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With this volume's practical guidance, you'll grow in your ability to identify, confront, and eliminate barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias about specific aspects of personal and social identity. Most important, you'll find tips for helping staff and children learn to respect each other, themselves, and all people. Over the last three decades, educators across the nation and around the world have gained a wealth of knowledge and experience...
43) Being tolerant
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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In Being Tolerant, beginning readers will learn about all the ways they can be tolerant in their daily lives. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they discover how they can build character by being tolerant.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 4
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"What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayed Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. In one of his infamous video messages, Osama bin Laden urged the world to "Remember El-Sayed Nosair." In The Terrorist's Son, Ebrahim dispels the myth that terrorism...
46) Splashdance
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2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Ursula, a bear, and Ricardo, a human, are preparing for the water ballet competition. But a new regulation at the community pool--no bears--leaves Ursula cut from the contest. Luckily, she encounters a group of undaunted animal swimmers at a local pond, and Ursula and her new team figure out a way to participate in the competition and make sure everyone is welcome at the pool once and for all"--
47) Tolerance
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Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Discusses the nature of tolerance, which means accepting people no matter what they look like, how they live, what they like, or how they do things.
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Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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When nineteen-year-old Gem of the Desert People, called Monstrous by the Smooth Skins, becomes the prisoner of the seventeen-year-old Smooth Skin queen, Isra, age-old prejudices begins to fall aside as the two begin to understand each other.
49) Intolerance
Pub. Date
2003
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Interweaves four stories from Babylonian times to the twentieth century to show humanity's inhumanity and intolerance through the ages.
50) Billy Jack
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[1971]
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Tom Laughlin plays a half-breed Native American and ex-Green Beret returning to live in solitude on an Arizona reservation. He is drawn to the Progressive Freedom School for runaway youths, but when tensions flare between the students and narrow-minded local bigots, Billy Jack becomes the school's protector.
51) The other bears
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[2013]
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"Mother and Father Koala are suspicious of the 'other' bears. They don't like the panda bears and they don't trust the polar bears. But their grumpiness melts away as they watch their little Koalas play together with 'other' bears"--
55) In the dark
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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A young girl steps into the woods and brings two communities separated by misunderstanding together.
56) A Church for All
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2018.
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On Sunday morning, we gather together. We are every color. Every age. Rich and poor. Our church is open, affirming, and accepting. We believe in love instead of hate. There's room for everyone! This book celebrates a spiritual community that embraces all people-no matter their age, race, class, gender identity, or sexual orientation-in love and faith.
