When Nate's sloppiness gets out of control, his best friend gets in serious trouble, and Nate has to clean up his act.

"It started as a joke -- but it's not funny anymore. Even though Ezra's got good friends and can make everyone laugh, he feels like he's invisible, both at home and at school. To make things worse, he's the only kid in his group without a phone -- left out of plans and shared jokes and games. Finally, at the end of fifth grade, his parents come through. The phone changes everything. Ezra texts his friends all the time, can instantly keep up with his...

Lacey, a middle school misfit, must take over as Paige's fairy godmother after the fairy is trapped in Lacey's hair.

". . . when [Jilly's] sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes . . . the world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them both differently from their Black cousins. A big fantasy reader, Jilly makes a connection online with another fantasy fan, Derek, who is a Deaf, Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for help with Emma but doesn't always know the best way or time to ask for it. As she and Derek...

"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...

Cheaney's novel opens with a bus accident on a torrentially rainy night and the promise that one character will be famous by book's end; she then rewinds nine months with news of a robbery in the sleepy Hidden Acres subdivision. But these early tinges of suspense wind up being peripheral as the novel unfolds. Over nine months, Cheaney (My Friend the Enemy) follows the stories of nine characters, fourth through seventh graders, who ride Mrs. B's school...

Now that Veronicas finally figuring out how to control her superpowers, she discovers there might be a way to get rid of them forever.

Katie starts to realize that doing what you love always makes the batter sweeter.

When Lucy enters junior high school, she finds the hard way that putting herself on the line to impress new friends is a bad idea and can lead to suspension from school.