Orem Library

Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.

Realizing he is different from other wood thrushes, Willie sets out on his own and becomes famous.

Otto learns the advantages of being an octopus and having eight arms instead of only two.

Woolbur, a sheep with a mind of his own, never seems to follow the flock, despite his parents' reminders about how he should behave.

Jack Plank decides that he is not cut out to be a pirate and searches the town of Saltwash for another profession, but he finds something wrong with every suggested job.

A girl celebrates her own individuality, from her freckles to her wiggles.

Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppysitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing.

A girl describes all the things she and her twin sister have in common.

Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that join us together.