Five-year-old Charley gets teased for daydreaming and drawing more than his friends, but when he meets Emma, who is physically different, he needs help remembering that being different is okay.
"A popsicle . . . accidentally melts and becomes just a plain stick. He has a hard time adjusting to his new normal but with the help of some new friends (who happen to be sticks of one kind or another) he realizes that everything happened for a reason and that melting was part of his journey"--OCLC.
Twelve-year-old Mar?a Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Mal?) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
"Seventeen-year-old Morgan is a black teen triumphantly figuring out her identity when her conservative town deems depression as a lack of faith, and blackness as something to be politely ignored"--Provided by publisher.
"Hannah Sparkles, an enthusiastic little girl who loves life and pom-poms, learns that everyone finds happiness in different ways"--Provided by publisher.
When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London--the city on wheels--is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain, and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.
When a new pig comes to Pip's school, they make her feel like she's strange. She starts to think maybe they're right until her parents take her into the city and let her see that being different is normal. This encourages Pip to embrace who she is even if she's unique.
