Face Relations, edited by Marilyn Singer, features “11 stories about seeing beyond color.” A morbidly obese black boy breaks a stereotype by being a potential surfer dude. A passionate high school reporter exposes prejudices between Haitians and African Americans in her school and incurs the wrath of her principal. A Palestinian boy living in Lubbock Texas deals with hatred at school after 9/11. A white girl wants to sit with her former best friend at the “black table.” Provocative stories written by first tier young adult authors like Joseph Bruchac, M.E. Kerr, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rita Williams-Garcia and Marilyn Singer. ( )