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Books to Read with Children on the Topic of Diversity/Disabilities
Special Education Service-Learning Guide (available for check-out)
Maryland Student Service Alliance
This guide provides help with completing service-learning projects with special education students.
Amazing Grace (available for check-out)
Jonathan Kozol
The Acorn People (available for check-out)
Ron Jones
This is a fiction chapter book about a summer camp for students with disabilities.
Just Kids: Visiting a Class for Children with Special Needs (available for check-out)
Ellen B. Senisi
This is a real-life look at a class for children with special needs. (picture book)
Soni’s Mended Wings (available for check-out)
Peter Eyvindson
This is the story of Soni, a physically and mentally challenged child in Haiti who finally receives hope and help. (picture book)
Stitching Stars: The Story Quilts of Harriet Powers (available for check-out)
Mary E. Lyons
This is the story of African-American Harriet Powers and her beautiful quilts. (picture book)
Us and Them (available for check-out)
Jim Carnes
This is a beautifully written and illustrated book about the history of intolerance in America.
Sheila Hamanaka
Reveals in verse that despite outward differences children everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable. Morrow Junior Books, 1994. All the Colors of the Race
Arnold Adolf
A collection of poems written from the point of view of a child with a black mother and a white father. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1982. Black is Brown is Tan
Arnold Adolf
Describes in verse the life of a brown-skinned momma, white-skinned daddy, their children, and assorted relatives.Harper & Row, 1973. Bright Eyes, Brown Skin
Cheryl Willis Hudson
This simple rhyming text celebrates positive images. We are all Alike, We are all Different
Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergartners
Kindergarten children describe the likenesses and differences between themselves. Scholastic., 1991 Why People are Different Colors?
Julian May
This books examines the biological causes of differences in skin color. Holiday House, 1971