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.

As she enters middle school, athletic twelve-year-old Lizard is dismayed to see her friends change into weird strangers and struggles with her own transition from tomboy to "girly-girl."

Impatient for a chance to jump into a pile of autumn leaves, Suzy Ducken and her best friend, Emily Marmot, try everything under the sun to get them to fall from the trees early.

Ten-year-old Queen learns valuable life lessons about being a good firend when Leroy, a new kid in the neighborhood, comes to Queen's school.

Dish, the neighborhood cooking service started by twins Molly and Amanda Moore with help from their friends, is in danger of going under when Molly decides to take a break from the business, and Amanda becomes obsessed with winning the seventh grade class president contest.

Things are heating up for the sixth-graders' cooking business when they get their biggest job yet while Peichi is busy preparing for her family's Chinese New Year celebration and all the rest of the girls come down with the flu. Includes recipes for brownies, chicken parmigiana, and fortune cookies.

Gay teen Marcus helps his friend Frannie chat up her crush online, but then becomes convinced that the crush is falling for him instead.

Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.

After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.

Emily uses the journaling flashcards her aunt gave her as a birthday gift to help her sort out her friendships, attitudes, and family oddities.