Amazing Grace - Mary Hoffman, Caroline Binch

Amazing Grace is an excellent book to demonstrate diversity. The main character Grace loves stories and longs to play the lead in Peter Pan. However, her classmates point out that Peter Pan is a boy and that he was not black. With hard work and support from her family, she pushes aside all of those negative comments and achieves her dream role. Not only would this book lead to some amazing whole group discussions, teachers could too give students a writing extension to write about a personal experience when they achieved a goal or overcame an obstacle when everyone else did not think they could. 

 

Lexile level: 680L