Sixth-grader Alyssa Fontana, who thinks that her life is perfect, becomes the object of a practical joke which she blames on Hayden Martin, the new girl, who is tagged "the meanest girl in town."  (M)

In a weblog she sends to her best friends back in Berkeley, seventh-grader Raisin Rodriguez chronicles her successes and her more frequent humiliating failures as she attempts to make friends at her new Philadelphia school.  (M,J)

Maya has been part of the group ever since the day Candace asked her if she wanted to "do lunch" in the cafeteria. Yet when Candace suddenly deems her unworthy, Maya's so-called friends just blow her off. While Maya just wants the girls back like they used to be, she knows that can never happen - because whatever Candace wants, Candace gets, no matter who gets hurt. Maya isn't sure exactly where things went wrong for her, but she knows she has to find out who her real friends are, and who among the girls she can trust.  (M,J)

Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.  (J,S)

Flan Flood is determined to be more than just Patch Flood’s little sister when she begins her freshman year at Stuyvesant High, a huge public school downtown. When she meets a new group of friends that could help her become a new person, Flan has to convince them that she’s just an ordinary girl, like they are. This becomes nearly impossible when her very not normal friends Liesel, Philippa, and Sara-Beth Benny move in! Can Flan keep the Inside Girls hidden, find a new high school boy to date, and get her new friends to accept her?  (J,S)

Chronicles, in instant message format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends - Zoe, Maddie, and Angela - as they begin tenth grade.  (J,S)

A humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.  (M,J)

Stacy Friedman is getting ready for her upcoming Bat Mitzvah, and her top concerns for the event are finding the perfect designer-label dress, becoming popular, and finding a boyfriend. Meanwhile her rabbi has assigned her three Mitzvah projects (good deeds), and she's afraid she'll fail miserably. Add to that her parents' divorce, a humiliating older brother, and friend troubles, and Stacy's got a full plate.  (M,J)

Ninth-grader Ellie is determined to find herself a boyfriend, but her two best friends seem to be having all the luck. But when Ellie decides to pretend that her 12-year-old pen pal is her boyfriend in order to impress her friends, she runs into trouble.  (M,J)