"Frances Pauley learns the value of friendship while staying true to herself"--

After her beloved father's death in 1977, eleven-year-old tomboy Chip tries to fit with her family of beauty queens, making unlikely new friends at Miss Vernie's unusual charm school in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.

When Tiffany challenges her to a laugh-off, Pinkalicious is determined to come up with the all-time funniest joke.

Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.

A sixth grader stumbles upon a secret that threatens to turn schoolchildren everywhere into mindless automatons.

When the Ploofers decide they are going to do something together, all at the same time, one Ploofer does something different.

Eleven-year-old Calli, the third child in a family of busy high-achievers, likes to take her time and observe rather than rush around, and when she meets an awkward, insecure second-grader named Noah and is paired with him in the Peer Helper Program, she finds satisfaction and strength in working with him.

A young girl aspires to dance despite her disability. Welcome to Sametown where everyone and everything is...well...the same. Except Mara! She's a little different. She' bright. She's sunny. And, unlike her classmates who are all planning on performing a similar magic show act at the school talent show, she is going to dance, dance, dance! One problem: everyone in Sametown – her classmates, her teacher-they all think she shouldn't do it. And it's...

Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.

"An ode to the richly varied tapestry of experiences and identities that make every child unique"--