prejudices

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Saving Shiloh

1999
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.

This is our house

2005
George won't let any of the other children into his cardboard box house, but when the tables are turned, he finds out how it feels to be excluded.

The bat pack

2011
The Groves, the movie where Jackson and Olivia first met, is finally having its big premiere. Olivia and Ivy both get to walk the red carpet in style-just like real Hollywood stars! The twins may be destined for actual Hollywood soon enough, though. Paparazzi have filled Franklin Grove and rumors swirl that the next "it" movie is an adaptation of Eternal Sunset, a super-popular vampire novel-about vampire twin sisters. Is art about to imitate real life? -back cover.

Re-vamped!

2009
Now that Ivy and Olivia have told their friends that they're twins, they have to come clean to their adoptive parents. But Ivy's dad doesn't even want to meet Olivia! When the vampire officials realize Olivia knows the truth about vampires, they demand that she pass three tests to prove she's worthy of sharing the secret. Yikes! One thing's for sure, if the sisters can get through this, they can get through anything!.

Black is brown is tan

1973
Describes in verse the life of brown-skinned momma, white-skinned daddy, their children, and assorted relatives.

Learning about differences

2004
An introduction to the differences in people and how understanding can help foster peace.

Learning how to appreciate differences

2001
Discusses how to appreciate differences in people, emphasizing the importance of following your interests, deciding what you like, standing up for yourself, and appreciating others.

Night golf

1999
Despite being told that only whites can play golf, James becomes a caddy and is befriended by an older African American man who teaches him to play on the course at night.

Annie's war

2007
In 1946, imaginary conversations with President Truman help ten-year-old Annie cope with having to live with her grandmother in Walla Walla, Washington, her uncle's prejudice toward her grandmother's black tenant, and her intense desire for news of her father, a pilot in the Army Air Corps who was reported missing in action.

The witch of Blackbird Pond

2001
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.

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