https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek Books With Transformative Topics en-us 2018-10-03 19:25:24 UTC 2024-11-19 07:06:43 UTC hello@padlet.com pottsabby97 https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288855609 By: Cindy Gainer
Illustrated By: Miki Sakamoto
Publication Date: 1998
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: Pre-k-2nd grade
Approximate Text Level: K
Teaser: Helps kids appreciate the ways they are alike and their individual differences. Like straight and curly hair, big and small bodies, and big families and small families. This book is transformative because it talks about weight and how it's okay to be large or small.
Teaching Idea: Have students write about what they think makes them different and unique than everyone else. ]]> 2018-10-03 19:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288855609 pottsabby97 https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288860516 By: Mem Fox
Illustrated By: Leslie Staub
Publication Date: October 1, 1997
Genre: Non-fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 1-2nd grade
Approximate Text Level: 1st
Teaser: Every day all over the world, children are laughing, crying, playing and learning. They may not look the same, and they may not speak the same language. But inside, they are all alike. This book is transformative because it talks about how every skin color is beautiful and people should accept them for who they are.
Teaching Idea: Have children write about what makes them the same as everyone else. ]]> 2018-10-03 19:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288860516 pottsabby97 https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288860694 By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated By: Ashley Bryan
Publication Date: September 13, 2016
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 3-6
Approximate Text Level: 4th
Teaser: This book talks about the terrible things that happened to slaves, and asks readers to imagine what it felt like to be looked up and down and found to be less valuable than a chair. Less than an ox. Less than a dress. This book is transformative because it talks about slavery and the hardships slaves went through.
Teaching Idea: Read the book aloud as a class, and make a couple questions with vocabulary from the book after each chapter, and have the students work together on it. ]]> 2018-10-03 19:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288860694 pottsabby97 https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288860809 By: Jeri Watts
Illustrated By: Hyewon Yum
Publication Date: 2016
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 1st-5th 
Approximate Text Level: 2nd
Teaser: When Hee Jun's family moves from Korea to West Virginia, he struggles to adjust in his new school. His eyes are not round like his peers, and he can't understand what the teacher says, even when she speaks slowly and loudly at him. This book is transformative because it teaches us about immigration.
Teaching Idea: Discuss with the kids how they would feel if they spoke in a different language from what was being spoke in their school. Then, have the kids talk in small groups about how they would help someone if they had a student in their class who did not speak the native language in the class and present about it. ]]> 2018-10-03 19:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288860809 pottsabby97 https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288860941 By: David Shannon
Illustrated By: David Shannon
Publication Date: 1998
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 1-5
Approximate Text Level: P
Teaser: Camilla Cream is very worried about what other people think about her, but at the very moment she most wants to fit in, she becomes completely covered in colorful stripes! This book is transformative it shows how differences are okay, no matter the color or pattern of your skin.
Teaching Idea: Have kids draw and color a person with a different pattern as their skin]]> 2018-10-03 19:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288860941 pottsabby97 https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288861002 By: Rob Sanders
Illustrated By: Steven Salerno
Publication Date: April 10, 2018
Genre: Non-fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 1-5th
Approximate Text Level: 2nd
Teaser:  In this true story, young readers will trace the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings in 1978 with Harvey Milk and Gilbert Baker with its role in today’s world. This book is transformative because it talks about the gay pride flag and how hard it was to overcome hardships being gay men. 
Teaching Idea: Make small, rainbow flags with the kids, and have them write their names on it and hang it outside the classroom. ]]> 2018-10-03 19:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288861002 pottsabby97 https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288861195 By: Myles E. Johnson
Illustrated By: Kendrick Daye
Publication Date: August 3, 2015
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 2nd-5th
Approximate Text Level:  3rd
Teaser: Jeremiah Nebula is a black boy that loves pink things, and he desperately wants to travel to Mars. His voyage leads him to land on stars that have little Jeremiah confronting all of his fears, and not just the smalls ones, the really, really large ones. This book is transformative because it talks about a young boy who is beginning to show his feminine side.
Teaching Idea: Discuss with the kids your largest fear, and then have an activity where they draw their biggest fear and then write a story on it. ]]> 2018-10-03 19:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288861195 pottsabby97 https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288861257 By: Vivek Shraya 
Illustrated By: Rajni Perera
Publication Date: October 11, 2016
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 2nd-5th
Approximate Text Level: 3rd
Teaser:  A five-year-old South Asian boy becomes fascinated with his mother’s bindi, and wishes to have one of his own. Rather than judge her son, she agrees to it, and teaches him about its significance, allowing the boy to discover the magic of the bindi, which in turn gives him permission to be more fully himself. This book is transformative because it talks about female attributes in a boy.
Teaching Idea: Explore different culture's clothing and learn together what they mean or represent. ]]> 2018-10-03 19:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288861257 pottsabby97 https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288861352 By: Lesléa Newman
Illustrated By: Maria Mola
Publication Date: 2017
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: K-3rd
Approximate Text Level: 1st
Teaser: Casey loves to play with his blocks, puzzles, and dump truck, and he also loves things that shimmer, glitter, and sparkle. Casey’s older sister, Jessie, thinks this is weird. Shimmery, glittery, sparkly things are only for girls. Right? This book is transformative because it shows a boy showing his feminine side and doing things that only "girls" can do.
Teaching Idea: Give every student a black and white outline of different objects and challenge them to bring glitter or sparkles into the picture. ]]> 2018-10-03 19:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288861352 pottsabby97 https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288861568 By: Lesléa Newman
Illustrated By: Carol Thompson
Publication Date: June 9, 2009
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: K-3
Approximate Text Level: 1st
Teaser: Show a toddler spending the day with its daddies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight. Share the loving bond between same-sex parents and their children. This is transformative because it talks about two fathers and that it works beautifully.
Teaching Idea: Talk with the class about all of the different families that there can be, and how that is totally acceptable. ]]> 2018-10-03 19:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/pottsabby97/9uii4h4nxgek/wish/288861568