A lot of the titles in this collection were originally in my Parenting collection (I wanted to call it Tough Topics but I was overruled and it's been so long now that it's not worth changing it back). These are generally books that focus on community issues like poverty or more serious family issues like abuse as opposed to divorce.
- The strongest thing : when home feels hard by Hallee Adelman
- Domestic abuse
- Precious by Carlos Aponte
- Absent parent; natural disasters
- Trouble by Katherine Battersby
- Prejudice/stereotypes
- Only for a little while by Gabriela Orozco Belt
- Homelessness; financial insecurity
- A thousand white butterflies by Jessica Betancourt-Perez
- Immigration - school
- Far apart, close in heart : being a family when a loved one is incarcerated by Becky Birtha
- Those shoes by Maribeth Boelts
- Maddi's Fridge by Lois Brandt
- Food insecurity
- Sam's Super Seats by Keah Brown
- Physical disability
- The cot in the living room by Hilda Eunice Burgos
- Absent parent(s); financial insecurity
- Maybe something beautiful: How art transformed a neighborhood by F. Isabel Campoy
- Abuelita and me by Leonarda Carranza
- Racism; Prejudice
- Carmen learns English by Judy Cox
- Milo imagines the world by Matt de la Pena
- Incarcerated parent
- Joseph's big ride by Terry Farish
- Refugees/immigration
- The big bad wolf in my house by Valerie Fontaine
- Domestic abuse
- We move together by Kelly Fritsch
- Community; Disability
- What is a refugee? by Elise Gravel
- A journey toward hope by Victor Hinojosa
- Refugees (Latin America)
- A new kind of wild by Zara Gonzalez Hoang
- Immigration
- Ice in the Jungle by Ariane Hofmann-Maniyar
- Immigration - new school
- Main Street: A community story about redlining by Britt Hawthorne
- My two blankets by Irena Kobald
- Immigration - new language
- Home by Tonya Lippert
- Homeless/uncertain housing
- Our Skin: A first conversation about race by Megan Madison
- Dear Dad: Love, Nelson : the story of one boy and his incarcerated father by Margarett McBride
- The water lady: How Darlene Arviso helps a thirsty Navajo nation by Alice B. McGinty
- The Good Garden by Katie Milway
- Based on a true story about improving the lives of subsistence farmers.
- Boyogi : how a wounded family learned to heal by David Moore
- Veteran parent; PTSD
- Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
- Immigration
- Simone by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Natural disasters; Immigration
- Mina belongs here by Sandra Niebuhr-Siebert
- Immigration - new school/language
- I'm new here by Anne Sibley O'Brien
- Immigration - new school
- The bright side by Chad Otis
- Homeless/housing insecurity
- Coqui in the city by Nomar Perez
- Moving/Immigration
- Home is in between by Mitali Perkins
- Living in two different cultures
- If you see a bluebird by Bahram Rahman
- Immigration
- A place for us by James E. Ransome
- Homeless/housing insecurity
- Still a family by Brenda Reeves Sturgis
- Homeless/housing insecurity
- On our street: Our first talk about poverty by Dr. Jillian Roberts
- The Together Tree by Aisha Saeed, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
- Racism/bullying
- The Journey by Francesca Sanna
- Refugees
- Mary had a little plan by Tammi Sauer
- Community cooperation
- A roof! by Stephanie Ellen Sy
- Natural disasters; Community cooperation
- The little things by Christian Trimmer
- Kindness; helping
- Gibberish by Young Vo
- Immigration - new school/language
- Between the lines by Lindsay Ward
- Community cooperation
- The Talk by Alicia Williams
- Racism - Black experience in the US
- Facing fear by Karen Lynn Williams
- Racism - deportation/immigration
- The day you begin by Jacqueline Woodson
- New beginnings/new situations
- Place hand here by Katie Yamasaki
- Absent/incarcerated parent
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