identity (philosophical concept)

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becoming the person you are
2005
Explains how one's identity is formed and discusses key elements of identity, such as family, culture and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, illnesses and disabilities, friends, hobbies, and beliefs, as well as the pressures from parents, peers, and the media that impact the development of one's identity.

Escape from Castle Cant

2006
Having escaped from Castle Cant during the Chewing Gum Rebellion, Lucy and Pauline try to elude their pursuers and one of the girls discovers a surprising truth about her parentage.

Guess what?

1990
Through a series of questions to which the reader must answer yes or no, the personality and occupation of a lady called Daisy O'Grady are revealed.

Skin again

2004
Children note that skin color is not as important as what is inside a person for determing who a person really is.

10 lucky things that have happened to me since I nearly got hit by lightning

2008
Even though her father is in prison for embezzlement, ten-year-old Effie considers herself pretty lucky until her mother's old friend, Father Frank, comes to stay with them, Effie's friend Aurora decides to quit their Catholic school to attend public school, and her contrary sister begins to transform herself into "Saint Maxey.".

Choices

2007
Overcome with guilt over her brother's death, a teenaged girl shifts between multiple universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.

The Naming

2006
A manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, an orphan gifted in the magic and power of the Bards, as she escapes from slavery and begins to learn how to use her Gift to stave off the evil Darkness that threatens to consume her world.

The princess & the pauper

2004
Julia is desperate to find a way to help out her family while Princess Carina, who is Julia's exact double, is looking for a way to lose her ever-present bodyguards; so when Carina happens to spot Julia, she offers her ten thousand dollars to switch identities for a day.

Wish

2013
This combination of four previously published works, edited to form a single narrative, follows best friends Lucy and Soledad's adventures in Faerieground where they discover the dark secret of the Queen, and confront their own identities.

Emily the Strange

the lost days
2009
Emily the Strange has lost her memory and finds herself in the town of Blackrock with nothing more than her diary, her slingshot, and the clothes on her back.

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