Although she dresses differently from the other girls and does things which are unusual, Velvet eventually teaches her classmates that even an outsider has something to offer.

"Ping and Pong are friends, even though they like to do different things"--

Winnie is worried when her best friends Zoe and Vanessa enroll her in ballet classes with them, since she would rather go to the library and read like they always do.

On the outside, Bernadette is a lot like the other monsters in her class but when she shows that she can be sweet, her classmates reject her until she finds a way to fit in again.

"Sophie MIller's life is boring. Average. Blah. She's not the oldest or the youngest, the tallest or the shortest. She's not even the only Sophie in her third-grade class! Sophie knows she's special. And she's come up with the perfect name to show it: Sophie the Awesome! But living up to her name won't be easy--especially if super-annoying Toby Myers has anything to say about it. Can Sophie prove her awesomeness... and prove everyone wrong?"--P. [4]...

Pauline the Hen's efforts to lay eggs result in unusual eggs in the image of whatever she was looking at while concentrating. A windfall for her Easter egg-selling owner, her ability produces a bigger surprise when some of the eggs start to hatch!

A proper bulldog raised in a poodle family and a tough poodle raised in a bulldog family meet one day in the park.

When Two's best friend One starts spending time with Three, Two feels left out, but when Four, Six, and Eight try to help, they only create a new divide between the odds and evens, until Zero steps in and sets things straight.

Illustrations and rhyming text describe a pair of twin sisters, who look very much alike but have different hobbies and interests.

It’s always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they’ve learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women. Staying over at a boyfriend's place is disguised as a best friend’s sleepover, and tiredness can be blamed on studying instead of partying. They know they’re existing in a perfect moment. With growing older and...