Lucy and the Bully

By: Claire Alexander

- Publisher: Albert Whitman Company
- Ages: 4-8 years
- Genre: Realistic Fiction
- CST Theme: Promotion of Peace. I picked this theme because I thought the book
highlighted some important concepts relating to promotion of peace. Throughout
the story, a bull is bullying Lucy in her class. She is afraid to say anything about
this bully until ,the end of the story, when they are encouraged to be friends.
Awards
 2009 PATERSON PRIZE FOR BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE,
GRADES K – 3
Lucy loves everything about nursery - except for Tommy, who is a big bully. He stamps
on Lucy's sculpture and breaks her pencils, warning her not to tell - or else But with a bit
of help from Lucy's mum, Tommy is ready to turn over a new leaf.

- The voice in this story is subtle and quiet. The point comes across this way
because the bully tells Lucy not to tell on him because he doesn’t want to get in
trouble. I picked the corresponding CST because, students need to learn how to
work out their problems no matter how much older they are to you. Students need
to get along and stop all of the bully. The voice is quiet but straightforward at the
same time.
- This can be taught in many different disciplines, in math, science, and social
studies. I think social studies would be the most appropriate
 Thank you, World
By: Alice B McGinty and Wendy Anderson Halperin
- Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
- Ages: 4 and up
- Genre: Non Fiction
- CST Theme: Promotion of Peace. I picked this theme, because throughout the
story individuals are thanking the world for what materials and possessions they
have. On each page is an individual with various nationalities, thanking the world.
This promotes peace because each one of them is thankful for the same thing.

Eight very different kids, from eight different continents, all go about their day and
experience the same moments of happiness: greeting the sun in the morning,
swinging on a swing, flying a kite, being tucked in by Mommy at bedtime. Uplifting
and visually rich, this book reminds us that the world isn?t as large as it seems, and
that life?s greatest pleasures are the simple ones.

- The voice of this book is calm, the author is trying to get individuals to be
thankful for their world no matter the age, race, gender, religion, etc. They all live
on the same Earth. So lets all thank this Earth.
- This could be used in a science lesson by doing an activity that pertains to the
earth or nature.
 Smart about the Presidents
By: Jon Buller, Susan Sunade, Maryann Coca- Leffler, Dana Regan, and Jill Weber
- Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap division of Penguin Young Readers Group
- Ages: 5-9
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- CST Theme: Role of Government. I picked this theme because the book is an in-
depth way about explaining various roles the presidents had. The presidents are
apart of the government and they have to make a lot of decisions based on the
interest of our country.

This book is an ideal layout of what the white house looks like and everything that is
contained in it. The book takes you on a journey through each of the president’s lives.
When they were in office, what political party they were, and so much more. This book
would be a great way to introduce class elections.

- The style of this story is fun and inviting. All of the different colors draw students
to this book. The voice I would say is serious because it is about the presidents,
but its playful at the same time because it is written in an informal style.
- This book could defiantly be used within a social studies class.
- An activity to use this book is a student could be researching a president and use
the notes in this book to write something about that particular president
 The Declaration of Independence in Translation What it Really Means
By: Amie Jane Leavitt
- Publisher: Capstone Press
- Age: 4th grade
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- CST Theme: Role of Government I picked this theme because, the Declaration of
Independence shows how our nation came to be and all of the things we stand for.

"Presentsthe Declaration of Independence in both its original version and in a translated

version using everyday language. Describes the events that led to the creation of the
document and its significance through history"

- The voice in this story is serious, but at the same time understanding. This author
took an important part of history that was written in English that some students
might not understand and translated it into something they could have a good
understanding on.
- This would be a social studies lesson, but this could also be a research paper
topic. The students could research the differences in the translated version and the
original
 We the People The Constitution of the United States
By; Peter Spier
- Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
- Ages: 5-9
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- CST Theme: Community and the Common Good. I picked this theme because
this book covers the founding fathers and how we became one community who
follows and lives for all of the same values and standards.

We The People by Peter Spier, is a book that can visually explain the US
Constitution and America’s founding fathers in child- like terms. Throughout the story,
the themes of freedom, Justice, equality, and hope for each citizen were displayed. This
came to be the Constitution

