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Every book its reader.  Assigning age levels to books is an imprecise endeavor at best.  We've labeled the English-language titles according to four rough age groups.  Your mileage my vary, but PRE should be suitable for preschool and the beginning grades; ERL for kids in the early elementary grades; MID for preteens to early teens, and YA for young—and formerly young—adults.

MID  Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers  Milton Meltzer 

YA All Quiet on the Western Front  Erich Maria Remarque

MID And One For All  Theresa Nelson  

YA Back the Attack! Remixed War Propaganda  Micah Ian Wright 

PRE Bang, Bang, You're Dead  Sandra Scoppetone  

ERL Baseball Saved Us  Ken Mochizuki    

MID The Big Book for Peace  Ann Durrell and Marilyn Sachs, editors   

MID The Blue Boy  Martin Auer and Simone Klages  

PRE Blue Jay in the Desert  Marlene Shigekawa  

PRE The Bomb and the General  Umberto Eco  

MID The Breadwinner  Deborah Ellis   

PRE The Butter Battle Book  Dr. Seuss  

YA Catch-22  Joseph Heller

YA Cat's Cradle  Kurt Vonnegut

ERL The Cello of Mr. O  Jane Cutler   

MID The Day the Earth Was Silent   Michael McGuffee 

PRE Dear Ichiro  Jean Davies Okimoto   

MID Echoes of War  Robert Westall  

YA Ender's Game  Orson Scott Card     

ERL Faithful Elephants  Yukio Tsuchiya   

YA Fallen Angels  Walter Dean Myers    

PRE The Story of Ferdinand  Munro Leaf   

MID The Fighting Ground  Avi  

ERL The Flame of Peace: A Tale of the Aztecs  Deborah Lattimore

YA The Flash of Hiroshima (Hiroshima no pika)  Toshi Maruki     

YA Forever Peace  Joe Haldeman  

YA The Forever War  Joe Haldeman  

MID The Fragile Flag  Jane Langton

ERL  Gandhi  Demi    

MID Gavriel and Jemal: Two Boys of Jerusalem   Brent Ashabranner
ERL George, the Drummer Boy  Nathaniel Benchley  

YA George Johnson's War  Maureen McCallum Garvie and Mary Beaty   

ERL Gleam and Glow  Eve Bunting

PRE Grandpa's Face  Eloise Greenfield 

MID Habibi  Naomi Shihab Nye    

ERL The Hat  Faith and John Hubley    

PRE Here Comes the Cat!  Frank Asch and Vladimir Vagin     

PRE Home of the Brave  Allen Say  

MID I Dream of Peace: Images of War  Children of the former Yugoslavia   

YA I Had Seen Castles Cynthia Rylant 

YA The Incredible Tide  Alexander Key   

PRE Island of the Skog  Steven Kellogg   

PRE It's Mine!  Leo Lionni     

YA Jarhead  Anthony Swofford   

MID John Black's Body  Ben Martin  The complete 1939 edition published online

YA Johnny Got His Gun  Dalton Trumbo

PRE The Knight and the Dragon  Tomie DePaola  

MID The Last Flower: A Parable In Pictures  James Thurber    

ERL The Little Weaver of Thai-Yen Village  Khanh Tuyet Tran  

YA Lord of the Flies  William Golding

ERL Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes  Manlio Argueta 

PRE A Million Visions of Peace: Wisdom from the Friends of Old Turtle  Jennifer Garrison and Andrew Tubesing   

PRE Mole Music   David McPhail   

PRE Mouse Creeps  Peter Harris   

MID My Hiroshima  Junko Morimoto  

MID My Shalom, My Peace: Paintings and Poems by Jewish and Arab Children  Jacob Zim, editor    

