Laura Dower

Summer sizzles as Far Hills prepares its annual Independence Day celebration. Fiona and Aimee even have friends coming from out of town. Unfortunately, Madison is headed to Gramma's lake house, far, far away from fun in the sun. When a mysterious boy visits the house next door to Gramma's, things start looking up for Madison.

During the summer before she starts the seventh grade, Madison Finn makes friends both in person and on line as she tries to adjust to the changes in her life. This fresh, new series for "tweens" introduces Madison Finn, a seventh graderdealing with issues such as friendships, divorce, and school, while using herlaptop and the Internet to help her through changes.

When Mr. Gibbons posts the cast for the upcoming production of the seventh-grade musical, The Wiz, Madison's world gets a dose of serious drama. Can her role as stage manager of the show help her figure out who likes whom, and who her real friends and enemies are?

Madison is busy as a bee - and she has the jam-packed school schedule to prove it. The only problem is: whatever Madison does comes back to bug her. Even and ordinary science class trip to a nature preserve turns into a major emergency. And when Mom decides to start dating, Madison gets a case of the real creepy-crawlies.

While trying to take Madison's mind off her parent's divorce, Mrs. Wing asks her to create a web site for the school, but unfortunately, someone keeps changing the site, creating more problems.

A collection of information, for girls, on a wide variety of topics, including women who changed the world, how to do a cartwheel, great chick flicks, and real-life advice.

There's trouble brewing at Far Hills Junior High when Madison and Fiona start a friendly competition with Egg and Chet to see who can make the best Web page.

Far Hills seventh grade goes on a three day field trip to Jasper Woods.

Madison learns through a weblog that her friend Ivy's life is not as perfect as Ivy would have the world believe.

Teen star Nikki is coming to town, and Madison and her friends are so excited. But Madison soon learns that sometimes things are not what they seem. She starts to think twice about what being picture- perfect really means.