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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

When he stumbles upon Ricky, a young Navajo man, beaten and dying in the newly fallen snow, part-time history professor Ben Bailey questions everything in his life, including his relationship with his fiancée Sara, and decides to discover the truth about Ricky's death.

Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.

The free-spirited UglyDolls learn what it means to be different and struggle with a desire to be loved and accepted.

Mara, who has a violent temper, uses rage to offer her relief from the world, but when an unspeakable event occurs, she is forced to look inward and discover something about herself.

When cosmetology student Charlotte Pringle, who has always wanted to run a beauty salon, realizes that she cannot do everything herself, she learns to be less controlling and more relaxed.

When his parents decide to separate, eighth-grader Donnie watches with horror as the physical condition of his sixteen-year old sister, Karen, deteriorates due to an eating disorder.

When almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is turned into a frog, she puts into practice lessons from the book, "The Art of Being a Princess," as she tries to become her less-than-perfect self again. One should be able to say of a princess “She was as good as she was beautiful,” according to The Art of Being a Princess (third revised edition), which the almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is supposed to be reading. Not feeling particularly...

Twelve-year-old Jake Waters cannot wait to escape the small town of Patience, Kansas, until the arrival of a cursed toilet plunger causes him to reevaluate his feelings toward his family and its history.