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A Collection of Tolerance Story Books

A
Abuela - by Arthur Dorros
Abuela's Weave - by Omar S. Castaneda
Across the Great River - by Irene Beltran Hernandez
After Charlott's Mom Died - by Cornelia Spelman
Aida - by Leontyne Price
Ali Child of the Desert - by Jonathan London
All About Us - by Eva K. Evans
All Kinds of Families - by Norma Simon
All the Colors of the Earth - by Sheila Hamanaka
Allegra Maud Goldman - by Edith Konecky
Almond Cookies and Dragon Well Tea - by Cynthia Chin-Lee
Alvin Ailey - by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Amazing Grace - by Mary Hoffman
Angels Ride Bikes - by Francisco X. Gonzalez
Arnie and the New Kid - by Nancy L. Carlson
Arthur's New Nose - by Marc Brown
Aruna's Journeys - by Jyotsna Sreenivasan
Ashok by Any Other Name - by Sandra S. Yamate
Aung San Suu Kyi: Standing Up for Democracy in Burma - by Bettina Ling
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky - by Faith Ringgold
 
B
Bajo la Luna de Limon - by Edith Hope Fine
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child - by Elva Trevino Hart
Baseball Saved Us - by Ken Mochizuki
Battlefields and Burials Grounds - by Roger C. Echo-Hawk
Be Good to Eddie Lee - by Virginia Fleming
Before the Lark - by Irene Bennett Brown
Behind the Bedroom Wall - by Laura E. Williams
Behind the Secret Window - by Nelly S. Toll
Bein' With You This Way - by W. Nikola-Lisa
Ben Has Something to Say: A Story about Stuttering - by Laurie Lears
Better with Two - by Barbara M. Joosse
The Big Brown Box - by Marisabina Russo
The Black Geese - by Lurie Alison
Black Is Brown Is Tan - by Arnold Adoff
The Black Snowman - by Phil Mendez
Book of Black Heroes, Vol. II: Great Women in the Struggle - by Igus, Ellis, Partrick, and Wesley
The Brand New Kid - by Katie Couric
The Brother's Promise - by Frances Harber
But God Remembered: Stories of Women from Creation to the Promised Land - by Sandy Sasso
A Button in Her Ear - by Ada Bassett Litchfield
 
C
Calling the Doves - by Juan Felipe Herrera
Cassandra Robbins, Esq. - by Patricia Costa Viglucci
Celebrating Chinese New Year - by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Celebrating Kwanzaa - by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Cendrillon - by Robert D. San Souci
A Chair for My Mother - by Vera B. Williams
Chernowitz! - by Frank Arrick
Chicken Sunday - by Patricia Polacco
Child of the Warsaw Ghetto - by David Adler
Children of Asian America - by Asian American Coalition Staff
The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate - by Janice Cohn
Clambake: A Wampanoag Tradition - by Russell M. Peters
The Color of Us - by Karen Katz
Connie and Bonnie's Birthday Blastoff - by Ray Nelson, Jr.
Crow Boy - by Taro Yashima
 
D
Daddy's Roommate - by Michael Willhoite
Daniel's Story - by Carol Matas
Dave at Night - by Gail Carson Levine
A Day's Work - by Eve Bunting
The Devil's Arithmetic - by Jane Yolen
Dinner at Aunt Connie's House - by Faith Ringgold
Dotty the Dalmatian has Epilepsy - by
Dragonwings: Their Dream was to Fly - by Laurance Yep Yep
 
E
Ebb & Flo and the Greedy Gulls - by Jane Simmons
Ela Bhatt: Uniting Women in India - by Jyotsna Sreenivasan
Enemy Pie - by Derek Munson
Everybody Bakes Bread - by Norah Dooley
Everybody Cooks Rice - by Norah Dooley
Everybody Has Feelings - by Charles E. Avery
Extraordinary Friends - by Fred Rogers
Ezzie's Emerald - by Kathleen McDonnell
 
F
Families: A Celebration of Diversity, Commitment, and Love - by Aylette Jenness
Father Gander Nursery Rhymes: The Equal Rhymes Amendment - by Douglas Larche
Felita, Vol. 1 - by Nicholasa Myers
First Palm Trees: An Anansi Spiderman - by James Berry
The First Strawberries: Cherokee Story - by Joseph Bruchac
Fly! - by Christopher Myers
The Fox and the Bad Boy - by Black Horse
Freedom School, Yes! - by Amy Littlesugar
Freedom Summer - by Deborah Wiles
A Friend Like Zilla - by Rachna Gilmore
Friends at School - by Rochelle Bunnett
Friends! - by S. Elaine
The Friendship - by Mildred Taylor
Frog and Toad Are Friends - by Arnold Lobel
Frog Girl - by Owen Lewis
From Far Away - by Robert N. Munsch
Frozen Noses - by Jan Carr
 
