prejudices

"Iris opens her eyes to hard truths and the power of her voice when her father dies of AIDS in 1987"--Provided by the publisher.

"It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them"--Provided by publisher.

No one will hire Roberto the architect because he also happens to be a termite, so he sets off to the city to find success on his own.

"Only a generation removed from being simple Pennsylvania potato farmers, Gottfried and Marla Hemmings managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now sit atop a seven-figure bank account, wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult children or their teenage grand children. Now the five teenagers are lost in a tangled maze of family secrets. One of the teens sells pot; one has cancer; all are estranged from the family. As they come together for Easter dinner, will they be able to find their ways back to each other?"--OCLC.

Beauty, who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage, was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.

For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, his two brothers, his friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.

Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.

Tad the frog dreams of becoming a legendary Star Knight, but he is crushed when he learns that he can never become one because everyone thinks he is a mud-dweller, a servant of the Marsh Witch. When the stars fall to Earth once more, Tad is turned into Star Knight, and he embarks on a magical adventure to help the Star King, Stello, return to space. But everything changes when Tad discovers the truth about the what happened to the Star Knights all those years ago, and with the help of his new friends, he sets out to prove anyone can be a hero.

"What do you see when you imagine a wolf? Sharp, pointy teeth? Big, hungry eyes? A soft sweater and a friendly smile? Wait a minute! The wolf in this story would rather knit than huff, puff, or blow anyone's house down. But that doesn't stop the townsfolk from crying wolf anyway. What's a kind-hearted wolf to do when everyone keeps running and screaming at 'Hello'? It's time to show the world that this wolf is the furthest thing from Big and Bad"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the script for the play in which Sephy--a Cross--is the daughter of the Deputy Prime Minister and Callum, the son of a Nought agitator, were both raised in a racially charged and economically unbalanced society, but after a chance meeting they come to realize that love is worth fighting for, even if it spawns a political crisis.