Because he suffers from asthma, six-year-old Monty is nervous about starting first grade but he soon learns to cope with his illness and use his special talents to make friends.

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

In 1969, 14-year-old Mal enrolls in a rural California boarding school where he finds himslef caught up in a plot involving endangered animals and an illegal pesticide.

The American Girl Collection

In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.