Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.

After high school juniors Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria think they have seen Ali, their missing and presumed dead friend, they pursue clues from a mysterious stalker, trying to find out if she is still alive.

A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.

The other second-graders make fun of the new boy because he is so tall, but his short classmate Jake helps him fit in.

Two friends, one of whom is deaf, help each other when tryouts are held for a seventh-grade production of "Annie."

After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.

Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.

Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily, friends since seventh grade at the exclusive Rosewood school in Pennsylvania, find their history of telling small, convenient little lies catching up with them when a mysterious person named A begins making threats, hinting that he or she knows what really happened to their murdered friend Alison.

Snow White struggles to help her father, King White, get out from under her stepmothers evil spell.

Describes events of one day at a San Francisco Bay Area school as perceived by different second-graders, from the observations of first to arrive on the playground to the walk home.