Determined to clear the fog from her mind in order to uncover the truth about her brother's death, seventeen-year-old Georgia secretly stops taking the medication that keeps away the voices in her head.
LP-obsessed Allie works at the used record store on Telegraph Avenue and deals with crushes and her increasingly popular blog and zine, and generally grows up over the course of one summer in her hometown of Berkeley, California.
Clare, assured of Allison's friendship, is able to start eighth grade with confidence, but when Allison is taken up by the popular crowd, Clare feels left out, and the situation gets worse when even her imaginary friend Elsa is nowhere to be found.
Eighth-grader Clare, planning on spending time with Allison over winter break, realizes that Allison has a crush on Paul, Clare's dorky friend from out of town, and Clare turns to her imaginary friend, Elsa, for help when she feels ignored.
Almost sixteen-year-old city-transplant Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm as she navigates an eventful summer when she falls in love, discovers that her mother has left for good, and watches her father take a bold stand in defense of the rights of undocumented Mexican farm workers.