While driving across the United States during the summer after high school graduation, three young gay men encounter various bisexual and homosexual people and make some decisions about their own relationships and lives.
An Australian teenager feels bored while vacationing at his mother's beach house and is worried about passing his final examinations until he meets an attractive local girl.
Beany definitely does not want to spend her summer vacation at camp, but she endures bugs and a bossy cabin-mate, finds a new friend, and has an okay time after all.
Tomboy Nicolette Spicer decides to take the advice of her best friend Lindsay and undergo a makeover to get the attention of Ben; but she only has ten days to pull it off.
Ivy and Ray accompany their parents on a trip to the Florida Everglades in order to find their only living relative, a distant cousin who, according to their great-grandfather's memoirs, absconded with a valuable, if unspecified, item.
Eleanor the exaggerator gets a bit boastful in describing her summer vacation to the other students. At intervals readers are given a variety of similar boasts from which to choose.