When an arrogant new girl comes to school, third-graders and best friends Nikki and Deja decide to form a club that would exclude her but find the results not what they expected.

Stick and Stone are both lonely until Pinecone's teasing causes one to stick up for the other, and a solid friendship is formed.

Mac finally convinces his best friend Cheese to go to the beach, but then they miss the bus.

It's Miles and Niles's final year at Yawnee Valley Science and Letters Academy, and the Terrible Two have one goal: an epic prank. Something big, something brilliant, something that will leave a lasting legacy at their school. Which should be easy-peasy for these experts, especially now that their principal has gone from archnemesis to pranking protégé.
But their smooth sailing gets downright bumpy when they find out that the new superintendent

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Sometimes you make a friend, and it feels like you have known that friend your entire life. . . . Hedgehog lives on a teeny-tiny island with only her stuffed dog, Mutty, for company. When a great storm carries Mutty away, she embarks on a quest to find her friend. Following the trail of clues Mutty left behind, brave Hedgehog meets a wiggly Mole, a wordy Owl, a curmudgeonly Beaver, a scatterbrained Hen and Chicks, and a girl who's new to the neighborhood,...

After Pinkalicious uses all of Alison's pink paint in class, she wonders how she can repay her best friend.

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

After coming out of alcohol rehabilitation, sixteen-year-old Amy sorts out conflicting emotions about her best friend Julia's death in a car accident for which she feels responsible.

Echo Reef is doing tail flips because she's going to see her favorite under-the-sea boy band, the Rays! They're performing at her classmate's Pearl's birthday party, and everyone who goes to Trident academy is invited. Everyone, that is, except Echo's best friend, Shelly! Echo doesn't want to miss the Rays, but how can she even think of going to the party without her best friend? Can Echo convince Pearl to invite Shelly? Or will she have to come up...