This title features a variety of families from big and small, to some with only one parent or some with two moms and dads - but all alike in some ways and special no matter what. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.

Ruby, the last of Mother Duck's and Father Duck's eggs to hatch, is slower to develop than her four siblings, until the day that she flies further and higher than any of them.

Tally is just like her friends. Well, sometimes she is. If she tries really hard to be. Because there's something that makes Tally not the same as her friends. Something she can't cover up, no matter how hard she tries: Tally is autistic. Tally's autism means there are things that bother her even though she wishes they didn't. It means that some people misunderstand, her and feel frustrated by her. People think that because Tally's autistic, she doesn't...

When Franny Stein, self-styled mad scientist, creates a robot to show her school friends the joys of science, she ends up learning something from them instead.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. La sociedad en la que vive Jonás es la perfecta descripción del mundo perfecto. Todo está bajo control; no hay colores, ni música, no hay guerra, ni posibilidad de elección. Cada persona se ajusta a las Normas de su Comunidad. Cuando Jonás...

"The only bat at her new school, Bitsy does not feel like she fits in, but after some encouragement, Bitsy learns that everyone shines differently"--

On his first day at a new school, Norm, a regular boy, has trouble fitting in with his monstrous classmates.

A child describes the feelings and emotions which are the mark of his individual self.