Eleven-year-old Tally is starting sixth grade at Kingswood Academy and she really wants to fit in, which means somehow hiding her autism, hypersensitivity to touch, and true self, and trying to act "normal" like her former best friend, Layla, who is distancing herself from Tally and her fourteen-year-old sister, Nell, who is always angry with Tally for being different; but as she records her thoughts and anxieties in her coping diary, Tally begins...

"All living creatures have a special place in the world in this extraordinary exploration of the concept of self for very young readers"--Provided by publisher.

Fourteen-year-old Hudson is a gifted singer/songwriter like her mother, pop sensation Holla Jones, but while working on her debut album, Hudson struggles to convince her mother that she would rather stick with her own, intimate style than follow her mother's path to fame.

"Skyler Hanson is a fashion expert. So when snooty Madison Gillette challenges her to transform a Mathlete into a dream date before the Valentine's Day Dance, Skyler takes the bet. But nerdy Nathan Stillman is a handful. He does everything his own way, from wearing science googles to playing drums in a misfit rock band. The more Skyler tries to change him, the more he changes her. Can she make over the mathlete? Or will Skyler become a fashion victim?"--p.[4]...

April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a "buddy bench monitor" for the fourth grade recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. Over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from above, a story emerges.

Raised by strict, devout people after soul eaters attacked her village and spared only the children, Alys grows up longing for the freedom of the forest while hiding a gift that would mark her as a witch.

Heartfelt and timeless, Remarkably You is an inspirational manifesto about all of the things-little or small, loud or quiet-that make us who we are.

Quiet Bunny loves the beautiful colors of springtime in the forest so much, he wants to change his fur's winter colors.

Future anthropologist Francis "Figgrotten" Pauley loves being unique, even if that means having only one friend, and that her puzzling older sister pretends Francis was adopted, until a death changes her perspective.

"When a loud-mouthed tickbird lands on Mortimer the rhino's nose and starts a symbiotic relationship, the reserved Mortimer is mortified, until he realizes they just might be the perfect pair"--