Struggling with the feeling that her life is spinning out of control, Nella is shocked when her former best friend's brother makes a fatal mistake, prompting the need for Nella to choose between conflicting loyalties in a community torn by racial and class divides.

When her successful fashion designer mother is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, seventeen-year-old Serene must take over her mother's business while also trying to find her father with the help of a new boy in town in whom she finds refuge and love.

Moving back to London after four years, seventeen-year-old Vetty must navigate a summer of changing friendships and coming to terms with her bisexuality.

"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--

Beginning at age twelve, Julia keeps a diary of her life in Juarez, Mexico, where life is always dangerous, until she joins her aunt and grandmother in El Paso, Texas, and faces new challenges.

While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.

While exploring her grandmother's past at an ashram in India with her cousin Anandi, seventeen-year-old Raya finds herself and, perhaps, true love in this modern retelling of the legend of Dushyanta and Shakuntala.

"An atmospheric and romantic coming-of-age story about learning to make peace with the past in order to accept the beauty of the present finds seventeen-year-old Eleanor opening herself up to magic and romance again after a devastating loss"--Provided by publisher.

Nearly a year after his brother's suicide, sixteen-year-old Cliff "Neanderthal" Hubbard gets recruited to make life better at Happy Valley High by the school's quarterback, who claims he had a vision from God.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.