When she is not picked to go on a trip to Washington, D.C., because only calm, neutral students are being sent, Emma tries to prove that she can be unemotional and offer no opinions for forty-eight hours.
Thirteen-year-old Emma loves giving advice to others at Austen Middle School, but when Jackson Knight turns icy just before the Sadie Hawkins dance, she needs some advice of her own.
"Trouble is brewing between the Divas just before their big upcoming Dance Fusion competition. Miss Toni is mad, mad, mad--but she has an idea to fix the problem: a camping retreat, where these girls will have to learn the true meaning of teamwork or be left out in the dark"--Provided by publisher.
When Miss Tony decides that rivals Liberty and Rochelle will both perform duets with Hayden in the next competition, the two girls develop their first crushes on one of the cutest twelve-year-olds in town.
"Delaney is shocked to find out her mom is expecting twins. She likes being an only child. It's been 10 years, and she's had her parents--and her room--all to herself. But her cupcake club pals are excited to bake for the baby shower--until Delaney's mom wants a giant stork made out of cupcakes"--Provided by publisher.
Lexi Poole is eager to begin the new school year and resume baking with her friends in the Cupcake Club, but club president Kylie insists on bringing in new members and Lexi faces greater challenges when she is cast in the school's production of "Romeo and Juliet," and her secret crush is playing the part of Romeo.
Believing she has a talent for solving others' problems, seventh-grader Emma Woods starts an advice blog for her classmates, but in spite of her good intentions, she quickly discovers that she sometimes creates problems and that not everyone wants her help.
The girls of Peace, Love, and Cupcakes are feeling sentimental about the end of elementary school, especially after Principal Fontina asks Kylie to create a PLC junior club to live on at Blakely.
Drama ensues for the Dancing Divas, a team of eight- to twelve-year-old girls who live to dance, as they rehearse in the studio and travel all around competing for titles.
At the Fashion Academy of Brooklyn's middle school, twelve-year-old MacKenzie "Mickey" Williams gets a double assignment: create an adorable party dress for the demanding granddaughter of a fashion legend and babysit the tiny terror at NYC Fashion Week.