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

In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.

"In a future not too far from our own, robots have eliminated humans. And twelve-year-old robot XR_935 is just fine with that. Without humans, there's no war, no pollution, no crime. Every member of society has a purpose, and everything runs smootly and efficiently. Until the day the XR discovers something impossible: a human girl named Emma. Its whole life, XR had been told humans were evil and the world was better without them. But Emma doesn't...

Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.

When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.

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.

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.

"Many voices, one town. Leanora Sutter, Esther Hirsh, Merlin Van Tornhout, Johnny Reeves: these characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924--a town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is afe, especially not the two youngest: twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish." --back cover.

Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.

When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture.