When a serial writer decides that he can’t take more of his monotonous life, he destroys his copywriter and leaves his domestic prison to protest the rise of the machines.

Upon hearing about an upcoming wedding, a former American soldier reminisces about the time he met a young girl who gave him the recourse to survive the war.

When a present-day Los Angeles eighth-grader embarks on her first sexual experience, her virtual and real-life social world slip out from under her feet almost immediately.

In a world brimming with magical realism, a young girl in Communist China confronts a malicious member of the Red Guard when he threatens her ailing grandmother.

A little girl navigates her relationships with two boys in her elementary school class, a brash bully and a shy victim, and learns about the nature of suffering.

In an ancient Indian village, a young widow-turned-assassin receives her latest assignment: kill Alexander the Great.

In 1749, a 12 year-old girl must prevent her brother from selling their beloved home in woody Northern Manhattan, and she seeks help from a nearby witch.