How to transform an everyday, ordinary hoop court into a place of higher learning and you at the podium / by Matt de la Peña -- The difficult path / by Grace Lin -- Sol Painting Inc. / by Meg Medina -- Secret Samantha / by Tim Federle -- The beans and rice chronicles / by Kelly J. Baptist -- Choctaw Bigfoot, midnight in the mountains / by Tim Tingle -- Main Street / by Jacqueline Woodson -- Flying lessons / by Soman Chainani -- Seventy-six dollars and forty-nine cents / by Kwame Alexander -- Sometimes a dream needs a push / by Walter Dean Myers.

From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.