- The voice of this book is very informal because the age range starts at
kindergarten, so the language needs to be something the students are going to
understand. I really like this book for the colors and illustrations. This would be a
book that young children really like
- Social studies and language arts would be the 2 disciples I would pick to use for
this book
 Lillian’s Right to Vote
By: Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans
- Publisher: Schwartz and Wade Books division of Random and Penguin Random
House
- Ages: 5-9
- Genre: Fiction
- CST Theme: Rights and Responsibilities. I picked this theme because in this
book, it talks about how women got the right to vote, even starting way back
when men couldn’t vote unless the had skin color that was white. This book takes
you on a journey of why it is important to vote.
Awards:
- 2016 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor Younger Children
- Finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize
- Capitol Choices 2016
- Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Books of 2015, Picture Books
- Booklist Best Picture Books of 2015
- ALA Notable Books for Children 2016, Younger Readers
- Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2015, Informational Books for
Younger Readers
- 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, K-2
- 2016 CCBC Choices- Picture Books for School-Age Children
- 2015 Cybil’s Award Nomination, Fiction Picture Books
- Best Multicultural Books of 2015
- Booklist Top 10 Books for Youth 2016, Historical Fiction
- Children’s Book Committee Bank Street College of Education Bes
Children’s Books of 2016, Historical Fiction

Lillian’s Eight to Vote is about an elderly African American Women, who makes
a really long journey to vote. During her trip she recalls voting history within her family.
They were not always allowed to vote. This book is centered on the Voting rights act of
1965. Some parts of voting history she recalls is the fifteen Amendment, where her
grandfather tired to vote, she also recalled when her own parents tried to vote and they
were turned away. Another memory she recalls is when she was protesting in Selma
Montgomery. This book portrays an important part in history and that would be the battle
for Civil Rights.
 Jobs Around My Neighborhood
By: Gladys Rosa- Mendozza
- Publisher: March 2008
- Ages: 4
- Genre: Non Fiction
- CST: Community and the Common Good

What do children want to be when they grow up? Here's a great way to introduce them to
different kinds of jobs they might see around their own neighborhoods. This fun learning
book in English and Spanish depicts people engaged in a wide variety of useful
occupations and tells the reader what each person does. The colorful and lively
illustrations are especially appealing to children. A complete pronunciation guide is
included in the back of the book for quick and easy reference. Inspire children with the
possibilities of the workaday world!

- The style of this book is very colorful and playful. This book is for younger
children. Some of these children might not understand the language or vocabulary
if the text was written for older viewers. I like this book for a kindergarten class.
- The students could play dress up for some of the jobs mentioned in this book.
Some students could be firefighters or police officers and make this a dramatic
play center
 What are rights and Responsibilities
By: Leslie Harper
- The Rosen Publishing Group
- Ages: 10 and up
- Genre: Juvenile Non fiction
- CST: Rights and Responsibilities: Human rights and responsibilities are to be
protected, every individual has the decision to make the choices they do in their
life.

Readers will learn about a citizen's rights and responsibilities through engaging,
accessible text. After reading, they will be able define the difference between a right and
a responsibility, gives examples of rights people have stood up and fought for, and of
responsibilities that are part of good citizenship. Readers will gain a new understanding
of the importance of the relationship between citizenship and society.

- This is a serious text written for an older elementary school student. This book
has language and text appropriate for them. I really like this book because it is
written for the students to really understand their rights and responsibilities as
human in this country. Students could pick one of the rights or responsibilities
from the book and explain it to their peers. This will help them with their peer
interaction skills.
 The Stamp Collector
By: Jennifer Lanthier
- -Published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside
- Ages: grades 3-6
- Genre Non Fiction
- CST: Human Dignity: Human life is the most important thing valued within the
church. Human dignity is foundation to our society
- Awards:
 Winner - 2014 Golden Oak Award, OLA Forest of Reading, Ontario Library
Association[14]
 IBBY Honour List 2014 for The Stamp Collector, International Board on Books
for Young People (IBBY)[15]

 Winner - 2014 Great Books Award, Canadian Toy Testing Council (CTTC),[16]
 Finalist – 2013 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, Canadian Children’s
Book Center (CCBC)[17]
 Finalist – 2013 Marilyn Baillie Picture Books , Canadian Children's Book Centre
(CCBC)[17]
 Winner - Huguenot Society of Canada Award, Ontario Historical Society
 Finalist – 2013 Libris Award – Young Readers' Book of the Year, Canadian
Booksellers Association (CBA)[18]
 Winner – 2013 Crystal Kite Award, Society of Children’s Books Writers and
Illustrators (SCBWI) - Americas Division[19]
 Ezra Jack Keats 2013 New Writer Honor [Jennifer Lanthier], Ezra Jack Keats
Foundation[20][21]
 Nominee - 2014 Silver Birch Express Award, OLA Forest of Reading, Ontario
Library Association[23]

A city boy finds a stamp that unlocks his imagination; a country boy is captivated by
stories. When they grow up, the two boys take different paths – one becomes a prison
guard, the other works in a factory – but their early childhood passions remain. When the
country boy’s stories of hope land him in prison, the letters and stamps sent to him from
faraway places intrigue the prison guard – and a unique friendship begins.
 Running Shoes
By: Fredrick Lipp
- Publisher: Charles bridge
- Ages: Grades 1-5
- Genre: Fiction
- CST: Human Dignity: Human life is the most important thing valued within the
church. Human dignity is foundation to our society

