Thirteen-year-old Claudia wants to prove that she should be a junior counselor at Blue River Camp next year, but first she must face mean girls, the boy she has a crush on, a seven-year-old rascal she often babysits, her own bad luck, and a challenging swimming test.

Thirteen-year-old Claudia learns about the American justice system when, while studying for an American history quiz at Anna's house, she and her friend Monica are accused of stealing ten dollars and their classmates believe them to be guilty, based on circumstantial evidence.

The Cortez family is going on vacation! They're headed to Florida for a family reunion. But when they arrive, Claudia doesn't get to relax - she's stuck babysitting her younger cousins. She has to miss out on all the fun, and can't hang out with her new friends. What kind of vacation is that?

Claudia is tired of being left out of popular princess Anna's parties, so she decides to throw one of her own. The problem is, parties are expensive. To foot the bill, Claudia takes on extra jobs. But between school, babysitting, dogwalking, and running errands, she doesn't have much time left for her friends. What good is a party when there's no one to invite?

Claudia has had a crush on Brad Turino for as long as she can remember. She's thrilled when Brad asks her for help with homework. But when cute new boy Rusty Alvarez moves to town and asks her out on her first date, she doesn't know what to do!

Claudia knows that cheerleaders can be chosen unfairly, but when her friend Monica wants to try out, she finds a way to support her and still help to change the way things work at school.

Claudia's family is caught in a frenzy of wedding preparations for her favorite cousin Laura's wedding, but when things start to go wrong, Claudia worries that she might be a bad luck charm. "Claudia va a ser la dama de honor en la boda de su prima Laura. Está emocionada y busca todo tipo de información en la Internet sobre bodas. Así conoce costumbres sobre bodas y cosas que traen mala suerte. Pero cuando llega a la casa de Laura, todo empieza...

"If you had asked computer programmer Claudia Simcoe what she expected to come of her leaving San Francisco for the California coast to open a farm-to-table marketplace, “assembles a mismatched team to investigate a murder” would not have been her first guess. Lori Roth is one of the tenants of the market, or she had been until Claudia learned that the hands making her “hand-dyed” textiles belong to overseas factory workers. Claudia terminates...

"Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls--and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed...