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The Chef Girls are psyched about the seventh grade class trip; but when their nemesis, Angie, plays a nasty prank that goes too far, the girls confront her.

Faced with family problems, difficulty in school, and gangs in the barrio, Enrique dreams of some day reaching the "other America" depicted on television, while sympathetic teachers help him cope by supporting his fight to study French instead of ESL.

Tess has always loved math, and she uses mathematical concepts to help her understand things in her life, so she is dismayed to find out how much math--and life--can change in eighth grade.

Fifteen-year-old RD is repeating the eighth grade, planning to have an easy year, but after his grandmother walks out her boyfriend is no longer able to care for him, which leaves RD to fend for himself while avoiding being caught.

Provides advice for kids on how to deal with a variety of situations related to middle school, such as homework overload, problems with teachers, avoiding fights, getting a bad haircut, coping with cliques, and others.

Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.

When the middle school advice columnist, Madame X, starts writing about things only Jenny and her friends are aware of, Jenny sets out to uncover the true identity of the author.

Outspoken, impulsive Lylice has skipped fifth grade, but she finds that getting along at Susan B.

As a member of the seventh-grade dance committee, Claudia tries to find a way to convince the boys to attend the dance, which she knows they will not do if Anna, another committee member, gets her way and makes the event semi-formal.

Claudia tries to talk her friend, Monica, out of trying out for cheerleading fearing that she will be let down because only the cool kids make the squad.

Thirteen-year-old Claudia learns about the American justice system when, while studying for an American history quiz at Anna's house, she and her friend Monica are accused of stealing ten dollars and their classmates believe them to be guilty, based on circumstantial evidence.

Mia learns to balance style and substance when she has to get glasses AND braces.

When the students in health class at George Wilson Middle School are assigned girl/boy partners to discuss gender issues, no one could imagine that two students would actually switch bodies.

Twelve-year-old Thaddeus A. Ledbetter, who considers it a duty to share his knowledge and talent with others, refutes each of the charges which have sent him to "In-School Suspension" for the remainder of seventh grade.