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The Twins' Blanket

author: Yum, Hyewon
Two twin girls, who have always shared everything, sleep in separate beds with their own blankets for the first time.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 330
subjects: twins, sisters, blankets, individuality [X]

The Art Of Miss Chew

author: Polacco, Patricia
Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630

Double Identity

author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 90
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810

It's Okay To Be Different

author: Parr, Todd
Presents a children's book that explains how being different or having different friends is okay and helps children to understand that each person is special no matter what they look like or do.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 105
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 260

About Average

author: Clements, Andrew
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 63
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: ability, heroes, individuality [X], schools, tornadoes

Olivia And The Fairy Princesses

author: Falconer, Ian
"Olivia is having an identity crisis! There are too many ruffly, sparkly princesses around these days, and Olivia hashad quite enough.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 104
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630

I Am Not Joey Pigza

author: Gantos, Jack
Joey's father returns, calling himself Charles Heinz and apologizing for his past bad behavior, and he swears that once Joey and his mother change their names and help him fix up the old diner he has bought, their lives will change for the better.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 90
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950

Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen

author: Sheldon, Dyan
In her first year at a suburban New Jersey high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself "Lola, " sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710

Stargirl

author: Spinelli, Jerry, Jerry Spinelli
At first the students at Arizona's Mica High School are captivated by Stargirl Caraway's unusual, carefree behavior; however, she is soon shunned for everything that makes her unique in this story that pits individuality against conformity.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 634
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590

What Janie Found

author: Cooney, Caroline B
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 63
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600

Bronx Masquerade

author: Grimes, Nikki
"While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 109
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670

Amazing Grace

author: Shull, Megan
Teen superstar Grace Kincaid telephones her mother that she wants out of the multi-million dollar endorsements and celebrity, and soon she finds herself in hiding with a new name and a new identity.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720

Montmorency And The Assassins

author: Updale, Eleanor
After twenty years as a gentleman, Montmorency is glad to be free of Scarper, his wretched alter-ego, but when a young friend is caught in the middle of a murderous political plot, Montmorency may have no choice but to call upon Scarper for help.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880

Criss Cross

author: Perkins, Lynne Rae
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 126
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820

Pretties

author: Westerfeld, Scott
Tally's perfect life as a Pretty is disrupted when she receives a letter from herself, written when she was an Ugly, reminding her of the promise she made to take a drug developed to cure the brain lesions that keep the Pretties shallow and happy--and when she takes the pills, she becomes a target of those determined to keep Pretty society carefree.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 84
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860

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