individuality

Orphaned Cressida, a magnificent singer, and her twelve-year-old brother Adam attend the by-invitation-only Festival of Youthful Genius, where they join forces with a former race car driver to try to stop a bizarre creature from stealing the talents of the young prodigies.

Carina, crown princess of a tiny European nation, is desperate to sneak away from her chaperones while on a goodwill tour of Los Angeles to attend a Toadmuffin concert, so she switches places with local look-alike Julia, who is only too happy to accept ten thousand dollars to attend an embassy ball, but things go awry when Julia falls in love with Carina's fiance, and Carina somehow finds herself on the way to Texas on the band tour bus.

Having always been home schooled by her counter-culture mother, Evie has decided to spend her senior year at the local public high school, an experience that challenges her preconceptions about friendship, boundaries, and power.

Four unlikely characters come together and overcome all obstacles in this contemporary story, drawn from a Czech fairy tale, about the strength of friendship and the value of being different.

A child who is only part Native American is troubled by his mixed racial heritage.

Larriot is a young liger (tiger & lion hybrid) who is living in a village of lions. After constantly being teased by the lion cubs for being different, he decides to run away into the jungle to look for other ligers like him.

Michael is considered to be a poor student because he is different from the others and has his own ideas about what is interesting or worthwhile, but he ends by surprising everyone.

Rhymed text and illustrations describe a child's likes and dislikes.

After hatching from an egg that fell into the sea, a creature that shares features with a fish, an insect, a bird, and a snake--but is not any of these--sets off to find its own kind and its mother.

Illustrations and rhyming text present the traits, activities, and feelings of many different children.