Mattie Kleinfeld had a typical life. He went to school and had friends, but his parents would constantly fight. Their fighting results in their sending Mattie away to summer camp so they can work out their problems. At camp, Mattie's only bragging right comes from his name, which he inherited from his relative, a famous baseball player...too bad no one believes him! Mattie hates it at camp. He doesn't know anyone and things just aren't going right.
Two brothers, Naoto and Naoya, have amazing psychic powers. When they were abducted from their parents many years ago, they were taken to an institution that studied their powers. Years later, Naoya starts having visions that mirror Kamiya-sams's visions. They both see the destruction of mankind by virus. Endangering everyone is not who they thought. Kanako Kurahashi-san is the head of a lab that is developing a cure for Aids that causes mutation. After poison and death face them, they save the world. But a new threat has surfaced and they must soon fight it for their survival.
Celeste Harris was like any other chubby 13 year old girl. She had a best friend, Sandra, who defends her against the perfectly popular Lively Carson. Celeste is happy in here life, besides the daily beat-down of Lively's words, she's happy. But being a bridesmaid at her cousins wedding isn't all its cracked up to be. With a fitting for the ugly peach dress, the peach monstrosity, Celeste's Aunt Doreen finds a modeling flyer for PeachWear Industries and automatically forces Celeste into it.
Carli Carroll is your not-so-average gymnast. After all, being a genius on the mat means special training and possibly Olympic fame! But with Carli's not-so-genius report card and a life on the ranch, who has time for gymnastic glory? After knowing that she needs to contribute more time to her gymnastics life, Carli takes Saturday practices and works extra hard. When one old-time gold medalist turned gymnastic coach, Rick, wants to teach Carli the way to be a gymnastic star, she is afraid to ask her parents.
One day, when a boy named Arcan lost his parents, he had to move to an orchard with his grandfather. After making friends of the orchard trolls, Arcan felt like he was beginning to fit in. Soon, after a hard days work in the orchard, Arcan decided to take a walk when he happened upon a tree hunched over studying him. Then the tree talked. Arcan began to visit the tree everyday. Arborgast was what he decided to name the tree. One day, the tree hears a noise, and a bluebird lands on one of his out-there branches.
Maggie, as most people call her, or Margaret Olivia Fortini, is one of the biggest Brooklyn Dodgers fans there is. Maggie lives near the firehouse and has some friends in there. She listens to every game with them at the firehouse, and even though she doesn't play the game, she knows a lot about it. She can recite player statistics, batting averages, innings and she understands all of the plays. She prays so much but year after agonizing year the Dodgers still don't win the World Series. When the firehouse gets a new fire fighter, Jim, Maggie starts to bond with him over baseball.
