Angelou

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

Arrick

CHERNOWITZ

A boy who suffers anti-Semitic abuse at the hands of a classmate during his ninth and tenth grade years plots revenge against his tormentor.

Betancourt

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

Elizabeth's romantic interest in an Asian American student angers a prejudiced bully named Brad.

Brady

SAY YOU ARE MY SISTER

In rural Georgia during World War II, twelve-year-old Ramona Louise determines to do everything to help her beloved older sister Georgie keep the family together after the death of their parents, even to keeping a secret which could destroy their close relationship.

Brooks

THE MOVES MAKE THE MAN

A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship.

Brown

MORNING GLORY AFTERNOON

Choi

YEAR OF IMPOSSIBLE GOODBYES

A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.

Cohen

LAURA LEONORA'S FIRST AMENDMENT

Seventh-grader Laura finds that she must determine what her own true beliefs are in the face of widespread community opposition to admitting a boy with AIDS to her school.

Cone

NUMBER FOUR

A young Indian tries to understand the meaning of his heritage and his place in the world as he faces the prejudices of the white townspeople near his reservation.

Conly

CRAZY LADY!

As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.

Cooney

BURNING UP

When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.

Cormier

TUNES FOR BEARS TO DANCE TO

Eleven-year-old Henry escapes his family's problems by watching the woodcarving of Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor, but when Henry is manipulated into betraying his friend he comes to know true evil.

Curtis

THE WATSON'S GO TO BIRMINGHAM-1963: A NOVEL

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Edwards

LITTLE JOHN AND PLUTIE

Although delighted to have the resourceful and courageous Pluto as his first real friend, nine-year-old John soon begins to realize how their rural South environment discourages a close relationship between blacks and whites.

Fleischman

SATURNALIA

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.

Fogelin

CROSSING JORDAN

Twelve-year-old Cass meets her new African-American neighbor, Jemmie, and despite their families' prejudices, they build a friendship around their mutual talent for running and a pact to read Jane Eyre.

Garden

THE YEAR THEY BURNED THE BOOKS

While trying to come to terms with her own lesbian feelings, Jamie, a high-school senior and editor of the school newspaper, finds herself in the middle of a battle with a group of townspeople over the new health education curriculum.

Gogol

VATSANA'S LUCKY NEW YEAR

Greenberg

I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN

Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.

Guy

THE DISAPPEARANCE

The disappearance of the seven-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn family casts suspicion on a juvenile offender from Harlem who has recently come to live with them.

THE FRIENDS

Phyllis eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior created the gulf between her and her best friend.

Haley

ROOTS

After eleven years of research to uncover the facts of his heritage, Haley shares the saga of an American black family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself.

Hentoff

BOSTON BOY

Herschler

THE DARKEST CORNER

Her loving relationship with the black woman who works for her family and her friendship with two black neighbors in the small Mississippi town where she grows up in the 1950s and 1960s brings Teddy into conflict with her racist father, a member of the local Ku Klux Klan.

Hesse

WITNESS

A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.

Hooks

CIRCLE OF FIRE

Howard

HER OWN SONG

When her adoptive father is hospitalized after an accident, Mellie is befriended by Geem-Wah, owner of a Chinese laundry, who holds the key to the events surrounding Mellie's birth eleven years ago.

James

LONG NIGHT DANCE

Sixteen-year-old Kat, child of a scandalous, disastrous marriage between a Hill woman and an Upslope man, rescues a Rigi man from the sea during the week of the Long Night Dance and begins to realize a person's value does not come from his background nor appearance.

Jenkins

THE HONORABLE PRISON

Because of the moral stand taken by her father, a newspaper editor who has persistently attacked the military dictator ruling their Latin American country, Marta and her family find themselves prisoners of the government.

Jordan

THE RAGING QUIET

Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the village madman is not crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.

Klass

DANGER ZONE

When he joins a predominantly black "Teen Dream Team" that be representing the United States in an international basketball tournament in Rome, Jimmy Doyle makes some unexpected discoveries about prejudice, racism, and politics.

Kurtz

THE STORYTELLER'S BEADS

During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of Ethiopia.

Lee

FINDING MY VOICE

As she tries to enjoy her senior year and choose which college she will attend, Korean American Ellen Sung must deal with the prejudice of some of her classmates and pressure from her parents to get good grades.

NECESSARY ROUGHNESS

Sixteen-year-old Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on the football team but also with the tensions in his relationship with his strict father.

Levitin

THE CURE

A sixteen-year-old boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the anti-Semitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.

