Aimee Lucido

Word-loving Olive, 11, and her artistic sister Mattie, 13, are best friends. Their parents are living apart, and the sisters deal with bullying, crushes, learning differences and their father's suspicious behavior, which strains their bond.

After her best friend's bat mitzvah, twelve-year-old Hannah wants one of her own. Her family, only partly Jewish, questions whether she is Jewish enough, so she secretly studies with her grandmother and her rabbi aunt to prepare for it herself.

After moving to San Francisco, music-loving Emmy feels out of tune at her new school until a computer science class shows her that coding works a lot like music. Then she runs into friendship troubles and gender bias.