When Chase returns to middle school after falling off the roof and losing his memory, he learns that the person he was before the amnesia is not someone he likes.

Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.

A family of porcelain dolls is taken aback when a family of plastic dolls arrive and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor.

After being swept overboard from an ocean liner, fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne, spoiled son of a millionaire, is rescued by New England fishermen who put him to work on their boat.

A young boy describes himself as "loud as a lion, " "quiet as a clam, " "tough as a rhino, " and "gentle as a lamb."

When a little girl asks her mother about princesses, she learns that they are much like herself.

In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.

Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, are carried to school, mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess Mimi, a doll who threatens all dollkind.

During her summer at Camp Nashaquitsa, eleven-year-old Abby tries to reinvent herself, while worrying about her mother, missing her dead father, and getting to know her equally self-conscious bunkmates.

Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.