Michelle Schusterman

On her first day of seventh grade, Holly Mead learns that her new band director is surprisingly strict and that her best friend has replaced her with the new French horn player.

Holly is confident that the brass section will raise the most money at the band's bake sale and that her crush, Aaron, will ask her to the winter dance until problems arise with the fundraiser and Aaron asks her friend to the dance.

Holly and Natasha organize a surprise sleepover for Julia's birthday, but when Julia blows them off to spend time with her new boyfriend, Seth, the girls start fighting.

Phoebe Byrd, Vanessa Montoya-O'Callaghan, and Callie Buchannan are three teenagers with very different interests and somewhat different problems, but today they are all in Orlando to attend different conventions/competitions--and when a crazy mix-up in the hotel lobby brings the three girls together, they form an unlikely friendship against the chaotic background of the Orlando convention scene.

When the Kudo siblings visit New York City, their sightseeing plans are interrupted when a very special dress, the centerpiece of their aunt's fashion collection, goes missing, and Alex and Mika embark on a chase around the city to find it.