self-acceptance

Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal.".

Nursing hatred for the father who choked her and damaged her voice as a child, seventeen-year-old Alice writes songs she feels she cannot sing and seeks to reconcile her feelings for herself and her father.

A boy with a facial deformity, who enters a public school after being homeschooled for his whole life, struggles to fit in and be accepted by his classmates.

A man who has been branded a coward earns the respect of the Malay people.

Gabby Herrera struggles for acceptance from her parents who want her to be just like her responsible, obedient sister Celia, and finds herself drinking more and her life getting out of control.

Presents words and messages to strengthen and support a child's self-esteem.

Peter, a spotty pig, spends a year trying to rid himself of his spots only to find they are even bigger because he has grown-up.

A first grader learns to accept himself as he is.

Scared she's at the Enchanted Pony Academy by mistake, Daisy worries her glitter gift will never come.