Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes overweight.
Four girls, and their mothers, continue their mother-daughter book club via videoconference between Massachusetts and England, reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and try to put friendship before romance.
Seventh-grade bully Niko Kaylor, forced to keep a journal as a form of therapy, instead creates a how-to guide while plotting a lesson in bullying for the entire middle school, including the teachers and Vice Principal Jones.
Eleven-year-old Jasmine Harwood struggles with feeling accepted by her friends and classmates at school, but Jasmine thinks she has found an outlet for her frustrations when she begins to severely control her diet.
Ten-year-old Piper Lee DeLuna sets in motion a plan to get her mother's wedding to her future stepfather called off, but after it begins to spiral out of control she realizes she cares about her soon-to-be stepfamily and and must figure out a way to make sure the wedding happens.
The close friendship of two eleven-year-old girls, who live in New York City, begins to unravel as each struggles to deal with a brother who is leaving home.
While enjoying a weekend at the local swim club, Grace looks forward to spending time with the cute boys from the swim team and letting go of a troubled friendship while struggling to raise funds to become an official club member.
