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When her mother's remarriage takes her family into a much wealthier neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Kristy finds herself surrounded by snobbish girls who compare clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club, and insult her aging dog.

Brian has always felt invisible at school, but when a new student, Justin, arrives, everything changes.

Danny Shine thinks his problems are over now that he has finally gotten his name off the "Loser List" in the girls' bathroom, but Ty Randall, who appears to be perfect, ruins everything and leaves Danny wanting revenge.

The twelve-year-old Callahan cousins are staying at their grandmother's rambling seaside estate for a whole summer without parents, but when the usually shy Kate tries to become the "cool" girl in town, her antics threaten to pull the cousins apart.

Unpopular sixth-grader Burdette "Bird" Weaver persuades the new boy at school, whom everyone thinks is mean and dumb, to be her partner for a spelling bee that might win her everything she's ever wanted.

Having reluctantly agreed to run for sixth-grade president, Jerry, who has been trying to change his image as a dork, finds his opponent playing dirty tricks on him.

A small incident during recess threatens to turn nine-year-old Marvin into the outcast of his third-grade class.

Charlie C. Cooper, reformed bully, gifted hacker, and middle child wants to make "cool" friends at her new school in Los Angeles, but her psychologist tasks her with becoming friends with the school's "biggest loser".

The day before seventh grade begins, twelve-year-old Jessica Darling gets a list from her sister, whose popularity and beauty made her a junior-high standout, but when she tries to follow it, all goes awry, including losing her best friend.

Georgia Khatchadorian plans to excel at Hills Village Middle School in all the places her troublemaking brother failed.