Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans

Click the links below to learn more about the books, find lesson plans for all levels, and enjoy the storytelling videos we've created to accompany each book. Please contact Mary Nolin, Program Manager - Connections, at mnolin@nhhumanities.org if you have any questions.

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation

by Duncan Tonatiuh

Baseball Saved Us

by Ken Mochizuki, illustrated by Dom Lee

Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag

by Rob Sanders, illustrated by Steven Salerno

A Different Pond

by Bao Phi, illustrated by Thi Bui

For a Girl Becoming

by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Mercedes McDonald

Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story From Africa

by Jeanette Winter

The Undefeated

by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson

Martin's Big Words

by Dorreen Rappaport, illustrated by Bryan Collier

Whoever You Are

by Mem Fox

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

by Kevin Noble Maillard

Grandfather's Journey

by Allen Say

Heart on Fire

by Ann Malaspina, illustrated by Steve James

Miss Rumphius

by Barbara Cooney

One Plastic Bag

by Miranda Paul, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon

All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

by Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis

A River Ran Wild

by Lynne Cherry

Frederick's Journey: The Life of Frederick Douglass

by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by London Ladd

Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell

by Tanya Lee Stone

You Hold Me Up

by Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel