Rachel Vail

"Katie Honors is a really brave kid. She can go to bed with just one small night light. She can hold her tears in when it's time to say goodbye to her mom at school. But sometimes Katie isn't ready to say goodbye and doesn't feel brave at all. When this happens, she Kaplooms! She refuses to let go of her mom, and everything is flurried as she begins to cry. Her emotions feel frightening. It's not the Katie Honors she wants to be. But her mother assures...

Having once shared a kiss with her best friend's boyfriend, Kevin, fourteen-year-old Charlie finds life even more awkward when their parents marry, making Kevin, still her crush, now her stepbrother.

Fourteen-year-old Charlie feels guilty because she has a crush on her best friend's boyfriend, and her loyalties become even more confused when she discovers that her mother is dating the boyfriend's father.

When Katie Honors feels angry and out of control, her mother helps her to be herself again.

"It's the start of the school year, and nothing feels right to Justin. He didn't get the teacher he wanted, he's not in the same class as his best friend, and his little sister, Elizabeth, is starting kindergarten at his school. Elizabeth doesn't seem nervous at all. Justin is very nervous about third grade. And to top it off, he's lost his favorite stuffed animal, but he can't tell anyone, because technically he's too old to still have stuffed animals....

"Morgan's life hasn't been easy. Her father left her family when she was little, and ever since, she's kept her emotions inside by showing how tough she can be on the outside. But when her best friend CJ dumps her for the popular Zoe Grandon, Morgan can't handle the humiliation. She always thought hiding her feelings would protect her from getting hurt. But maybe the opposite is what she really needs." --Page [4] cover.

Even though Lefty and Righty like different things, they find they must learn to get along together without tripping over each other.

When other girls in her school have cat ears on their headbands, Elizabeth decides she must have one too. Cat ears on your headband is not the only way to look great. But it is a very good way. Mallory has glitter folders and bright orange sneakers and a huge pink eraser. And Mallory has cat ears on her headband. Then Anna comes to school with cat ears on her headband, too. Everybody loves how they look in those cat-ear headbands. Especially Elizabeth....

There are unexpected consequences when thirteen-year-old Gracie sends texts pretending to be her bashful best friend, Sienna, and their friend Emmett starts texting back pretending to be shy A.J.

Olivia is baffled as her friends CJ, Morgan and Zoe begin to obsess over boys and clothes until she herself develops a crush on Lou Hochstetter, but things get complicated when Morgan announces that Lou is a total nerd.