Cousins Tory and Emily embark on a quest for secrets, romance, and insight into the past of their mysterious Aunt Louisa, who had not talked to the family for years before her death.
Though Tess is stuck with the class nerd for a partner in a science project, they become good friends as they study the unlikely subject of Tess's older sister.
Seventh-grader Jonah Truman's main concerns are meeting girls and avoiding the class bully, until he and his friend Amanda start working as helpers at children's parties and his mother begins dating the principal of his school.
High school freshman Ben should be enjoying playing football, meeting girls, and going to parties, but he's too busy trying to cope with his father's moving out to live with another man.
Jack's predictable existence on Freedom space station is transformed when Kit, the Earthie rat, enters his life and enlists him and a sensitive robot in an effort to outwit the Company.
Seventh-grader Jonah Truman's main concerns are meeting girls and avoiding the class bully, until he and his friend Amanda start working as helpers at children's parties and his mother begins dating the principal of his school.