Determined to regain her sense of accomplishment after losing her top-class ranking to Jonah, Grace decides to compete against him in a Labor Day half-marathon, but as they train together, she learns valuable lessons about what truly matters.

Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read.

"Megan Hathaway was supposed to be helping put together a newspaper for her English class... but everything is going wrong. Weird Randall keeps trying to mail potatoes, evil Vice-Principal Mr. Fisher has imprisoned the class's best artist, and... oh geez... Olivia just yarked in a trombone! Can you help Megan save school journalism?! Or will you let Sunbright Middle School's secrets remain hidden forever?!"--