Annotated Peace Resource List

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Whitewash
Ntozake Shange and Michael Sporn
1997 32 p. Ages: 9-99
ISBN: 0802784909
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True-to-life, but disturbing, story about a gang's racist action toward a young girl, and the response from her family and eventually classmates. Should be followed by discussion.

Who Comes with Cannons?
Beatty, Patricia
1992 186 p. Ages: 10-14
ISBN: 0688110282
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In 1861, 12-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from IN is staying with relatives who run a N. Carolina station on the Underground Railroad. Her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War.

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Tatum, Beverly Daniel
1997 270 p.

Integrating racial identity is a different process for people of color and “white” people in this society. Tatum affirms the need to understand the process and to talk about it. Includes chapters on understanding black, white, Latino, American Indian and Asian Pacific American identity.

With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish
Asher, Sandy, ed.
1999 192 p. Ages: 11-14

Benjy has nightmares about his upcoming Bar Mitzvah ceremony. Rachel's grief over Grandma Hannah's illness turns her away from her temple. Jaci wrestles with peer pressure by day and angels by night.... What does "growing up Jewish" mean? How can young people reconcile centuries of tradition with the modern world? Can they embrace their religion "with all my heart, with all my mind"? Award-winning author and editor Sandy Asher posed these and other questions to thirteen Jewish writers. In the interviews following each story, the authors discuss their own experiences growing up Jewish.

Words by Heart
Sebestyan, Ouida
1979 162 p. Ages: 10-15
ISBN: 044041346X
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A young black girl struggles to fulfill her Papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where, in 1910, they are the only African-Americans.

Young, Black and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
McKissack, Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
1998 152 p. Ages: 12-Adult

Lorraine grew up listening to her parents making clear that she was "equal;" listening to the NAACP lawyers in her living room planning legal strategies; and witnessing visits from W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Jesse Owens, and Duke Ellington. Lorraine learned to express herself and she wrote the play A Raisin in the Sun which later made dramatic history.

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