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Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor heads into seventh grade armed with advice his grandfather gave him: to find a thing he's good at and become the best at it. But Rahul struggles with his identity, including his confusing attraction to classmate Justin Emery. Rahul joins the Mathletes but it doesn't go as planned, and when Jenny asks him to a dance, Rahul spirals into depression and anxiety. With the help of his best friend Chelsea, Rahul confronts who he actually is.

Everyone on his campus seems to love Remy Cameron, admired for his cheerful confidence--if they only knew that Remy doesn't feel the same way about himself. Now he has to write an A+ essay to define who he wants to be, and must embark on a journey into the heart of his emotions and identity to slough off the labels other people have given to him.

Sixteen-year-old Allie has known since she was seven years old that her family is different and even feared. She struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager.

Sixteen-year-old Maddy is smart, deep-thinking, and funny, with loyal friends, a loving mother, and a crush on Jack. She also has cancer. Forced to mature quickly, Maddy tells her story, moving from their home in Pennsylvania to Washington, DC, and ultimately to London, searching for her dad, and for all of the life experiences she can have to defy her cancer.

Jackson finds himself in over his head when he tries to save Abby from her drug-dealer boyfriend.

A young woman from Antigua comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple and observes the growing problems in her employers' marriage while exploring her newfound sexuality.

A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

"Selina Kyle's coming-of-age-story as she claws her way to the top of Gotham City's criminal underbelly and becomes Catwoman"--Provided by publisher.

Thirteen-year-old Boli lives in a small pueblo near Mexico City, a landscape destroyed by drug crime, and when his parents leave town and are not heard from, Boli hopes to inspire a luchador to help him find them.

Seventeen-year-old Masi Burciaga's barrio becomes more like a ghost town every day, but when she and other youths are recruited to erect a giant pyramid in hopes of attracting tourists, she wonders about the entrepreneur behind the scheme--and his attractive son.