A sixteen-year-old girl spends a summer reading on a swing, dodging the expectations and pressures from her mother, father, and best friend.

A young girl works to impress her highly critical parents and submits to a terrible fate as she struggles to meet their impossible standards.

A young girl lives with and is cared for by her older brother on a small planet while their parents are away. Though their life together is easy and fun, she feels there is something she doesn't know.

An adolescent girl jumps out of the fire and into the frying pan when she escapes bullies by entering the lorry of a mysterious man who seeks to play games with her.

After a lifetime of secrecy, a young girls father finally includes her in the family business, giving her a sense of belonging while also drawing her into the generational curse that comes with a life of taking on other people's pain to allow them a peaceful death.

A young girl sets out to find a king who will kill the griffin that is terrorizing her small village.

A girl who returns home from boarding school finds a mysterious couple who is visiting her parents. The couple is leading the family to build a maze in the backyard.

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

A motherless young girl sent to boarding school by her single father is rattled by two women who begin to appear in her life in strange ways.

A young Black girl explores the city in which she lives with exuberance. She reflects on the childhood myths that terrify and excite her, such as the old adage that stepping on a crack will break her mother's back.