THE RETURN

Desta and the other members of her Falasha family, Jews suffering from discrimination in Ethiopia, finally flee the country and attempt the dangerous journey to Israel.

Maartens

PAPER BIRD: A NOVEL OF SOUTH AFRICA

Because he is responsible for keeping his pregnant mother and brothers and sisters from starving, young Adam travels daily from his small black South African township to sell newspapers in the city, until marauding bands of thugs make this work dangerous and force him to a difficult decision.

Marino

THE DAY THE ELVIS CAME TO TOWN

Wanda feels betrayed when her parents' glamorous boarder doesn't introduce her to Elvis Presley, and it takes a near-tragedy to reunite them and to help her face the truth about her family and herself.

Mazer

THE OXBOY

A young boy who is half-human and half-ox struggles to survive in a society where animals are hated and contact with them is prohibited.

McKissack

COLOR ME DARK: THE DIARY OF NELLIE LEE LOVE, THE GREAT MIGRATION NORTH

Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

Means

THE MOVED-OUTERS

After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941, life changes drastically for eighteen-year-old Sumiko Ohara and her family when they are sent from their home in California to a series of relocation camps.

Meyer

DRUMMERS OF JERICHO

A fourteen-year-old Jewish girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in a small town and soon finds herself the center of a civil rights battle when she objects to the high school band marching in the formation of a cross.

Miklowitz

THE WAR BETWEEN THE CLASSES

Moore

FREEDOM SONGS

In the sixties, when Sheryl's Uncle Pete joins the Freedom Riders down South, she organizes a gospel concert in Brooklyn to help him.

Muse

PREJUDICE: STORIES ABOUT HATE, IGNORANCE, REVELATION, AND TRANSFORMATION

An anthology of short stories featuring young people of different backgrounds who experience prejudice.

Myers

SLAM!

Seventeen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.

Naidoo

CHAIN OF FIRE

When the villagers of Bophelong are forced to leave their houses and resettle in a barren "homeland," thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother join in a school demonstration and learn that the South African government treats even children who dissent with brutality.

Neufeld

EDGAR ALLAN

A minister and his family adopt Edgar Allan, a black boy.

Ntozke

BETSEY BROWN

Paton

CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

Novel of South Africa, where the murder of a progressive white industrialist by the son of a patient Zulu parson catalyzes a new understanding of the tropic race problem in the heart of the old parson and the victim's father, owner of the land and lord of the natives in the valley.

Qualey

REVOLUTIONS OF THE HEART

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.

Rinaldi

THE EDUCATION OF MARY: A LITTLE MISS OF COLOR, 1832

In 1832, Prudence Crandall begins admitting black girls to her exclusive Connecticut school, scandalizing white society and eventually causing her arrest and the closing of her school.

Sebestyen

WORDS BY HEART

A Black girl struggles to fulfill her father's dreams and to help make a place for her family in a white town in the Southwest at the turn of the century.

Staples

DANGEROUS SKIES

Hypocrisy and prejudice twist events in such a way as to implicate two children, one from a prominent white family and the other an Afro-American, in a murder.

Sumii

THE RIVER WITH NO BRIDGE

Taylor

THE FRIENDSHIP

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

THE GOLD CADILLAC

Two black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.

THE LAND

Paul-Edward, son of a white plantation owner and a slave mother of African-Indian heritage, follows his dream of owning his own land through hard work and determination.

MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE

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.

THE ROAD TO MEMPHIS

Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.

ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY

Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the racism of the KKK as they embark on a cross-burning rampage, before she fully understands the importance her family attributes to having land of their own.

Uchida

A JAR OF DREAMS

Eleven-year-old Rinko grows up in a closely knit Japanese-American family in California during the Depression, a time of great prejudice.

Underwood

THE TAMARACK TREE

Community reaction toward a local school for black girls in 1833 makes a fourteen-year-old white orphan re-examine her feelings toward higher education, abolition, blacks, and the meaning of womanhood.

Van Raven

HARPOON ISLAND

A schoolteacher's attempt to start a new life on a sparsely populated island, where the villagers consider his withdrawn ten-year-old son to be an idiot, is further threatened when World War I breaks out and the teacher's German background is discovered.

Watkins

SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE

Wilkinson

NOT SEPARATE, NOT EQUAL

Malene, one of a group of six blacks to integrate a Georgia public high school in the mid-sixties, experiences hatred and racism, as well as the beginnings of the civil rights movement.

Yep

THE STAR FISHER

Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s.