When she inherits a large sum of money from the father that she never met, seventeen-year-old Maria decides to start a town that will be only for teenagers.
Kidnapped and taken to utopian Gypsyworld by its king and queen, a group of teenagers is tested to see how they cope in a place where the earth and its gifts are not abused.
When sixteen-year-old Terry Talley stows away on a yacht, she doesn't expect to encounter another runaway and end up shipwrecked on a tiny island with a bunch of oddball pirates who are looking for some buried treasure.
When sixteen-year-old Molly Sheldon of Saphouse Junction, Vermont, discovers she has psychic healing powers and befriends newcomer Eben Wheeler, she finds herself suspected of witchcraft.
Arriving at what they believe is an exclusive school, five sixteen-year olds are unaware that they have been sent there to be exterminated and that their teacher is a murderer for hire.