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 in 1687 Connecticut.
Sixteen-year-old Catherine struggles to hold onto her close relationship with her adopted Mexican American brother Henry after a family tragedy brings Catherine's prejudiced older brother back into their lives, with aims to send Henry away from the family's San Francisco home.
A teenage boy and girl attempt to escape with a seven-year-old boy from a racist cult known as the White League, when they find out that they are not orphans as they have been told.
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.
Presents Christopher Paul Curtis's novel about a Michigan African-American family's life-changing summer 1963 trip to see family in Alabama, and includes seven related documents, including a historical narrative, interviews, poems, and a memoir.
In a small Oregon town in the early days of World War I, a young girl befriends one of the mysterious people living next door in a house surrounded by a 10-foot wall.
Examines how children learn what nerds are, explores the unique impact being labeled a nerd has on people at every stage of life, traces the history of anti-intellectualism in America, and urges people to put a stop to the stereotypical labeling of people as "nerds" before it leads to a disinterest in learning and high achievement.
When Jason asks his grandfather why people have trouble getting along, it makes them think about how things might be better if we looked past physical attributes to see the person underneath.
