Pantheon High is a private school in Los Angeles for the children of the world's various gods, but that does not make the high school experience much better for them than for everyone else.
After a poor showing at a competition, upperclassmen at Chestnut Hill are not impressed with Ali Carmichael's abilities as director of riding and start a petition to replace her; however, her niece, Dylan, convinces her friends to defend her aunt.
Mikan runs away to Tokyo in pursuit of her friend, Hotaru, who has been enrolled at the Alice Academy, a training school for children with special "gifts," and struggles to find her unique talent so that she will be allowed to stay.
At an elite all-girls school in Manhattan, a student named Astra Dell suffers from a rare disease while the other students struggle to cope with the news of her illness and their own personal problems.
Madeline Dare becomes a teacher at a boarding school for disturbed teenagers in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts and discovers that the academy hides a dark secret that could kill her if she does not join forces with a small group of rebel students.
Remi Foster, born into a privileged Nigerian family, finds her life uprooted at age six when her father sends her to an exclusive boarding school in England.
Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by imagining relationships with John Kennedy and Miss Beard, the ghost of the former headmistress of the school.