individuality

After spending her life with her mentally disabled mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.

On his first day at a new school, Norm, a regular boy, has trouble fitting in with his monstrous classmates.

The Dunderheads--a gang of misfits with unique and unusual talents--come to the aid of one of their own when Spider is falsely arrested for stealing jewelry.

Piper McCloud's ability to fly sets her apart from the other kids, so her mother sends her to an exclusive school for children with exceptional abilities, but even there she does not fit in with the other students.

Ruby Lee, having moved with her mother to Florida to care for her grandmother, makes enemies with the most popular girl at her new school and worries she will never fit in.

Relates the misadventures of Marigold, who does not agree with anyone, as she shops with her mother for a coat, becomes interested in a new hobby, finds a way to "bug" her best friend, Maxine, and imaginatively copes with finding the right outfit for the first day of school.

Triplet sisters Rose, Violet, and Daffodil, grow tired of wearing the colorful party dresses that match their names and stage a revolt.

A boy with a pumpkin for a head learns a valuable lesson about what it means to be different.

Halibut Jackson is so shy that he makes special outfits to blend in wherever he goes, but the clothes he wears to a party at the palace only make him stand out.

Three babies who are growing in a garden become tired of everyone saying they are just alike, so they pop free of their pod, set off on their own adventures, and prove that each one of them is unique.