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Books That Speak To Me: Elementary: Growing From Challenges

Introduction

Books in the Growing from Challenges category focus on historical and current conflicts. These books focus on conflicts all around the world, both those currently happening and those that have happened in the past.

Picture Books

Ada's Violin by Susan Hood; Sally Wern Comport (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781481430951
Publication Date: 2016-05-03
Emmanuel's Dream: the True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson; Sean Qualls (Illustrator)
ISBN: 044981744X
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai; Kerascoët (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780316319577
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
Maybe Something Beautiful by F. Isabel Campoy; Theresa Howell; Rafael López (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0544357698
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Faye Duncan; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781629797182
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781328780966
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson; Julie Flett (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781553796732
Publication Date: 2016-12-01
Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall; Yas Imamura (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781536204308
Publication Date: 2022-02-08
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Faye Duncan; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781629797182
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780544704527
Publication Date: 2018-01-02

Chapter Books/Graphic Novels

Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
ISBN: 1984893009
Publication Date: 2021-01-05
A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
ISBN: 9780545682442
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
ISBN: 9781328781505
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
A Scarf for Keiko by Ann Malaspina; Merrilee Liddiard (Illustrator)
ISBN: 154152165X
Publication Date: 2019-02-01
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
ISBN: 9781442494985
Publication Date: 2016-03-29
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
ISBN: 9780803740815
Publication Date: 2015-01-08
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
ISBN: 9780735228511
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood
ISBN: 9781481468848
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Being Clem by Lesa Cline-Ransome
ISBN: 9780823446049
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves by L. M. Elliott
ISBN: 9780063056565
Publication Date: 2022-03-22
Finding Langston by Lesa CLINE-RANSOME
ISBN: 9780823445820
Publication Date: 2020-01-07