After being involved in a drunk driving accident in the spring, Paige Sheridan spends the summer in Paris as an au-pair and then returns to her suburban Iowa existence for her senior year of high school, where she begins to wonder if she wants more out life than being popular, having a handsome boyfriend and all the latest clothes, and being a member of the social elite.

Gem doesn't find it easy to make new friends, until high school, where she meets Savannah, who asks her to join her crew. One of the rules of their crew is to never let boys come between them. Gem is okay with that until she meets Phoenix, who can't stop talking about this boy she was dating. The same boy Gem has also been seeing.

The wealthy, teenaged Carlyle triplets make a place for themselves in the high-society scene of Manhattan's Upper East Side.

With college just a week away, the private jets are booked, the vintage Gucci steamer trunks packed, and it is time for the A-list crew to say goodbye. Or is it? Sam is head to USC film school, but when Eduardo offers her a different ending, like moving to Paris as newlyweds, will she go? There are only a few precious days left in LA, and then it is time for everyone to choose what their futures will hold. Only one thing is certain: wherever...

Six high school juniors discover surprising, often painful, things about themselves and their relationships with the people around them in the diaries they are asked to keep as a three-month English assignment.

Reminded of what life was once like by the opening of a first-grade time capsule, seventeen-year-old Alexis now faces the pressures of senior year in high school, her parents' total focus on work, and the recurrence of her twin brother's leukemia.

While grieving the death of her grandmother in 1959, teenager Anna is torn between her aspirations to study math in college and her family's expectations that she will marry and become a homemaker after high school.

When fourteen-year-old Sam Walsh returns home after three years in the custody of his kidnapper, his older sister Beth and childhood friend Josh must deal with their survivors' guilt, their memories of what really happened the day Sam disappeared, and with the fact that Sam is not the boy they remember, but a troubled teen struggling to re-adapt to normal life.

As Missouri fifteen-year-old Aura struggles alone to cope with the increasingly severe symptoms of her mother's schizophrenia, she wishes only for a normal life, but fears that her artistic ability and genes will one day result in her own insanity.

"Bullying is spreading like wildfire at Chavez High. Students who should know better harass an older teacher. Freshmen are being picked on by cliquish and popular mean girls. Negative tweets and Facebook posts damage school spirit. Then one night the school library is tagged. Can the damage be undone?"--P. [4] of cover.