By Megan MacDonald
In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and
Joey tell about their lives, including their line of actor ancestors,
creative family dinners, toe marshmallows, swearing in Shakespeare, and
the Sisters Club.
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Disgusted that a family with three girls
moves into the house across the river, nine-year-old Wally and his three
brothers declare a practical joke war on the girls.
By Wendelin Van Draanen
Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for
speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the
investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from
the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.
By Coco Simon
Who's afraid of middle school? Not Katie
Brown. After all, it can't be that different from elementary school.
But, boy, was she ever wrong! After her best friend ditches her for a
new group of friends called the Popular Girls Club, Katie is left alone
and starts to wonder if there's an Unpopular Girls Club she can join.
Luckily, Katie finds her way with a great new group of friends and
together they form their own club. Four friends plus cupcakes turns out
to be the icing on the cake.
By Heather Vogel Frederick
When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls
with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book
club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have
much more in common than they could have imagined.
By Lisa Papademetriou
Hayley's world is far from perfect: her
parents have divorced, her mom has lost her job, and she and her sister
Chloe are stuck sharing a bedroom in their grandmother's apartment.
Luckily, Hayley has a knack for baking cupcakes -- and cupcakes always
make life just a little sweeter! But when she and her best friend Artie
start drifting apart, she realizes that it's going to take more than
sugar and spice to make things nice.
Written by various authors
Sophie and her best friend, Kylie, are the
perfect team. But when Kylie signs them both up for cheerleading
tryouts, it's Sophie who lands in the spotlight -- and Kylie ends up on
the sidelines.
By Erin Dionne
Overweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a
campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss
HuskeyPeach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have
entered her--against her wishes.
By Jennifer Holm
The first year of middle school can be exciting, or scary, just ask Ginny.
By Joan Bauer
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother
escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town
of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and
challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends
they make there.
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