Third-grader Sophie Simon ignores her parents' concerns over her lack of friends and continues to focus on getting a graphing calculator so that she can study calculus on the bus to school.
When Kansas Bloom moves to California and joins the Media Club at school, he soon finds himself trying to outdo one of the other fourth-grade students in a "dare war" while vying for the job of on-air video homeroom announcer.
When she is implicated in a scam, Bernie loses her private school scholarship but spends the summer using her knowledge of magic and sleight-of-hand to earn the tuition money and get revenge.
Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.
After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss.
