A freshman at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Nasrin is seemingly living her dream, except her parents think she is attending business school and it gets harder and harder to keep lying to them, especially after they surprise her in New York.

Although Tommy fails to get the part of Peter Rabbit in the kindergarten play, he still finds a way to be the center of attention on stage.

Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.

"Very short for her age, Julia grows into her sense of self while playing a munchkin in a summer regional theater production of The Wizard of Oz"--

After accepting a trip to Europe as a bribe from her parents to attend the college of their choice as a business major, seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers she's unwilling to give up her dream of being an actress--or Jesse, the boy she met in Italy.

"A surgeon flees a scandal in the city and accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds...

Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.

When someone vandalizes the school, Derek and his friends use their ninja skills to stop the vandal from striking again.

When a Castle-on-the-Hudson school legend suddenly goes missing, Charlie is the prime suspect but he and his best friend, Frog, are determined to find the real culprit.

Young Chico Canta discovers the advantages of being bilingual when the cat Gato-Gatito threatens his mouse family's production of "The Three Little Pigs." Joven Chico Canta descubre las ventajas de ser bilingüe cuando el gato Gato-Gatito amenaza la producción de su familia de ratones "Los tres cerditos."