The homecoming game at Pine Creek High School is Friday night, followed by the homecoming dance on Saturday, so Claudia, Monica, and all their friends are nervous and on edge--will some disaster strike?

Emma really wants a pet to love but her mother is allergic, so her friends Kyle and Mia set out to find a pet for Emma that will not make her mother sick.

When Stephanie is matched with the new girl Cynthia in the big pal, little pal program at school, Michelle begins to feel left out.

It seems as if the Whatever Club is doomed when Adam insists on joining, then wants to play baseball or video games instead of reading magazines and doing other things thirteen-year-old Claudia and her girlfriends are used to doing.