Lisa Atwood just cannot work up the nerve to tell her mother she really does not want to go to Wentworth Manor, especially after she wins a full scholarship, so her friends in the Saddle Club come up with a plan to make Mrs. Atwood have second thoughts about the fancy boarding school.

Two teenage loners become involved in the senior class play which helps them understand the meaning of friendship and betrayal.

Sixth-grader Will is looking for an after-school activity, but when he joins the mountain biking club, his old friendships and values are challenged.

Tae, a Korean American eighth grader, tries to sort out her feelings when she is assigned a popular cute boy as a partner for a school report and later has a falling out with her best friend.

A little girl is not looking forward to her first day at nursery school until she makes friends with another new girl.

Even though they are not in the same class, two young friends are glad that they decided to give school a try.

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

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

Through an unusual friendship with her thirty-one-year-old neighbor in a Texas trailer park, thirteen-year-old Jesse learns that what's inside a person is more important than what's outside.

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."