Ellie writes and doodles in a journal about her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.

Friendships are tested when Alicia, a seventh grader at Octavian Country Day School, decides to break away from the exclusive clique led by her best friend to start her own group.

The Livingstone kids are fruit bat hybrids who have left Old World dangers and immortality behind for a "normal" life in New York City, but normal doesn't necessarily mean easy, especially with lingering vampire traits complicating things.

Back at her elegant English boarding school for another term, Californian Calypso Kelly continues her pursuit of Prince Freddy with style.

Principal Krupp once again turns into the superhero Captain Underpants in order to save the world--and Jerome Horwitz Elementary School--from an army of evil talking toilets.

After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molestor's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth.

Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.

Ten-year-old Julia Gillian's best friend is keeping secrets, their beloved lunch lady was replaced by a tyrant, and trumpet lessons prove difficult, making it hard for her to follow the music teacher's advice to "look for the joy."

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. Includes a special interview with the author.

The school lunch lady, a secret crime fighter, uncovers an evil plot to replace all the popular teachers with robots.