Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon, a liaison between the living and the dead, hopes to be able to live as a normal teenager after moving from New York to California with her mom and new stepfather, but on the first day of school she encounters the very hostile ghost of a girl who committed suicide over winter break and is out for revenge against her former boyfriend.

When the new boy at her school turns out to be the son of a Hollywood power player, Jessica, a small-town sixteen-year-old with stars in her eyes, a job at Wal-Mart, and a bit part in "West Side Story," sets out to get Jordan's estranged father to attend the production--but her drama teacher's politically correct hatchet job on the script threatens to turn her "big break" into a disaster.

Determined to make their mark on their high school, ninth graders India Ink and her zany best friend Brenda Tuna organize an underground newspaper and then provide a live buffalo as a mascot for the football team.

A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they form the "Geography Club" at their high school.

Interweaves stories of students at a high school with a "zero-tolerance" policy as they get caught doing things they are pretty sure are wrong, from drinking and having sex during a senior ski trip, to organizing a gambling ring, to bullying freshmen, to honor students behaving dishonorably.

The reader's choices control the course of Haley's sophomore year at a new high school as she navigates the social scene, deciding whether she wants to become a queen bee, a wannabee, a freak, or a geek.

High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

The Council of Elders, having been informed that Tomas still lives, puts off Vlad's execution, providing Vlad the opportunity to try to set some things right.

When his older brother is released from prison, seventeen-year-old Jeff's family secret is revealed, causing upheaval in his home, school and love life.

Thalia's new boyfriend Dylan seems very familiar and the evil Furies are determined that the Muse sisters will not discover his true identity.