prejudices

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prejudices

A perfect snow

2004
Seventeen-year-old Ben, living in a trailer park with his unemployed father and younger brother David, becomes involved in a violent white supremacy hate group operating in their small Montana town, but with the help of new girlfriend Eden, and a growing friendship with a local "rich kid, " Ben begins to see the error in his thinking and tries to save his brother before it is too late.

The meantime

1984
An African-American family finds life in a middle class suburb full of trials and tribulations as they try to cope with the hostility of their neighbors and schoolmates.

Sticks and stones

1972
A seventeen-year-old boy's life is nearly destroyed when a rumor that he is homosexual is started in his new high school.

Racial prejudice

1985
Discusses the causes and history of prejudice against minority groups in the United States, reviewing the damaging effects of prejudice and suggesting ways to eliminate it.

Revolutions of the heart

1993
Cory's seventeenth year is marked by her mother's sudden death, the return of her hotheaded older brother, her romance with a Native American boy, and the eruption of bigotry in her small Wisconsin town.

Trying hard to hear you

1974
Faced with the revelation that her best friend is a homosexual, a sixteen-year-old tries to cope with her own and her friends' reactions toward him.

Black like Kyra, white like me

1992
When an African-American family moves to an all-white neighborhood, prejudice rears its ugly head as the white adults behave rudely and children's friendships break up.

Berries Goodman

1965
A nine-year-old boy faces anti-semitism for the first time when he moves from New York City to the suburbs.

Best of all

2003
In a village where everyone has been carved from wood, an uppity Miss Bess Stovall claims her maple "ancestree" is superior until the day a shunned willow fellow saves her life.

Mississippi bridge

2000
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.

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