prejudices

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prejudices

What if the zebras lost their stripes?

1998
If the zebras lost their stripes and became different from one another, some white and some black, would they turn and fight each other and stop living life as loving friends?.

Iggie's house

1970
When a black family with three children moves into the white neighborhood, eleven-year-old Winnie learns the difference between being a good neighbor and being a good friend.

The Berenstain Bears and the new girl in town

1993
Brother Bear's budding romance with Squire Grizzly's niece helps bring about an end to the fierce feud between the Grizzly and Bear clans.

East Dragon, West Dragon

2012
East Dragon and West Dragon are suspicious of one another although they have never met, but when an emergency arises, they find they have much in common.

The gold-threaded dress

2002
When Oy and her Thai American family move to a new neighborhood, her third-grade classmates tease and exclude her because she is different.

Torchlight

2006
In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on historical events.

The liberation of Gabriel King

2005
Gabriel, a white boy who is being bullied, and Frita, an African-American girl facing prejudice, decide to overcome their many fears together as they enter fifth grade in Georgia in 1976.

Daisy and the doll

2000
Daisy, an eight-year-old African-American girl living in rural Vermont in the 1890s, is given a black doll by her teacher and becomes uncomfortable that her skin is a different color from that of her classmates, until she finds the courage to speak from her heart.

Mississippi bridge

1992
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.

Jump into the sky

2012
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon,where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.

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