Hal's summer affair with Barry Goldman ends tragically when Hal discovers he is much more committed to the relationship than his friend.
Having escaped from an eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark.
Forbidden Friendship (Stories of the States)
by Judith Eichler Weber
In the 1870's in Massachusetts, Molly befriends, despite her family's disapproval, one of the Chinese workers brought in to replace striking employees at her father's shoe factory.
Be FIERCE, be BOLD, be INSPIRED ... DREAM BIG! 100 people, 100 ways to change the world. The ultimate empowering guide, Dream Big! Heroes Who Dared to Be Bold introduces fearless men, women, boys and girls who have spoken out and changed our lives for the better. They did it, so why can't you? From Emma Gonzalez to Nicola Adams, Adwoa Aboah to Muhammad Ali, this book celebrates sung and unsung heroes, reaching across all areas of life and to...
A brilliantly funny and heartfelt story about empathy, kindness, celebrating what makes us different, and... unicorns! I do not like smiling, I do not like cake, I do not like ice cream (makes my tummy ache). I stomp over rainbows and will not say 'Whoop!" (and don't talk to me about unicorn poop). If you think that all unicorns love rainbows then think again, because this unicorn most certainly doesn't! In fac...
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy - Traditional Characters & Zhuyin
by Professor Gary D Schmidt
The Broken Bridge (Piper S.) (Limelight Books)
by Philip Pullman
Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.
In the early 1960s in a rural, racially-charged Texas town, a poor white boy struggling to get through school and a book-loving black classmate find the common ground on which to build true friendship.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logan Family Saga) (Lrs Large Print Cornerstone)
by Mildred D Taylor
A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.
Molly's Pilgrim (Yearling) (A Bantam first Skylark book)
by Barbara Cohen
Told to make a doll like a pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's Jewish mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom--much to Molly's embarrassment.
Inspired by a true story, the riveting novel of a young slave girl's harrowing escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. The moment Ann Maria Weems was born, her freedom was stolen from her. Like her family and the other slaves on the farm, Ann works from sunup to sundown and obeys the orders of her master. Then one day, Ann's family -- the only joy she knows -- is gone. Just 12 years old, Ann is overcome by grief, struggling to get through each day. And her only hope of stealing back her...
Roberta is a good musician, a good student a nd a nice person. So when she moves to Clipper Street and st arts her new school, she is unprepared for the ugly attitude s that strike out at her on her very first day. '