When Sophy is given a pair of running shoes her life changes forever - because now she
can go to school. This sensitive and warm story is of a young girl's desire for knowledge
and her one chance to attain it

- Human dignity is shown throughout this story. By the voice of the author we can
hear the empathy in the voice for someone who has to have a life-changing event
happen to them. This changing event helps gain the spirit for knowledge in her
future.
- This story could be used in many of the disciples because it can be adapted for the
subjects. Students can calculate math problems based on running, create science
experiments, and so much more
 The Family Under the Bridge
By: Natile Savage Carlson
- Publisher : Harper Collins
- Ages: 7-11 years old
- Genre: Fiction
- CST: Option for the poor and Vulnerable: Put the needs of the poor and
vulnerable first before our needs.
- Awards:
John Newbery Award

This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who
relished his solitary life. Children, he said, were like starlings, and one was better off
without them.
But the children who lived under the bridge recognized a true friend when they met one,
even if the friend seemed a trifle unwilling at the start. And it did not take Armand very
long to realize that he had gotten himself ready-made family; one that he loved with all
his heart, and one for whom he would have to find a better home than the bridge.

- This story helps create compassion for a family who has nothing to their name.
Students really understand what some families might go through, but they did it
together as a family.
- When it comes to teaching this in classrooms I feel that this is strictly a language
arts book, because you can take so much from this and learn from it
 Four Feet, Two Sandals
By: Karen Lynn Williams

- Publisher: Eerdmans Books For Young Children

- Ages: 7- 10 years old
- Genre: Fiction
- CST: Option for the poor and vulnerable: Put the needs of the poor and vulnerable
first before our needs.

When relief workers bring used clothing to the refugee camp, everyone scrambles to grab
whatever they can. Ten-year-old Lina is thrilled when she finds a sandal that fits her foot
perfectly, until she sees that another girl has the matching shoe. But soon Lina and Feroza
meet and decide that it is better to share the sandals than for each to wear only one. As
the girls go about their routines washing clothes in the river, waiting in long lines for
water, and watching for their names to appear on the list to go to America the sandals
remind them that friendship is what is most important. Four Feet, Two Sandals was
inspired by a refugee girl who asked the authors why there were no books about children
like her. With warm colors and sensitive brush strokes, this book portrays the strength,
courage, and hope of refugees around the world, whose daily existence is marked by
uncertainty and fear.

- This books a good understanding on how some families might live outside of the
United States. Some students could research this topic and come up with a way
how they might be able to live like this here in the US what would be some of the
things they would take away or gain?
 Have You Filled Your Bucket Today?
By Carol McCloud
- Publisher: Ferne Press
- Age: 4- 9 years old
- Genre: Non Fiction
- CST: Participation: We have the right to participate in any part of our society, but
it is wrong to exclude and individual or treat them unfairly.
- Awards:
2016 Great Northwest Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Children's Books

This heartwarming book encourages positive behavior by using the concept of an

invisible bucket to show children how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness,
appreciation, and love by "filling buckets." Updated and revised, this 10th anniversary
edition will help readers better understand that "bucket dipping" is a negative behavior,
not a permanent label. It also explains that it's possible to fill or dip into our own buckets

- This story is a great story that will melt your heart about having compassion for
people and wanting to volunteer their time. An activity for this could have your
class pick a volunteer service project they can complete by filing up their buckets,
just like the story. A good deed never goes without being noticed.
 The Kindness Quilt
By: Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
- Publisher: Two Lions
- Ages: 4-8 years old
- Genre: fiction
- CST: Participation: We have the right to participate in any part of our society. but
it is wrong to exclude and individual or treat them unfairly.

Minna and her classmates have been asked by their teacher, Mrs. Bloom, to work on a
Kindness Project. Mrs. Bloom wants them to do and draw and share an act of kindness.
Minna and her family do lots of kind things, but Minna can't decide which one is right for
her project. Then she starts writing and drawing and cutting--and an idea for a paper quilt
picturing many acts of kindness begins to take shape!

- Kindness is a great emotion to have; this should be learned as young child.

Kindness can go along way. Maybe you have your students create a kindness
chart, each night the student has to do something nice for someone at their home.
When the students fill their chart they could make a square for the kindness quilt.
 The Garbage Barge
By: Jonah Winter
- Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
- Age: 4- 8 years old
- Genre: Fiction
- CST: Stewardship: humans are the keepers of the world, no mater the nationality,
race, ethnic group etc.
- Awards
- New York Times Best Illustrated book of 2010, a Huffington Post Best Picture
Book of the Year, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
The Washington Post said, “Cautionary? Yes. Hilarious? You betcha!” and
the New York Times Book Review raved, “[A] glorious visual treat.”

