Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.

A new student's reputation as a bully proves to be unfounded.

It's Nikki's birthday, and it is up to her whether it is a blast or a bust.

When her best friend's jealousy leaves seventh grader Mango Delight Fuller friendless and kicked off the track team, she reluctantly auditions for the school play, which comes with new friends, new rules, new expectations, and new problems.

"After a summer locked away in a mental institution, seventeen-year-old orphan Ava Hall is sent to Blythewood, a finishing school for young ladies that is anything but ordinary"--

Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.

Nick takes his new kitten, Mittens, to school for show-and-tell, but a curious Mittens escapes his cage and explores an empty classroom.

"Kate isn't late for preschool because she has her daddy stop along the way so she can say hello to neighbors or look at all the vehicles at a construction site--she's late because once they get there, her daddy gives her a great big hug"--

When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

Kangaroo learns the proper way to behave on the first day of school.