National Network for Equitable Library Service

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623.

Sixteen-year-old Frederick has a lot of rules for himself. Like if someone calls him Freddy he doesn’t have to respond; he only wears shirts with buttons and he hates getting dirty.

Alex is seventeen years old and she feels her life has come to an end.

Ryan finds his freedom in the water, where he is not bound by gravity and his wheelchair.

Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape.

Her name is Sadie, but she might as well be called Fostergirl. Grouphomegirl. That’s how everyone thinks of her. Sadie doesn’t care. In fact, she’d be happier if they didn’t think of her at all.