Twelve-year-old Lana isn’t looking for trouble when she ventures into the swampy marsh behind her family’s home in Galveston Bay. She’s just sweaty and bored and lonely, sick of sitting around doing nothing. Her family never goes anywhere. Her mom and her sisters want nothing to do with her, and none of them will talk […]

Milo Bloom, chess prodigy, doesn’t want to play chess anymore. If only he had the courage to tell someone. Instead, he blows a major chess tournament on purpose. If no one knows he wants to quit, no one can be disappointed in him. The problem is, winning that tournament was a ticket to chess camp, […]

Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota, until now. Her Mom’s plan is just to stay for a couple of weeks until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance (where she and her family are the only Asian-Americans) and at The Golden Palace—the restaurant that’s […]

All Pineda Matlage wants is to get through the school year and maybe pull an epic prank or two with his friends Junior, Ernesto, and Patsy. But class is disrupted when a slew of American soldiers descends upon their rural Texan town of Soledad. They’ll be carrying out a training exercise and taking over everything, […]

Eleven-year-old Oli is spending his spring break at Heroes Club, where autistic kids like him can build friendships and learn about their emotions. Sounds fun, right? No. Nothing like a week of forced socialization and emotional learning to ruin spring break. Oli just wants to be home, where it’s familiar, not so boring, and he […]

Happy World Down Syndrome Awareness Day!   Take a closer look at the lives of these twenty-five hard-working, passionate people with Down Syndrome. Nothing will stop them from living their best lives OUT LOUD – in sports, acting, fashion, cooking, comedy, and more. Discover that having a disability does not define anyone. We all have […]

Benny isn’t your average boy from Newfoundland. He lives in a retirement home that his mother runs, has an eighty-six-year-old best friend named Mr. Tom, knows more about fixing boats than video games, and has Mosaic Down syndrome. When Benny transitions to a mainstream classroom for the first time, the other students tease him for […]

Terpsichore can’t wait to follow in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s footsteps . . . now she just has to convince her mom. It’s 1934, and times are tough for their family. To make a fresh start, Terpsichore’s father signs up for President Roosevelt’s Palmer Colony project, uprooting them from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska. Their […]

Silke has always been good at spinning the truth and storytelling. So good that just years after arriving as a penniless orphan, she has found her way up to working for the most splendid chocolate makers in the city as a master promoter. Although Silke loves her work at the Chocolate Heart, she’s certain it […]

WARNING: This story will have you craving chocolate.   Aventurine is a brave young dragon ready to explore the world outside of her family’s mountain cave. If only they’d let her leave it. Her family thinks she’s too young to fly on her own, but she’s determined to prove them wrong by capturing the most […]