YA 1968  Joe Haldeman

ERL One and Seven  Gianni Rodari  

YA On the Beach  Nevil Shute

MID On the Wings of Peace  Sheila. Hamanaka, editor   

MID An Outbreak of Peace  Sarah Pirtle

MID Parvanna's Journey  Deborah Ellis   

ERL Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story  Ken Mochizuki  

MID Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam  Walter Dean Myers    

MID Peace and Bread: The Story of Jane Addams  Stephanie Sammartino McPherson 

PRE Peace Begins With You  Katherine Scholes   

ERL Peace Crane  Sheila Hamanaka    

PRE Peace Is a Circle of Love  Joan Walsh Anglund  

ERL Peace on the Playground: Nonviolent Ways of Problem-Solving  Eileen Lucas

MID Peace Tales  Margaret Read MacDonald   

YA People Power: A Look at Nonviolent Action and Defense  Susan Neiburg Terkel  

YA A People's History of the United States  Howard Zinn  

ERL The Pig War  Betty Baker  

YA The Pity of War  Niall Ferguson 

ERL Pink and Say  Patricia Polacco   

MID The Princess and the Admiral  Charlotte Pomerantz 

PRE Potatoes Potatoes  Anita Lobel

MID The Pushcart War  Jean Merrill   

PRE Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale  Marcus Pfister
YA The Red Badge of Courage  Stephen Crane

MID Rilla of Ingleside  L.M. Montgomery

MID The Road From Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl  David Kherdian 

MID Rose Blanche  Roberto Innocenti 

ERL The Roses In My Carpet  Rukhsana Khan 

MID Running on Eggs  Anna Levine  

MID Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes  Eleanor Coerr 

ERL Sami and the Time of the Troubles  Judith Heide Gilliland and Florence Parry Heide

MID Samir and Yonatan  Daniella Carmi  

MID Search for Peace: The Story of the United Nations  William Jay Jacobs 

ERL The Secret Grove  Barbara Cohen 

MID Shattered: Stories of Children and War Jennifer Armstrong, editor   

ERL The Silence of the Mountains  Liz Rosenberg

PRE Six Crows  Leo Lionni   

YA Slap Your Sides  M.E. Kerr   

YA Slaughterhouse-Five  Kurt Vonnegut 

PRE Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace   Shelley Moore Thomas  

YA The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East and North Africa Naomi Shihab Nye, editor 

MID A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara: Hero of the Holocaust  Alison Leslie Gold 

MID Stepping on the Cracks  M. D. Hahn 

YA Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide   Lorna Touryan Miller and Donald Eugene Miller

MID A Swiftly Tilting Planet  Madeleine L'Engle  

PRE Swimmy  Leo Lionni   
PRE The Story of Ferdinand  Munro Leaf   

YA Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation  Jimmy Carter 

PRE The Three Astronauts  Umberto Eco and Eugenio Carmi

PRE The Tin Heart  Karen Ackerman 

MID Torn Thread Anne Isaacs  

PRE The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs/ By A. Wolf  Jon Scieszka    

YA Twenty-Four Eyes  Sakae Tsuboi 

PRE The Upstairs Cat   Karla Kuskin  

MID Voices From Vietnam  Barry Denenberg

ERL The Wall  Eve Bunting

MID The War  Anais Vaugelade 

PRE War and Peace  Toni Goffe 

ERL War and Peas  Michael Foreman

MID War and the Pity of War  Neil Philip, editor

ERL War Boy: A Country Childhood  Michael Foreman

YA War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning  Chris Hedges

YA The War Prayer  Mark Twain

YA War Year  Joe Haldeman  

YA What Every Person Should Know About War  Chris Hedges   

YA When the Winds Blow  Raymond Briggs   

PREWho's In Rabbit's House?  Vera Aardema

ERL Why?  Nikolai Popov

YA Why Do They Hate Me?  Young Lives Caught In War and Conflict  Laurel Holliday

ERL World War Won  Dav Pilkey  Out of print, but published here on Pilkey's website

