Ready or Not

When Amanda becomes the first girl in her class to start wearing a bra, the reaction of her friends is not what she had anticipated.

When Busy gets her first period very unexpectantly, she must rely on her father to help her out. Later on, she talks with her mom about this new development in her life and insists its no big deal especially when Amanda hears of it. Amanda is completely excited and jealous, for she has not gotten her period yet. Busy continues to call it no big deal but it really is, especially when she has a conversation with her mom about womanhood and the beauties of motherhood.

When Busy and Amanda get caught spying on Chrissys slumber party, they inadvertantly get invited into Chrissys house. But when a group of boys from Junior High gatecrash the party, alcohol is consumed, and things start to get out of hand.

Busys mom announces she is having a baby. Busy objects to the good news, fearing that she will no longer have a bedroom all to herself, as it is planned that the baby will sleep in Busys bedroom. Meanwhile, Amanda develops a crush for Justin, when he accidently knocks her over whilst driving his sisters car on a car park.

Amanda is crushed when she spies Chrissy and Justin making out.

Monkey Ears begins to experience puberty.

Amanda decides to throw a party where she plans on having her first kiss with her crush, Justin. Busy becomes worried when she sees her parents fight and then her mother announces she will be visiting Busys grandmother for a couple weeks. Busy keeps this from Amanda who when she finally figures it out and confronts Busy tells her to drop it and that its no big deal. Amanda mistakenly mentions it to Troy the boy Busy has a crush on and Busy explodes at her best friend and refuses to attend the party. However, they make up later at the party when Busy calms down. The party is initially a dud until a game of spin the bottle livens things up. Amandas first kiss is not what she thought it would be when she must kiss Monkey Ears! Busy runs out on her kiss with Troy but later shares a private kiss with him away from prying eyes, except for Amandas who sees the whole moment.

Troy Edwards has a crush on Busy, and sends her a poem to express how he feels about her. Soon, Troy plucks up the courage to ask Busy out.While Troy prepares for the date by trying to shave, Busy allows Amanda to give her a facial and manicure. Unfortunately, neither Troys or Busys preparations go to plan. Having listened to brother Doms advice, Busy dresses for the date in a more feminine style unaccustomed to her usual tom-boy image. Dressed in a short skirt and pink tights, Busy finds it both uncomfortable and difficult to compete with Troy at bowling. Half way through their game, Busy goes to the toilet to change back into her normal, more comfortable clothes. When she returns, Busy starts to relax, and finds herself beating Troy at bowling. Unable to cope with a girl beating him, Troys male ego is beaten, and drifts into a mood. Later, Troy apologises to Busy.

Amandas father losses his job. Amanda decides that if she doesnt want to get teased at school by Chrissy anymore she needs to get the ""cool"" clothes. But they cost alot of money. Amanda decides to get a job.

Busy plays basketball with the ""guys.""

Amanda meets Danny Masters.

Amanda is very upset when her mother starts dating again and attempts to ruin her love life. After her mother catches on to her, Amanda is forced to deal with the fact that her parents are not getting back together and that theyre moving on with their lives.

Amanda struggles with popularity when she must tutor Krissy the most popular girl in school but soon learns that being popular doesnt really mean anything because everyone has their own problems.

Busy and Amanda arrive at summer camp only to learn that they are in separate cabins. While Amanda tries to figure out how to transfer to Busys cabin, Busy has a great time with her bunkmates. Amanda is stuck in a cabin with a bunch of girls whove known each other for several years and a small annoying young girl everyone calls Niblet. While Amanda takes a liking to this kid, she also tries to get in good with her bunkmates even stooping so far as to participate in the destruction of Niblets prized possession: Buddy the dummy. However, Amanda is the only one who confesses the truth to Jessica Niblet which makes her new friends blow her off but Amanda later introduces Jessica to Busy as her friend.

Amanda and Busy spend the weekend at Amandas fathers place, where a French man and his two cute sons are visiting as well.

Amanda, Busy and her brother Frankie spend the day at Sticklebacks Sports Park. Busys plan is to hang out with the cute guy at the gocart track which she does but unfortunately things get a little too heavy for her and she is forced to push Steve away from her and run from him. Meanwhile Amanda and Frankie spend the day together and start liking each other. When they visit the fortune teller they end up holding hands and sharing their first kiss. Frankie asks Amanda not to say anything to Busy about their day and she agrees. A few days later, Busy confesses to Amanda about her experiences with Steve the gocart guy and Amanda tells her it was not her fault that Steve wouldnt take no for an answer when he tried to kiss her.

