The list below includes titles on Palestine. It is a relatively short list. We welcome your recommendations of titles to add. Also, see more titles on these lists: Arabs and Arab Americans and Muslims.

Teaching for Change carefully selects the best multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. Learn about our criteria for selecting titles.

For more resources, curricula, and articles, visit the site, Teach Palestine.

We also recommend this article by the editors of Rethinking Schools, Boycotting Occupation: Educators and Palestine

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After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives

By Edward Said, Jean Mohr (Photographer)

The Aida Camp Alphabet

By Lajee

Baba, What Does My Name Mean? A Journey to Palestine

By Rifk Ebeid, Lamaa Jawhari (Illustrator)

Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine

By Ibitsam Baraket

The Boy and the Wall

By Youth at Lajee Centre in Aida Refugee Camp

A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship

By Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)

Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village

By Jody Sokolower, foreword by Nick Estes

The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East

Edited by Naomi Shihab Nye

Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine

By Refaat Alareer (Editor)

Habibi

By Naomi Shihab Nye

A Little Piece of Ground*

By Elizabeth Laird, Sonia Nimr (With)

Outside the Ark

By Ellen O’Grady

P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book

By Golbarg Bashi (Illustrator), Golrokh Nafisi (Editor), Kourosh Beigpour (Editor)

Palestine

By Joe Sacco, Edward W. Said (Introduction by)

Salt Houses

By Hala Alyan

Sharing Our Homeland: Palestinian and Jewish Children at Summer Peace Camp

By Trish Marx, Cindy Karp

The Shepherd's Granddaughter

By Anne Laurel Carter

Sitti's Secrets*

By Naomi Shihab Nye, Nancy Carpenter (Illustrator)

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood

By Ibtisam Barakat

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

By Deborah Ellis

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer

By Phyllis Bennis

Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation

By Anthony Robinson, Annemarie Young

Where the Streets Had a Name

By Randa Abdel-Fattah