Meguri Matsumoto's Via the School Nurse's Office, Kaneyama Honkan follows Suma, a middle-school student worn down by school life, as she slips through a passage beneath a second nurse's office into a hot-spring inn for young teens. Through rest and encounters at Kaneyama Honkan, she begins to face her hurt feelings and her family.

A mysterious hot-spring refuge that opens on the days when school feels too hard.

Yukie Mochizuki's The Witch, Fireworks, and One Million Yen is a children's novel about middle-school students trying to bring back a school festival that has been cancelled. An is drawn into a secret plan led by student-council member Kento and begins to think about how young people can communicate their hopes to adults.

To win back their school festival, a group of students sets a secret plan in motion.

Maki Hanasato's Aoi's World follows fifth-grader Aoi, who moves to Canada because of her father's work. Having felt out of place in her Japanese classroom because of her habit of daydreaming, Aoi gradually discovers her own way of being and connecting with others in a different culture and school life.

Far from what had counted as normal in Japan, Aoi slowly expands her own world.