Jess McConnell travels to Belize and learns about the country, its archaeology, and even about herself.

Having left summer camp to return home, the girls from bunk 3C use a blog to keep one another informed of their struggles adjusting to 6th grade at their respective schools and to new situations at home.

When his older brother is released from prison, seventeen-year-old Jeff's family secret is revealed, causing upheaval in his home, school and love life.

Heather Fox, having been left as the lone queen bee at Canterwood Crest Academy after Jasmine decided to return to Wellington Prep, finds competition with Sasha Silver who has talent both in and out of the arena.

Mena, ostracized at church, home, and school for writing a letter of apology to a gay teen who was harassed into trying to kill himself by her fundamentalist friends, struggles to find her way when new friends and school experiences force her to think about what she really believes.

Slippers the puppy loves each of the four people who share his home.

A very literal little boy is confused by all the figures of speech he hears over the course of his first day of school, but knows he is very happy to get home again.

Ellie writes and doodles in a journal about her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.

Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed-- then one morning, when she are her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.

More adventures at school and at home with Jake, a first-grader, and his older sister Abigail, known to each other as the Pain and the Great One.