It looks like trouble when Fragility, a hippopotamus whose feelings are easily hurt, meets Rudy, a rude elephant, on the soccer field.

"Set in a small town in the 1990s, this is the story of a girl on the edge--of a breakdown, of family secrets, of learning who she really is. Life has been a struggle for Toby Goodman. Her mother died by suicide five years ago, and her father left before Toby was born. Now a teenager living on her grandparents' dairy farm, Toby has trouble letting people in. Convinced that she is destined to follow her mother's path, she creates a plan to escape her...

Tessa Tiger has terrible temper tantrums when her team loses at T-ball.

Keya is so angry at her little brother, Nate, that when her best friend Hooper tries to help she lashes out, then must get past his anger to ask forgiveness.

A naughty seed with a bad attitude, bad temper, and bad manners vows to change his life for the better, but his efforts are met with skepticism by his friends.

Lacey Walker talks constantly, but when she loses her voice one day she learns that being quiet and listening can be good too.