The girls at the Professional Children's Boarding School all want to be stars, and soon eight will be well on their way as they make the first cut in auditions for a new all-girl pop band, No Secrets.
Twelve-year-old Littlejim, a bookish boy living in a rural North Carolina community in the early years of the twentieth century, hopes to win a newspaper essay contest and thus gain the respect of his stern father.
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
Presents the journal of high school student Will Burton, in which he discusses music, assembling a rock band in high school, the battle of the bands competition, and more.
