Books about Labor and Unions for 4th -12th Graders

Glass, Linzi. (2006). The Year the Gypsies Came. NewYork:  Henry Holt. (South Africa during the 1960s).

Weaver, Kathmandu, Nepal from Stolen Dreams

Books for Intermediate Grade Students in Grades 4-6: Literature

1. Auch, Mary Jane. (2004). Ashes of Roses. New York: Laurel Leaf.
2. Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. (2011). Cesar: Si se pude! Yes We Can. Illustrated by David Diaz. New York: Two Lions.
3. Baker, Julie. 2002. Up Molasses Mountain. New York: Wendy Lamb Book.
4. Boling, Katharine. (2006). January 1905. New York: HMH Books. 
5. Casanova, Mary. (2014). Riot.  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
6. Hill, Kirpatrick. (2010). Dancing at Odinochka.  New York: Margaret K. McElderry.
7. Matas, Carol. (2003). Rosie in New York City: Gotcha! New York: Aladdin.
8. Paterson, Katherine. (2008). Bread and Roses, Too. New York: HNH Books.
9. Paterson, Katherine. (2004). Lyddie. New York: Paterson.
10. Potter Tracey. (2008). Billy Creekmore: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins.
11. Robinet, Harriette Gillem. (2003). Missing from Haymarket Square. New York: Aladdin.
12. Wintrophs, Elizabeth. (2006). Counting on Grace. New York: Yearling.

Books for Older Students - Grades 7 - 12 Literature

1. Anaya, Rudolfo. 2000. Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez. Illustrated by Gaspar Enriquez. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
2. Davies, Jacqueline. (2014). Lost.  New York: Two Lions.
3. D'Adamo, Francesco. (2005). Iqbal. New York: Aladdin.
4. Frontiera, Deborah K. (2009/2013). Living on Sisu: The 1913 Union Copper Strike Tragedy. Houston, TX: ABCs Press.
5. Grindley, Sally. (2005). Spilled Water. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
6. Haddix, Margaret Peterson. (2011). Uprising. New York: Simon & Schuster.
7. Hill, Kirpatrick. (2010). Dancing at Odinochka.  New York: Margaret K. McElderry.
8. Hughes, Pat. (2014). The Breaker Boys. Backshore Books.
9. Mason, David. (2010). Ludlow. Red Hen Press. (High School/Adult)
10. Parker, M.P. (2008). A Difficult Boy. New York: Holiday House.
11. Paterson, Katherine. (2008). Bread and Roses, Too. New York: HNH Books.
12. Paterson, Katherine. (2004). Lyddie. New York: Paterson.
13. Pinsky, Robert. "Shirt".

14. Resau, Laura & Maria Virginia Farinango. (2011). Queen of Water. New York: Random Hose.
15. Skurzynksi, Gloria. (2001). Rockbuster. New York: Atheneum.
16. Sheth, Kashmira. (2010). Boys without Names. New York: Balzer + Bray.

