Jordan, Tara, and Nisha's plans for the perfect senior prom seem to be falling apart when Jordan and Tara begin fighting over Jordan's ex-boyfriend and Nisha risks everything by hiding her relationship with Brian from her parents.
Destiny, a thirteen-year-old control freak who feels alienated in her messy, haphazard family, helps her adopted best friend when she finds her birth mother and decides to have a relationship with her.
After his mother bribes him into reading a self-help book on how to form satisfying relationships and enjoy a happy life, cynical eighth-grader Kyle finds there may be more to the book than he realized.
After her father is killed in Afghanistan, twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper and her siblings find themselves moving across the country to live on their great-grandmother's run-down farm, where Jack puts on a brave face to help her brother and sister adjust to their new lives.
In shock and unable to speak after being in a car accident in Oregon which killed his parents, seventeen-year-old Adam journeys across the country to his home in Rhode Island.