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Grade 5 Library Guide, PXES: Conflict

Picture Books w/Conflict as a Theme

How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
Call Number: E SHU
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Marianthe's Story by Aliki (Illustrator)
Call Number: E ALI
Publication Date: 1998-09-17
Flowers for Sarajevo by John McCutcheon; Kristy Caldwell (Illustrator)
Call Number: E MCC
Publication Date: 2017-04-01
The Paper Boat by Thao Lam
Call Number: E LAM
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
Sugar in Milk by Thrity Umrigar; Khoa Le (Illustrator)
Call Number: E UMR
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
Ballerina Dreams by Michaela DePrince; Frank Morrison (Illustrator); Elaine DePrince
Call Number: 921 DEP
Publication Date: 2014-10-14

Book Trailer: Taking Flight - From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Michaeld DePrince Dances at Women in the World

Brothers in Hope by Mary Williams; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
Call Number: E WIL
Publication Date: 2013-04-01

Novels / Nonfiction w/Conflict as a Theme

The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
ISBN: 0735228515
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park; Ginger Knowlton
Call Number: FIC PAR
Publication Date: 2010-11-15
The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2014-09-16
Escape from Aleppo by N. H. Senzai
Call Number: FIC SEN
Publication Date: 2018-01-02
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Call Number: FIC BRA
Publication Date: 2015-01-08
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
A Faraway Island by Annika Thor; Linda Schenck (Translator)
Call Number: FIC THO
Publication Date: 2009-11-10
Refugee by Alan Gratz
ISBN: 9780545880831
Publication Date: 2017-07-25
Taking Flight: from War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince; Elaine Deprince
Call Number: 921 DEP
Publication Date: 2016-01-19