Akron Public Library

"Auggie knows he's not an ordinary kid. He does plenty of ordinary things. He feels ordinary. He just doesn't look ordinary. Growing up as an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face isn't easy, but Auggie is a wonder. He and his trusty sidekick, Daisy, play ball, eat ice cream, and use their imaginations to soar through their days together. They know it's not just Auggie who's different. Everyone is different, and everyone is a wonder - if only they...

Lucy decides to help Ralph when he is in trouble, despite the fact that he teases her for being different.

Ella is nervous about the first day of school in her new town, but wearing her grandmother's good luck hat makes her feel better--until the other students tease her and call her names.

Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.

"Posey gets in trouble when she makes up a not-so-nice song about one of the boys in her class"--

Seven-year-old Veronica and the newly-formed Fix-It Friends confront a boy who will not stop teasing others. Includes notes for children and their parents.

"Lucy is teased by a boy at school because she is different. She has the courage to be true to herself and to make the right choice when that same boy needs help." -- t.p. verso.

Relates the experiences of a dark-skinned, curly-haired child who wishes he could look more like the lighter-skinned children in his community until his mother helps him realize how wonderful he is inside and out.

Kicky endures teasing from the other rainforest frogs because he is the only one who still has a tail-- until piranhas attack and Kicky's tail saves the day.