Kindness Requires Empathy
Kindness Requires Empathy. Kindness is the desire to lift others’ spirits, help the ones in need, and mend relationships. Kindness requires that I take the time to listen, understand, and take action to benefit other people and the world.
A Single Shard
Tree-ear is an orphan who lives under a bridge. He wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and dreams of making a pot of his own someday.
Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio
This story is about a Mexican-American family in East L.A. where random acts of generosity and goodwill improves the lives of the community.
Before We Were Free
Twelve-year-old Anita is living in the Dominican Republic in 1960. The secret police have started terrorizing her family for their suspected opposition to the country's dictator.
Blue Gold
The lives of three teen girls are affected by coltan, or "blue gold" which is a rare mineral used in making cell phones and computers.
Crossing the Wire
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads north from Mexico so he can find work and send money home to his family.
I Lived on Butterfly Hill
Eleven-year-old Celeste lives peacefully in Chile-until one day when warships are spotted in the harbor and schoolmates start disappearing from class.
Journey of the Sparrows
This moving story is about the secret lives of immigrants struggling to find work and are fearful of arrest and deportation.
Out of the Dust
A tribute to hope and inner strength, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo is dealing with unspeakable loss during the Great Depression.
Paper Towns
Quentin has spent a lifetime loving adventurous Margo from afar. When she cracks open a window and climbs into his life-he follows.
Song of Solomon
Follow Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins. You will be introduced to a cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.
Speak
Melinda is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk or listen to her.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–time
Fifteen-year-old Christopher is gifted with a superbly logical brain, however, everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning.
The Help
Three women will come together for a project that will put them all at risk. They are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their time.
Wonder
Starting 5th grade at a new school, August Pullman wants to be treated as an ordinary kid. However, his new classmates can't get past his facial difference.