Brooke Perrino really wants to be captain of her school cheerleading team, but she is having trouble with eighth-grade algebra and suddenly she is beginning to doubt her ability to handle the pressure.

When neighborhood queen bee Zara is threatened by new girl Naomi, Zara decides to break a Guinness World Record to get everyone to notice her again, until she realizes that maybe sharing her crown wouldn’t be so bad.

When eighth grade basketball player Shaena suffers a concussion in a game, she finds herself sidelined. As she watches her team practice with the new freshman player, Shaena, who is used to being the star, starts to worry that by the time she recovers she will no longer be needed.

Isaac Foster, captain of Team Rogue, is not sure what to expect from Kai Palakiko, who is new to snowboarding, but an expert surfer and a last minute addition to the team--can Kai adapt his talent in time for the big competition?

Nita Dara is one of ten eighth graders in the Alaska Young Explorers program; but the program is also a competition and the winner will get 5,000 dollars. On the final challenge she is paired with the super-competitive Sohail Aman, and the challenge turns deadly when they find themselves lost in the fog while hiking down a glacier, where a single misstep could mean injury and death.