individuality

Alphonse, a young hippopotamus too big, green, and different to fit in, leaves the circus where his family lives and goes to New York City, where he finally finds a friend who likes him just the way he is.

A collection of fun facts and activities designed to help children learn about who they are and why they think, feel, act, and look the way they do.

Lizzie, who has always been considered a nerd by the other kids, begins the seventh grade determined to change her image so that she can blend in better with the popular crowd.

In illustrations and brief text, enumerates a number of different things that are okay, such as "It's okay to be short" and "It's okay to dream big.".

Nine-year-old Martin has a busy year in the fourth grade as he tries to find his own identity both at school and among his large and busy family.

Realizing that he is different from other wood thrushes, Willie sets out on his own and becomes famous when he creates his own songs to accompany a flautist who is his devoted friend.

Sarey is tired of being teased by her classmates because of her size and the difficulties she has with reading, so when her parents decide to move to Maine, she looks forward to a new start, and as she helps her family build their new home, she finds the self-confidence she has always lacked.

Rhyming text points out the many ways in which people differ from one another and encourages individuality.

Thirteen-year-old Maggie Blume is a perfectionist who struggles with the normal things in life and in school, and she shares her thoughts through poems and songs in her journals.

When fifteen-year-old Sara unearths a flying carpet in Turkey, it takes her and new friend Amesh to the mysterious Island of the Djinn where she faces terrible creatures and an impossible decision--whether to save mankind, herself, or the boy she is coming to love.