Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

Penny instantly loves the doll her grandmother sends her, but finding the perfect name for her is a challenge.

During a visit with her great-aunt, a young girl learns the story behind her name and learns to feel proud of her biracial heritage.

When seven-year-old Tiger Turcotte ends up in after-school detention with his arch-enemy Donna Overton, they both learn a lot.

With his mother's help, Carlos learns to write his name, as some of his friends can do.

A small dog named Baked Potato is lost and searching for his lady owner, but neither the grumpy dog or the fox are helpful, and his strange name creates confusion--until owl explains that, whatever he is called, he is really a dog.

As a refugee from Sudan to the United States, Sangoel is frustrated that no one can pronounce his name correctly until he finds a clever way to solve the problem.

Angry that everyone bungles her name, Neanderthal Wakawakaloch speaks with her parents and Elder Mooch, who remind her that she was named for a brave, heroic ancestor.

"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--

After discovering a dangerous way to bring the demon of the palace with her, Raliel, the heir to the Emperor, sets out on her coming-of-age journey, accompanied by her demon-kissed bodyguard Osian, who secretly plans to act as his mother's weapon against the Empire.