Nola and Marnie find their feud escalating to new levels as Marnie struggles to remain popular and Nola finds herself torn between two guys, but as each deals with the challenges of high school, the girls both begin to wish they could turn to one another for help.
Entering seventh grade at Walden Middle School, four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables" while dealing with a mean, troublemaking classmate.
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
When Pleasant Hill High School sophomore Paisley Hanover becomes disgusted with her school's social hierarchy, she starts writing a newspaper column under the name "Miss UnPleasant," and it shakes things up more than she ever expected.
Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.
Elle Woods, sophomore in high school, falls in love with the star of her high school's basketball team and decides to revive the spirit of the team and its cheerleaders.
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.
As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words.
