individuality

The small and mischievous creatures known as the Hueys all look and behave in the exact same way, and when one decides it wants to be different and knits a sweater, the others decide they want to be different and knit sweaters that look exactly the same.

When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.

Sequel to: The silver bowl.

Fourteen-year-old Gardner, trying to find some direction in his life, is shocked to discover that his unemployed father considers himself a failure.

As one of an ancient line of creatures who gain energy from human tears, seventeen-year-old Cassandra offers sympathy to anyone at her school or the hospital where she works, but she yearns to be fully human for the boy she loves, even if it means letting her family down.

Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

Rachel, a teenager with a healthy dose of both aptitude and attitude, begins to feel at home volunteering at an animal shelter.

In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger management problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.

Contends that by trying to be an individual one is actually conforming to a certain group of people; discussing pop culture's role in this conformity and the nature of individuality.

Jason faces an identity crisis when everyone in Billington starts acting strange and he discovers that he is actually the son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched invasion mission.