Nonconformity

• Picture Books With Identifiable Characters Who Don't Conform:
• The Empty Pot by Demi
• The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola
• The Purple Coat by Amy Hest
• The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills
• Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
• A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
• Your Move! by Eve Bunting
• The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
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• Historical Fiction: Picture Books and Novels With Nonconformist Characters:
• Rebel by Allan Baillie
• The Bus Ride by William Miller
• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
• The Dragon in the Cliff by Sheila Cole
• Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
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• Picture Books Featuring Weaker Characters: (These are not strong, identifiable role models of nonconformity.)
• Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
• The Cow That Went Oink by Bernard Most
• That Fat Hat by Joanne Barkan
• The Frog Who Wanted to be a Singer by Linda Goss
• Mattie's Hat Won't Wear That by Elaine Greenstein
• Meredith the Witch Who Wasn't by Dorthea Lachner
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• Novels:
• Frindle by Andrew Clements
• Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd by Mame Farrell
• Wringer by Jerry Spenelli
• Beethoven in Paradise by Barbara O'Conner
• Rosy Cole: She Grows and Graduates by Sheila Greenwald
• Grandville Jones: Commando by Natalie Honeycutt

  compiled by: Deborah Price