Seventeen-year-old Isabel, eager to leave Miami to attend the University of Michigan and escape her overprotective Cuban mother, learns some truths about her family's past and makes important decisions about the type of person she wants to be.
After a lifetime of conforming to the image of what her parents and high school friends want her to be, Sarah must come to terms with her own identity when her destructive best friend tries to commit suicide. Told in the form of free-verse poems.
While on a single-minded quest to catch an elusive giant trout, sixteen-year-old Lewis Hinton's life in a small Idaho town is turned upside-down when he learns that he is adopted and might be a descendant of French royalty.
After graduating from high school and deciding not to go on to college, a young girl struggles to figure out who she is and what she wants to do with her life.
A little girl asks her grandmother to try being "normalish" instead of wearing a pointy hat, taking her cats and frogs and bats with her wherever she goes, and driving a flying car, but neither one is happy with the results.
Marshall Armstrong, having a hard time fitting in with the kids at his new school because of the way he looks and the food he eats, invites his classmates to his house for a birthday party and makes sure it is not a disaster.
Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.
Tired of being one of three look-alike sisters that no one can tell apart, Daffodil puts on a papier m?ch? crocodile head and has her own individual adventures.
