When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette Syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause.

"A family learns what home really means when they leave their beloved house and move to another"--

"Para Agustina no es nada fácil mudarse del Polo Sur al Polo Norte. Allí se encuentra diferente y sola. Echa de menos su habitación de siempre, a sus amigos y, sobre todo, a la abuela y al abuelo. Pero con sus dibujos pronto consigue romper el hielo y hacer nuevos amigos"--Cover. Augustine the penguin moves to a new home and adjusts to a new school.

Twelve-year-old Lizbeth is determined to get rid of her dad's new girlfriend and make friends at her new school--neither of which turns out to be as easy as she expects.

With the help of a very special pit bull puppy, twelve-year-old Hannah adjusts to moving from Michigan to California and makes friends, despite the birthmark that makes her self-conscious.

To Elodee, eleven, things seem a little too perfect in Eventown when she moves there with her parents and identical twin, Naomi, especially since forgetting the past is so highly valued.

Jake and his family have moved to a new state and now Jake must start at the bottom of the social ladder, but he is determined to make friends and get back on top with his box of "kid cards." Follows the experiences of young Jake, a boy who endures the drama and frustrations of being the new kid in school.

Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.

"A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself"--

Mindy Kim wants to fit in at her new school, but her favorite lunch leads to scorn, then a thriving business, and finally big trouble.