In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Rob is involved in a violent incident in a northern community.
Hate crimes
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Auteur:Vercher, JohnSommaire:Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two-year-old Bobby Saraceno is passing for white. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has...
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Auteur:Schraff, AnneSommaire:Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
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Auteur:Muller, MarciaSommaire:A knock on the door in the middle of the night. It can only be bad news, and it is: Sharon McCone's father, Elwood, has been the victim of a vicious, racially motivated attack. With little progress on the investigation from police, she...
- Auteur:Blais, Marie-ClaireSommaire:
In the penultimate installment of the magnificent and ambitious Soifs cycle, widely regarded as one of the most original and ambitious endeavors ever to be undertaken in contemporary literature, renowned novelist Marie-Claire Blais once...
- Auteur:Callender, KacenSommaire:
Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid...
- Auteur:Elhillo, SafiaSommaire:
Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to belong somewhere else. At...
- Auteur:Ahmed, SamiraSommaire:
Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she's learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist's job is to find the facts and not let personal biases affect the story. But all that changes the...
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Auteur:Lunny, Allyson M.Sommaire:Debating Hate Crime examines the language used by parliamentarians, senators, and committee witnesses to debate Canada’s hate laws. Drawing on discourse analysis, semiotics, and critical psychoanalysis, Allyson Lunny explores how the...
- Auteur:Clayton, MelindaSommaire:
Billy May Platte is a half Irish, half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different. As Billy May explains, “We was sheltered in them hills. We didn’t know much of nothin’...
- Auteur:Kelkar, SupriyaSommaire:
As the only Indian American kid in her small town, Lekha Divekar feels like she has two versions of herself: Home Lekha, who loves watching Bollywood movies and eating Indian food, and School Lekha, who pins her hair over her bindi...