G
Girls and Yound Women Entrepreneurs - by Karnes, Bean, and Verdick
Girls and Yound Women Inventing - by Karnes and Bean
Girls and Young Women Leading the Way - by Karnes and Bean
Girls Together - by Sherley Anne Williams
The Giving Tree - by Shel Silverstein
Goin' Someplace Special - by Patricia C. McKissack
Going Home - by Nicholasa Mohr
Going with the Flow - by Claire H. Blatchford
Good as New - by Barbara Douglass
Goodbye Max - by Holly Keller
Grandfather's Journey - by Allen Say
Grandma Gets Grumpy - by Anna Grossnickle Hines
Grandma's Cat - by Hellen Ketteman
Grandmother Winter - by Phyllis Root
Grandmother's Dreamcatcher - by Becky Ray McCain
The Great Change - by Gabriel Horn
The Great Migration - by Jacob Lawrence
 
H
Happy to be Nappy - by Bell Hooks
Harriet's Daughter - by Marlene Nourbese Philip
Harry and Willy and Carrothead - by Judith Caseley
Hats Off to Hair - by Virginia L. Kroll
Heather Has Two Mommies - by Leslea Newman
Hey, Little Ant - by Phillip Hoose
Hiding From the Natzis - by David A. Adler
History of Women - by Vivian Sheldon Epstein
Hop Jume - by Ellen Stroll Walsh
How Come the Best Clues are Always in the Garbage? - by Linda Bailey
 
I
I am Lavina Cumming - by Susan Lowell
I Love My Hair - by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
I See the Rythm - by Toyomi Igus
I'm Like You, You're Like Me - by Cindy Gainer
I'm Lost - by Elizabeth Crary
Iktomi and the Coyote - by Paul Goble
Immigrant Girl - by E. Street
In the Mouth of Kislev - by N. Jaffe
The Indian and his Pueblo - by Louise Lee Floethe
Is There a Woman in the House-- or Senate? - by Bryna Fireside
It's Okay to be Different - by Todd Parr
 
J
Jalapeno Bagels - by Natasha Wing
Jefferson's Children - by Shannon Lanier
Jonkonnu: A Story from the Sketchbook of Winslow Homer - by Amy Littlesugar
Journey Home - by Yoshiko
Judge Pao - by E. Andrews
Just like Me: Stories and Self-Portraits by Fourteen Artists - by Tomie Arai
 
K
Katherine and the Garbage Dump - by Martha Morris
The Keeping Quilt - by Patricia Polacco
 
L
The Lady in the Box - by Ann McGovern
Lambert the Sheepish Lion - by
The Land - by Mildred D. Taylor
The Last Chocolate Cookie - by Jamie Rix
The Last Free Bird - by A. Harris Stone
The Leaving Morning - by Angela Johnson
The Legend of Old Befana - by Tomie DePaola
Lena and the Whale - by Dierdre Kessler
Lentil - by Robert McCloskey
A Level Playing Field - by Evaleen Hu
Lights for Gita - by Rachna Gilmore
Lilian's Grandmothers - by L. Torres
The Lilith Summer - by Hadley Irwin
The Lily Cupboard - by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
The Lily Cupboard: A Story of the Holocaust - by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
The Lion Who Had Asthma  - by Jonathan London
Little Cliff and the Porch People - by Clifton L. Taulbert
Little Sister for Sale - by Morse Hamilton
Losing Uncle Tim - by MaryKate Jordan
Love You Forever - by Robert N. Munsch
 
M
Ma Dear's Aprons - by Pat C. McKissack
Magic Windows - by Carmen Lomas Garza
Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams: Making Peace in Northern Ireland - by Sarah Buscher
Mamphela Ramphele: Challenging Apartheid in South Africa - by Judith Harlan
Mardi Gras: A Cajun Country Celebration - by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
The Meanest Thing to Say - by Bill Cosby
Minou - by Mindy Bingham
Mirandy and Brother Wind - by Patricia C. McKissack
Miz Berlin Walks - by Jane Yolan
Molly Bannaky - by Alice McGill
Molly's Lies - by Kay Chorao
Monster Manners - by Bethany Roberts
The Moon Over Crete - by Jyotsna Sreenivasan
Mother Scorpion Country - by Rohmer and Wilson
The Mouse and the Light - by Lisa Suhay
The Mousewife - by Rumer Godden
Mr Lincoln's Way - by Patricia Polacco
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters - by John L. Steptoe
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters - by John Steptoe
My Best Friend - by Pat Hutchens
My Father's Boat - by Sherry Garland
My Mother the Mail Carrier - by Inez Maury
My Mother's Getting Married - by Joan E. Drescher
My Palace of Leaves in Sarajevo - by Marybeth Lorbiecki
My Sister's Special - by Jo Prall
My Two Uncles - by Judith Vigna
 
N
Nadir of the Streets - by S. Alexander
The Neighbors - by Marcia Brown
New Friends, Good Friends - by D. McDowell
New Kids in Town: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens - by Janet Bode
Nina Bontia - by Ana Maria Machado
No More Secrets for Me - by Oralee Wachter
Nobody Knew What to Do: A Story About Bullying - by Becky McCain
Now We Can Have a Wedding - by Dyanne Di Salvo-Ryan
 
