Theme: Racism

Out of Shadows

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

A debut novel set in the early 1980s at a boy’s boarding school in the newly formed country of Zimbabwe.

Descriptors: Africa, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18), Zimbabwe » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

You Be Me, I’ll Be You

By Book Importer | Published: February 22, 2010

Anna, the interracial child of a white father and black mother, explores questions and yearnings she has about her identity by “switching” skin-colors with her father. With wit, compassion and a very light and non-didactic hand, this book examines issues of concern not only to interracial children, but to all children who have ever worried [...]

Descriptors: Americas, Early Years (ages 2-6), Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction, United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Puppet

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old calumny that Jews murder Christian children for their blood. A fourteen-year-old Jewish boy named Morris Scharf becomes the star witness of corrupt authorities [...]

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Hungary, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Good-Bye Marianne: A Story Of Growing Up In Nazi Germany

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A heartbreaking story of loss and love.As autumn turns toward winter in 1938 Berlin, life for Marianne Kohn, a young Jewish girl, begins to crumble. First there was the burning of the neighbourhood shops. Then her father, a mild-mannered bookseller, must leave the family and go into hiding. No longer allowed to go to school [...]

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The Year the Gypsies Came

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Set in apartheid 1960s South Africa, twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains that her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her [...]

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, South Africa, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Knife Edge

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Persephone Hadley is six months pregnant with a mixed-race baby.In their society this fact alone will threaten the child’s life every day. To make matters worse, the baby’s father, Callum, is dead. He was hanged for terrorism months ago, but his presence still torments Sephy. And she’s not alone. Callum’s brother, Jude, blames Sephy for [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Yoruba Girl Dancing

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

For Remi, growing up in Nigeria is a celebration of love and family, eccentricity and old ritual. She feels confident in her privilege and grounded in the heart of her culture. But when she turns six, as if by some awful spell, she is sent to faraway England, to a posh all-girls’ boarding school where [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Nigeria, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Have Courage Hazel Green

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 20, 2007

When she overhears one of the tenants in her apartment building verbally abusing the hard-working caretaker, Mr. Egozian, Hazel Green determines to find a way to teach the unpleasant tenant a lesson.

Descriptors: Australia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Oceania, Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , » Comments closed