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When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her girlfriend, Charlie.

When Sofie is paired with the only lesbian in school for an English project, she is surprised how quickly they become close. They go on a road trip to check out colleges and Sofie begins to question her sexuality. She returns home and breaks up with her boyfriend, but her problems are just beginning with bullies at school.

Seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke learns that she is pregnant after her boyfriend sabotaged their birth control. Living in Missouri where women under eighteen can't get an abortion without parental permission, she secures the help of her ex-best friend, the school misfit Bailey Butler. They have to travel more than 1,000 miles to get to the nearest clinic, and their hijinks range from stolen cars to alien encounters to evading Veronica's now-ex-boyfriend, all while repairing their broken friendship.

Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco and Melody Grimshaw strive together to survive senior year and break away from their rural factory town.

Shif leads a happy life: he's one of the smartest boys at school, he lives next door to his best friend, and is loved by his mother and sister. He knows nothing about the horrors committed by his country's government. When the soldiers arrive and take him to military school, Shif knows that as the son of a political prisoner, he will never be safe again, so he runs and tries to make his way towards a safer future in another country.

Iranian-born New Yorker Reza is terrified of his own homosexuality amid the 1980s AIDS crisis, equating being gay with dead men. He meets aspiring fashion designer Judy and her best friend Art, an openly gay photographer, who are united in AIDS activism because of their mutual love of Judy's uncle Stephen, who is gay and has AIDS. Both Art and Judy are attracted to Reza, and believing he should be with a woman, Reza and Judy begin dating despite the undeniable feelings Reza and Art have for each other.

Two teenagers--David Sheinman, a popular senior class president who has cystic fibrosis, and Jamie Turner, a quiet sophomore struggling with depression--meet at a hospital where Jamie works and David is being treated. Feeling alienated from their family and peers, the pair turn to each other for support and discover romance.

Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.

As the son of Korean immigrants in Southern California, high school senior Frank Li is expected to find a nice Korean girl to marry. But instead, Frank falls for a white classmate who his parents will never approve of. He meets another Korean American, Joy Song, who is in a similar situation. They agree to be a couple in front of their parents in order for Frank and Joy to be with who they really want, but as their fake relationship becomes more real, they both wonder if they really know anything about love.

Eighteen-year-old Jemima Kincaid is in her final year at Northern Virginia's elite Chawton School and is named to the senior prom committee. As a fierce feminist, she figures this is her chance to upend the school's patriarchal traditions and expose its toxic masculinity. Instead of waiting for the boys to ask the girls, Jemima suggests a website on which everyone enters the names of their secret crushes and the website will pair people as potential matches. However, in the midst of the prom planning, she also begins to recognize some of her own bias. Things become more complicated when she falls for a popular athlete.