Below are some recommended books that appeal to a wide range of ages.  These books emphasize the understanding of one's self and others and may lend themselves to discussion about human rights.

These books, and many others, are available at the Saint Paul Public Library or at your local book store.

• A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
• A Patch of Blue by Grace L. Hill
• A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• Call it Courage by Armstrong Perry
• Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays by Bill Holm*
• Everybody's Daughter by Marsha Qualey*
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Caravan
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green
• Indian Givers and Native Roots by Jack Weatherford
• Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei by David Mura*
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• Lilies of the Field by William E. Barett
• Matriarch of Conspiracy by Jane Pejsa*
• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
• North of Hope by John Hassler*
• Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• The Days of Rondo by Evelyn Fairbanks*
• The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• The High Price of Everything by Kathleen Coskran
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The New Family by Graywolf Anthology Eight
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck
• The Pigman by Paul Zindel
• The Stone Canoe and Other Stories by John L. Peyton*
• Walks Far Woman by Colin Stuart
• Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home? by Karen Thompson & Julie Andrzejewski*

*Refers to past Minnesota Book Awards nominations.