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Sophie, YL, and Harper, new students in Mrs. TenBroeck's sixth grade class, give each other support as they struggle to survive both in and out of school.

While serving as a British Fencible to maintain the peace in eighteenth-century Ireland, Anson finds that his sympathy for a hedge master, a teacher devoted to teaching Irish children their forbidden language and culture, places him in conflict with the law of King George II.

Twelve-year-old Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she gradually discovers more and more about her long-missing father.

A child is a friend, neighbor, helper, artist, dancer, daydreamer, and stargazer.

The Incredibles, a family which appears normal but whose members have super powers, confront the evil Syndrome.

On a moonless, starless night, a young boy feels at one with the darkness, thinking about where he came from before he was born and where he will go after he dies.

A mother explains how much her daughter is like she was as a little girl.

A young hippopotamus who is bored with his life sets out to discover "just the right kind of animal to be.

Tyrone Rashon Williams's excitement about the first day of the new school year wanes when he sees that everyone is wearing the same new sneakers he is so proud of, but it gets worse when a new student arrives who has his exact same name.

Patty does not know the answer when other animals ask what kind of creature she is, but she is willing to try flying, swimming, and gnawing wood to help them figure it out.

Howard, feeling as if he is not good at anything, takes his grandfather's advice and does what makes him happy, resulting in him impressing all of his classmates with his dance moves.

In 1979 when his life in Mansfield, Iowa, seems to fall apart, seventeen-year-old Simon takes his father's car and sets out for Texas, looking for his birth parents and picking up a man claiming to be Elvis, two bums, and an abused young wife along the way.

A series of events captures the life of a free-spirited girl as she grows from a savvy seven-year-old to a self-assured sixteen-year-old.

Contains two magical-realist stories by Francesca Lia Block including "Witch Baby" and "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys.

Struggling to find a place for himself, Tom flees the elven parents who hunt to kill him and becomes involved with human "demons" in the nearby city.