O
Old Bag of Bones - by Janet Stevens
One of Each - by Mary Ann Hoberman
The Other Side - by Jacqueline Woodson
Otto is Different - by Franz Brandenberg
Our Granny - by Margaret Wild
 
P
Pa Lia's First day - by Michelle Edwards
The Paper Bag Princess - by Robert Munsch
Parrot in the Oven - by Victor Martinez
Passage to Freedom - by Ken Mochizuki
Peach Tales - by Margaret Read Mac Donald
People - by Peter Spier
People are Important - by E. Evans
Period - by Gardner-Loulan, Lopez, and Quackenbush
Play Like A Girl - by Sue Macy
The Poppy Seeds - by Clyde Robert Bulla
A Prayer for the Earth - by Sandy Sasso
The Princess and the Admiral - by Charlotte Pomerantz
Princess Jessica Rescues a Prince - by Jennifer Brooks
Puppies for Sale - by Dan Clark
 
R
The Rag Coat - by Lauren A. Mills
The Rainbow Fish - by Marcus Pfister
Rainbow Fish to the Rescue! - by Marcus Pfister
Rainbow Joe and Me - by Maria Diaz Strom
Ramadan - by Suhaib Hamid Ghazi
Reach for the Moon - by Samantha Abeel
Reach For The Sky - by Allison Stoutland
Richard Wright and the Library Card - by William Miller
Rigoberta Menchu: Defending Human Rights in Guatemala - by Michael Silverstone
The Rough-Face Girl - by Rafe Martin
 
S
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - by Eleanor Coerr
The Saddest Time - by Norma Simon
Sami and the Times of the Troubles - by Florence Parry Heide
Sarah's Boat - by Douglas Alvord
Sarah's Story - by Bill Harley
Silent Observer - by Christy MacKinnon
The Singing Man - by Angela Shelf Medearis
Sister Anne's Hands - by Marybeth Lorbiecki
Sitti's Secrets - by Naomi Shihab Nye
Skitterbrain - by Irene Bennett Brown
Smoky Night - by Eve Bunting
The Sneetches and What was I Scared of both - by Dr. Seuss
Somewhere Today - by Shelley Moore Thomas
The Spirit that Moves Us - Volume 2 - by Rachel Quenk
The Spirit that Moves Us: Vol. 1 - by Donna Taranko
Stephanie's Ponytail - by Robert Munsch
Stone Wall Secrets - by Kristine & Robert Thorson
Stretching Ourselves: Kids with Cerebral Palsy - by Alden R. Carter
Strike! - by Maureen Bayless
The Sunday Quilting - by G. J. Pinkney
Susan Laughs - by Jeanne Willis
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt - by Deborah Hopkinson
Sweet Whispers, Brother's Rush - by Virginia Hamilton
 
T
Tailey Whaley: A Tale of a Whale with a Whale of a Tail - by Charles Boyle
Talking Walls - by Margy Burns Knight
Talking Walls, The Story Continues - by Margy Burns Knight
Tatterhood and Other Tales - by Ethel Johnston Phelps
Teddy Bear Tears - by Jim Aylesworth
Terrible Things - by Eve Bunting
Terry in Love - by Rabia Akhtar
Thank You, Mr. Falker - by Patricia Polacco
This is Our Seder - by Ziporah Hildebrandt
Through Grandpa's Eyes - by Patricia MacLachlan
Tiny and Bigman - by Phillis Gershator
To Be A Drum - by Evelyn Coleman
Together in Pinecone Patch - by Thomas F. Yezerski
The Trail of Tears - by Joseph Bruchac
The Treasure Hunt - by Bill Cosby
The Truth About Sacajawea - by Kenneth Thomasma
The Two Mrs. Gibsons - by Toyomi Igus
Two Mrs. Gibsons - by Ana Sisnett
The Two Old Bachelors - by Edward Lear
 
U
The Unbreakable Code - by Sara Hoagland Hunter
 
V
Voices from the Fields - by S. Beth Atkin
 
W
Wake up, World! - by Beatrice Hollyer
Watch Out for Clever Women - by Joe Hayes
We Can Do It - by Laura Dwight
We Share Everything - by Robert N. Munsch
We Were There, Too! - by Phillip Hoose
Whale Talk - by Chris Crutcher
What Happened Today, Freddy Groundhog - by Marvin Glass
What's Wrong With Timmy? - by Maria Shriver
When the Rain Sings - by
White Lilacs - by Carolyn Meyer
White Socks Only - by Evelyn Coleman
Who Belongs Here? - by Margy Burns Knight
Whoever You Are - by Mem Fox
Will I Have a Friend? - by Miriam Cohen
Willow Whip - by Irene Bennett Brown
A Wing and a Prayer - by John Morano
The Wise Old Woman - by Yoshiko Uchida
With Love from Grandma - by Harriet Ziefert
The Woman Who Outshone the Sun - by Zubizaretta, Rohmer, and Schecter
Women of the Lights - by Candace Fleming
 
Y
Yoko - by Rosemary Wells
You Know Better Than That - by Norah Smaridge
 
Z
Zebra and Other Stories - by Chaim Potok

 

 

Page updated: 29-May-2006

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