Blast Off Boy, an exchange student on planet Meep, and Blorp, an alien who is living with the Smith family on Earth, both want pets, but neither gets what he expected.
Cat is excited about Darkmont's student exchange program with Sweden. She knows to be careful what she wishes for living near Grim Hill where wishes tend to boomerang, but Cat figures it must be safe to wish to leave.
Joey is sure he will not get along with the exchange student from Nicaragua who is staying with his family for a year, but they find common ground on the baseball field.
During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June and Catherine share their lives, homes, and Kentucky communities, and find that although their lifestyles are total opposites they have a lot in common.
As fourteen-year-old Constance embarks upon an exchange program to Paris, she sets out to find her long-lost grandparents she has never met, forget the boy from back home, and to become one with the French way of life.
While spending his final year of high school in Germany, Kurt Schreiber runs into one of his grandfather's boyhood friends, Herr Brandt, who might be able to share more about Kurt's grandfather's past, unlocking the secrets to what he did during World War II.
