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Fifteen-year-old Miranda's summer job as au pair to a ten-year-old piano prodigy proves to be as challenging as keeping out of her stepmother's way, passing her driving test, and holding her boyfriend's interest when his former girlfriend returns.

Twelve-year-old Sophie discovers the abilities that have always caused her to stand out are because she is actually an elf and, after she is brought to Eternalia where she can hone her skills, Sophie learns she harbors certain secrets that others would kill to learn.

Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant--a skittish lake monster named Lucky.

Jill's friends know that she has strong arms and hands so when she is learning to play soccer, they help her to find a position in which she can excel.

Middle-schooler Jackson's baseball skills are not of much help when he and his friends go to soccer camp, and while there he learns that his mother's boyfriend has invited them to move into his house, and friend Diego's father is deployed to Afghanistan.

While wondering if she has a talent for animals, Lainey, along with her three friends and the fairies of Pixie Hollow, discovers a passage between Earth and Never Land.

Discusses what it means to be smart, how intelligence and talent vary from one person to another, and how to make the best of the brain you have.

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.

Elementary school student Charlie Muttnik loves to draw so much that it interferes with his schoolwork, until his teacher comes up with a creative solution.