school
— A melodramatic sixth-grader faces her turn at kickball, convinced she'll die of embarrassment, spiraling through existential revelations before being saved by the lunch bell.
— After returning from Chile, a first-grader struggles with English reading until determination and practice transform her from level B to level Q, the highest in her class.
— A girl struggles for three years to answer her teacher's question about her future dreams, only finding an answer after the teacher's death.
— A seventh-grader chronicles her weekly emotional cycle through structured verse, from Sunday's YouTube freedom to Thursday's tennis exhaustion.
— When Mike disappears from school, detectives follow clues through a haunted palace and time machine to rescue him from the Stone Age.
— A boy gets a dog his mother hates. After the mother repeatedly tries to abandon the dog, it saves her from a mugger, changing her heart.
— A 12-year-old defends her two-dad family through memories of ballet recitals, newspaper rituals, and playground confrontations, asserting that both men are her 'actual dads.'
— On planet Kepler-22b, students compete for honors status while their alien parents work light-years away, until a boy discovers the dark truth behind 'organic' education.
— A girl reflects on moving to a new house five years ago, making peace with everything except the mismatched fence her friend calls hideous.
— A girl reflects on her common name Claire, wishing for something unique, then questions whether a different name would change her identity.