While serving in Afghanistan, Ben writes about incidents from his senior year in a small-town Wisconsin high school, when a neighbor he was trying to help out becomes the victim of an apparent hate crime and Ben falls under suspicion. What do the living owe the dead? In his senior year in small-town Wisconsin high school, Ben helped out at a the Lange's farm after their oldest son dies. Jimmy, the younger son, becomes the victim of an apparent hate...

"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...

Thirteen-year-old Rain, who struggles with low self-esteem, must overcome sadness after her older brother Xander is severely beaten up at a frat party, but through the help of an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.

When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.

"During her freshman year at college, Anna Xu investigates the unsolved on-campus murder of her former babysitter, as she and an old rival have to team up to look into the hate crimes happening around campus"--

"A teen boy survives a hate crime against another gay student through his art"-- Adrian Piper may be a talented artist, a sci-fi geek, and gay, but at his Texas high school those traits would only bring him the worst kind of attention. He is only free to express himself is at his drawing table, crafting a secret world through his own Renaissance-art-inspired superhero, Graphite. After a hate crime occurs Adrian must discover his own power, decide...