Jr. Rebels, Reformers, & Revolutionaries
How do we raise kids to love all their neighbors and care deeply for God’s creation? How do we instill the values of compassion and courage in young lives? Junior Rebels, Reformers & Revolutionaries is a group for kids elementary kids ready to live like reformers. Each gathering will focus on a topic such as climate change, racism, or gender and marriage equality.
This is a list of a few resources of the many available on our topics. These will help start conversations with your family about what you believe and how you can act to support your beliefs. Many are available through the Anne Arundel County Library or Marina the states interlibrary loan service. If there is a book your family loves that is not on this list, please let Erica know. These lists will be updated regularly.
Overall Resources
- All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penford & Suzanne Kaufman
- This is the Church by Sarah Raymond Cunningham
- The Boy with Big, Big Feelings by Britney Winn Lee
- The Girl with Big, Big Questions by Britney Winn Lee
- God’s Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu & Douglas Carlton Abrams
- Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints by Daneen Akers
- Be You! By Peter H. Reynolds
- Who Is My Neighbor by Amy-Jill Levine (And other children’s books by Amy-Jill Levine)
- Just Ask! By Sonia Sotomayor
Changing the World (Being a Reformer like Martin Luther)
- Mightier than the Sword Rebels, Reformers, & Revolutionaries who Changed the World Through Writing by Rochelle Melander
- The Life of Martin Luther by Agostino Traini
- You are Revolutionary by Cindy Wang Brandt
- Change Sings by Amanda Gorman
- What do You do with a Problem? By Kobi Yamada
- What do You do with a Chance? by Kobi Yamada
- What do You do with an Idea? By Kobi Yamada
- Lego 100 Ways to Rebuild the World by Helen Murray
- How to make a Better World by Keilly Swift
- We are the Change by Harry Belafonte
- No Voice to Small by Metclaf, Dawson, and Bradly
Caring for Creation (Addressing Climate Change)
- When God Made the World by Matthew Paul Turner
- The Creation of the World by Uwe Natus & Dagmar Geisler
- Once Upon Another Time by Charles Ghigna and Matt Forest Esenwine
- Old Enough to Save the Planet by Loll Kirby
- We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
- NASA Climate Kids Website
- What a Waste by Jess French
- How do we Stop Climate Change? By Tom Jackson
- Our World Out of Balance by Andrea Minoglio & Laura Fanelli
Expressing our Faith as Friends (How people show their love of God)
- Our Favorite Day of the Year by A.E. Ali
- The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad
- Hats of Faith by by Medeia Cohan
- Under My Hijab by Hena Khan
- Everyone Prays Celebrating Faith Around the World by Alexis York Lumbard
- Let’s Celebrate! Special Days Around the World by Kate DePalma
- What Do You Celebrate? By Whitney Stewart
- Celebrations Around the World by DK (Illustrated by Katy Halford)
Being Anti-Racist (What is Racism & How to be An Ally)
- Stamped (for Kids) by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
- Opening the Road Victor Hugo and His Green Book by Keila V. Dawson
- Liberty’s Civil Rights Road Trip by Michael W. Waters
- Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
- Crown An Ode to The Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
- When God Made You by Matthew Paul Turner
- The Beatitudes From Slavery to Civil Rights By Carole Boston Weatherford
- All the Colors We Are The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color by Katie Kissinger
- Our Skin by Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, & Isabel Roxas
- Sit-In How Four Friends Stood up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Helpful websites:
PRIDE & Being an LGBTQ+ Ally
- Love is Love by Michael Genhart, PhD
- Rainbow Boy by Taylor Rouanzion
- Rainbow A First Book of Pride by Michael Genhart
- Pride The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
- The Great Big Books of Families by Mary Hoffman
- And Tango Makes Three by Justing Richardson and Peter Parnell
- Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
- I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
- Be Amazing by Desmond is Amazing
- The Gay Rights Movement
- This is Our Rainbow Edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby