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Author
Series
Noughts and crosses novel volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite the rules of the land, Callum, a second-class white citizen, and Sephy, a black Cross, love one another and want to be together, but when Callum rescues Sephy from an explosion and is caught on tape, Sephy's powerful father seeks to have Callum hanged for their relationship.
62) Cross currents
Author
Publisher
Deseret
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
A young Filipino Mormon boy living on the Hawaiian island of Lanai tries to further his relationship with a Japanese girl but he first must overcome the prejudice of her father.
63) River rising
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Hale Poser arrives in Louisiana in 1927 to find racial prejudices missing from the town of Pilotville. In pursuit of a missing child, however, he uncovers a dark secret.
64) The jacket
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Phil makes an accusation based on racial prejudice when he sees a black classmate wearing a jacket Phil thinks is his brother's.
Author
Series
[Logan family saga] volume 7
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900's, ten-year-old David Logan's family shares their well water with both black and white neighbors in a climate of potential racial violence.
66) Point guard
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
68) Four-Four-Two
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
69) Dinosaur trouble
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Young dinosaurs Nosy, a pterodactyl, and Banty, an apatosaurus, become friends, despite their parents' prejudices.
70) A jar of dreams
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Rinko grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the Depression, a time of great prejudice.
71) Trouble
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A squirrel sees nothing but trouble in a bear newcomer who has terrible teeth, knife-like claws, and an oversized appetite, while her pet mouse perceives a new neighbor who is just trying to be friendly.
74) Viva, Rose!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In El Paso, Texas, in 1915, fourteen-year-old Rose Solomon seeks her missing brother's return and inadvertently ends up running with Pancho Villa and his revolutionary army.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Zélie Adebola recuerda cuando la tierra de Orïsha desprendía magia. Pero todo cambió la noche en que esta desapareció. Por orden del rey, los maji fueron perseguidos y aniquilados. Ahora, Zélie tiene una oportunidad de devolver la magia a su gente, pero para ello deberá ser más rápida y astuta que el príncipe heredero del trono, que está dispuesto a todo con tal de erradicar la magia para siempre. El peligro acecha en Orïsha, donde los...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Liverpool, England, Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed mother, who works long hours doing other people's washing, and even though she sometimes must leave the children alone in the house, she cautions them not to speak to the O'Rileys next door, who go to a different church.
77) Re-vamped!
Author
Series
My sister the vampire volume 3
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When Olivia and Ivy tell their classmates and parents that they are identical twins, the word spreads to the vampire officials and Olivia must prove that she is worthy of keeping Ivy's true identity a secret.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Jane Gable first sees young Milo Turner, member of the first black family ever to move to her area of East Tennessee, on the day her abusive father is buried. When tragedy strikes the Turner household, the Gable family is asked to make a decision that could rip their world apart.
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.
80) Meena
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The children of Fly Street fear and taunt their neighbor Meena, thinking she is a witch, but when they meet her granddaughter and taste her cherry pie, they learn the truth.
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