Rosetta, a dainty garden-talent fairy, and her friend Fawn, a rough-and-tumble animal-talent fairy, face their fears when Fawn agrees to dress up for a fancy dinner with the queen and Rosetta spends the next day doing Fawn's favorite things.
Mo the monster gets aggravated when he gets a mustache and soon everyone else has one. When he exchanges the mustache for a scarf and everyone copies him again, he demands an explanation and is surprised by what he hears.
Esmeralda can lift her parents high in the air but the children next door, whom Esmeralda would like to play with, are scared of her size and strength.
Winslow, a young whale, is different from other whales because he has three red hearts on top of his head. He asks his parents why they are there, but they tell him that only he will be able to figure that out.
At the end of fifth grade, Fara decides to wear mismatched socks as a statement of individuality, but once middle school starts and she wants to be known for her ideas rather than her clothing, she feels burdened by an image that she no longer wants.
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
