• A Blessing in Disguise (fighting drugs and crime)
• A Group of One by Rachna Gilmore
• A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World by the Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff, published in the United States by DK Publishing in association with UNICEF
• A Long Way to Go" by Marjorie Darke, and other books deal with social issues of the early 20th century: suffragettes; conscientious objectors; unions"
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (poverty and fortitude)
• Against the Storm by Gaye Hiçyilmaz
• All books by Eleanora E. Tate
• Bring Out the Banners" (the suffragettes). by Geoffrey Trease
• Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curits (race and poverty)
• Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep
• Comrades for the Charter" (the Chartists); by Geoffrey Trease
• Daphne’s Book by Mary Downing Hahn
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Facing History and Ourselves, a 30 year old curriculum project that provides inservice for teachers about social justice, citizenship, and other such issues around the case study of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the Civil Rights Movement and contemporary issues facing kids today. Website is www.facinghistory.org
• Getting Beyond I like the Book by Vivian Vasquez for suggestions about social justice
• Goggle Eyes" by Anne Fine (mother is a Greenham Common protester).
• Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Homecoming series by Cynthia Voigt deals with poverty and homelessness.
• Just an Overnight Guest (homelessness),
• Kids on Strike! by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Lines in the Sand, pub by The Disinformation Company--which included stories and poems about war and peace.
• Logan books by Mildred Taylor
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis
• Refuge by Libby Gleeson. Published by Penguin Australia
• Refugee Boy  by Benjamin Zephaniah
• Riders of the Storm by Hester Burton (late 18th century; the fight for greater equality in the wake of the French Revolution"); "Time of Trial" (press freedom issues in the early
• Sarny by Gary Paulsen.
• Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris
• Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (lies, cruelty).
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell
• Skellig by David Almond
• Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
• Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, jr. (restoring self esteem),
• The Bonnie Pit Laddie by Frederick Grice
• The Breadwinner  by Deborah Ellis
• The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph
• The Girl in the Red Dress by Gaye Hiczylmicz - deals with injustic toward asylumn seekers in Britain.
• The Middle Heart by Bette Bao Lord
• The New Press Guide for Multicultural Children's Books for Young Readers (The New Press), edited by Daphne Muse, for both essays and book selection.
• The Other Darker Ned by Anne Fine (world poverty)
• The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
• The Painters of Lexieville, by Sharon Darrow.
• The Rebel by Hester Burton
• The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson
• The Secret of Gumbo Grove (restoring community history),
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Twopence a Tub by Susan Price.
• Virtual War by Gloria Skurzynski.
• When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
• When the Circus Came to Town by Laurence Yep
• Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovi