prejudices

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prejudices

Tina and the scarecrow skins

2002
A lonely girl named Tina is thrilled to finally find a friend, but when Little Bell comes over to visit, Tina worries that her mother does not like the girl. Presented in side-by-side English and Spanish.

Pepita thinks pink = :

Pepita y el color rosado
1998
Pepita does not like the color pink and is dismayed to learn that it is the favorite color of the pink little girl who moves in next door.

The secret of the mezuzah

1995
During a search for spies in his Viennese neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Con, an American living overseas with his mother, gains a new awareness of antisemitism and the Holocaust.

Teaching tolerance

raising open-minded, empathetic children
1996

Justice for Emily

1997
When she refuses to let her friend's death be called an accident, eleven-year-old Emily, an orphan, encounters the ingrained prejudices of the "best" families in town.

The double life of Angela Jones

1988
Angela, a sixteen-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood in New York City, learns not to judge people by their socio-economic class after she reluctantly accepts a scholarship to a fancy boarding school.

The year of the three-legged deer

1972
Describes a year in the life of a white man and his Indian family on the Indiana frontier.

Rhoda, straight and true

1986
Rhoda braves the ridicule of her peers to befriend a poor family and learns to make decisions for herself.

Summer growing time

1971
June and her grandmother live in their own world absorbed in gardening until growing racial unrest in the town intrudes on their lives.

The islanders

1981
The isolated Islanders, resistant of all newcomers, have always governed by the Teaching in the Book which has been orally passed down for generations. One day they find out, from one who reads, the real and astonishing story in the book.

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