family life

As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.

Ash has always known he was both a boy and intersex, which was never a problem until he developed a period that bled through his soccer uniform. Now, he's been kicked off the team and his mother is pressuring him to present as a female. With only his friend and crush Michelle for support, Ash knows he'll need to search outside of his family and school to find the help he needs.

A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.

After going to work with her mom, a landscape architect, Nina Soni wants to plant a garden of her own. Soon, she comes up with an idea to start a business selling the vegetables they'll grow in the garden, but things start to go sideways when she finds out that gardening is harder than she thought. With the help of her friends and family, Nina learns show to deal with rabbits, mosquitos, birds, and Japanese beetles.

Nina's new friends Priya and Nayan have just moved to Wisconsin from Florida, and they've never experienced snow before, so she can't wait to introduce them to all sorts of winter activities like snowball fights, snow angels, and building a snow fort. But when Nina notices a strange car parked outside her neighbors' house while they're out of town, she decides it's time to become a Snow Spy and discover the identity of the mysterious person.

"Some eighth gradres are causing trouble on the bus. Now Lincoln and his friends need a new way to get to school. But it's too far to walk, and they don't have enough bikes. The kids need a plan! Can they think of a creative solution to their bully problem?.

Eleven-year-old June Jackson has always been good at making the people around her happy, even if that means avoiding telling them what you really think, but as she starts middle school her fairy godmother puts a spell on her that forces her to speak only the truth--even to her friends and family.

When her father goes to fight in World War II, Elizabeth goes with her mother and sister to her grandfather's house where she learns to face up to the always puzzling and often cruel realities of the adult world.

The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

When Maria's family embarrasses her while she tries to win her tryout to be the school mascot, she decides she wants to leave the Pepper pack permanently.