Girl #1
Dodger es un chico de catorce años que tiene dos preocupaciones principales, es el blanco de las fechorías de la banda de Juice y además está enamorado de la novia de éste, Tangerine. Sin embargo, esto no es nada comparado con lo que se le viene encima. En la tienda de antigüedades del Capitan Manzini, donde trabaja después del colegio, Dodger libera accidentalmente a siete seres de un cubo de basura, Greg el macarra, Nerd el oloroso, Windy Winston, Nat el lelo, Tessy la guarra, Ali Lagarto, Valerie Vómito y Phil el apestoso. Todos ellos componen la Pandilla Basura.
Hannah
A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable" by public school authorities, psychiatrists, and medical doctors. Even the child's own mother, who is very loving, does not have the tools to reach her "hopeless" child. This is the further story of a teacher who understood what it was like to be eight years old and hurt and angry and confused; a teacher who saw these children for who they were, rather than who they seemed to be.