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2) Peacemaker
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Native American Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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Native American Heritage Month: Kids (November 2022)
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"While twelve-year-old Okwaho and his best friend are out hunting, his friend is kidnapped by men from a neighboring tribal nation, and Okwaho barely escapes. Everyone in his village fears more raids and killings: The Five Nations of the Iroquois have been at war with one another for far too long, and no one can remember what it's like to live in peace. Okwaho longs for revenge, but before he can retaliate, a visitor with a message of peace comes...
4) Peace, baby!
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Simple rhyming text encourages children to set aside anger and irritation and find peace within themselves, and with the world.
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Queen's thief volume 4
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Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his country from being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede empire.
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The Peace Book delivers positive and hopeful messages of peace in an accessible, child-friendly format featuring Todd Parr's trademark bold, bright colors and silly scenes. Perfect for the youngest readers, this book delivers a timely and timeless message about the importance of friendship, caring, and acceptance.
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In this radiant tale, a young boy in Japan celebrates his very first Christmas. Two cultures joyously combine for the day as the boy's mother shares a glimpse of her American childhood with her son. Allen Say's glowing watercolors and affecting words paint a story rich with the holiday spirit -- a story of family, of giving, of goodwill, and the hope for peace. - Flyleaf.
A Japanese boy learns of Christmas when his mother decorates a pine tree with...
9) World pizza
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Mama wished for world peace--and then a pizza fell from the sky and landed gently on her lap.
11) Peaceful me
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"A young child tells us about the different times when he feels peaceful, as well as how he copes when he needs to find a peaceful state again. Acclaimed picture-book creators Sandra V. Feder and Rahele Jomepour Bell have teamed up once again to create a thoughtful and beautifully illustrated exploration of peacefulness. "I like feeling peaceful," the young narrator tells us, then describes the times when he is filled with this emotion. When he is...
12) Peace
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"From saying hello and pronouncing your friend's name correctly to giving more than you take and saying I'm sorry, this simple concept book explores definitions of peace and actions small and big that foster it"--
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Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
15) The iron giant
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"A strange creature stalks the land, eating barbed wire and devouring tractors and plows. The farmers are mystified--and afraid. And then they glimpse him in the night: the Iron Giant, taller than a house, with glowing headlight eyes and an insatiable taste for metal. The hungry giant must be stopped at any cost. Only a young boy named Hogarth is brave enough to befriend the Iron Giant and lead him to a safe home. And only Hogarth knows where to...
17) God's dream
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Children close their eyes and see that God wishes that all people would treat each other with love and understanding, in spite of differences in language or appearance, or even if they live in faraway lands. On board pages.
Children close their eyes and see that God wishes that all people would treat each other with love and understanding, in spite of differences in language or appearance, or even if they live in faraway lands.
19) War is over
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"It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's father is fighting in the trenches far away in France, while his mother works in a menacing munitions factory just along the road. His teacher says that John is fighting, too, that he is at war with enemy children in Germany. One day, in the wild woods outside town, John has an impossible moment: a dreamlike meeting with a German boy named Jan. John catches a glimpse of a better world, in which children like...
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