hate crimes

Discusses the impact on a community's race relations when a young African-American is found murdered near a river which separates two Michigan towns; one predominantly white and prosperous and the other African-American and impoverished.

Presents an overview of hate groups and the attempts to fight them, and features sixteen articles that debate the seriousness of the problem, the need for laws against hate crimes, and whether hate speech should be restricted.

When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.

Discusses the increasing incidence of crimes that are motivated by bias against another person or group, examining the causes and occurrences of such hate crimes and the psychology of those who commit them.

Three boys are charged with a hate crime after an African-American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood.

A group of Long Island high school seniors conspire to protect Jimmy after he brutally assaults two Salvadoran immigrants, until they see the moral implications of Jimmy's actions and the consequences of being loyal to a bully.

"The Columbine School Shooting: The series provides basic historical information on a significant event in modern world history, presents the controversies surrounding the event, and provides first-person narratives"--Provided by publisher.

A tale that breaks the stereotypes of the ignorant and peers into the soul of two boys who want what we all want; to love and be loved. The story of Mark and Taylor, two sixteen-year-old high school athletes, is a tale of love and happiness torn asunder by a world that understands too late.

Sixteen year old Avery is in trouble, yet again, but this time he?s in over his head. On the run, Avery is faced with hardships and fear. He must become what he?s always hated, just to survive. He discovers new reasons to hate, until fate brings him to Graymoor Mansion and he discovers a disturbing connection to the past. Through the eyes of a boy, murdered more than a century before, Avery discovers that all is not as he thought. Avery is soon forced to face the greatest challenge of all; looking into his own heart. This is the story of two boys, one a gay youth, the other an adolescent gay basher. Fate and the pages of a hundred year old journal bring them together, and their lives are changed forever.

Mark is eighteen and wants love and to be loved. His dreams are realized when he meets Taylor, the boy of his dreams. The boys struggle to keep their love hidden from a world that cannot understand, but ultimately, no secret is safe in a small midwestern town.