When Jessica LeCroix, a fellow teammeber on Ramie Grant's basketball team, reveals she is a lesbian, the rest of the girls quickly begin to attack Jessica, and Ramie struggles to do the right thing and defend Jessica and her lifestyle.

In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.

Australian teenager Bindy finds it hard to cope when her best friend of many years suddenly finds other friends and interests and her divorced parents present her with choices that could change everything about her way of life.

Best friends Randolph, a beaver, and Ivy, a goose, do everything together until Ivy is invited to a girls-only birthday sleepover party and Randolph, full of bad feelings, tries to spoil her fun.

Drew's friendship with Skitz and Hector is tested as he becomes more aware of the personal lives of the priests at his Boston Catholic school and deals with the pending expulsion of one friend and the possible abuse of another.

Feeling left out since her long-time best friend started a serious relationship, sixteen-year-old Emily is looking forward to a summer program at the Philadelphia College of Art, but is not sure she is up to the challenges there, including finding herself and learning to balance life and art.

Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd and record their findings in the form of a scrapbook.

Eight-year-old Tess is convinced that if she believes and stays aware of the magic around her, she will meet Santa Claus on Christmas Eve of 1958, when she will thank him for his gifts and ask him to use his magic to cure her best friend's father of cancer.

When first grader Lily gets into a fight with her two best friends, the experience teaches her a lot about friendship.