bel air (los angeles, calif.)

As eighth-graders Mackenzie Little-Armstrong and her nemesis Ruby vie to be Social Chair of Bel-Air Middle School, Ruby employs a secret weapon, but Mac is determined to gain fame by being as good a talent agent as her mother.

Reclusive author M.M. "Mimi" Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years after her finances were destroyed in a Ponzi scheme, but a chance encounter with a new assistant for Frank, her nine-year-old son, changes the dynamic of Mimi's relationship with him forever.

On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.

As eighth-graders Mackenzie Little Armstrong and her nemesis Ruby vie to be Social Chair of Bel-Air Middle School, Ruby employs a secret weapon, but Mac is determined to gain fame by being as good a talent agent as her mother.

Kristy Armstrong decides to make her mark at Bel Air Middle School by following in her talent-agent mother's footsteps and catapulting a new student into stardom, which jeopardizes her relationships with her best friends.

Seeking to escape the drama of Beverly Hills and the repercussions of major changes in their respective love lives, Anna and Sam take a trip to New York City the summer after their high school graduation.

On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.

Since his much-publicized adoption at age three by American movie stars, thirteen-year-old Josef's carefully scripted public life has hidden the isolation he feels at home, but writing a book with a ghostwriter reveals much about his adoptive family and the one he lost during the war in Croatia.

Eighth-grader Kristy Armstrong decides to make her mark at clique-ruled Bel Air Middle School by following in her top talent agent-mother's footsteps and catapulting a new student into stardom, which jeopardizes her relationships with best friends Marisol and Dee.