junior high schools

As the summer of 1969 turns to fall in their New Jersey town, twelve-year-old Brody plays football in his first year at junior high while his older brother's protest of the war in Vietnam causes tension with their father.

Eighth-grader Jonah Truman's life gets more complicated after his mom marries his school's principal during summer vacation.

The Beacon Street Girls fear the future may hold big changes for them when Charlotte's father wants to move away, Maeve starts stressing over an important project, and a new girl tries to join their group.

Life is confusing for seventh-grader Maggie, who must track down a missing person and find out who is behind a string of dog eggings at the local dog run, while also dealing with issues involving her brother and two of her friends.

Confused by all of the males in her life, thirteen-year-old Alyssa "Blister" Reed wants to help when her best friend Jonah's quest for popularity lands him in deep trouble, but his desire to make her his girlfriend gets in the way.

Seventh grader Celia Martinez has big plans for an election campaign - only she's not planning to run. Celia has smarts but as a certified science nerd, thinks she's sorely lacking the popularity points to score a big win. Mariela Cruz, Celia's best friend and actress, will be the face of the campaign. Celia the brains behind the scenes. With a team like this, nothing can go wrong! Right?.

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.

The girls face a tough challenge trying to keep the Movie House from closing and at the same time dealing with an out-of-control soccer mom.