Tracy's long friendship with unconventional Kelly is strained when Tracy's new friends put pressure on her to choose between them.

Monique hates her school uniform, so she tries to find a way to make her individuality shine through.

Audrey thinks that being twins is really neat, so when she decides to get a twin for herself she picks Karen.

The Great Brain faces the challenge of life at a strict Catholic boarding school with daring exploits and money-making schemes.

A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.

Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her.

Two friends, one of whom is deaf, help each other when tryouts are held for a seventh-grade production of "Annie."

Photographic puzzles follow an escaped pet mouse through a school while depicting such common school items as scissors, paper, books, and chalk. Readers are challenged to identify the objects as seen from the mouse's point of view.

Describes events of one day at a San Francisco Bay Area school as perceived by different second-graders, from the observations of first to arrive on the playground to the walk home.

Twelve-year-old Gary, known as Goon because of his constant clowning and joke-telling, tries to change his image and make new friends at school.