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Nearly fourteen and poor, Ceclia Gonzales wants desperately to go to high school and become a teacher until her mother's old-fashioned ideas about a woman's place threaten her dreams.

In the early 1960s, Kitty is one of only two white children in her class on Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, where her father is a government forester, and although past injustices and pain are still very much alive there, she eventually finds friendships and opportunities to make a difference.

In Pittsburgh in 1933, sixth-grader Mike Costa notices a connection between several strange occurrences, but the only way he can find out the truth about what's happening is to be nice to the class bully.

Ben Carr, a sixth-grade science genius, is helped along by George, a funny little man who secretly lives inside him, but life becomes complicated when William Hazlitt, a senior who has been Ben's lab partner, develops a dangerous interest in chemistry.

Michael's diary reflects the ups and downs of his eleventh year, as he copes with braces, troublesome relatives, a little sister not yet potty-trained, the school play, and a big spelling bee.

At the request of her sixth grade teacher, Edwina Rose Sachs records events in the lives of her Polish immigrant family and their friends living in Brooklyn in the early 1900s.

Sixth-grader Jackson has a rough start in middle school, with bullies on the bus, few classes with his friends, and changes at home, but, some good teachers, meeting a girl, joining a club, and playing football soon turn things around.

As high school freshmen Hal, Callie, and Nia try to uncover why their enigmatic friend Amanda suddenly disappeared, they learn that they and their families may be closely tied to the mystery.

"After hitting the road with her friends last summer and taking the stage to sing her heart out in Columbus, Angie finally feels like she's figuring things out.

Robert is embarrassed to admit to his classmates that he has lived with his grandparents ever since his parents' divorce.

While preparing for a role in the school play, 12 yr.old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the way people change as they grow up.

With the help of his family, Mickey enjoys being a duck in his class play.

Juggling classes, an overly attentive lab partner, and a broken heart adds to the stress of Scarlett's life as she copes with her job as Mrs.

With a mysterious new principal and fifth-grade graduation fast approaching, Michael K.

Things are going pretty well for Rob Burnside until Pinocula--a cross between Pinocchio and a vampire--emerges from his closet, lying, joking, and doing his best to drive Rob crazy.