Antimony Carver, a precocious young girl in her first year at Gunnerkrigg Court, a British boarding school full of robots, body-snatching demons, forest gods, and other strange creatures, meets new people while unraveling mysteries with her new friend, Kat.

Seventeen short comics stories by such writer-artists as Lauren Weinstein, Dash Shaw, and Robyn Chapman explore the middle school experience.

Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth-grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her

A group of friends who are all named Jane get together and try to make their small town beautiful by engaging in subversive art, and the main Jane wrestles with her affection for two different boys on Valentine's Day while she runs out of money for continuing her artwork.