self-discovery
— A girl with a vast imagination discovers her father is the legendary Bird of Steel and must steal his power to save Riverhaven from eternal conflict between humans and magical...
— A girl who hates her ugliness wishes on a star to bring her stone gargoyle to life, then learns through painful transformations that she was already beautiful.
— An alien from planet Watercolors dreams of being an explorer, builds his own spaceship to visit Earth, and ends up copying everything humans say because he doesn't speak English.
— A poor farm girl discovers money in an abandoned house, uses it for school, and starts a newspaper that leads to an unexpected friendship with a rival.
— 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 physically timid girl who has failed at every sport finally learns to ride a bike, discovering freedom and confidence in the process.
— A young writer confronts human hypocrisy and self-righteousness, building to the admission that we're all guilty of the stupidity we see in others.
— A girl reflects on her common name Claire, wishing for something unique, then questions whether a different name would change her identity.
— A girl contemplates the unnamed plants around her house, finding in their seasonal color changes a mirror for her own shifting moods.