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Social Justice Issues in Juvenile Books

Social Justice Issues:

Animal Rights

Community Improvement

Freedom of Speech

Genocide

Government Corruption

Labor Rights

Racial Equality

Voting Rights

Animal Rights:

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. Chapter book, grades 6 - 10.   JFic H623h 

Robert Takes a Stand by Barbara Seuling. Chapter book, grades 2 -4. JFic S496ro

Community Improvement:

Edwina Victorious by Susan Bonners. Chapter book, grades 2 - 4. JFic B7166e

The Garden of Happiness by Erika Tamar. Picture book, grades K - 3.  JE T153g

Mom for Mayor by Nancy Edwards. Chapter book, grades 3 - 6. JFic E26mo 

Freedom of Speech:

The Landry News by Andrew Clements. Chapter book, grades 3 - 6. JFic C6255L

The Mayday Rampage by Clayton Bess. Chapter book, grades 10 - 12. JFic B557ma

Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi. Chapter book, grades 7 - 10.
JFic A957no

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Genocide:

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Chapter book, grades 5 - 8. JFic L9212nu 1993

Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti. Picture book, grades 3 - 5. JFic I58r

Government Corruption:

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer. Chapter book, grades 8 - 10. JFic B344h

The Isis Pedlar by Monica Hughes. Chapter book, grades 4 - 8. JFic H894is

Labor Rights:

Atherton: The House of Power by Patrick Carman. Chapter book,
grades 7 - 10. JFic C2865a

Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Peterson. Chapter book,
grades 5 - 8. JFic P296br

Factory Girl by Barbara Greenwood. Chapter book, grades 4 - 8. JFic G718fa

Jessie de la Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker by Gary Soto. Chapter book,
grades 6 - 9. JFic S718je

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Pollution:

When the Stars Begin to Fall by James Lincoln Collier. Chapter book,
grades 7 - 10. JFic C695wh

Racial Equality:

Burning Up by Caroline Cooney. Chapter book, grades 6 -12. JFic C7755bu

Darby by Jonathon Scott Fuqua. Chapter book, grades 4 - 8. JFic F983da

The Cow of No Color by Nina Jaffe. Story collection, grades 4 - 8. JFic J23c

A Day for Vincent Chin and Me by Jacqueline Turner Banks. Chapter book,
grades 3 - 6. JFic B218da

Good Night for Freedom by Barbara Olenyik Morrow. Picture book, grades 4 - 8.
JE M883go

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt. Chapter book,
grades 4 - 8. JFic S351L

Speed of Light by Sybil Rosen. Chapter book, grades 4 - 8. JFic R8132s

Voting Rights:

Papa's Mark by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert. Picture book, grades 1 - 3. JFic B336pa

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