Rules of the Game: This is a Story about a girl named Waverly. Like many girls in this book her mother wants her to be smart and the best.  One Christmas her brother gets a old chess set, and after a while Waverly uses it more than they do.  She later goes on and becomes a national chess champion.

THE voice from the wall: This story is about a girl named Lena, who has a mother that barely speaks English, and an Irish father that barely speaks mandarin,  So she is a translator for both of them.  She moves to a new place, and her mom is pregnant, But sadly the baby dies as soon as he is born.  She has a next door neighbor named Teresa.  Lena can hear that Teresa and her mom fight a lot, and she listens to them.  One day Teresa got kicked out of her house, And used Lenas window to go back in.

Half and Half:  This is the Story about a girl named Rose.  She starts with talking about her problem, which is that she is getting a divorce from her husband, and tell the story of how they got together.  She later tell the story of how she lost her faith, that one day she went to the beach when she was younger, and how she was taking care of her sister Bing, she looked away for a second, then when she turned back Bing was in the water. and drowned and they didnt find her body.

Two kinds: This is a story about a girl named Jing-mei.  Her  mother always pushed her, and wanted her to be famous.  But Jing always questioned and didnt want to.  One day her mother put her in piano lessons, and Jing was put in a talent show.  She didnt do well at all.  and She quit, and her mother got mad and lost hope in her.  After her mother died.  Jing was given the piano form her mother before she died, and she restored it, which in a way was restoring her relationship