Smart, occasionally insecure, and ambitious Brooklyn fourteen-year-old Kelsey Finkelstein embarks on her freshman year of high school in Manhattan with the intention of "rebranding" herself, but unfortunately everything she tries to do is a total disaster.
secrets to loving your inner and outer beauty from someone who's been there and back
Schwarzenegger, Katherine
2010
Katherine Schwarzenegger encourages girls and women to embrace their inner and outer beauty, accept their bodies no matter what size, and learn to love themselves.
Ninth grader Renata Nunes, a Brazilian immigrant who has won the lead part in her school's musical, finally gets the strength to stand up to Karin, her hateful understudy, when Karin humiliates her in hopes of stealing the role through intimidation.
In Somerset, England, during World War I, Celandine becomes involved in the lives of the little people living on a hill near her family's farm, while also coming to terms with her own healing abilities and psychic gifts.
Aspiring author and eighth-grader Lily Blennerhassett hones her writing skills as her school newspaper's advice columnist while also trying to get her first crush, The Boy, to notice her.
Theresa Joanne (T.J. To her friends) has a difficult year when her best friend moves away, her brother leaves home, and boys treat her like a friend and do not notice that she is a girl. When Lucy befriends her, things start to look up.
In 1921 thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left-handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome.
A traumatic event in the lives of seventeen-year-old Stephen and his fourteen-year-old sister helps them to understand and accept themselves and each other.
Sixteen-year-old Leenie is bitterly determined not to let the mother who left her as an infant back into her life, but a tentative friendship with a young photographer helps her see the situation from a new perspective.
