high school seniors

Quigley Johnson, a senior in high school, agrees to participate in her best friend Ann's Betterment Plan, hoping to become the most fashionable and popular girls in school, and as Quigley works at her job making pizzas and serves as a live model for Ms. Parisi's fashion design class, she meets a cute boy named Zander.

This book chronicles a year in the lives of teenage newcomers to America who are on their way to the American dream. They represent forty-five countries, speak more than twenty-eight languages, and are all students at International High School, a public school in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her. Now Parker wants a new life.

Jack Grammar, average American senior, has no date for the prom until his so-called best friends post an ad in the school newspaper and assemble a list of eager girls, giving him just seven days to meet and date them all before asking one special girl to the prom.

Anne, known as "the application whisperer," works with five different students, helping them write their college essays, cram for the SATs, and perfect their college applications, while she manuevers through the world of cheating scandals, huge alumni donations, and parents who will do anything to ensure their children's acceptance into the college of their choice.

Todd Noland and Joel Kasten, two high school seniors fed up with adult hypocrisy, launch a scheme to disrupt the political and social control of the recording, cigarette, and junk food industry.