"Marya's eighth birthday is coming up! All she wants is a party as awesome as the ones Alexa, her rich neighbor, throws. When Alexa parades around the school with fancy invitations, Marya can't help herself--she claims that she's having the most epic henna party ever! Now she just has to convince her family to make it happen. Enter Operation Help the Khans! Maybe she could cook dinner for her parents? Or clean her grandmother's room? Except everything...

When Kylie tells her friend Lexi that she wishes she had someone to go to the dance with, a secret admirer begins to leave notes and gifts in her locker.

For their twelfth birthday Willow's mom is planning a combined birthday party for Willow and her twin brother, Winston--boys and girls will both be invited for a Halloween masquerade, but soon the games threaten to get out of hand.

"It's Karen's birthday! She can't wait for all those presents. Karen is even having two parties--one at Daddy's house and one at Mommy's. But what Karen really wants for her birthday is one party, with her whole family together. Will Karen's birthday wish come true?"-

Eight-year-old Ava realizes that she needs to be careful about what she asks for when her wishes start coming true during her "backwards, upside-down, and inside-out" birthday party.

"Settled in at her new school and flanked by awesome friends Chloe and Zoey, life is looking up for Nikki Maxwell, especially since her crush, Brandon, asked her to be his lab partner--a seriously awesome development. However, when Nikki overhears mean girl MacKenzie bragging that Brandon's taking her to the Halloween dance, a bummed Nikki signs on to spend Halloween at a kids' party with her little sister, Brianna, instead. After she finds out Mackenzie...

"Eight-year-old Emma is excited about her best friend Izzie's birthday party, but she is also a little worried because she is deaf and communicates through sign language, and her cochlear implant does not work well in noisy crowds."--

During classmate Dierdre's "sweet half-sixteen" birthday party, Nancy Drew and her Clue Crew friends investigate who threw a snake into the pool--and why.

"Marya loves fall. Every year, her family goes to the town's fall festival and picks out the best pumpkin. But this year, after she sees her frenemy Alexa winning a big, cool pumpkin-shaped trophy, Marya knows she's got to win a trophy for something. It just so happens that her school is going to hold its own fall festival, with games and food and even a hayride. All the ticket sales will go to an animal shelter, and the person who sells the most...

Livvy, the new girl at school, is a bully who ridicules the other children, and it is up to TJ and his guidance counselor father to work out a strategy that will improve her behavior--and save TJ's birthday party.