individuality

Seventeen-year-old Isabel, eager to leave Miami to attend the University of Michigan and escape her overprotective Cuban mother, learns some truths about her family's past and makes important decisions about the type of person she wants to be.

Thrown out of her home by her stepmother in 1670, fifteen-year-old Eliza Rose becomes a companion of actress Nelly Gwyn, a mistress of Charles II, and learns a surprising truth about her parentage.

Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.

Fed up with her unruly, brightly colored hair, a young girl named Ellie sets out on a world-wide journey to find someone with hair like hers. When she becomes lost along the way, however, her hair ends up becoming the tool that saves her.

Tired of the same old hairstyles sported by all the girls in her class, Annabelle spots an idea for a new style when she sees a picture of her grandmother sporting a bouffant. However, she quickly realizes that getting her hair to stand up like she wants is more difficult than she thought.

A young girl wonders what she can be as she tries on different costumes from her dress-up box, and finds that being herself is the best choice.

A child who has trouble with some of the soccer skills finds an important role as goalie.

Because Angela seems to have become a totally different person and tells of being abducted by aliens and living among them, her friends change their minds about her.

Eleven-year-old Simon has been raised to be extremely well-behaved, but when he goes to visit his unconventional great-aunt he discovers that not everyone has the same ideas about good manners.