The King of Kindergarten
A confident little boy takes pride in his first day of kindergarten. The morning sun blares through your window like a million brass trumpets. It sits and shines behind your …
School
My School Unicorn
It’s almost time for Evie to go to school, but thinking about it makes her feel nervous. Preschool was lots of fun, but big school sounds a little bit scary. …
Save Me a Seat
Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they’re both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.← Joe’s lived in the same town all his life, and was doing …
President of the Whole Fifth Grade
When Brianna Justice’s hero, the famous celebrity chef Miss Delicious, speaks at her school and traces her own success back to being president of her fifth grade class, Brianna determines …
Love, Hate & Other Filters
American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home, and …
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
Perpetually awkward Nima Kumara-Clark is bored with her insular community of Bridgeton, in love with her straight girlfriend, and trying to move past her mother’s unexpected departure. After a bewildering …
Hurricane Child
Being born during a hurricane is unlucky, and twelve-year-old Caroline has had her share of bad luck lately. She’s hated and bullied by everyone in her small school on St. …
The Girls with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague
After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream …
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The Day You Begin
There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it’s how you look …