Justice Requires Restraint

A Raisin in the Sun

This play tells the story of the Younger family; and touches on issues they face in their lives: generational clashes, the civil rights, and the women’s movement.

Cry, the Beloved country

In the 1950s, a black South African accused of a crime turns to his minister father and a white attorney for help, but the racial problems of the country prevent justice from being served.

Fallen Angels

Active duty in Vietnam is seen through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old African American private. He and his new buddies experience bonding, battles, grave wounds, and the brutal fact that not all will return home.

Farewell to Manzanar

Along with 10,000 other Japanese Americans, seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki grew up behind barbed wire, under searchlight towers, and with armed guards.

Framed in Fire

Peter Larson has an increasingly hostile relationship with his verbally abusive stepfather, Buck, and some scuffles at school, but is basically a good kid.

Friedrich

In chronological episodes a young boy tells about the fate of his Jewish friend, Friedrich, in Nazi Germany. Friedrich’s life becomes a torment as his family is destroyed and he himself is forced into hiding, alone and in secrecy.

HUSH

A middle-class African American family is forced to enter the federal witness protection program after the father decides to testify against two policemen who killed an innocent boy.

Left for Dead

Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the Navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.

Maniac Magee

Maniac is an "on-his-own" kid searching for a place that he can call home. When he sees no difference between the people of the East Side and the West Side, others begin to realize that Jeffrey "Maniac" Magee is truly the "stuff" from which legends are made.

My Brother Sam is Dead

The Meeker family is torn apart during the American Revolutionary War when one son joins the rebel forces and the rest of the family try to remain neutral in a divided town.

Nelson Mandela

South Africa has become known as the home of the world’s most famous former political prisoner. A prisoner who emerged to become an internationally respected statesman.

Night

This true account relates the author's experiences as a Jewish boy with his family in a Nazi concentration camp.

Nothing But the Truth

Ninth-grader Philip hums in his homeroom during the playing of the National Anthem, bringing him a suspension that gains national media attention.

Number the Stars

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be courageous when she helps to shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Red Scarf Girl

Ji-Li Jiang is a highly-ranked student, exceptional athlete, and avid follower of Chairman Mao's new China until her family's bourgeois background brings persecution and wrecks her educational opportunities and dreams of a successful career.

Romeo and Juliet

Two lovers are destroyed by the hatred of their families for one another in this play about prejudice, innocence, and power. 

Shadow Spinner

In this story, Jimmy learns about his father and about himself, finding out that while things can’t always be fixed, sometimes they can be understood, and maybe even forgiven.

The Cay

In 1942 an elderly black man and a young white boy are victims of a shipwreck and are stranded on a Caribbean island.

The Good Earth

The Good Earth follows the life of Wang Lung, a Chinese man who rises from a peasant farmer, struggling for a living, to become the head of the powerful House of Wang.

Tunes for Bears to Dance To

After his brother’s death, Henry moves with his parents to a new town, where he meets and befriends Mr. Levine, an elderly survivor of the Holocaust who spends his days craving a replica of his childhood village.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

This story follows the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, as they travel south to visit their grandmother in Alabama. There they are confronted with the 1963 bombing of black churches.