In the 1960's suburban town of Woodland, teenager Lily and her younger sister Pearl, newcomers to town, experiment with relationships and sex with both boys and girls.

New Jersey teenager Jessica Darling chronicles her senior year in high school, coping with life without her best friend, and trying to figure out the current intentions of Marcus, the boy who sent her hormones and her mind wild the year before, and promptly broke her heart.

Charlotte, the new kid at school, commits a big blunder in the cafeteria, and her assigned lunch partners want nothing to do with her.

Cornelia has her own adventure in Meridian and an unknown enemy threatens Will's life.

Thirteen year old Baby feels torn between her childhood and the adult life she lives on the streets, and when a local pimp tries to coerce Baby into prostitution, she finds herself caught in a volatile situation even her heroin-addicted father can't ignore.

A teenaged Nigerian girl and her older brother struggle to cope with life in their tense, stifling household--caused by their father's demands for perfection--after getting a taste of freedom during a visit to their aunt's home.

Charlotte goes to Paris to visit her friend Sophie and to bring her cat back home.

High schooler Jan Miller, hoping for a senior year romance, just cannot seem to do anything right, especially when compared to her best friend Rebecca who has just been named a New York "It Girl," but things start looking up when an old crush moves back to town.

Fourteen-year-old Lia is excited to have some of her friends invited to mom's fortieth birthday part in a secret location, but when an old flame is on the guest list his presence threatens her relationship with her boyfriend Squidge.

Nepenthe, an orphan who has been raised by the librarians of the Royal Library of Raine, becomes obsessed with deciphering a supposedly untranslatable book brought to the palace by a young mage, not realizing that the words and her fate are entwined with that of the newly crowned, fourteen-year-old queen.