For Della (a.k.a. Delfina Pereira), Seneca Falls, New York, in 1916 offers only long days of work in the knitting mill and nights confined in a shabby flat with Mama, the town’s most outspoken suffragist. Della wants only to find love and escape Mama’s unpopular opinions and the foreign ways that make their immigrant family so different. An ugly...

All Bernadette “Bernie” O’Brien, an underachieving, overweight 14-year-old, who happens to be blind, wants is an average share of happiness. Instead, her life is on a runaway roller coaster that can only plummet down. As she begins her freshman year at Desert Vista High School, Bernie secretly yearns to steal Jason, her sister’s football-star...