self-confidence

Harper's passion is parkour, but when the big competition is cancelled and she has no place to compete she tries out for a gymnastics team.

When Charm, a young witch, crash lands in Sparklegrove Forest, Bo and the other young unicorns set out to help her with her flying skills and her confidence.

Twelve-year-old Valeria "Magic" Salom?n is a soccer prodigy, and she is the only girl on the elite boys' team her abuelo coaches. She's determined to make it to the Olympic Development Program, but when Magic gets her first period and embarrassingly bleeds through her white shorts in front of everyone during a State Cup match, she's cut from the team. Valeria talks her way onto a girls' soccer team, despite having missed the tryout, but her new teammates are less than thrilled as she's spent years ignoring them to compete with the boys. Valeria must learn how to play with a team, instead of just focusing on herself, and things get even more complicated when Valeria's cousin Max comes from Argentina to live with them, and he takes over Valeria's old position on the team.

Bay Ann is sure her tap dance will shine at the school talent show, but when her crush, Alyee Maq, catches her before she falls (which was his fault anyway) and gets all the "fame" she is determined to beat him at his own attention-seeking game.

Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.

"A deaf girl stands up for herself and takes off her shoes while dancing at her Carnival performance so she can feel the music through her bare feet"--Provided by publisher.

"Because she loves horses but is scared of them, Melody wants to conquer her fears, so she hopes a summer camp will be the place to welcome someone with cerebral palsy who wants to learn to ride"--OCLC.

In this semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Canadian Chinese boy Kevin Lee, a budding comic book artist, feels invisible at home, in his mom's alterations shop, and in middle school where they call him "Egg Boy." Kevin longs to stand out so on a class trip to an amusement park, he decides to take a risk.

Late bloomer Rex navigates a low-income family, bullies, sports, and middle school, all while learning to have confidence with a body that refuses to stop changing.

Twelve-year-old Calvin is the small but speedy left wing for his hockey team, but when he takes a really hard bodycheck during the first game of a tournament he starts to freeze up on the ice and worry he will be benched.