, an old woman, a little boy, a mean cook and a doll mender. At each of those stops Edward experiences some trauma but then finds happiness in the end. After all the stops along the way he ends up in a shop to be sold, the little girl that was once his owner was in the shop with her daughter and they are reunited, and Edward

learns that love is the most important thing he could ever have.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book provides several themes for readers that include kindness, compassion, loss, and self-discovery.

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A Sick Day For Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead

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A Sick Day For Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead

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SUMMARY: This is a book about a zookeeper who has a really strong bond with the animals in his care. One day Amos McGee becomes ill and the animals get on a bus to his house to go and care for him.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book helps build on social and language art skills.

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The List of Things That I Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead

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The List of Things That I Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead

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SUMMARY: This book talks about the importance of forgiving ourselves and the importance of accepting your self exactly the way you are and it’s exactly what everyone in should hear in life. This book is about a girl named Bea who is eight years old. Durning this time in her life her father came out as being gay. This resulted in her parents getting a divorce. Later on in the book Bea’s dad meets the love of his life, Jesse who just recently become her fathers fiancé. Bea is thrilled that they have announced that they are getting married because this would mean she is finally receiving a sister she had once never had. Jesse’s daughter is named Sonia. Once the wedding comes around Bea she realizes that with so many things changing in her life around her she starts to discover mixed feelings about herself and who she is meant to be. She at this moment begins to talk to Miriam, her therapist to work on her emotions and self-relationship.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great way of introducing the LGBT community and how important family is.

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SUMMARY: This picture book is about Jordan, a twelve year old African American boy who is experiencing being the new kid at the private school he is now attending. Jordan experiences stereotypes, and discrimination. Jordan Banks is one of the few kids in the school who is of color so that let alone makes him stand out compared to his other peers. Throughout this picture book Jordan starts confronting those individuals that have made him feel awful about being who he is and stands up to those same people that thought of him as nothing.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great book that kids could read if they ever are new students and how huge diversity is in todays society.

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SUMMARY: This book is a poem all about the African American history. The Undefeated tailors the powerful events that have taken place and all the injustices that many African Americans have endured. This book has made me realized more about how much has taken place in. the African American history.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This poem is a great way to also introduce racism and how people of color had to overcome obstacles that stood in their way.

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SUMMARY: This book is about girl

named Cally who is mourning the loss of her mother. She lives with her dad and her thirteen-year-old brother Luke. Cally meet someone named Jed who was such a super kind hearted person. Jed had a dog that he was looking after because he was homeless. Cally knew that the dog who eventually becomes known as Homeless was meant to be with her. Homeless throughout the book helped keep Cally sane and helped during her time of grieving. These two created such a special bond amongst each other.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great book to show the importance and the power of communication.

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SUMMARY: The overall summary of the picture book was this child has a huge big red umbrella that is used on a rainy day to help keep everyone dry. The child carrying the umbrella makes sure to share it with everyone no matter who they are.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book is a great way to teach the reader the importance of kindness and caring for others.

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SUMMARY: This book is about a man who arrives to his new job within the lighthouse. This man is very lonely and he loves writing messages and putting it into a bottle to toss it into the sea.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book shows illustrations with a bunch of light, color, and repetition to help draw the readers in.

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SUMMARY: he book was about a twelve-year-old boy who is dealing with the unimaginable diagnosis of a rare form of eye cancer. Ross just wants to live a normal life without

all the side effects that comes with cancer like losing his hair, and having his eye full of ointment. While going through his medical treatments many people referred to Ross as “the cancer kid.’ He deals with bullying a lot through this book but through it all he keeps his friends close and also builds new friendships. When Ross feels down, he used music, art, and his friends

to bring him back up.

HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO CHILDREN LITERATURE: This book shows how to cope with traumatic experiences.