Nonfiction Books for Middle and High School Students

1. Andrews, Thomas G. (2010). Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2. Aronson, Marc. (2011).Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert. New York: Atheneum Books.
3. Atkin, Beth S. (2000). Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell their Stories. New York: Little, Brown.
4. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. (2003). Kids on Strike! New York: HNH Books.
5. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. (1996). Growing Up in Coal County. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.
6. Bausum, Ann & Jim Lawson. (2012). Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty Labor Fights and Civil rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Hours. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Children's Books.
7. Burgan, Michael. (2011). Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor. CPB.
8. Coleman, Penny. (1995). Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II. New York: Crown Books.
9. Freedman, Russell. (1998). Kids at Work: Lewis Hines and the Crusade Against Child Labor. New York: HNH Books.
10. Green, James. (2007). Death in Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. New York: Anchor. (High School/Adult)
11. Greenwood, Barbara.(2007).  Factory Girl. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press.
12. Hopkinson, Deborah. (2006). Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America. New York: Scholastic.
13. Jiménez, Francisco. (2002) Breaking Through. New York: HMH Books.
14. Jiménez, Francisco. (1997). The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. Albuquerque, NM: University of Mexico Press.
15. Josephson, Judith Pinkerton. (1996). Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publication.
16. Kielburger, Craig & Kevin Major. (1999). Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children Can Change the World. New York: Harper Perennial.
17. Kraft, Betsy Harvey. (1995). Mother Jones: One Woman's Fight for Labor. New York: Clarion Books.
18. Kuklin, Susan. (1998). Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery. New York: Henry Holt and Co.
19. Landeau, Elaine (2009). Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. New York: Children's Press.
20. Marrin, Albert. (2011). Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy.New York: Knopf.
21. Martelle, Scott. (2008). Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre ad Class War in the American West. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. (High School/Adult)
22. Miller, Calvin Craig. (2005). A. Philip Randolph: And the African-American Labor Movement. Greensboro, NC: Morgan Reynolds Publishers.
23. Miller, Connie Colwell. (2006). Mother Jones: Labor Leader. Illustrated by Steve Erwin and Charles Barnett. New York: Graphic Library.
24. Murolo, Priscilla & A.B. Chitty. (2001). From the Folks that Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States.  Illustrations by Joe Sacco. New York: The New Press. (High School/Adult)
25. Nelson, Bruce. (2002). Divided We Stand: American Workers and he Struggle for Black Equality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (High School/Adult)
26. Parker, David L. (1997). Stolen Dreams: Portraits of Working Children. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company.
27. Roberts-Davis, Tanya. (2003). We Need to Go To Schools: Voices of the Rugmark Children. Toronto, ON: Groundwood Books.
28. Robinson, J. Dennis. (2010). Striking Back: The Fight to End Child Labor Exploitations. CPB.
29. Ruby, Lois. (2012).  Strike! Mother Jones and the Colorado Coal Field War. Palmer Lake, CO: Filter Press, LLC.
30. Springer, Jane. 1997. Listen to Us: The World's Working Children.  Toronto, ON: Groundwood Press.
31. Stanley, Jerry. (1996). Big Annie of Calmuet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers,
32. Stavans, Ilan. (2010). Cesar Chavez: A Photographic Essay. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
33. Stein Leon. (2010). The Triangle Fire. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press. (High School/Adult)
34. US Commission on Industrial Relations. (2010). The Ludlow Massacre: The Official US Government Report on the Colorado Miner's Strike of 1913-1914. St. Petersburg, FL: Red and Black Publishers.
35. Watson, Bruce. (2006). Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. New York: Penguin Books. (High School/Adult)

Pre K - 12 Bilingual Read Alouds For World Read Aloud Day (3.9.11)

If you are participating in World Read Aloud Day (3.9.11), here's a list of favorite bilingual read alouds for you to consider.

Grades PreK-2

Arugeta, Jorge. 2007. Talking with Mother Earth/Hablando con Madre Tierra. Illustrated by Lucía Angela Pérez. Toronto: Groundwood Books. (English and Spanish).
Byrd, Lee Merrill. 2005. Lover Boy / Juanito el Carinoso: A Bilingual Counting Book (English and Spanish Edition). Illustrated by Francisco Delgado. NY: Lee & Low. (English and Spanish). 
Griego, Margot C., Betsy L. Bucks and Sharon S. Gilbert. 1988. Tortillitas para Mamá and Other Nursery Rhymes (Bilingual Edition in Spanish and English). Illustrated by  Laurel H. Kimball. NY: Henry Holt. (Spanish and English)
Hinojosa, Tish. 2002. Cada Nino / Every Child: A Bilingual Songbook for Kids. Illustrated by Lucia Angela Perez. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
Lee, Huy Voun. 2005. In the Leaves. NY: Henry Holt. (English and Mandarin)
Mado, Michio. 1998. The Magic Pocket: Selected Poems. Illustrated by Anno Mitsumasa. Translated by Empress Michiko. NY: Margaret K. McElderry. (Japanese and English)
 Mora, Pat. 1994. Listen to the Desert/Oye al Desierto. Illustrated by Francisco X. Mora. NY: Clarion. (English and Spanish)
Park, Linda Sue and Julia Durango. 2005. Yum! Yuck!  Illustrated by Sue Rama. Charlesbridge. (Multiple languages: A book of exclamations in English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Spanish,Yiddish)

