In a series of letters to his parents and friends, twelve-year-old Carl Davis III, chronicles his initial anger, confusion, and disdain as well as his gradual change of heart about being sent to a small Southern town to live with his grandmother.
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
The school in Mayfield Crossing is closed and the studentsare sent to the larger Parkview school where the African-Americans students encounter racism for the first time; however, they all stick together and find that baseball just might be the thing that brings them all together.
While trying to figure out who is responsible for stealing mail from nearby mailboxes, Nellie allows outward appearances to lead her to suspect a high school dropout, an aging actress, Sasquatch, and a lonely classmate.
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
No longer a slave now that the Civil War is over, fifteen-year-old Maddie dreams of getting an education and becoming a teacher, but she finds the reality of freedom harsh.
Presents a look at name calling and bullying in schools, as a wide range of students discuss racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, disabilities, religious differences, sexual harassment and more.
