#5 The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Acceptance is critical in an elementary classroom. Learning about diversity, cultures, and differences is vital to growing as individuals. This book is definitely optimistic and real. It is going to be for every kid who feels different for every reason including skin color, disability, lack of athleticism, shyness, or maybe just moved to a new school. This book reads lyrically and will be a great discussion starter about acceptance in the classroom and finding similarities when they aren’t so obvious.