Annotated Peace Resource List

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963: A Novel
Curtis, Christopher
1995 210p. Ages: 11-15
ISBN: 0440414121
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The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, and African-American family living in Flint, MI, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in AL in the summer of 1963.

We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know
Howard, Gary R.
1999 160 p.

Through stories and analysis, Howard looks to his own identity to discover what it means to be culturally competent "white" teachers in racially diverse schools. Author draws from 25 years of experience as a multicultural educator as well as from collaboration with students and colleagues from many cultures.

The Well: David's Story
Taylor, Mildred
1995 92 p. Ages: 9-14
ISBN: 0140386424
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In Mississippi in the early 1900's ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.

What Are You?
Gaskins, Pearl, ed.
1999 192 p.

Through the lively voices of 45 young people, ages 14-26, this book helps us to begin to understand how it feels to grow up outside traditional racial boundaries

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.

Wisdom for Living: Racism/Wise or Foolish Living
Shearer, Tobin Miller
Ages: 18-Adult

Regardless of the skin we are in, we are daily influenced and shaped by the forces of racism. Our Christian commitment calls us to seek justice where there is only injustice, to bring hope where there is only despair, and to speak truth where there are only lies of racism. Although thousands of years old, Ecclesiastes, Job, and Proverbs raise questions and point to answers that arerelevant to the youth of today. A comparison between biblical wisdom and contemporary wisdom of the streets will provide multiple opportunities for discussion.This teacher’s guide comes with reproducible student sheets.

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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