Even though he tries in turn to look more spoonish and then more forkish, the hybrid Spork never gets chosen at mealtimes until something arrives one day that doesn't care about cutlery customs.

"Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that. Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. He looks at the stars at night. He swims in crazy circles instead of straight lines. His house is a mess. It's a good thing Chad has a normal friend like Theodora to set a good example for him. But who exactly is...

"Lili Macaroni loves every feature she has inherited from a family member, but when she starts kindergarten she is teased for those very traits. Burdened by unhappiness, she creates a polka-dotted butterfly and imagines it flying her sorrows away--and finds she has introduced a powerful tool for conversations about emotions, self-esteem, and resilience"--