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.
Eight-year-old Mabel is excited when her parents buy her a new piano and begins practicing for a concert at their house. But soon Mabel becomes worried that her jealous sister Violet has plans to jeopardize her big performance.
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
Eleven-year-old Allie is visited by the ghost of a handsome young man and finds herself investigating the fire seventeen years ago that killed him as well as the husband and infant son of a scary cafeteria worker at her school.
Thirteen-year-old Matt is so envious of his best friend Keith that he wishes things would go badly for him, and when Keith's fortune changes while at the same time Matt finds his first true girlfriend, Matt is overcome with guilt.