"Ten-year-old Ben Cutler loves soccer, and he like to have fun while playing too, but when he joins a travel team that takes winning very seriously, he starts to wonder if there is more to the game than just getting a W."--

While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.

Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.

When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

On "Backwards Day", Judy Moody manages to stay in a good mood for an entire day. Can she do it for on whole week? Gulp! She's going to try, but her friends are worried. Who is this stranger and what did she do with their moody friend, Judy?

"My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black -- black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking...

A friendship is born when soft-spoken Wyatt is paired with outgoing Noreen on a class field trip.

"As his school's centennial is coming up, Big Nate is stuck showing the dorky new kid around"--

As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.

Allie West finds it challenging to make new friends and stay true to old ones as she navigates fifth grade at a school run by her mother.