When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently.

Spending the summer in Tarrytown, New York, is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she does not want to admit.

Lots of exciting things are happenign to Grace and her friends. Mimi's older cousin is coming to stay iwth Mimi and it will be her birthday while she is here. Also, Miss Lois' class is going green. Other exciting events involve flaming onion rings, talking carpets, water bottle animals and a squirrel named Willoughby.

Despite the objections of Pig and Mouse, Duck insists on adding a special ingredient to the cake they are making to celebrate Cow's birthday.

Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.

"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--

Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.

Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.

In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.

Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.