Eve Bunting. Smoky Nights. A young boy begins to understand tolerance
in the midst of looting and riots.
Judith Caseley. Harry and Willy and Carrothead. Three characters
deal with their problems--bully, prosthesis, red hair-- and come through
anger to friendship
Janice Cohn. Why Did it Happen? A young boy's friend is hurt in
a store robbery and he deals with violence and his own anger.
Lucille Clifton. Everett Anderson's Goodbye. Everett Anderson's
father has died and he has to work through anger as one stage of his healing.
Betsy Everitt. Mean Soup. After a terrible day at school, a bad
mood boy is comforted by his mother who has an unusual approach.
Eloise Greenfield. William and the Good Old Days. William's grandmother
is not well and he's angry when he reflects on how much this has changed
his life.
Juanita Havill. Jamaica and Brianna. Jamaica is hurt by her friend
and her anger leads her to hurt in return.
Mary Hoffman. Boundless Grace. Grace doesn't have a storybook family
and it makes her angry. By the book's conclusion she realizes that books'
non-reflection of many types of family, not her own life, are wrong.
Barbara Joosse. Dinah's Mad, Bad Wishes. Dinah's furious with her
mother and her mother's angry too. Very real picture of family upset with
good working out)
Dolores Johnson. Your Dad Was Just Like You. After a fight with
his father, a young boy runs to his grandfather for consolation and learns
how history repeats itself.
Ken Mochizuki. Baseball Saved Us. A young angry Japanese-American
imprisioned in a camp channels his anger into his baseball.
Maryann Macdonald. Rosie Runs Away. Ignored because of a new sibling
and wrongly accused, angry Rosie runs away.
Peggy Rathman. Ruby the Copycat. A new child in school copies for
acceptance until she finds her own way.
Katherine Scholes. Peace Begins With You. A non-fiction look at
anger, conflict and resolution.
William Steig. Spinky Sulks. Spinky sulks as a result of an undisclosed
anger and his family tries to woo him back into the fold.
Audrey Wood. Elbert's Bad Word. A bad word escapes from Elbert during
a moment of passion and he gets wizardly help to dispell it.