Her third grade year is a sad time for Amber, because her best friend Justin is getting ready to move to a distant state.

Numb with grief when an accident kills her entire family, fourteen-year-old Beth suddenly finds herself living with her spoiled cousin Terri and trying to make friends at a new school.

Living in New York City with her mother and her younger sister, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to persuade her sister who has recently become a witch to help her achieve popularity at school, and to try to stop their divorced father's wedding.

Two elementary students, one from Earth and one from the newly discovered planet, Meep, exchange places.

Froggy is nervous about his first day of school, but, even though it's hard to sit still, he has a wonderful time.

Fifteen-year-old Essie Green, an orphan who has been raised by her secular Jewish grandparents in Michigan, experiences conflicting loyalties and confusing emotions when her aunt, uncle, and cousin move back from New York, and her very religious cousin tries to fit in with the other football players at Essie's high school, one of whom is Essie's popular new boyfriend.

Zoey Redbird, a fledgling vampyre, becomes confused about who to trust, with friends becoming enemies and enemies becoming friends at the House of Night prep school, and the need for caution becomes increasingly important when she finds herself juggling three boyfriends, and vampyres start turning up really dead.

Edward's involvement with a mysterious adventure game leads to a confrontation with his boarding school's tyrannical headmaster and evil doctor.

Barred by their overprotective parents from attending a rock music festival, fourteen-year-olds Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude, also known as "Les Bambinos Dangereuses," decide to stage their own music festival at Blackwell School.

Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruitcake was not exactly what she had in mind.