High school sophomore Lucy Norton's life is turned upside down when her father remarries and moves Lucy to Long Island, where she finds herself trapped in a Cinderella story with a wicked stepmother, two evil stepsisters, and a dashing prince who could make all Lucy's dreams come true.

Seventh-grade friends Maeve and Avery discover that life can sometimes be tough as they face divorce in their families, boy trouble, and peer pressure by the Queens of Mean.

Sixteen-year-old Katya Spiva, working as a nanny for a family in Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey, meets Marcus Kidder, a silver-haired gentleman and author of children's books, and he lures her into his life with his beautiful oceanside home, classical music, and lavish presents, never quite revealing what it really is he wants from her.

Ellie, a normal, ordinary girl, starts ninth grade with high hopes of keeping her best friends, staying on a diet, becoming more glamorous, and getting a boyfriend.

Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

The people in Hollyhill, Kentucky, reach a crossroads when an African-American family moves from Chicago to start an orchard in the small town in 1964, and are befriended by local pastor David Brooke, a single father of two daughters, fourteen-year-old Jocie, and unwed, pregnant Tabitha.

When sixteen-year-old Miranda's father dies, she is sent to live with her father's cousin, Count John Hardwood, who sells her to Court for profit; and as part of Queen Elizabeth's court, Miranda attempts to leverage her seamstress skills to gain her independence and reunite with Henry Raleigh, whom she has always loved.

Kyra, who is also known as Goth Girl, returns home from the Maryland Mental Health Unit to find out that things have changed, particularly her friend Fanboy, who has transformed into somebody she barely recognizes, which causes her anger and dark memories to return.

Nico comes of age over the course of her thirteenth summer when her parents withdraw following the drowning death of her older sister, and she is left largely alone to deal with her own grief.

Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew.