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

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

After meeting on the first day in Mrs. Chemsky's fifth-grade class, Margalo and Mikey help each other in and out of trouble, as they try to maintain a friendship while each asserts her independence.

Charlotte's novel makes her very popular at school, but it almost costs her her very best friend.

After helping her supposed best friend Veronica found the sixth grade's secret club, the Awesome Kennedy Girls, Robin accidentally gets on her wrong side and discovers how bossy and cruel Veronica really is.

Amber's life has changed dramatically: her parents are divorced, her father lives in France, her best friend has moved to another state, and now her mother must decide whether to remarry.

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

While filming a movie for a school project, Gabe and his friends discover mysterious activities at a supposedly vacant house.

Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia.

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.