"An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss canderail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job....

Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.

From the acclaimed author of The Someday Birds, this contemporary middle grade novel follows neurodivergent Maudie during a remarkable summer with her dad--full of surfing lessons and new friends--that might give her the courage to share the terrible secret about life with her mom. Maudie McGinn lives for the summers she spends in California with her dad, but this year, shes shouldering the weight of a big secret, one that her mom warned her never...

Augie enjoys the company of his dog, Daisy, and using his imagination, but painfully endures the taunts of his peers because of his facial deformity.

A character enumerates a great many things that it enjoys doing, although not great at any of them, knowing that someday it will excel at something.

A bored chameleon wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather just be itself. Cutouts along the edges of the pages display various animals and colors.

"In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams. As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school...

Based on the New York best seller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

"Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club"--

Illustrations and easy-to-read text remind the reader that no matter what happens or how one feels, he or she matters.