Fifth-grader Minn, the tallest girl in school, begins a rocky friendship with Jake, a new student who is not only very short, but is also afraid of the worms and lizards that Minn likes to collect.
A human boy, just three inches tall, finds a home and happiness in a mouse city until he learns of an ancient threat and goes on a dangerous quest to save the city, assisted by old friends and new.
Jason's brother, sister, and parents all play baseball or soccer or tennis, but until his grandfather buys him a drum, Jason doesn't want to play anything.
Paul, Simon, and Fiona, three teenagers living in New Zealand, become involved in a complicated friendship as they search for the truth of their interlocking pasts.
While spending the summer with her cousin, who is preoccupied with problems of her own, fifteen-year-old Melinda learns to assert herself instead of always trying to please her divorced parents.
Eleven-year-old Simon has been raised to be extremely well-behaved, but when he goes to visit his unconventional great-aunt he discovers that not everyone has the same ideas about good manners.
When her twin sister begins to assert her individuality and her grandmother suddenly dies, thirteen-year-old Dezzey finds some comfort in her relationships with her grandfather and a new friend.
