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To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented.

When Mia arrives at her new school, her goal is to be open to and friendly with everyone, but everyone at Park Street School fits into a clique.

Mia is still getting used to having her new stepdad and stepbrother around when she begins to struggle with writing in her Spanish class, and since her family, who speaks Spanish, is willing to help, Mia learns that she is lucky to have three parents.

High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.

"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.

While Naomi struggles with her abusive ex-boyfriend returning to school, Ernesto hopes she will see him as more than a friend.

Living with her aunt and dog years after her mother left and she stopped speaking, Judith communicates through gestures and drawing cartoons while tackling the challenges of a new school and wondering if she should seek out her mother.

Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since they were little.

Rejected by the cool girls club, fifth-grader Chloe Silver, new in town after her parents' divorce, forms a different type of club, with offbeat Lucy Tanaka and nerdy Leo Barish, that tests out different acts of kindness on classmates.