Chris Baron

Finn's small town is devastated by wildfire. As the community rebuilds, he and his friend Rabbit try to get adults to listen to their ideas for helping the burned forest grow back.

In 1989 San Francisco, Etan, a Jewish boy, has stopped speaking since his mother went away for mental-health treatment. He befriends Malia, a Filipina American girl with severe eczema whom classmates shun, and tries to help ease her suffering.

Ari, an overweight boy facing bullying and his parents' failing marriage, moves across the country and finds new friends who help him decide who he wants to be.