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Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.

Darcy, excited to attend summer camp and be reunited with Nicole, finds her friend acting unsupportive of the fact that Darcy's home life has been getting better and decides to find out what is wrong with Nicole before their friendship is ruined.

Judith Duckworth decides to remake herself while at summer camp, but as she tries to be the most popular girl in her cabin, she begins to wonder if she should remain true to herself instead of trying to be what everyone else wants her to be.

During a summer visit, twelve-year-old Lucy must come to terms with both her grandmother's failing memory and how her mentally-challenged neighbor will impact her popularity when both enter the same middle school in the fall.

A collection of three stories featuring the Cupcake Club in which Alexis Becker deals with her crush on her friend's brother and supplies the desserts for her sister Dylan's sweet sixteen party; Katie sets out to find an extracurricular activity when all of her friends have outside interests; and Mia is still getting used to having her new stepdad and stepbrother around when she begins to struggle with writing in Spanish class.

A collection of three stories featuring the Cupcake Club in which Katie thinks Callie might want to be friends again again after the leader of the Popular Girls Club moves away, but realizes that is not the case when Callie announces they will be baking cupcakes for the school fundraiser; Alexis Becker, who handles the financial and organizational side of the Cupcake Club, decides to take a break from her responsibilities and really wants to ask Matt to be her date to the pep rally parade; and Emma is tired of having to babysit her brother Jake, but when they have to go to the same summer camp, she has to watch him everyday on the bus and she feels like she cannot catch a break.

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

When his father moves them halfway across Colorado, eleven-year-old Hugo O'Donnell is surprised that his remarkable talent for garbology makes him popular for the first time in his life.

When Samantha Kingston suddenly dies while at school, she is given a second chance to live out her final day over the course of a week in order to solve the mystery of her death and understand the real value of everything she might lose.

"While concentrating on her goal of becoming popular, including hiding her eccentric family from the cool crowd, thirteen-year-old Molly discovers that she and her older sisters are half human, half mermaid"--Publisher.