A report from the front lines of the most formative, and least understood, years of children's lives Suddenly they go from striving for A's to barely passing, or obsessing for hours over "boyfriends" they've barely spoken to. Former chatterboxes answer in monosyllables; free-thinkers mimic their peers' clothes, not to mention their opinions. Bodies and psyches morph under the most radical changes since infancy. On the surface, they're "just chillin'."...

Someone steals the book bag of 6th-grader Chase Cooper and things get worse from there. Now Chase is number one on the Buchanan School's most wanted list and he discovers the Red Ninja Clan. Ninjas never quit - and neither do their enemies.

Jamie Kelly writes in her diary about Isabella who has done the dumbest thing ever.

Superspy middle schoolers Ben and Erica must embark on mission to rescue Erica's grandfather, who was abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility.

Brody Valentine here, and this is the story of my craziest day of school EVER. What started as a normal homeroom ended with me as the school's most wanted kid. See, the science class was digging up a time capsule from 1999, but it went missing and for some reason I've been branded as the thief! Every hall monitor in the school is searching for me, and nobody believes me when I say I was framed. Now the only way I can clear my name is to find the real...

Lacey, a misfit, is forced to assume fairy godmother duties for popular girl Paige, a responsibility that tests her best friendship with Sunny and her ability to survive middle school.

Zoey gets invited to be on her favorite reality show but the show tapes on the same day as the school dance.

"If it were up to Mattie Markham, there would be a law that said your family wasn't allowed to move in the middle of the school year. After all, sixth grade is hard enough without wondering if you'll be able to make new friends or worrying that the kids in Pennsylvania won't like your North Carolina accent. But when Mattie meets her next-door neighbor and classmate, she begins to think maybe she was silly to fear being the 'new girl' ... [until she...

The day of the big science fair is approaching at 6th-grader Chase Cooper's school. Science fair projects are disappearing and found later completely destroyed. Now the fate of the science fair rests in Chase's hands.

Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.