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Cora Bradley dreams of escape. Ever since her reckless older brother, Nate, died in a car crash, Cora has felt suffocated by her small town and high school.

In Queens, New York, ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after returning from a trip to her homeland, Nigeria.

Ninth-grader Maisie's concepts of friendship, loyalty, self-acceptance, and truth are tested to their limit after a school bus incident involving three boys who have been her best friends since early childhood.

Ernesto and the other students at Chavez High are looking forward to graduation and starting out in the real world, but many of them, including Ernesto, fear they will wind up stuck in dead-end jobs, trapped in their poor city with no hope for a better life.

While trying to cope with his father's death, his mother's new job as a stripper, and his own libido, high-school junior Walker meets a new girl who makes life seem pretty wonderful after all.

Having returned from a study-abroad program in London to be with her aunt who has breast cancer, seventeen-year-old Love struggles to decide what to do next with her life while also experiencing some tensions with her father.

Ari, having transferred to an elite Manhattan prep school after receiving a large inheritance and been introduced to the glamorous side of New York by wealthy student Leigh, begins dating Leigh's cousin Blake, but when her parents start to worry about how close she has gotten to Blake and he pulls away after his family suffers misfortune, Ari is forced to reevaluate their intense relationship.

After fifteen-year-old Kim transfers to a new school, she finds herself falling in love with the glamorous Maria "Sugar" Sweet.

The long-time friendship of high school juniors Althea Carter and Oliver McKinley is threatened when she tries to turn it into something more despite Oliver's resistance.

Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.

Karl Shoemaker, starting his senior year in Lightsburg, Ohio, in 1973, vows to break out of the therapy group he has been forced to attend during school hours and become "normal.

Branded as a troublemaker, seventeen-year-old Luke is sent to rural Tennessee for live with his preacher father, but when a freak accident removes golden boy (and high school bully) Grant from the top of the social pyramid, outcast Luke replaces him and achieves popularity, but is that what he really wants?.

Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people (human or otherwise), teenaged Elliott, a human transported to a fantasy world where he attends a school for warriors and diplomatic advisers, finds that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world peace, may actually be possbile.

Seventeen-year-old Zeb Holloway quietly spends his days working in his uncle's auto repair shop, deer hunting on weekends, and sitting on the bench of his high school's football team watching the star quarterback perform.

The lives of the teenagers at Blithedale High intensify, as Claudia begins to tutor Nigel, Darren contemplates a major decision, and Paula wants to be more public in her relationship with Johanna.