Forced to stay with her mother in Puerto Rico for weeks after her grandmother's funeral, half-Jewish Emily, who has just graduated from a Westchester, New York, high school, does not find it easy to connect with her Puerto Rican heritage and relatives she had never met. (Puerto Rican/Jewish)

Fifteen-year-old Patty Ho, half Taiwanese and half white, feels she never fits in, but when her overly-strict mother ships her off to math camp at Stanford, instead of being miserable, Patty starts to become comfortable with her true self. (Taiwanese/White)

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois. (Black/White)

In 1832, Prudence Crandall begins admitting black girls to her exclusive Connecticut school, scandalizing white society and eventually causing her arrest and the closing of her school. (Black/Native American/White)

At Seattle's annual Folk Fest, twelve-year-old Fiona and her older brother are torn between trying to please their Chinese grandmother and making their Scottish grandparents happy. (Chinese/White)

After the Civil War ends, Paul-Edward finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own. (Black/White)

Eleven-year-old Daughter, called a 'zebra' by a boy at school because she is part black and part white, wonders exactly who and what she is. (Black/White)

Eleven-year-old Robin, a promising young ballet student, cannot afford to continue lessons when her grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong, creating conflict among the entire family. (Chinese/White)

Vera, an Aleutian Islander, recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to 'protect' the population from the invading Japanese. (Native American/White)

Raised on a commune by a granola-munching ex-hippie mother, fifteen-year-old Moonbeam realizes that nothing is normal in his life and so sets out to change things. (Native American/White)

After he feels a mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods, Armie looks to old Shawnee tales for guidance about the dangerous monster lurking in the water. (Native American/Armenian)

When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with her cousin Trout, she begins to question her sexuality and catches a glimpse of her possible future self. (Black/White)

Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. (Black/White/Japanese)

Teenage America, a not-black, not-white, not-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together. (Black/White)

Despite a warm relationship with her mother, stepfather, and half brother, sixteen-year-old Kim feels the need to find answers about the Japanese American father she never knew. (Japanese/White)

While reciting her poetry at a club in Queens, New York, seventeen-year-old Orphea recounts her childhood in Pennsylvania, leaving after her parents and the girl she loves die, and learning about her family and herself while living with her great-aunts on a Virginia mountaintop. (Black/White)

Second-grader Tiger Turcotte is nervous about having to take a practice standardized test. His biggest problem, though, turns out to be filling out the cover. (Black/Native American/Hispanic)

In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief. (Native American/White)

When eleven-year-old Rayona's mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father finally introduces her to his side of the family, who are not at all what she expected. (Native American/Black)

Abandoned by her father, thirteen-year-old Caroline runs away to join Shawnee Sam's Wild West Extravaganza in the hope of learning more about her mother, a performer who died in childbirth and whose origins have been kept a secret from Caroline. (Native American/White)