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  • How We Teach
    • Ten Tenets of Peace through Play
    • Backbone Approaches
    • Imagineering Guide
    • Droplist of Games
    • Droplist of Books
  • Fall Themes
    • Spotlight Theme: Respect
    • Self-Awareness
    • Celebrating Differences
    • Community
    • Leadership
    • Conflict Resolution
    • Embracing Potential
  • Spring Themes
    • Spotlight Theme: Helping Others
    • Building Relationships
    • Our Space
    • All Together
    • Appreciation
    • Speaking Up
    • Peacemakers for Life
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Conflict Resolution Books

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Mr. Lincoln's Way

By Patricia Polacco

​13
min. without interruption
24 min. with discussion prompts throughout.

Third through fifth grade...you could go older, but the idealism of the book may make sixth graders wary.

The Butter Battle Book

By Dr. Seuss

Conflict Resolution, Knowledge is Power, Peacemakers for Life, Celebrating Differences
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12
min. without interruption (definitely abridgeable)
24 min. with discussion prompts.

OLDER KIDS – 4th at the youngest, ideally 5th & up

​Long and short of the story is this – two groups of people who disagree over something not as important as they think it is – and this causes them each to engage in a weapons race for a hypothetical war that they never started. Which, of course, amounts in two soldiers standing on either side of a wall, glaring at each other, holding buttons keyed to detonate doomsday devices.
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Available in Snell Library.
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Enemy Pie

By Derek Munson
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10
min. without interruption
10-15 min. with prompts/interruptions

​Ideal for grades K-4, but can work for all.

Available in Peace through Play's Library.

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The Zax

By Dr. Seuss
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4
min. without interruption
8-10 min. with discussion throughout.
 
FOR ALL AGES, MY FRIENDS!!

Available in Snell, within Suess' The Sneetches and Other Stories.

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day

By Judith Viorst

My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother

By Patricia Polacco

The Berenstain Bears Get Jealous

By Stan and Jan Berenstain

The Recess Queen

By Alexis O'Neill
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