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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.

In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

After getting caught stealing from his grandmother's toilet store, the narrator is punished by being forced to work at a soup kitchen, an experience that seems inconsequential until he discovers one of his friends depends on the free food.

Seven years ago Mal disappeared for three days. Everyone says he had some kind of breakdown, but he knows he was abducted by aliens.

The author recounts humorous, sad, traumatic, romantic, and confusing episodes from a fictional childhood.

High schooler Henry tries to convince himself that his suffering from ineffective medicine, relationships with girls, and problems with friends is all part of growing up, but cannot seem to come to terms with it all.