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ONCE UPON A WORLD Children's Book Award
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2009
Libertad
by Alma Fullerton
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Planting the Trees of Kenya
by Claire A. Nivola
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2008
Surfer of the Century
by Ellie Crowe
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Jeannette Rankin: Political Pioneer
by Gretchen Woelfle
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2007
Freedom Walkers
by Russell Freedman
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2006
The Doll With The Yellow Star
by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root
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2005
Ellington Was Not a Street
by Ntozake Shange
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
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2004
Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen
by Michelle R. McCann
Luba Tryszynska-Frederick
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2003
Thank You, Sarah
by Laurie Halse Anderson
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2002
Freedom Summer
by Deborah Wiles - New York: Atheneum Books, 2001.
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2001
The Year of Miss Agnes
by Kirkpatrick Hill - New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2000.
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2000
Through My Eyes
by Ruby Bridges; articles and interviews compiled and edited by Margo Lundell. 1st ed. - New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.
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1999
So Far From The Sea
by Eve Bunting; illustrated by Chris Soentpiet - New York: Clarion Books, 1998.
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1998
Gathering The Sun: an alphabet in Spanish and English
by Alma Flor Ada; English translation by Rosa Zubizarreta; illustrated by Simon Silva - New York: Lothrop Lee & Shepard Books, 1997.
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1997
The Wagon
by Tony Johnston; paintings by James E. Ransome - 1st ed. - New York: Tambourine Books,1996.
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1997
The Day Gogo Went to Vote: South Africa, April 1994
by Elinor Batezat Sisulu; illustrated by Sharon Wilson
- 1st ed. - Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.
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1996
A School For Pompey Walker
by Michael J. Rosen; illustrated by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson - 1st ed. - San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
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From The Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Roots and Schindler's List, to the writings of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the world of literature has produced many outstanding examples of fiction and non-fiction that speak to us in the most profound and effecting of ways about the themes of social injustice and man's inhumanity to man.
