At private school, Lucas compares his home life with the supposedly perfect lives of the other students.

Emma is excited when she is asked to be a junior bridesmaid, but worries that she will not be able to work enough jobs to earn the money for the dress.

When a school-wide personality test reunites Nova with Sam - and reveals they are each other's top matches - they begin to remember why they were such close friends all those years before and why a romantic relationship betweenthem would never work out - or so they think.

Twelve-year-old DJ has a reputation at his middle school for being able to solve just about any problem, so when somebody starts systematically sabotaging the kids who are the usual "first-raters" it is up to DJ and his crew to get to the bottom of what is happening.

Presents four works in which the teachers, the librarian, and the principal at A.J.'s school all demonstrate unusual teaching methods to motivate their students to learn.

"Third-grader Amber struggles with the news that her best friend is moving away"--