"Every summer, the Pikes rent a house right on the ocean in Sea City, New Jersey. And they bring two sitters along to take care of the Pike kids. Only this time, the whole entire Baby-sitters Club is going! They are having so much fun, no one's noticed that a gigantic hurricane named Bill is headed straight for Sea City!"--Cover.

Told in two voices, Allie and Jake continue to be bombarded by family issues and pressures from the "Cresties" and their poorer counterparts as they spend a summer dealing with the fallout of their breakup.

Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.

"In the darkness, something opened its eyes. The town of Haywood, New Jersey, has a secret. A wish monster. Violet Park discovered its cave by accident, and the wish monster granted her deepest desire by bringing her dog Midnight back to life. It even erased everyone's memory of his death. Life was perfect. But then an unremarkable boy named Hudson Causeway somehow remembered Midnight had died. That scared Violet. What if he ruined everything? Even...

"The Aldens visit the shore in New Jersey and help out at an amusement pier that is rumored to be unsafe"--

Told in two voices, high school juniors Allie, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the "Crestie" whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father's bad investment that cost them all.

"Sara's abilities have been growing ever since she moved to Stellamar. First she was able to communicate with the ghosts. Next came the visions. And then the mind reading started. It seems like things have settled down and returned to normal--or as close to normal as things ever are for Sara--when Lady Azura informs her that a shift has occurred and change is coming. At first Sara isn't sure what that means, but before long, she finds out. A new ability...

When her mother sets her up with handsome, aloof Harun, eighteen-year-old Bangladeshi American Zahra pretends to date him while she pursues her coworker, Nayim, but she quickly finds herself second-guessing her true feelings. Zahra Khan is basically Bangladeshi royalty, but being a princess doesn't pay the bills in Paterson, New Jersey. Her plans for financial security this summer involve working long hours at Chai Ho and saving up for college writing...

Although twelve-year-old Cassidy Bean keeps a book of bad things, she did not expect her summer with the Tremont family in rural New Jersey to be one of them--but this year Ursula, a local hoarder, has died under mysterious circumstances, and Cassidy finds that there a great many bad and dangerous things hidden in her house, including, perhaps, her vengeful ghost.

When the passive strategy she has always adopted proves injurious to her heart's goals, ordinary girl Wren wants to change but doesn't know how. Grayson was on the fast track to a brilliant future until he was expelled for being a "term-paper pimp;" he needs to change but doesn't know how. When Wren inadvertently saves Grayson's life, they are compelled to shed their pasts, figure out who they are-- and fall in love.