Looks at what pairs of children have in common, despite their obvious differences, such as Daisy and Kit both kicking hard in the swimming pool, although one's legs are short and the other's long.

"A picture book about how family and community help shape the wonderful people our children become"--

Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.

An artist, displeased with her drawing, tries to make it better but the figure, Viva, comes to life and proclaims that she is happy just as she is.--

As a young girl observes that each of six women in her life wears her hijab and hair in a different way, she considers how to express her own style one day.

Gondra, a little dragon, celebrates her uniqueness while talking with her parents about differences between her father's homeland in the East, and her mother's in the West.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Sophie's found the sweetest name of all! Sophie has tried being awesome, heroic, a chatterbox, a zillionaire, a snoop, and a daredevil, but none of her names have stuck. Until now! Love is in the air-so what better name for Sophie to try out than Sophie the Sweetheart? But a mystery note and a run-in with her ex-best friend (and major nemesis), Toby, might make it hard for Sophie to stay super sweet.

In Freedom Prime, young adults can choose their name, their trade, and their gender, but the one thing they cannot choose is to be part of a family, because the family unit has been eradicated.

Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.

Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite the virus he carries that makes him a threat.