The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss

This book is one of my Multicultural and International books.

The Sneetches is about a town where there are two sets of people. Some have stars on their bellies, and others do not. The people with stars on their bellies get special treatment and the ones with out do not. The sneetches without stars want to be like the ones with stars so they go through this machine that will put stars on their bellies. When the sneetches with the stars realized that the ones that originally had none had stars they were angry so they got their stars removed. The sneetches with back and forth removing and adding stars until all their money was gone. In the end the sneetches realized that it did not matter if they had a star or not, they were all just the same. I would use this to teach me students that just because you look different does not mean you need to dislike someone. You should not judge a book by its cover, but by what's in it.