prejudices

In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.

After a traumatic accident removes his telekinetic ability, or psy, twelve-year-old Taemon is exiled to the "dud farm," where he is surprised to find kind, open people who enjoy using their hands but there are also mysteries at the colony and when Taemon unwittingly leaks one of the secrets he must find the courage to repair the damage, even if it means returning to the city from which he was banished.

Discusses the increasing incidence of crimes that are motivated by bias against another person or group, examining the causes and occurrences of such hate crimes and the psychology of those who commit them.

Unable to confide in her parents, Astrid Jones looks into the sky and speaks with the people onboard planes flying overhead. In the process, she forms an unexpected connection with these strangers that not only allows her to work through her personal problems but changes her life for the better.

In medieval Wales, follows Cecily whose family is lured by cheap land and the duty of all Englishman to help keep down the "vicious" Welshmen, and Gwenhwyfar, a Welsh girl who must wait hand and foot on her new English mistress.

Persephone Hadley, six-months pregnant with a mixed-race baby, risks her own life to save the brother of the man she loves, who was hanged for terrorism months earlier.

Eighteen-year-old John must confront his own sexuality when he goes to rodeo school and finds himself strangely attracted to an older boy who is smart, tough, complicated, gorgeous, and gay.

Three boys are charged with a hate crime after an African-American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood.

In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.

Explores the origins and development of racist hate groups in the United States, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the skinheads.