Exploring the lake near her home, young Hattie befriends a friendly but enormous lake monster she names Hudson who terrifies everyone else because of his size and they work together to teach her community about prejudging others by their appearance.

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. Newbery honor book: 1996.

"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--

For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.

Lazlo, who has just moved to the United States from Hungary, is ostracized at school until two girls have the courage to befriend him.

While trying to earn money for a motor bike, fourteen-year-old Joe Pederson becomes involved with the Mexicans who work on his family's farm and develops a better relationship with his father.

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

"Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, three different women navigate challenges in a changing school district--and in their lives. When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation, the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors. Tensions rise, culminating in an unforeseen event that impacts them all"-- When an impoverished Missouri school district loses its accreditation, the affluent...

"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...