disfigured persons

Fifteen-year-old Mia's scarred face is a constant reminder of the car crash that killed her sister, but a summer at her grandmother's Manhattan apartment and new friends help her find happiness again.

Convinced that if she looks like a monster on the outside (a blood tumor covers half of her face), she must be a monster on the inside as well, Sophie tries to find a cure before her mother finds out the truth.

In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.

In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.

Bethan, apprentice to a Welsh Roma witch, is harrassed by the son of the clan's chieftan and then, after a brutal assault against her and a friend, must collect grisly objects to save her friend's life.

When Jessica, a new student who was badly burned in a fire, attends St. Catherine's while getting treatments at a nearby hospital, seventh-grader Tom wrestles with his aversion to her appearance while gradually learning to accept her as a friend.

When her mirror sister, Parva, a twin confined to the subterranean world beneath London, populated by amazing creatures and terrible danger, is abducted, disfigured Pen Khan, burdened by a life of secrets, makes a terrible bargain for the means to track her down.

"Eighteen-year-old Jonathan Aubrey, a scarred loner, escapes at will into other worlds of his making but suddenly, the world where a popular girl is his long-term girlfriend is intersecting reality in startling ways"--Provided by publisher.

"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--.

Written as a college admission essay, eighteen-year-old Harry Jones recounts a childhood defined by the hideous scars he hid behind, and how forming a band brought self-confidence, friendship, and his first kiss.