Jeff Gottesfeld

When twelve-year-old Shawn Reynolds hears about WWE's WrestleMania contest for kids, he isn't too impressed. After all, he only watches WWE with his wrestling-obsessed dad, so he can spend quality time with him. But after Shawn finds out that his dad, a soldier in the army, is being deployed, he decides to enter the contest as a gift to him.

"Al Rosen, a Jewish man, takes on the jobs of his Christian neighbors on Christmas Eve and day so they can spend the holiday with their families, starting a tradition that lasts for decades" -- Amazon.

"Her parents moved her from Austria to Tokyo, Japan before she started school. They were all rendered stateless when Nazi Germany and Austria stripped Jews of their citizenship. She graduated high school fluent in Japanese plus four other languages and went to college in America at age 15. Cut off from her parents by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and America's entry into World War II, she went years not knowing if they were alive. She returned...

When sixteen-year-old Kate, an aspiring playright, moves from New Jersey to attend high school in the South, she becomes embroiled in a controversy to remove the school's Confederate flag symbol.