A series about a group of tweens who gain the ability to morph into animals and fight aliens might seem a bit odd to list, but the character Tobias, specifically, was so much more to me than just one of the gang. At the end of the first book, Tobias becomes stuck in the body of a hawk, with the brain of a boy (as called in the series, a "nothlit"). Through some complicated plot machinations, he gains the ability to morph again from hawk into another form. As someone who didn't fully understand the difference between her brain and the body she lived in, I understood all too well the joy of knowing you have the wrong body, but maybe you could change, even if just for 1 to 2 hours.

We get installments of the series from his point of view, and in those, we see his inner struggle with the life he has to live. The way he has to force himself to live in a way he is disgusted by just to survive, sometimes his thoughts wander to how long he can keep living in this body. Taking the wider look at the series, it's no surprise that even before I had the words to know who I was, I felt at home with this character, with this idea of changing your body and the yearning to get stuck in a body that felt like home.