There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City, but could the new band teacher really teach a skeleton to play the tuba? The Bailey School kids are going to find out!

Ella is off to her first day of Princess School and she can't find her fairy godmother; however, her fears are calmed after she meets new friends Snow, Rapunzel, and Rose.

The entries in the journals of two sixth grade students reveal much about their personal feelings, family lives, and a growing interest in poetry sparked by their new substitute teacher.

Tom and Lucy Little, two very tiny children, attend school with Henry Bigg where they encounter problems due to their size.

When Junie B. cannot play in the school kickball tournament because of a sore toe, she brings her unique talents to the halftime show.

Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.

Battle lines are drawn at Waverly Academy when new girl Jenny Humphrey arrives and immediately challenges Tinsely Carmichael for the position of campus "It" girl.

Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.

Allie's theatrical hopes are crushed when, instead of being cast as the princess, she is given the role of the evil queen in the fourth-grade class play.