Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight g

Alice is in the eighth grade, and while she wants her life to be exciting and outrageous, she also wants to feel protected and safe.

Alice is in the eighth grade, and while she wants her life to be exciting and outrageous, she also wants to feel protected and safe.

Wanting more than the Maori customs and rituals provide Te Arepa believes his prayers are answered when he is awarded a scholarship to a boarding

Entering Brookside Academy in the sixth grade, Abby is determined to reinvent herself as a confident and popular "Abbi," but she is shocked to fi

So far second grade is not living up to Audrey Locke's hopes, because she is not really the best at anything, the other girls leave her out, and

After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very con

The guidance of two adults and his interest in motorcycles and writing help high school junior Bert Bowden regain the sense of self that had been

Having quickly fled with her mom and sister to America, twelve-year-old Fredericka tries to rally prevalent help for her imperial family so as to

After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.

Eight-year-old Benjy, who is always being teased because he resembles Abraham Lincoln, learns to accept and appreciate his face when he attends a

Josie, a fifteen-year-old high school sophomore, is smart, funny, and very much her own person, but when popular senior Carson Gold starts wooing