When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.

The story about eleven-year old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her school mates and people she observes on her after-school "spy route." However, when her classmates find and read her notebook, their anger and retaliation, and Harriet's unexpected responses, explode in a hilarious and often touching manner.

Sharron's father has disappeared, and she tries to cope with her feelings of loss through the love of a stuffed dog he gave her.

Dish, the neighborhood cooking service started by twins Molly and Amanda Moore with help from their friends, is in danger of going under when Molly decides to take a break from the business, and Amanda becomes obsessed with winning the seventh grade class president contest.

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City, but could the new band teacher really teach a skeleton to play the tuba? The Bailey School kids are going to find out!

Fifteen-year-old Alice finds it hard to adjust to the changes in her life when her father gets married and her brother moves to his own apartment. Includes a CD of Sylvia and Ben's wedding music.

Unable to compete with her friends' fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her.

Ella is off to her first day of Princess School and she can't find her fairy godmother; however, her fears are calmed after she meets new friends Snow, Rapunzel, and Rose.

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.