Zack Lane is a biracial teenager who has never explored his African-American heritage. Touching on issues of family conflict and racism, this coming-of-age story follows Zack on a journey to discover his whole identity.

Black basketball player Jerome and white baseball player Bix become friends when Bix persuades Jerome to teach him his new game at a secret basketball court in the woods. When Bix suddenly vanishes though, their friendship means Jerome is the only one who can tell the real story.

Fifteen young adult African-American women from across the country share their opinions on everything from race and gender to the future of black women in America.

High school senior T.J. Jones, also known as “The Tao,” knows all about not fitting in—he’s a Japanese-African-American living in a small town with little diversity. When T.J. forms a swim team of outsiders to annoy the high school jocks, he must lead his band of misfits to triumph over prejudice and narrow-minded bullies.

In this modern day take on Romeo and Juliette, Romiette Capelle and Julio Montague meet in a chat room only to discover that they go to the same Cincinnati high school. They fall in love, despite disapproval from local gangs who don’t like their interracial romance.

When Talley’s inner city school begins busing in white kids, the last thing she expects is to make friends with a white girl, Didi, or to be attracted to David, a white boy Didi knows. Her “white romance” isn’t the experience she imagined it would be, though.

The story of racial injustice in Alabama in 1931 that led to the arrest and trial of nine young African-American men for the rape of two white women.

Fourteen-year-old Opal Tyler is angry and frustrated by her life until she finds an unexpected friend in her elderly Jewish neighbor, whose culture is very different from her own.

This collection of essays by eighteen biracial and bicultural authors tackles difficult issues of race and gender with insight and sensitivity.

Jimmy Doyle is a basketball legend in his small Minnesota town. When he is asked to be on an American High School Dream Team, for an international basketball tournament, he learns that the lives of his talented African-American teammates are very different from his own.

Thirteen-year-old Maggie’s camera allows her to see her small Georgia town in a new light. But when she snaps a confrontation between a civil rights activist and her opponents at the local cafe, she must decide how to use her new vision.

Fourteen-year-old Vicki Harris can handle the sore feet, physical exhaustion and difficulty of the classes at the School of American Ballet in New York City. However, dealing with the cruelty and racism of her classmates is not so easy.

Forty-five mixed-race young people between the ages of fourteen and twenty-six share their experiences growing up as people who do not always fit into simple categories.

The middle child of an interracial family, Staggerlee, doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere. Her uncertainty about her identity extends to every part of her life, including her sexuality.

In 1963 Alabama, fourteen-year-old Isaac Stone believes in the nonviolent teaching of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but his father thinks nonviolence is for cowards. Can Isaac change his father’s mind, even when violence erupts in his own neighborhood?

Growing up in pre-civil rights Alabama, eighth-grader Francie experiences the day-to-day hardships of racial inequality. When Jesse, a sixteen-year-old friend and schoolmate is unjustly accused of attacking a white man, Francie decides to help Jesse no matter what.

An ailing neighborhood is transformed when a young Vietnamese girl plants a few lima beans in an abandoned lot, a simple action that unites her diverse neighborhood and brings the neighborhood back to life.

Cassie and her new neighbor, Jemmie, find they have a lot in common and quickly become friends. But Cassie and Jemmie’s families do not approve of their budding friendship because Cassie is white and Jemmie is black. A crisis forces the families to reconsider their opinions.

In a small Vermont town in 1924, a community struggles with racism and intolerance when the Klu Klux Klan begins to take hold of the town. Community members are forced to face their own prejudices and decide where they stand.

In this compilation of oral histories, thirty African-Americans who were young people during the Civil Rights Movement, tell inspiring stories of what it was like to fight segregation in the South during the 1950s and 1960s.

Based on actual events in the town of Freedom, Texas in 1921 as told by teenager Rosa Lee Jefferson, this is the story of how Freedom was destroyed because the white residents of the neighboring town of Dillon voted to turn Freedom into a town park.

In Missouri in 1937, sharecropper Mr. McMulty is kicked off his land by the white landlord to make room for a white family. When Mr. McMulty takes revenge, eleven-year-old Rass Whitley risks danger to himself and his family to hide Mr. McMulty from the Klu Klux Klan.

This easy-to-read brief history of racism in the United States suggests ways that we can all combat racism in everyday life.

In this prequel to Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Paul-Edward Logan, the son of a white plantation owner and his black slave, tells the story of life caught between two worlds, in the Reconstruction-era south, where inequality and injustice threatens to make his dream of owning his own land impossible.

Jordan is not interested in his ancestors’ suffering. But when he needs money for his new gang and steals his grandfather’s pocket watch he finds himself transported to the time of slavery where he develops a new understanding of his heritage and his present day situation.

When Jeremiah and Ellie meet during the first week of prep school it is love at first site. He is black. She is white. But to them nothing matters but their feelings for each other. Unfortunately, the rest of the world doesn’t seem to understand.