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Lydia Hawkins, a daughter of poverty living in the Appalachian Mountains, is sent to live with her uncle and aunt after her brother and grandmother die and her mother is unjustly jailed. Subjected to ridicule at her new school because of her homemade clothes, Appalachian accent, and her mother's incarceration, she is determined to overcome this and find a way to clear her mother's name.

The Reverend Fickett, his wife, and four children live comfortably in a privileged and conservative small town in California. They adopt Edgar Allan, a black child. The impact on their community and family is described.

While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.

Sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents which means that she faces a choice between her best friend and her current crush versus potential new friends and possible boyfriends in her vampire class.

In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.

Since his much-publicized adoption at age three by American movie stars, thirteen-year-old Josef's carefully scripted public life has hidden the isolation he feels at home, but writing a book with a ghostwriter reveals much about his adoptive family and the one he lost during the war in Croatia.

Disaster strikes when Ana Shen is about to deliver the salutatorian speech at her junior high school graduation, but an even greater crisis looms when her best friend invites a crowd to Ana's house for dinner, and Ana's multicultural grandparents must find a way to share a kitchen.

In Uganda in 1972, fifteen-year-old Sabine and her family, wealthy citizens of Indian descent, try to preserve their normal life during the ninety days allowed by President Idi Amin for all foreign Indians to leave the country, while soldiers and others terrorize them and people disappear.

In 1943 Oregon, eleven-year-old Hazel befriends a fifteen-year-old Japanese-American orphan boy she discovers hiding from internment on her neighbor's farm.

A collection of twelve comics featuring self-proclaimed underachiever Bart Simpson, along with his parents Marge and Homer, his siblings Maggie and Lisa, and other characters from Springfield.