individuality

From Elephant's long nose to Kangaroo's huge feet to Monkey's stick-out ears, everyone is worth celebrating, no matter what they look like.

Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.

While playing in the championship softball game, star pitcher KT Sutton blacks out and awakes to a changed world where the roles of academics and sports at her middle school have flipped, making talented athletes, such as KT, outcasts and brainy nerds popular.

Roberta is welcomed by different groups on her first day at a new school, only to be told she does not fit in with them for some reason, but by the next day, members of each group have begun to see that they do not have to be alike in every way.

After defeating the evil M?r, Fer must compete in a contest that will either seal her fate as the ruler of the Summerlands or send her back to the human world forever.

Of all the things that Sue Snue might decide to do she wants to be herself and do what she wants to do.

Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.

Harry the hammerhead shark wishes he could be any other type of shark, but when a class trip to a famous shipwreck almost ends in disaster, Harry realizes the importance of being exactly who he is.

"[Presents] two novels which can be read separately or in alternating chapters. In "Lyra," two experimental subjects escape from the Haven Institute, where human replicas are created and observed; [and] in "Gemma," a lonely, often-ill teenager discovers her father's connection to the Haven Institute and travels there, meeting the escaped replicas"--OCLC.

Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.