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 By Ann M. Martin
Follows the adventures of Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club as they deal with crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and parents who do not always tell the truth.

(A Code Busters Club book)
 By Penny Warner
Using their code-breaking skills, four middle-schoolers solve the mystery of the eccentric man who draws stick figures on his second-floor bedroom window.

By Catherine Stier
When four fifth-grade friends complete a "tell-all" survey, tensions arise and come to a head during an overnight class trip.

By D.V. Kelleher
 A group of six kids band together in a "superhero" group and eventually put their play skills to practical use.
 
(A Red Blazer Girls book)
By Michael D. Beil
Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago.

(A Peace, Love, and Cupcakes book)
By Sheryl and Carrie Berk
Fourth grader Kylie Carson starts a cupcake club as a way to make new friends at her new school, but it may be the end of the Cupcake Club when mean girl Meredith tries to sabotage Kylie and her fallow bakers' big cupcake party. 

(A Petsitters Club book)
By Teresa Krailing
hen a group of children forms a club to babysit animals, they end up with a pet goat which leads them on a series of wild adventures.

By Dan Gutman
Summer vacation in their small Maine town does not look too promising until twelve-year-old Gina and four of her friends make a pact to become millionaires before school starts in September.

(A Sleeopver Squad book)
By P.J. Denton
Emily wants to celebrate the end of the second grade by going to a sleepover with her friends,  but she is afraid that her parents might object.

By Sharon Draper
After the neighborhood basketball court is vandalized, Ziggy and his friends decide to form a club called the Black Dinosaurs and build their clubhouse in Ziggy's backyard. 

(A Tiara Club book)
By Vivian French
On her first day at the Princess Academy, Princess Charlotte inadvertently causes an accident that ruins the dresses of her new roommates and unless something can be done none of them will be able to attend the much anticipated Birthday Ball.




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