YA You Back the Attack! We'll Bomb Who We Want!  Micah Ian Wright

ERL Young Peacemakers Project Book  Kathleen Fry-Miller, Judith Myers-Walls   

YA Zlata's Diary  Zlata Filip

 
In Spanish
12 cuentos para un sueño  Mireya Madrid Malo

A la diestra de Dios Padre  Tomás Carrasquilla

Así amaneció en Siboney y otros cuentos del Caribe  Flor Romero

Aventuras de Aitana en el Amazonas   Flor Romero

El barco sin capitán  Nohra Puccini de Rosado

Las batallas de Rosalino  Triunfo Arciniegas

El béisbol nos salvó  Ken Mochizuki

La Bolivariada  Dora Castellanos

El cuento de Ferdinando  Munro Leaf

Cañones y manzanas  Adela Turin

La Casa del abuelo y La Casa del Arco Iris  Fanny Buitrago 

Catalino Bocachica  Luis Darío Bernal

Colombia, mi abuelo y yo  Pilar Lozano

Cuchilla de Evelio  José Rosero

Cuentos de Pombo  Rafael Pombo

La cueva de los 8 encantamientos   Flor Romero

El día que condoresa extravió su plumaje  Flor Romero

La Expedición Botánica contada a los niños  Elisa Mujica

Ferdinando  Munro Leaf

Guerra del chocolate  Robert Cormier

La Guaca y Guía de Literatura Infantil  Rocío Velez de Piedrahíta

Juan Sábalo  Leopoldo Berdella de la Espriella

Letras de paz  UNEDA/UNESCO

Un libro para soñar  Flor Romero

El mohan enamorado  Flor Romero

Noche de humo  Eve Bunting

Los perros mágicos de los volcanes  Manlio Argueta

Pink y Say  Patricia Polacco

¿Por qué?  Nikolai Popov

Rosa Blanca   Roberto Innocenti

Sapo y el forastero  Max Velthuijs

Un pasito y otro pasito  Tomie de Paola

Verdadera historia de los 3 cerditos  Jon Scieszka

Zoro  Jairo Anibal Niño

In Japanese

Futari no Eda  Miyoko Matsutani

Hachigatsu ga Kurutabini  Hide Oe

Hiroshima no Pika  Toshi Maruki

Hiroshima no Uta   Sukeyuki Imanishi

Hotaru no Haka  Akiyuki Nosaka   ALSO AVAILABLE AS A SUBTITLED ANIMATED VIDEO + DVD

Nijushi no Hitomi  Sakae Tsuboi
 

Comics, Graphic Novels, and Manga

411  Marvel Comics  THREE-VOLUME ANTHOLOGY DEBUTING SPRING 2003

Attitude: The New Subversive Policital Cartoonists  Ted Rall, editor

Fax From Sarajevo  Joe Kubert  GRAPHIC NOVEL

Get Your War On  David Rees

The Great Big Book of Tomorrow: A Treasury of Cartoons  Tom Tomorrow   ERUDITE POLITICAL SATIRE

The Little Tin-Pot General and the Old Iron Woman  Raymond Briggs  GRAPHIC NOVEL

Maus: A Survivor's Tale  Art Spiegelman  HISTORICAL GRAPHIC NOVEL

Maus II  Art Spiegelman  HISTORICAL GRAPHIC NOVEL

Mutant Hanako  Makoto Aida  IN THE ANTHOLOGY SECRET COMICS JAPAN

Notes From a Defeatist  Joe Sacco  GRAPHIC JOURNALISM

Palestine: In the Gaza Strip  Joe Sacco  GRAPHIC JOURNALISM

Peace Party  Rob Schmidt  COMIC BOOK SERIES

Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995  Joe Sacco  GRAPHIC JOURNALISM

More book lists

100 Picture Books for Peace—Mohawk Valley (NY) Library Association

Books About Peace, Nonviolence, Tolerance—Skokie Public Library

Books for Peace—PeaceQuest Foundation

Books for Reducing Violence—National Council for the Social Studies

Book Resources: Peacemakers—Cayuga Heights Elementary School Children's Peace Bibliography—Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse

Militarism and the Arms Race—Appalachian Peace and Justice Network
Peace—Children's Book Council

Peace Bibliography—Monroe County Public Library, Indiana

Peace, Pacifism, and Peacemakers—Jane Lucas

Peace Resources—San Antonio Public Library

Preschool Peace Curriculum materials list—Bluffton College

Promoting Peace—Cary Memorial Library, Massachusetts

Teen Books for Peace and Nonviolence—Hennepin County Library

Resources

Atrium Society's Youth Peace Literacy Project

Children and War—Jane Cutler

Classroom Resources—Educating for Peace

Institute for Peace and Justice

Thousand Cranes Peace Network

War and Peace Literature for Children and Young Adults: A Resource Guide to Significant Issues  Virginia Walter