Dru, a new student at Carter High, jumps to conclusions when she sees a boy she likes talking to another girl, and almost ruins her chances at being his friend.
After interfering with a foul ball at the All-City Baseball Championships, Danny Shine is called a jinx and the entire school hates him, which he finds much worse than being an invisible geek.
Sophie and her best friend, Kylie are the perfect team. But when Kylie signs them both up for cheerleading tryouts, it's Sophie who lands in the spotlight--and Kylie ends up on the sidelines.
Nine-year-old Emma O'Fallon experiences difficulties at home and at school while trying to disrupt the growing attachment between Irish nanny Annie and her boyfriend Bo during a family camping trip and struggling with her friendship with best friend Luisa.
Four best friends are jealous of a neighbor girl and refuse to have anything to do with her, until they each have a dream in which a fairy godmother shows them what the girl's life is really like.
Introduces the short vowel "e" through a rhyming story in which Penny Hen, content to live alone, learns that Jenny is going to buy two more hens and quickly realizes that life by herself could become lonely.