Family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.

PJ, Cee Cee, Amy Lou, and Mikey come to live with NanaCat, their grandmother, when their parents are unable to take care of them.

Seventh-grader Zoey Albro focuses on caring for three younger siblings and avoiding rich classmates at school until her fascination with octopuses gets her on the debate team and she begins to speak out.

Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.

Coming home from boarding school, Ashlyn has big plans for the summer until her wealthy father is arrested for tax evasion, her mother enters a rehab facility for "exhaustion, " and Ashlyn, not a fan of the outdoors, is sent to a rustic team-building retreat center in the middle of nowhere.

Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

After surviving sixth grade, Rafe expects seventh grade to be a fun zone because he has been accepted to art school in the big city, but when he discovers it is more competitive than he expected, he sets out to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art.

Born at midnight. Sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen thinks her misbehavior in the wake of her grandmother's death and her parents' separation are the reasons she has been sent to Shadow Falls camp, but learns it is a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other "freaky freaks, " of which she may be one. Awake at dawn. Having settled in at Shadow Falls Camp, a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings, sixteen-year-old...

While fighting with his best friend and college roommate over a girl, Jake says something he regrets, then begins communicating only through notes and letters, but when he wants to tell the girl how he really feels about her, his silence and penchant for puns get in the way.