individuality

Twelve-year-old Sam, the son of a Jewish father and Christian mother, struggles to understand religion and its role in his family's life during the Hanukkah and Christmas holidays.

A human boy, just three inches tall, finds a home and happiness in a mouse city until he learns of an ancient threat and goes on a dangerous quest to save the city, assisted by old friends and new.

Teenage Holland and her younger sister Geneva, having always lived under the shadow of siblings who died before they were born, struggle to establish separate identities and escape from the oppressive weight of their parents' continuing grief.

After learning that she is the sole heir to the Ruan throne, orphaned Zira, trained in weaponry and martial arts as a warrior priestess, must unravel the secrets of her identity, decide her people's fate, and accept her feelings for a man who should be her enemy.

Sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless, " and her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.

Over the summer, Salt Lake City high school student Ed McIff works at a video store, wearing a shirt with the name Sergio on it, and when a beautiful girl comes in one day, he decides to take on a new, more suave identity, resulting in a series of misunderstandings and star-crossed adventures.

When the people of Rovenia vote to restore their monarchy, sixteen-year-old Alex Varenhoff must suddenly leave his native England to become prince of a land he knows only from his grandfather's stories.

Philadelphia college student Shanna Washington, daughter of an African-American alcoholic and a white socialite, searches for something to heal her emotional wounds from childhood and enters into a damaging relationship with an ambitious track star of mixed race.

Still having difficulty facing the death of her best friend, Wim must deal with a difficult great-aunt and Maori visitors from New Zealand who uncover a dark family secret.

Sixteen-year-old twins, Nick and Tony, always envious of each other's talents, reveal, in alternate chapters, their differing perspectives of their sometimes complicated relationship.