[Marxism] Books for kids?

["Jacob Levich" <jlevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My 11-year-old son and I have struck a deal under which he has to read a 
list of books of my choosing before I'll buy him an electronic gadget he 
covets.

Technically speaking, he can read at an adult level but isn't necessarily 
mature enough to read adult books as such. So I'm trying to find some 
roughly age-appropriate books, fiction or non-fiction, that either carry a 
message of resistance or reveal some truths about history that he won't get 
in school.

To give you an idea, so far we've had good experiences with Cory Doctorow's 
_Little Brother_ (near-future SF about a teen hacker who is tortured by 
Homeland Security and finds a way to take revenge), the graphic-novel 
version of Howard Zinn's _People's History of American Imperialism_, and _A 
Little Piece of Ground_ (about kids living in occupied Ramallah).

If anyone has any further suggestions, I'd be grateful to hear them.  SF is 
especially welcome -- I seem to recall a discussion of leftist SF on this 
list some years ago; I'll hunt for it.

jake

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