Twelve-year-old Caddy's world turns upside down when her father, Bill, temporarily becomes a stay at home dad and her best friends since kindergarten, Ali, Beth, and Ruby, begin to move in different directions.
As MCC Berkshire, the mysterious, book-obsessed man helping in Ailsa's mother's antique shop, tells wild stories that persuade customers to buy various items, teenaged Ailsa believes he is a liar but fears that he is not.
Adam, Sarah, and Mia are living together, struggling with the fame brought about by their knowing the dates when people will die, but ever since Mia swapped her number for another, her new power makes her a target that puts them all in jeopardy.
After their best friend Ross dies, English teenagers Blake, Kenny, and Sim plan a proper memorial by taking his ashes to Ross, Scotland, an adventure-filled journey that tests their loyalty to each other and forces them to question what friendship means.
High school senior Morgan Abbott, the daughter of the president of the United States, tries to hide a secret romance and stay out of trouble on an official visit to London.
At the end of her last year of compulsory education, sixteen-year-old Shiraz resigns herself to life in her gritty London suburb, serving fried eggs at Mr. Yolk and dating plumber-in-training Wesley, until she receives high marks in her examinations and decides to enroll in her school's "Center of Excellence" program.
