Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.

At the end of fifth grade, Ezra finally gets a phone and everything changes. The funny pictures he's posting on social media are getting lots of attention. Other kids are noticing him for the first time. Then he takes a photo that pushes things over the edge, and suddenly he's in the principal's office with his parents.

When Jennifer Chan, a new girl who believes she can find aliens, goes missing, Mallory Moss sets out to find her and must figure out why Jennifer might have run—and face the truth inside herself.

Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie, but when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.

When thirteen-year-old Erin discovers she is the daughter of the love god Cupid, she uses her newfound ability to sabotage her rival Trevor by making him fall in love with her, but she soon realizes love has a funny way of complicating things.

At the school 6th-grader Chase Cooper attends, everyone is talking like a pirate. Soon there are rumors of a pirate invasion and now the entire school is in danger. Only Chase can save it.

After dedicated soccer player Will is sidelined from the season--and his friend group--due to complications from his newly diagnosed Crohn's disease, he finds himself figuring out who he really is on the inside.

Five characters from a mystical realm that like to engage in a role-playing game in which they portray average American eighth graders are magically transported into the game and must contend with the horrors of middle school.

There's a big talent show at 6th-grader Chase Cooper's school. Everything is going well until someone sets a wild animal loose and trashes the stage during rehearsal. Now Chase is racing against the clock as he deals with a some new ninjas, an ugly moose costume and a missing bird.

As always, there's trouble brewing in the halls of Buchanan School. A bandit is on the loose who's stealing from innocent students, and as each day passes, the bandit's reach grows even further. But Chase has a sick feeling about the whole mystery, like something far worse is going on than anybody realizes.