Now that the Pretty Committee is no longer boycotting boys, the eighth-grade friends cannot decide who has a crush on whom, putting the Clique in jeopardy again.

When Cassie tries out for the middle school football team, she faces unexpected opposition from her father, a former professional football player.

Aspiring author and eighth-grader Lily Blennerhassett hones her writing skills as her school newspaper's advice columnist while also trying to get her first crush, The Boy, to notice her.

A bet about wardrobes between the wealthy Massie and middle-class Claire results in a testing of old friendships, a forging of new ones, and a change for the student body at Octavian Country Day School.

The Chef Girls are psyched about the seventh grade class trip; but when their nemesis, Angie, plays a nasty prank that goes too far, the girls confront her.

A much-welcomed snow day turns into an embarrassing nightmare for middle-grader Adam Canfield when, after being mugged by high school bullies for his snow-shoveling money, he becomes the focus of major media attention just as his co-editors at The Slash are launching a contest to oust bullies at their school.

Massie, Alicia, Dylan, Kristen, and Claire--five teenage girls with different reasons for wanting to attend the New Year's Yves party in Orlando--meet and form the Pretty Committee.

Tess has always loved math, and she uses mathematical concepts to help her understand things in her life, so she is dismayed to find out how much math and life can change in eighth grade.

When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer--

Computer whiz Erin Swift starts eighth grade full of optimism, but the new school year brings a whole new set of problems, and it takes a personal tragedy to give her some perspective and help her get back on track.