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GLOBAL LITERATURE
Adding Global literature to your classroom inspires students to be curious citizens of our world. It increases high level vocabulary and a desire to learn more about our amazing world.
What Does It Mean to be Global?
Can you speak another language? Do you try all kinds of food? Do you experience traditions around the world? This book encourages compassion, worldliness, understanding, exactly what we must instill in our next generation. Perfect! Read NOW!
The Very Best Map Book!
Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinska.
My all time favorite book of maps around the world. The detailed and interesting images from around the world make this a great resource for kids and adults.
One Plastic Bag
Thought provoking tale of ecological awareness and recycling. Follow it up with this video: The Majestic Plastic Bag: https://youtu.be/GLgh9h2ePYw?si=Uc-7Z_nZNfoDjESU
Holidays Around the World
Celebrations of Light by Nancy Luenn. A celebration of the diverse ways in which people around the world use light as a major part of their celebrations. Light plays a significant role, marking and brightening special days.
She Persisted
She Persisted Around the World, by Chelsea Clinton. This book is for everyone who has ever aimed high and been told 'No," or anyone who has ever felt small, unimportant or unworthy. Very inspiring.
World Atlas
World Atlas A Voyage of Discovery for Young Learners.
World Atlas
World Atlas A Voyage of Discovery for Young Learners.
Celebrate our Differences
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
A heartwarming story about the new girl in school, and how she learns to appreciate her Korean name. Perfect for the first week of school learning names or integrating into your Global Studies.
Warrior with Words
Warrior with Words
A moving real-life story, well told by Karen Leggett Abouraya and beautifully illustrated by L.C. Wheatley.
Chapter Books
A Long Walk To Water
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
A Long Walk To Water
A true story. A mesmerizing narrative that follows two threads-one unfolding in 1998 and one in 1985. Students will love the hopeful message: that even in a troubled country, determined survivors may find the future they are longing for. Excellent to integrate with global studies.
Malala
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
A Long Walk To Water
Malala, My Story of Standing Up for Girl's Rights by Malala Yousafzai.
Before Malala was famous, she was young and she stood up for what she believed. My students were grateful to hear this story and put Malala on the top of their Global Citizen lists.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba. A gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
Middle-High School
Middle-High School
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai.
Carl Hiaasen
Middle-High School
Carl Hiaasen
Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen. Students love the plot of this engaging book by Carl Hiaasen. You meet a colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Find out their fate by reading Hoot. After we read the book we dissected owl pellets. Fun!