prejudices

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The Wave

2001
Based on the experience of a high-school history class in April, 1967, in Palo Alto, Calif. Explores what happened when a teacher started a Nazi-like movement called The Wave in his history class to show the students the effects of such a movement.

The rainbow kite

2002
Twelve-year-old Matthew describes the prejudices and struggles that his entire family faces when people learn that his older brother Bennett is gay.

The violin players

1998
When fifteen-year-old New Yorker Melissa Jensen and her parents move to the midwest, she is confronted by antisemitism for the first time, and she must decide whether to reveal her Jewish heritage to her classmates or to go along with the crowd.

Chernowitz!

1981
A boy who suffers anti-Semitic abuse at the hands of a classmate during his ninth and tenth grade years plots revenge against his tormentor.
Cover image of Chernowitz!

The witch of Blackbird Pond

1993
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.

The witch of Blackbird Pond

1958
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.

Henry and the kite dragon

2004
In New York City in the 1920s, the children from Chinatown go after the children from Little Italy for throwing rocks at the beautiful kites Grandfather Chin makes, not realizing that they have a reason for doing so.

The Berenstain Bears' Thanksgiving

1997
Papa Bear thinks that Thanksgiving is the best holiday of all, but his overreaction to the cubs' report of seeing Bigpaw in the woods teaches him an important lesson about the meaning of the day.

Eagle song

1997
After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage.

Color me dark

the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North
2000
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

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