"Quinn keeps lists of everything--from the days she's ugly cried, to "Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud" and all the boys she'd like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is,until her journal goes missing... Then an anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her entire...

Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."

Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird.

"A sixth-grade boy's stories about superhero Dude Explodius start changing reality"--

It's the year of boy-girl parties, the year when they give school dances and you know what is expected of you. Kalhoun tries really hard not to like the boy that he likes in art class, he will write letters to him explaining why he can't like him in this year when the rules get serious, the 7th grade. He won't send the letters, of course, letters that say way too much for the U.S. Mail.