Junior high girls Julie and Lydia deal with romance issues as Julie and Roland become an official couple and Lydia's mom announces she is getting married.

Junior high girls Julie and Lydia are excited to go on a road trip with Papa Dad and Daddy, and although they begin the trip by observing people and traditions in each new place they visit, their attention begins to shift to sensitive family issues.

Best friends Lydia and Julie, armed with the notebook in which they recorded lessons about the behavior and taste of popular girls at their elementary school, feel as ready as they will ever be to start middle school, but they face a crisis when Lydia's mom moves her family to London for six months, leaving the girls to face the challenges of middle school alone.