A young Black girl confronts her overbearing mother's poverty and her lack of a father when she is coerced into attending a program intended to make her a "professional" member of society who can break the cycle of poverty.

A young Chinese-American girl deals with her delusional and manipulative grandmother when her grandmother visits from China.

A Laotian six-year-old, whose parents can't read English, struggles in school.

The 15-year-old daughter of immigrants works as a keeper for a rural cottage with her parents. She observes the family who takes over the cottage for a week.

After her family moves from Peru to Colombia, Lila develops an unlikely friendship with her disabled maid, Estrellita.

When she meets another girl in detention, a girl considers what it means to be beautiful.

A teenage girl living in a near-future Cape Cod battles with her biology teacher over climate change. Her teacher argues that young people lack the motivation to fight climate crisis, but the girl reveals an unexpectedly deep understanding of sustainability.

A Caribbean mother rants to her elementary-aged daughter about how to be a respectable girl. When the girls tries to reply, the mother continues her lecture.

When a Cuban American high schooler decides to attend college out-of-state, she must confront her ambiguous feelings about her family, hometown, and identity from a distance over the next several years.

A young orphaned girl seeks to escape her tribal world and the expectations of her aunts by locating the forbidden magic within her.