Courtland Murphy is falling fast for Aidan Calhoun, the only one on the basketball team not making her life miserable since she broke up with team member Allen Benson, but she is not sure that she can trust her feelings or Aidan.
Manz, a troubled fifteen-year-old, ruminates over his Mexican father's death, his mother's drinking, and his stillborn stepbrother until the voices he hears in his head take over and he cannot tell reality from delusion.
Upon arriving at her dorm room, eighteen-year-old Cecily decides to postpone her freshman year of college and return to her Chicago home, where she spends a year pondering what went wrong while forging new relationships with family and friends.
After years of sexual abuse by her stepfather, fifteen-year-old Ashley Asher starts a better life with her father and stepmother in Patience, Texas, but despite psychotherapy and new friends, she still suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Almost sixteen-year-old city-transplant Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm as she navigates an eventful summer when she falls in love, discovers that her mother has left for good, and watches her father take a bold stand in defense of the rights of undocumented Mexican farm workers.
Tundra, Alaska, high school senior Winter learns about love, loss, and starting over when her boyfriend, who has been her best friend since second grade, is killed in a plane crash the day after they declared their love for each other.
In a New Zealand reformatory, Hamish Graham, an extremely intelligent fourteen-year-old who believes in the compulsory study of violence, learns that it is not always the answer.
When his older brother is killed, Avery Washington must rethink his future and prove himself at his new school, where the pressures of his life affect his relationship with the only person who seems to really understand him.
Afraid that there is no way to be both gay and orthodox Jewish, Ellie Gold feels forced to either alter her sexuality or leave her Jewish community until her mother and sister offer alternative concepts of God.
