Dan thinks he is going to have a terrible time when he is forced to go camping with his mother's boyfriend Mike and Mike's brainy son Raymond, but the two boys form a surprising friendship.

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

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

Southwood is the most glorious horse the Saddle Club has ever seen and they are sure he could win a gold medal, but his owner doesn't want to push him that hard. The club also rescues a battered horse that needs a home.

Geraldine's close relationship with her older brother Wing and his friend Sam changes when Wing joins the Marines and Sam leaves for Washington to join a peace march.

Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course.

Rex and her best friend Pinky decide that they like each other enough to get married, and all their stuffed toys and dinosaurs appear as guests at the wedding.

Elizabeth is very lonely until she meets Jennifer, who is a witch and who teaches Elizabeth to become a witch herself.

When thirteen-year-old Tracy, whose mother died when she was three years old, is raped and beaten on the last day of school, all her feelings of security disappear and she does not know how to cope with the fear and dread

Brimhall receives a bicycle for his birthday but is ashamed to admit that he doesn't know how to ride it.