Vail, Rachel

Twelve-year-old CJ, an accomplished ballet student, struggles with her conflicting desires to continue her ballet study and please her mother or to quit ballet and finally be like all the other kids in school.

Justin made it into fourth grade, but now he has friends, bullies, grades and tests to worry about.

Olivia is baffled as her friends CJ, Morgan and Zoe begin to obsess over boys and clothes until she herself develops a crush on Lou Hochstetter, but things get complicated when Morgan announces that Lou is a total nerd.

Having once shared a kiss with her best friends' boyfriend, Kevin, fourteen-year-old Charlie finds life even more awkward when their parents marry, making Kevin, still her crush, now her stepbrother.

Seventh-grader Zoe, who comes from a big family where she's never had anything all to herself, desperately wants CJ for a best friend, but when CJ reveals that she likes the boy Zoe likes, she must make a choice.

Tommy has always enjoyed his friendship with Zoe, but when his friends tease him about it, he wonders whether he wants to be more than friends with her.

Olivia finds it increasingly difficult to understand her friends and get along with them.

When T Rex and his mother wrap the presents they just bought and find they are out of tape, they come up with some creative solutions.