The first year of junior high school brings new challenges as Peter and Jeffrey deal with stiff competition on their wrestling team; Alexia faces disaster; Anna anticipates a promising proposal; tough times find Danielle; Luke squares off with a bully; and Jessica worries over a theater retreat. When a fight changes everything, the kids are shocked to learn that their teacher, Mr. Terupt, may be in even worse danger.

A budding middle school movie director juggles her second feature film and her very first crush.

In Portland, Oregon, between soccer games and beginning seventh grade, twelve-year-old Madison Kincaid and new classmate Jake try to track down her missing best friend, while also helping her attorney father solve a missing-persons case.

When Patricia starts junior high, her awful older brother Richie makes her life miserable but after he teaches her to dance she sees that he is not so rotten after all.

Relates the adventures of eighth-grader Nick Dashaway, whose Christmas request does not go according to plan.

"Budding film director Kate Walden navigates middle school girl politics and chores on her mother's chicken farm while trying to become the next Spielberg"--

Seventh-grader Martin McLean has trouble expressing himself except at Mathletes competitions and, now, as a female impersonator but his first-ever drag show falls on the same night as an important Mathletes tournament.