Georgia Khatchadorian plans to excel at Hills Village Middle School, in all the places her troublemaking brother failed.

As the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer approaches, an anonymous text message lures five twelve-year-olds to the cemetery, inspiring the first meeting of the Graveyard Girls and setting the stage for a terrifying tale from Whisper that they will never forget.

"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--

When on the first day of middle school Principal Kim announces a Contraption Convention, young inventor Rube Goldberg must conquer his anxieties and a ghostly mystery to come up with something brilliant for the judges and his friends.

Although they are graduating, Gaby Fuller and her friends are shocked to learn that, due to budget cuts, the Greenview cheerleading squad will be disbanded, and they organize a protest to try and get the decision reversed.

Nate and his baseball team, the Cream Puffs, step onto the field determined to prove themselves to opponents who do not take them seriously.

Maverick Falconer is just starting middle school and he wishes he were a hero like his father because maybe then he could deal with his mother's drinking and series of abusive boyfriends, not to mention the kids who bully him in middle school (pretty much the same ones who bullied him in elementary school)--but as the year passes he begins to realize that other kids have problems too, and maybe if they can all survive sixth-grade things will get better....

Alexis Becker, who handles the financial side of the Cupcake Club, deals with her crush on her friend Emma Taylor's brother Matt and supplying the desserts for her sister Dylan's sweet sixteen party.

In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.

Magically switching bodies after a birthday wish gone wrong, outcast Lavender and popular bully Scarlet are forced to live each other's lives while figuring out what has happened.