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With gymnastics class going into a four week break, best friends Ashley Sanchez and Ashlee Taylor plan a sleepover with their new friends Sophi and Prisha--but they have very different ideas about what fun activities to plan for.

Sidney's mother refuses to let him have a dog, so when his friend Sydney comes up with the idea of starting a dog-walking business, it seems like a way to have dogs to play with and make money at the same time--but soon the friends find out that dogs are a lot of work, and can really strain a friendship.

Ashley has a baby brother Sam who is cute because he is just beginning to talk, but is also cranky because his teeth are erupting; Ashlee has a twelve-year-old sister who can be fun, but also often ignores her younger sister--so the eight-year-old friends cannot decide which of them has a worse sibling situation.

When a visiting history professor finds a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Albert J. Somer, founder of Somerville, in the Somerville Museum, the whole town is soon buzzing with ideas about what to do with the money the valuable artifact will bring in--so when the letter disappears siblings Rowan and Astrid Vega and their friends Jace and Quinn set out to find it.

It is the first day of third grade and sassy Sydney and the new boy Sidney are not only neighbors, they are in the same class, so mix-ups are inevitable--but they soon find they share some common interests, including a love for Halloween.

When Poppy's parents finally let her adopt a puppy from the shelter, Poppy discovers that there is a lot of responsibility and work involved in a puppy, but fortunately her best friend, Millie, is there to help.

Poppy is not impressed with her best friend Millie's new playhouse, but she soon realizes that all it needs is a little imagination to make everything work out fine.