A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

Elric and Wynn live in the Between protected by the Fairy Queen, but a creature sent by the evil Grendel forces Wynn to enter the Nightfell Wood where Grendel lives and Elric must find a way into the dangerous region to save his sister.

While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends.

In 1928, Maxine, Rose, Alice, and London face vicious attendants and bullying older girls at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, each determined to change her fate at all costs. Includes historical notes about eugenics.

Alice embellishes posters with the words she cannot speak due to a brain injury suffered during a sexual assault, but she discovers an unlikely match in Manny, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, when he finds one of her poems.

Allie helps Jesse, her older, mentally disabled brother on his way to school and endures the taunts of other children, but she does not understand why God made Jesse the way he is until she takes the time to walk in his shoes for a while.

"Marcus Vega mide seis pies de altura, pesa 180 libras y luce un incipiente bigote. Cuando tienes esta apariencia y apenas estás en octavo grado, te conviertes en una figura imponente y, al mismo tiempo, en un blanco fácil. Después de un altercado en la escuela que resulta en una suspensión para Marcus, su madre decide que es hora de un cambio de ambiente. Los lleva a él y a su hermano menor a Puerto Rico para pasar una semana con parientes a...