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The theme of brotherhood and understanding
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Traces the history of research on race, showing how it both influenced and was influenced by the political and social significance of race in United States history.
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Larnel doesn't know his neighbor, Mrs. Katz, very well, until he asks her to adopt an abandoned kitten. Mrs. Katz agrees on one condition: that Larnel help her take care of the kitten she names Tush.
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Parvana's home town of Kabul is in ruins. Parvana's mother, sister and brother have traveled to a town that has been bombed. Parvana and her father do not know where they are or if they are alive. They travel in search of their family.
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A new girl comes to school and tries to make friends. When Chloe, the narrator, is unkind, the girl keeps trying. And then the girl is gone and Chloe is left only with the memory of her unkindness.
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Malala’s Magic Pencil begins Malala’s life story with a dream; she wishes for a magic pencil that will draw her heart’s desires—a lock on her door, an extra hour in bed, a new ball. When she sees a girl her age working in the city dump, her intentions for that magic pencil become serious
