When a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.

Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

Each believing that their hue is the best, the three primary colors live in separate parts of the city until Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix.

Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class--as his parents keep reminding him--but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.

A twelve-year-old boy and his dog become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.

Jay Thacker is used to being called names because his dad is half Navajo. But he gets a chance at a new life and a new identity when he and his mom move to the small town of Delta, Utah, to live with Jay's grandfather. In Delta, Jay can convince everyone, and maybe even himself, that his dad --who is missing in action-- as he fights in WWII is really a POW and military hero, and not gone forever. As the summer wears on and Jay finds himself growing...