Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.

A forgotten homemade robot comes to life just when aspiring fifth-grade scientist Maya needs a friend--and a science fair project.

Fourteen-year-old Sparrow Cooke of Brooklyn has always been the kind of child who prefers reading books to playing with friends (not that she has many of those) and since fifth grade the one person who seemed to understand her was the school librarian--sowhen Mrs. Wexler was killed in an accident Sparrow's world came apart, and when she was found on the edge of the school roof everyone assumed that it was a suicide attempt, which Sparrow denies, but...

Black girls, including gender non-conforming individuals, star in this collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic.

"Die 16-jährige Starr Carter bewegt sich zwischen zwei Welten: dem Armenviertel, in dem sie lebt, und der schicken Vorstadt-Vorschule, die sie besucht. Das unsichere Gleichgewicht zwischen diesen Welten wird erschüttert, als Starr Zeuge der tödlichen Erschießung ihres besten Freundes aus Kindertagen, Khalil, durch einen Polizisten wird." "Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy...