individuality

Contains two dark, mystical novels about the search for self including "Missing Angel Juan, " and "Baby Be-Bop.".

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

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.

Twelve-year-old Rosemary observes life in a small North Carolina town in 1790, where she must decide on her life path when her supernatural abilities become apparent.

Emily Curtis, a would-be auto mechanic, is forced to live with her dad's wealthy sister after her mom dies. However, her aunt tries to make her into a perfectly feminine replica of her own daughter and Emily struggles between that attempted makeover and being true to herself. Because she hasn't been able to pray since her mother died, Emily feels alone and misunderstood in this strange new world.

Despite the derision of most of her peers for her fashion-forward designs and eclectic dress style, high-school freshman Lynn Vincent has always had confidence in her own creative abilities and sense of fashion until she is persuaded to audition for an online teen magazine and wears her most amazing creation.

As the last one to see thirteen-year-old Abby, Emma is determined to discover the truth about her mysterious disappearance, spurred in part by her feelings of guilt over ending their friendship in order to ensure popularity at her new school.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Lisl develops her sense of self while her mother is dying of cancer.

Two young cats, whose dinner guest is a giraffe, are not sure they want to meet this unusual stranger, but they change their minds after getting to know him.