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.

While dealing with side effects from his powerful new acne medication, eighth grader Jay Greene finds things not going exactly as planned with school and his friends, and hopes things will turn out to be a-okay.

Starting her own all-girls mathlete team, Talia, who loves math puzzles and code-breaking, is determined to lead her team to victory while trying to break the social code of preteen life.

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.

When the kids at school aftercare discover they each have a secret wish during a game of Sardines, Lucas, who lost his brother, must learn to let his guard down when they all decide to help make each person’s wish come true.

To sixth-grader Nate Wright, life is one big game. So when he suits up for any sport, he does it with an unmistakable swagger. From fine-tuning his trash-talking skills on the basketball court to his cocky 'tude in the soccer goal, Nate can be a bigger challenge to his teammates than their opponents.

Confident, yet dorky, thirteen-year-old Mei Lee is torn between the chaos of adolescence and remaining her mother's dutiful daughter. In addition to her changing interests, relationships, and body, she has started to "poof" into a giant red panda whenever she gets too emotional ... which is almost all the time!

When she discovers her nemesis is being harassed by the school's golden boy, seventh grader Hazel Hill is determined to prove it, since no one believes he would do such a thing, even if it means risking everything.

6th-grader Chase Cooper shares his experiences starting at a different school where he only knows his cousin Zoe, and he is recruited into a group of school-aged ninjas.

"When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part ... because she's a boy. With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a plan....