I have been asked to read to a class of upper-class (read: republican) 5th graders for 20 minutes. The book is of my choosing, and I want to make my short time there count, so I have written this diary to get suggestions for an appropriate book.
The themes I would like to focus on would be environmentalism, the value of helping those that have less, and possibly anti-materialism.
This is a heavily R town, and so the book I bring in would have to not be by a big name (I know, I know, my first thought was to read An Inconvenient Truth too). It also needs to be in story form, I believe, and generally be interesting enough to hold attention.
Thanks for reading, and I hope to hear some good ideas for turning some misguided young minds blue.