""Everyone is invited to a birthday party at her parent's candy store, except Stella Batts. She needs to figure out to be a pleasant hostess when she's not on the guest list"--Provided by publisher.

Television producer Brin Cassidy's estranged husband, Jon Riley, interrupts a party she has thrown for a network executive who could provide her big break in the business, demands to know why Brin left him, and refuses to leave until she reveals her secret.

Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance.".

At the big neighborhood summer party Poppy eats too many treats, and gets an upset stomach--but she does not want to be left out when the other children are having so much fun.

When twins Sam and Ilsa throw one last party before they graduate from high school, they add a twist, each sibling gets to invite three guests and the other won't know until they show up.

In order to win a scholarship to summer sports camp, Lee Hargrove plans to change his rival Cory "Lucky Duck" Duckworth's good luck streak with a birthday present he will never forget.

Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.

Cressida eagerly accepts Princess Moon's invitation to attend the annual Starlight Ball, but when Ernest the wizard-lizard causes the ballroom to disappear, the unicorn princesses must magically prepare another space.

After encountering a scary shark at the aquarium, Sam is afraid to attend a birthday party at the beach.

When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband Richard host a bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before...