prejudices

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prejudices

No arm in left field

1974
A poor throwing arm and prejudice from one white boy keep a black junior high student from completely enjoying his position on the baseball team.

Mr. Lincoln's way

2001
When Mr. Lincoln, "the coolest principal in the whole world," discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance.

Project Mulberry

a novel
2005
Julia, a Korean-American, and her friend Patrick learn about tolerance, friendship, and patience while working together on a project about silkworms.

Dinosaur trouble

2008
Young dinosaurs Nosy, a pterodactyl, and Banty, an apatosaurus, become friends, despite their parents' prejudices.

The friendship

1987
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.

A jar of dreams

1981
A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.

Mississippi bridge

1990
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.

Where the great hawk flies

2005
Years after a violent New England raid by the Redcoats and their Revolutionary War Indian allies, two families, one that suffered during that raid and one with an Indian mother and Patriot father, become neighbors and must deal with past trauma and prejudices before they can help each other in the present.

Together in Pinecone Patch

1998
A girl from Ireland and a boy from Poland overcome the prejudices held by the residents of the small American town to which they have emigrated.

The city of dragons

1995
A boy with a face so sad that nobody wants to look at him runs away with a caravan of giants to the city of dragons, where his sorrowful face is finally appreciated.

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