Making a Difference

All books are available at the Dalton First Program Library.

• Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights, written by Rob Sanders ; illustrated by Jared Andrew Schorr
  
• What Can a Citizen Do, by Dave Eggers; art by Shawn Harris
• Enough! : 20 protesters who changed America, written by Emily Easton ; illustrated by Ziyue Chen ; foreword by Ryan Deitsch, Parkland survivor and activist
• Be a King : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you, by Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by James E. Ransome
• Come with Me, by Holly M. McGhee; illustrated by Pascal Lemaître
  
• Most People, by Michael Leannah; illustrated by Jennifer E. Morris
  
• Breaking News, by Sarah Lynne Reul
• Something Happened in Our Town : a child's story about racial injustice, by Marianne Celano; illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin

• I Have the Right to be a Child, by Alain Serres; illustrated by Aurelia Fronty
  
• We Are All Born Free : the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in pictures, by Amnesty International
  
• Understanding your civil rights, by Emma Carlson Berne
  
• A Life Like Mine, by UNICEF
• Every Human has Rights : a photographic declaration for kids, by National Geographic
  

Picture Books:

• I Walk with Vanessa: a story about a simple act of kindness, by Kerascoët
  
• Super Satya Saves the Day, by Raakhee Mirchandani
  
• The Big Umbrella, by Amy June Bates
• A Bucket of Blessings, by Kabir Sehgal & Surishtha Sehgal; illustrated by Jing Jing Tsong
  
• Be Kind, by Pat Zietlow Miller; illustrated by Jen Hill
  
• Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed, by Emily Pearson; illustrations by Fumi Kosaka
  
• Be a King : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you, by Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by James E. Ransome
  
• Have you Filled a Bucket Today?, by Carol McCloud; illustrated by David Messing
• Brave, by Stacy McAnulty; illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff

• There's No Such Thing as Little, by LeUyen Pham
• Strictly No Elephants, by Lisa Mantchev

Chapter Books:

• Start now! : you can make a difference, by Chelsea Clinton ; illustrations by Siobhán Gallagher

• Pedal Power: how one community became the bicycle capital of the world, by Allan Drummond
  
• City Green, by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
  
• We Planted a Tree, by Diane Muldrow; illustrated by Bob Staake
  
• Human Environmental Impact : how we affect Earth, by Ava Sawyer
  
• The Great Kapok Tree: a tale of the Amazon rain forest, by Lynne Cherry
  
• One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia, by Miranda Paul; illustrations by Elizabeth Zunon
  
• Flowers on the Roof, by Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir; illustrated by Brian Pilkington
  
• Go Easy on Energy, by Lisa Bullard; illustrated by Wes Thomas
  
• Earth Day Everyday, by Lisa Bullard; illustrated by Wes Thomas
  
• How to help the Earth, by the Lorax with Tish Rabe; illustrated by Christopher Moroney and Jan Gerardi.
  
• Choose to Reuse, by Lisa Bullard; illustrated by Wes Thomas
  
• Rally for Recycling, by Lisa Bullard; illustrated by Wes Thomas
  
• Luna & Me : the true story of a girl who lived in a tree to save a forest, by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

• Sit In: how four friends stood up by sitting down, by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
  
• The Youngest Marcher : the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist, by Cynthia Levinson; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton.
  
• Malala's Magic Pencil, by Malala Yousafzai; illustrated by Kerascoët
  
• She Persisted: 13 American women who changed the world, by Chelsea Clinton; illustrated by Alexandra Boiger
  
• She Persisted Around the World : 13 women who changed history, by Chelsea Clinton; illustrated by Alexandra Boiger
  
• Shaking Things Up : 14 young women who changed the world, by Susan Hood; illustrated by Selina Alko, Sophie Blackall, Lisa Brown, Hadley Hooper, Emily Winfield Martin, Oge Mora, Julie Morstad, Sara Palacios, LeUyen Pham, Erin K. Robinson, Isabel Roxas, Shadra Strickland, and Melissa Sweet
  
• We Shall Overcome: the story of a song, by Debbie Levy; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
  
• Heroes for Civil Rights, by David A. Adler, illustrated by Bill Farnsworth
  
• The Little Rock Nine : a primary source exploration of the battle for school integration, by Brian Krumm
  
• Brave Girl : Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909, by Michelle Markel; illustrated by Melissa Sweet
  
• Harvesting Hope: the story of Cesar Chavez, by Kathleen Krull; illustrated by Yuyi Morales
  
• Pride: the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, by Rob Sanders; illustrated by Steven Salerno
  
• Gay and Lesbian History for Kids : the century-long struggle for LGBT rights, with 21 activities, by Jerome Pohlen
  

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