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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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