Ten-year-old Amelia draws pictures and writes about her daily life in the journal she receives for her birthday.

The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one.

"Amelia is excited to graduate from middle school, but nervous about starting high school, especially when she finds out she won't have her best friend Carly with her. In her homemade graduation yearbook, drawings and 'photos' nostalgically recap her earlier years and notebooks as Amelia figures out how to face the changes ahead"--

Problems arise for Amelia when she starts sixth grade at the same middle school where her older sister Cleo is an eighth-grader, and she gets the school's meanest teacher for three of her classes.

Ten-year-old Amelia watches her older sister Cleo change when she gets her first boyfriend, while Amelia takes a class in "life skills" and tries to figure out what it means that she likes shop class better than home economics.

In her diary of doodles and writings, Daphne explores her efforts to become friends with Imogen, a fellow fourth-grader, which means pretending to become pals with Imogen's best friend, Darla.

In her diary, fourth-grader Daphne Davis draws and writes about her attempt to stop classmates from thinking she has cooties after what she thought would be a "cool" vampire outfit makes her the laughingstock of costume day.

In her diary, Daphne Davis doodles, draws, and documents a series of disasters on her first two days of fourth grade, most of which result from her new teacher accidentally calling her Daffy.

After successfully commanding the Discovery shuttle mission at Space Camp, Amelia returns to fifth grade where she deals with the bully who has been making her life miserable.