Robles, Anthony D. 2003. Lakas and the Manilatown Fish/Si Lakas at ang Isdang Manilatown. Illustrated by Carl Angel. San Francisco, CA: Children’s Book Press. (English and Tagalog) Tagalog Audio Recording  
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire. 2008. A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un tiempo perfecto para soñar (English and Spanish Edition). Illustrated by Esau Andrade Valencia. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press. (English and Spanish)
Tron, Truong. 2003. Going Home, Coming Home/Ve Nha, Than Que Huong. Illustrated by Ann Phong. San Francisco, CA: Children’s Book Press. (English and Vietnamese)

Grades 3-5
Ahmed, Said Salah. 2006. The Lion's Share/Qayb Libaax. Illustrated by Kelly Dupre. Minnesota Humanities Commission.  (English and Somali).

Bouchard, David. 2008. An Aboriginal Carol. Illustrated by Moses Amik Beaver (First Nations). Music by Susan Aglukark (Inuit). Markham, Ontario: Red Deer Press. (English and Inuktituk).

Gonzalez, Lucia. 2008. The Storyteller’s Cande/La velita de los cuentos. Illustrated by Lulu Delacre. San Francisco: Children’s Book Press. (English and Spanish) Spanish Audio Recording.

Hayes, Joe. 2003. The Day It Snowed Tortillas/ El Dia Que Nevaron Tortillas, Folktales told In Spanish and English. Illustrated by Antonio Casto Lopez. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press. (Spanish and English).
Herrrera, Juan Felipe.  1995. Calling the Doves/El Canto de las Palomas. Illustrated by Elly Simmons. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press. (English and Spanish) Spanish Audio Recording.
Lee-Tai, Amy. 2006. A Place Where Sunflowers Grow. Illustrated by Felicia Hoshino. Children’s Book Press. (Japanese and English)
Rose, Naomi C. 2009. Tibetan Tales from the Top of the World. Clear Light Publisher. (Tibetan and English).
Shin, Sun Yung. 2005. Cooper's Lesson. Illustrated by Kim Cogan. San Francisco: Children's Book Press. (English and Korean) Korean Audio Recording

Grades 6-8

From   Nuits de pow-wow

Anzaldua, Gloria. 1997. Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado. Illustrated by Consuelo Mendez. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press. (English and Spanish)

Bouchard, David & Pam Aleekuk. 2010. Nuits de pow-wow. Illustrated by Leonard Paul. Music by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Markham, Ontario: Red Deer Press. (Bilingual French and Mi'kmaq). Trailer for Long Powwow Nights.
Bouchard, David. 2006.  Nokum is My Teacher (with CD). Translated by Northern Cree. Illustrated by Allan Sapp (Cree). Markham, Ontario: Red Deer Press. (English and Cree).
Parsons-Yazzie, Evangeline. 2005. Naazbaa'/Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home: A Story of the Navajo Long Walk. Illustrated by Irving Toddy. Salina Bookshelf. (Navajo and English).




Grades 9-12
Carlson, Lori Marie. 1998. Sol a Sol: Original and Selected Bilingual Poems. Illustrated by Emily Lisker. NY: Henry Holt. (English and Spanish)

Hayes, Joe. Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma. El Paso, TX: Chang, Edward. 2009. Walking into My World. NY: BookSurge. (Mandarin Chinese and English)

Cinco Puntos Press. (English and Spanish)

Heaney, Seamus. 2001. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. NY: Norton. (Anglo Saxon and English)

Marcos, Subcomandate. 2003. The Story of Colors / La Historia de los Colores: A Bilingual Folktale from the Jungles of Chiapas (English and Spanish Edition). Illustrated by Domitila Dominguez. Translated by Anne Bar Din. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press. (English and Spanish)

Nye, Naomi Shihab. 1998. This Tree is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems and Stores with Paintings by Mexican Artists. NY: Aladdin.  (English and Spanish)