prejudices

"Essence LaFontaine and Grace Woodson don't know each other, but soon Hurricane Katrina will blow into their lives, forcing them together into a different kind of storm--a storm swirling with the winds of bigotry and prejudice. The hurricane strikes with a fury and although sisters Essence and Chardonnai are rescued, their grandmother Mimmi stays behind with their skinny poodle, George. After terrifying hours in the Superdome they board a bus for the Houston Astrodome along with other victims of Hurricane Katrina, including a man named Harold, who Essence strongly suspects is her long-lost father. After Grace is suspended from St. Catherine's for her disobedient behavior, she accompanies her father, a psychologist, to the Astrodome to help with the evacuees"--Back cover.

In 1952 eleven-year-old Azalea is sent to Paris Junction, Arkansas, to help out her grandmother who has injured her foot, but does not really seem to want her help; Billy Wong is a Chinese-American boy whose uncle owns the local grocery store, in town to attend the "white" school, since the Chinese mission school has closed, but frustrated by the overt prejudice of the local children--and over the summer the two begin to forge a friendship.

In 1971 in a small North Carolina town, eleven-year-old Amanda must deal with being bussed to a newly integrated, formerly all-African American school and being separated from her best friend, who has chosen a private school.

Rain, a stained-glass designer despite laws banning women from that craft, seizes the opportunity to secretly work as an artist in a foreign land but struggles to survive amidst the country's chaos. Then she meets Peri, a falconer considered untouchable, and the two join forces and hope their love will keep them safe from prejudices and looming disaster.

In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England. Based on the life of Master Juba.

Lesson plans based on children's books that touch on issues of diversity, prejudice, human rights, and the Holocaust.

Shy Layla is unwilling to open up about herself or share why she wears a head scarf that sets her apart from the other students, until kind teachers and classmates help her feel more comfortable with the other first graders.

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family lining in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.