Being Different
We all feel different at some time. Meet other kids who don't want to stand out from the crowd, but can't avoid it.
Fiction |
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| Author | Title |
| Bauer, Marion Dane (Editor) | Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence. |
| Sixteen stories by well-known writers tell about growing up gay or lesbian, or having gay or lesbian friends or parents. | |
| Bloor, Edward | Tangerine |
| Paul lives in a strange world of semi-blindness, natural disasters, and mystery about his disability. | |
| Bunting, Eve | Spying on Miss Muller |
| At the start of World War II, girls attending boarding school in Belfast suspect their beloved German teacher of espionage. | |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Bluish |
Ten year olds Dreenie and Tuli are nervous about approaching Natalie, a classmate with leukemia. |
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| Holt, Kimberly Willis | My Louisiana Sky |
| Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, Tiger Ann relies on Granny, because her parents are "slow." | |
| Johnson, Angela | Humming Whispers |
| Sophy fears that she will become like her older sister Nicole who has schizophrenia. | |
| Kindl, Patrice. | Owl in Love |
| Owl Tycho, a high school student who can shape-shift into an owl, has a crush on her science teacher. | |
| Mahy, Margaret | The Underrunners |
| The tunnels where Australian kids Tris and Winola run to escape their unhappy lives become a place of danger. | |
| Namioka Lensey | Ties That Bind, Ties That Break |
| In 1911 China, upper-class families bound the feet of their young daughters to keep them small. Five-year-old Ailin won't allow this. | |
| Philbrick, Rodman | Freak the Mighty |
| Two-foot-tall Freak has a brilliant mind; learning-disabled Max is physically powerful. Together, they make an impressive team. | |
| Pinkwater, Jill | Mister Fred |
| Class 6-A suspects that their new teacher is a telepathic alien, just because he can read minds. | |
| Sachar, Louis | Holes |
| Stanley Yelnats is sent to a horrible work camp in the desert for a crime he didn't commit. | |
| Say, Allen | The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice |
| Kiyoi, a 13-year-old schoolboy living alone in Tokyo, seeks out a famous cartoonist as a teacher. Based on the author's life. | |
| Sleator, William | Oddballs |
| Odd and unusual stories based on people in the author's own family. | |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Wringer |
| In Palmer's town, 10-year-old boys come of age by wringing the necks of wounded pigeons at the annual Pigeon day. | |
| Strete, Craig | The World in Grandfather's Hands |
| After his father's death, Jimmy and his mother must leave the pueblo to live in the city with Grandfather Whitefeather. | |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun |
| Fourteen-year-old Melanin Sun's familiar life is shattered when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a woman. | |
Non-Fiction |
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| Call Number | Author | Title |
| 305.8 W556S | Gaskins, Pearl Fuyo (Editor) | What Are You?:Voices of Mixed-Race People |
| What does it feel like to belong to more than one race? Forty-five young people tell their stories. | ||
| 920 B7639at | Bridges, Ruby | Through My Eyes: The Autobiography of Ruby Bridges |
| Ruby Bridges tells the story of her involvement, at the age of six, in the integration of her school in 1960 New Orleans. | ||
| 920 K261as | Kehret, Peg | Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio |
| The author describes her battle with polio when she was twelve, and how it affected her life. | ||
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