This New York Times Best Illustrated Book is a mostly true and completely stinky story
that is sure to make you say, “Pee-yew!” Teaching environmental awareness has become
a national priority, and this hilarious book (subtly) drives home the message that we can't
produce unlimited trash without consequences.

- Keeping our community clean is key to creating a healthy environment for us to

live in. We need to maintain a healthy relationship with not only others but also
the earth.
- You could have the students take data on how long it takes to collect garbage
from their house, or even do a littering project
 The Berenstain Bears Go Green
By Jan Berenstain
- -Publisher: Harper Festival
- Age: 4-8
- Genre Fiction
- CST: Stewardship: humans are the keepers of the world, no mater the nationality,
race, ethnic group etc.

"The Berenstain Bears live in a wonderful place filled with green grass, blue skies,
and lots of furry friends. But on a fishing trip at the creek, the Bear family discovers
that the town dump is overflowing. It's spilling garbage and oil into the water! Can
the Berenstain Bears find a pollution solution before their beloved county is filled
with garbage?"-

- This book has similar concept about keeping our community clean. Making
sure there isn’t any unwanted waste around the house. This could be as easy
as changing a light bulb. Stewardship is we are the keepers of our community;
it is our job and responsibility that we maintain so we have it for a really long
time.
- Students could go home and change their light bulbs to less evasive ones and
that take less energy to use.
 The One Big Orange Spot
By: Manus Pinkwater
- Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
- Age 4 and up
- Genre: Fiction
- CST: Solidarity: People from different races, gender, nationalities, religion, etc.,
we all have obligations we have to fulfill to make our life full. It is important we
understand this, and be considerate

When Mr. Plumbeans' house is splashed with bright orange paint, he decides a multi-
colored house would be a nice change. This favorite story of creativity and
individuality is back by popular demand.

- In this book there is one house who is different he has a big orange spot on its
roof. As mentioned about the CST of Solidarity, it is okay to be different. We just
have to be considerate of these ones feelings. We could say something to hurt its
feelings, but that wouldn’t make the house unique anymore.
- Students could find someone with a different belief than them and share with a
family member or another peer.
 The Judgmental Flower
By: Julia Cook
- Publisher Boys Town Press, 2016
- Age: 4-8 years old
- Genre: fiction
- CST: Solidarity: People from different races, gender, nationalities, religion, etc.,
we all have obligations we have to fulfill to make our life full. It is important we
understand this, and be considerate

The flower patch has always been the same. Purples hang with other Purples. Blues hang
with Blues. Talls hang with Talls. Shorts hang with Shorts. But when Purple moves into
the Blue Patch, Blue just isn't sure how he feels about that! Fortunately, Blue's Mom is
around to point out how much Blue and his friends can learn from the wind, the rain, and
the bees, who treat all flowers the same.

- Words hurt, it is important to know when trying to make funs that you use kind
words. It is important to understand that not everyone is from the same race,
gender, nationality, etc. We all have different obligations we have to fill, it is
important that we make sure we give them the same understanding and emotions
we do to everyone else.
- Students could get a pen pal from another country and write to them.
 When I Grow Up
By: Mercer Mayer
- Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
- Age : 2- 5 years old
- Genre: Fiction
- CST: Dignity of work and rights of workers: The exploitation of labor is a central
focus. Workers have the right to leave their native countries in search
of work. Rights and duties regarding employer/employee are also treated. The
threats to the dignity of the human person receive a significant focus.

Little Critter’s sister dreams about all the wonderful things she’s going to do when she
grows up. She imagines being a great ballet dancer, a world-famous doctor, a race-car
driver, and more!

- Knowing who you are is an important part of yourself. It is okay to question what
you might be when you grow up, that is what little critter did in this book. He kept
thinking about different things he thinks he might want to be when he gets older.
By knowing what kinds of jobs and duties each particular job does, might help to
appreciate all that that particular individual does for you.
- If you are working with a younger group of students, you could have them dress
up or pretend play on what they want to be when they grow and why?
 Jobs Around Town
By: Jan Berenstain

- Publisher Zondervan, 2011

- Age: 4-8 years old
- Genre: Fiction
- CST: Dignity of work and rights of workers: The exploitation of labor is a central
focus. Workers have the right to leave their native countries in search
of work. Rights and duties regarding employer/employee are also treated. The
threats to the dignity of the human person receive a significant focus.

Searching for the perfect job, Brother and Sister Bear learn to celebrate the many talents
of others. In The Berenstain Bears: Jobs Around Town, they begin to imagine where their
own God-given gifts might take them as they grow

- Knowing who works in their community is an important part of knowing the

community. If you take the time to know the individuals that work around you,
you could create a better understanding of that person and have an appreciation
for them
- Students could interview someone they know that works in their community