The part of third grade Ellen Tebbits likes most is having Austine Allen for her best friend.

Unable to compete with her friends' fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her.

Junie B.'s journal entries start with Room One's stomach virus excitement, the first-grade Columbus Day play, and getting the part of the Pinta, the fastest ship.

Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.

Crackers and Sulu, the Bionic Hamster, finds themselves in a backwards universe where George and Harold's own evil twins rule the school with the help of the wicked Captain Blunderpants.

Geronimo Stilton accompanies his nephew Benjamin's class on a field trip to Niagra Falls and encounters mischievous young mouselets who are determined to send him over the falls in a barrel.

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. Includes a special interview with the author.

In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.