self-acceptance

Lilly finds self-confidence and the strength to stand-up to a bully through her friendship with crows.

A manifesto for women to get what they want in their lives provides practical advice in the arenas of love, work, or the world at large, empowering women to remake their lives and make their dreams come true.

After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.

As a troubled young teen struggles to free himself from his past and the implications of the present conspiracies that surround him, Dooley tries to prove his innocence in a suicide that looks like murder.

At first upset about having to wear glasses and an eye patch to correct her lazy eye, five-year-old Becca soon discovers that her new accessories allow her to take on such roles as a ballerina-pirate and a private eye.

Self-conscious about its ears, a dog tries doing a number of things to make them look better.

A young Native American girl's feelings are hurt when schoolmates make fun of her and other people who live at the lake, but then her grandpa tells her a Seneca folktale that reminds her how much she appreciates her home and her place in the world.

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.".

Franny, embarrassed by a birth defect that causes her right foot to curl in, and by her beautiful, flamboyant mother, Margaret, has a life-changing experience when Margaret announces she is taking Franny to Italy to have Salvatore Ferragamo sculpt her a special pair of shoes.

A summer in Tarrytown, N.Y., is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she doesn't want to admit.