When a knee injury and a subsequent mistake threaten to end her basketball career, athletically driven Cassidy finds support in the most unlikely places--including a room filled with juvenile delinquents and the pages of an old book labeled "RL.".
As she struggles to recover from the fallout of her boyfriend Preston's abuse, fifteen-year-old Bryn receives help from her surfer grandmother and an unusual book.
When she is nominated for prom queen as a joke, African-American high school junior Tyler Bonning starts a campaign for an alternative prom and finds support in the pages of an old book labeled "RL.".
An-ying, teenage daughter of Chinese immigrants, is having a difficult time breaking away from her parents' Chinese traditions in order to choose her own friends and accept a scholarship at an American college.
Fifteen-year-old Jessie Hatcher, forced to go to Florida with the father she thought was dead, finds that his faith, a book that seems to speak to her heart, and new friends help her get control of her ADHD and her life.
