In Count Me In, there is a girl named Karina. Her Grandpa comes to live with them and decides to work as a tutor for Karina´s school. He ends up tutoring a boy named Chris who treated Karina badly in earlier years, but Chris and Karina both realize that the other may not be so bad after all and they begin to become friends. Then, when they are walking home with Karina´s grandpa one day, her grandpa is attacked because he and Karina are not white. Karina´s grandpa is put in the hospital, and a lot of people are really supportive.
In The Beast and the Bethany, there is a man, Ebenezer Tweezer, who is 511 years old and keeps a beast in a room in his house. He feeds the beast whatever it wants, and in return, the beast gives him gifts and potions to make him stay young. The beast gets more and more greedy with his requests for food and eventually requests a child to eat. Ebenezer finds the most awful child he can, and that is Bethany. But as he gets to know Bethany, he finds out that maybe she doesn´t deserve to be eaten.