When Amandas boyfriend, Danny returns from New York, she finds he doesnt look the way she remembered. Hes now got a face full of acne which embarrasses her. Danny is hurt when she fails to defend him in front of her classmates, especially when she proclaims hes not her boyfriend. Amanda attempts to make up for her wrong doings by buying him some zit cream which he explains to her wont help. She tells him hes changed and he remarks to her that shes the one whos changed: because she has become so superficial. Later on she realizes Danny is right and attempts to become his friend again before he leaves to go live in New York with his mother permanently.

Amanda questions her religious beliefs as a Jew and decides to explore her heritage and even with the hatred that comes with it.

Its Amandas 13th birthday and all Amanda wants to do is complete her list of accomplishments by the time she turns thirteen. These include skipping school with Busy and hanging out with some bad kids. Unfortunaely for Mel, Amandas moms boyfriend, Amanda is encouraged by the bad crowd to spray paint graffiti on his car. Amanda,feeling guilty,ends up confessing her crime to Mel.

After Amanda and Busy get into a fight over Amandas poetry and her desire to be published by Busys uncle Pasquale, they stop being friends. They both hang out with their other friends but soon tire of them and miss each other too much. Amanda and Busy ditch their new friends and make up as best friends once again.

Convinced the other has an easier family life, Amanda and Busy switch families for the weekend.

After her play is a bomb, Amanda tries to reboost her ego by starting a modelling career, but after one nasty comment, shes plunged into a world with low-self-esteem and thoughts of plastic surgery.

Busy gets jealous when Sags former girlfriend, Colleen keeps hanging around. Amanda convinces Busy that shes jealous of Colleen because she likes Sag and wants to be his girlfriend. Busy and Sag do start dating but things get really awkward between the two of them and they break up. Theyre left with a tentative friendship in need of repairing. Meanwhile, Sags hyper friend Henry inspires Amanda to test her limits by bungee jumping but its Amandas mom who ends up taking the plunge.

Amanda immaturely implies that she has a much better time with her dad than with her mom. Whilst spending the weekend with her father, Amanda is told that her father has named his latest (Gameboyâ„¢) game after her: ""AMAZIM"". Amanda is then asked to demonstrate the game next week at a convention. Amanda borrows her fathers jacket and is shocked by what she finds in the pocket. Consequently, we discover for the first time the plausible reason for the breaking up of Amandas parents marriage. With this on her mind, Amanda becomes upset and storms out of the ""AMAZIM"" demonstration. Feeling guilty of the way she treated her mom, Amanda indirectly apologises to her mom. The episode concludes with an emotional confrontation between Amanda and her father. Some time later, we see Amanda writing a letter to her dad; trying to put into words how she feels about him.

Busy reluctantly befriends the new boy in school, whos in a wheelchair, but soon learns Aidan has a tough life and she really connects with him.

Busy and Amanda, anxious to spend a night alone watching a movie, end up stuck at home in a blackout with Sheila, who reveals shes pregnant.

When Dom flunks out of college, its up to Busy to help him come home and tell their parents the truth.

When Amanda promises to spend a whole day babysitting Stephens young daughter, Phoebe, she really would rather be at her drama group, and goes to extremes to do that instead, much to Phoebes dismay.

When Amandas grades start to fail, her mom decides that her drama group must go and Amanda attempts to sneak around and still be in the play.

Amanda and Busy both have important decisions to make when they learn that they can choose to apply to several high schools, which could mean theyd be going to different schools next year.

Amanda and Busy prepare for graduation from 9th grade and into pending adulthood. Meanwhile, Amanda tries to reconnect with her father.

Amanda gets caught up with a new friend whos into protesting but when she takes it too far, Amanda realizes shes losing Milan.

Amanda reveals to Busy that shes moving out West before school starts. Busy is extremely shocked at the thought of this, as she realises this could mean the end of their wonderful friendship. Amanda gives Busy a ring which used to belong to her grandmother, as a sign of their eternal friendship. The girls are on their way to a Warehouse Party, which Amanda is excited to go to, if only to be able to say goodbye to her friends and to Milan. Once at the party, Amanda inadvertantly sees Milan and another girl kissing. Although Milan and Amanda had split up, the sight of her ex-boyfriend kissing someone else upsets Amanda, and so Amanda runs away and tries to leave the party. Meanwhile, Busy finds out that she has lost the ring Amanda gave to her, and does not know how to break the news to Amanda. As the girls try leaving via an old elevator, the elevator malfunctions, and the girls naturally become frightened. Soon, the elevator plummets downwards, resulting in hospital beds for both Am