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Twelve-year-old Zoe Richards learns that she is a superhero, and, even though her grandfather warns her it is too soon, she decides to start trying out her powers.

Twelve-year-old Zo?, famous for advising other people using her unwritten rules, has her hands full with chairing a school dance committee, training a new student to fit in, keeping her grandmother out of a nursing home, and trying to find a husband for her mother.

After eating a lot of chocolate brownies, Michael, a typical lazy student, changes into a know-it-all.

Seventeen short comics stories by such writer-artists as Lauren Weinstein, Dash Shaw, and Robyn Chapman explore the middle school experience.

Trying to fit in despite having a loud, embarrassing best friend, eleven-year-old Talia becomes a commentator on her middle school's closed-circuit television program and turns the tables on her mother, a talk show host who has been revealing Talia's most humiliating experiences for years.

At the end of fifth grade, Fara decides to wear mismatched socks as a statement of individuality, but once middle school starts and she wants to be known for her ideas rather than her clothing, she feels burdened by an image that she no longer wants.

As Bessica Lefter tries to prepare for a new life as a sixth-grader, a disaster at the hair salon costs her her lifelong friend and only ally.

Sixth-grader Peter Lee, in a desperate attempt to regain the popularity he had in elementary school, discovers that serving detention can win him important friends, much to the dismay of his over-achieving eighth-grade sister, Sunny.

"Katie is miserable when her best friend is invited to join the Popular Girls Club and Katie is left out.

Seventh-grader Mackenzie Blue, also known as Zee, deals with the stresses of school when her best friend moves away, somebody steals her diary, and she gets one chance to become a rock star, requiring the smart and talented girl to seek help from her crew of friends.

After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.

School property has been vandalized and Greg Heffley swears he is innocent--sort of.

Biracial Brendan Buckley faces new challenges when he enters middle school and, while he deals with issues with his African American father, a new girl at school, and his changing friendship with his best friend, Brendan must decide on an experiment for the national science competition.

In this twist on "Hansel and Gretel, " two middle schoolers find themselves in a new charter school filled with a mysterious abundance of food at mealtimes and sinister teachers up to no good.

When Mexican American seventh-grader Javier is assigned to work with a special education class and connects with Dontae, who has both physical and mental disabilities, his reputation among gang members and drug abusers no longer seems very important.