It is important for every ethnic group to have understanding and empathy for members of other groups whose backgrounds and living conditions are different from their own.
Reading allows students to walk vicariously for a short time in the shoes of others, to feel what they feel, and to empathize with their problems.
Scorpions deals with the friendship and loyalty of two twelve-year-old boys, one black and one Puerto Rican.
Neither lives with his father. Jamal lives with his mother and sister, and Tito lives with his grandmother in an inner-city neighborhood filled with violence, gangs, poverty, and drugs.
These two boys.....
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