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Fifth grade is tumultuous for Alice as she tries to help others through the many changes occurring at home and in school, including learning about sex when Rosalind gets her period and shares a book that explains what is happening.

Eleven-year-old Ellie refuses to give up hope that her brother, Jimmy, will return from the war.

First-grader Montgomery Gerald Morris enjoys an exciting year as his class acquires a pair of parakeets as pets, he loses his first tooth, and he becomes a big brother.

Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up as her thirteenth year involves her in conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowered uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.

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.

Uprooted and living with an aunt in 1960s Oklahoma, thirteen-year-old Garnet and her older sister Opal brave their mother's desertion and their father's recovery from an accident, learning that "the best home of all is the one you make inside yourself.

When Amelia, still adjusting to life in her new neighborhood, finds out that her mother may be moving them again, she feels that her life can get no worse.

Third-grader Dessert, inspired by Mrs. Howdy Doody's lessons about the American Revolution, decides she and her friends should fight back against annoying siblings, but the club she starts only makes matters worse.

Seventh-grader Octavia puzzles over life's biggest questions when her mother seems to find the answers in a conservative Christian church, while her artist father believes the writings of Henry David Thoreau hold the key.

Middle schooler Greg Heffley tells his diary how excited he is to start school this year because his summer vacation was so horrible.

Jasper John Dooley's turn to be Star of the Week at school gets ruined when a new baby at Ori's house takes attention away from Jasper's Show and Tell, prompting him to build himself a baby brother out of wood.

Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird.

As she sits watching a seemingly perfect family and a handsome lifeguard on the beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the fantasy lives she has created for them.

Twelve-year-old Dean Matthews receives a journal as a birthday present from his mother and records the events of the following year.

Eleven-year-old hockey sensation Skye O'Shea deals with boys, sisters, math tests, team tryouts, and other ups and downs of middle school.