Sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated when her best friend moves away and leaves Jessica to face the trials of high school on her own.

Midwesterner, Lee Fiora is sent by her father to a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts where she manages to survive in spite of the social differences between her and her classmates.

Seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, an understudy for a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," meets Sonny Flannery, who guards the Samhain Gate that connects the mortal realm with the Otherworld and is determined to protect Kelley as she learns about her own magical fate.

Sixteen-year-old Sabine Solomon, having been in an altercation with a driver who threw garbage at her, decides to change her life and become a crusader for the environment, but finds her new passion met by resistance from her family and friends and taking a dark turn.

Francesca Dunn, an adolescent child of divorce, is serving meals in a shelter when Chester, a homeless man, begins worshipping her because of a vision he had, and Francesca must deal with hordes of followers, a profiteering friend, her scientist mother, and Chester, who believes he is her protector.

The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.

Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has taken care of her psychotic mother, Camille, for years, but when tragedy strikes, CeeCee is rescued by her great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell, who moves CeeCee to Savannah and introduces her to an exotic, unknown world filled with eccentric women who change CeeCee's life.