Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Fifth-grader Peter Hatcher's mother is pregnant, his four-year-old brother, Fudge, is a constant embarrassment to his family, and his parents want to move to New Jersey for a year, could life get any worse?

When Piper's parents divorce and gradually begin to make new lives for themselves she finds all the changes difficult, but in time she starts to find her own way.

As winter melts into spring, Rosie and her grandfather collect sap, and then the whole family works together to make maple syrup.

The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.

When the Alden siblings travel to their great-aunt Jane's ranch, they must solve the mystery of rare rocks found on the premises and a strange man snooping around the grounds.

A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

"Little Sunny is a Korean-American girl living in an American town with her mom and her baby brother Tak. When Sunny's and Tak's grandmother Halmi comes for a visit, she brings with her a treasure trove of ingredients from her hometown in Korea and leads Sunny and Tak into the unique world of kimchi-making. Join Sunny in her foray into the world of kimchi, and you might just begin a kimchi-making tradition of your own." --Dust jacket.

In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.

Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.