Battling the Klan (American Adventure (Barbour), #39)
by Norma Jean Lutz
In 1924, ten-year-old Addy relies on God's help with her atheistic piano teacher, her best friend's anger over Addy's friendship with a Jewish immigrant, and with the discovery that someone very close has joined the Ku Klux Klan.
When she overhears one of the tenants in her apartment building verbally abusing the hard-working caretaker, Mr. Egozian, Hazel Green determines to find a way a to teach the unpleasant tenant a lesson.
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
by Deborah Hopkinson
Sibert Honor author, Deborah Hopkinson, illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport. Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism er...
El Pez Arco Iris y La Balena Azul/Rainbow Fish and Th
by Marcus Pfister
Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961.
Voices for Freedom (American Adventures)
by Gloria Whelan and Gwenyth Swain
Fourteen-year-old Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take over her life and affect her relationships with her family and friends.
Having grown up knowing nothing about her artist mother's estranged family, thirteen-year-old Kiara spends the summer getting acquainted with her cousins and trying to understand her complex and cranky grandmother.
This powerful graphic novel tells the story of a giant wall separating two civilisations: one of blue people and one of yellow. Each side is forbidden to speak to the other, because they are sworn enemies. One day, a boy and a girl from opposite sides of the wall meet and decide to break down the boundaries that divide their peoples forever. The debut book from the hugely talented Jonathan Standing, this is a stunningly-illustrated story with an important message about overcoming prejudice and...
The touching story of a school principal and the bully whose life he'll change, by beloved New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Patricia Polacco. Mr. Lincoln is the coolest principal ever! He knows how to do everything, from jumping rope to leading nature walks. Everyone loves him . . . except for Eugene Esterhause. "Mean Gene" hates everyone who's different. He's a bully, a bad student, and he calls people awful, racist names. But Mr. Lincoln knows that Eugene isn't really bad-he's ju...