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Listing 9 stories.

While assisting her neglectful family's con-work at a carnival, a thirteen-year-old girl is enticed by a mysterious high-school dropout who makes her feel seen.

A young girl attending a predominantly white New York City grade school in the 1950s watches the journey of one of her classmates — a girl of color with a disability — when an influential teacher helps her become more confident and comfortable.

A young boy travels around his snow-covered Southern town to find a doctor for his heavily pregnant sister.

When a young boy and his family move to an Indigenous village in Washington in the 1960s, they learn about a local mystic woman who tries to battle the sea but is no match for the tsunami that threatens to destroy everything.

A teenager at a boarding school in Geneva, Switzerland writes letters to his divorced parents. After he realizes only his father might be the only one to reply to him, he lies to meet his father's high expectations of his son being a smart, athletic, budget-conscious young man.

A young boy in a Jewish family in Poland during the WWII era doesn't understand what's going on, but he can tell something is wrong when his family and their friends begin to gather and flee their home.

Three young sisters do everything they can to obtain the millions stored in their 'family fortune,' only to discover that the money might not be theirs to claim after all.

After fishing in a creek by a Texan oil field, a little boy finds a singing tabby cat that asks for water. When he tries to tell people about it, no one believes him.

A Black nurse in a Mississippi is adored by the whole neighborhood, even though she is mischievous at times. Bu when a new family moves in and hires her, they are unforgiving of her antics.