On the first morning of the first day of their summer vacation, J. D. Kidd and his best friend resolve to have an absolutely perfect day before the summer ends.
A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.
Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.
An orphaned adolescent boy with a legendary talent for running goes on a journey of self-discovery, leaving his aunt and uncle's unhappy home, bouncing from place to place, and learning about racism and what it means to belong.
Crash Coogan, rising football sensation, and his friend, Mike make a regular practice of tormenting the school nerd, Penn Webb, but when Mike takes a prank too far, Crash finds himself locked in a moral dilemma.
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
Eddie and Pickles do the Funky Pickle, a new dance, at a school dance. Eddie hopes to attract Sunny but instead attracts Angelpuss, who has orange spiked hair and is the girlfriend of Weasel. Weasel decrees that Eddie must fight him. Will Eddie survive?.
