Kayla has spent her whole life feeling secure and strong. She and her best friend are strong feminists following in her grandmother's footsteps. Just when things are beginning to really get rolling and she and her friends are planning big things for their used-to-be small club, Kayla finds herself questioning the meaning of being a feminist. With her newfound interest in boys and love of shoes and dancing, Kayla wonders why she has been letting her friend boss her around all the time telling her what to do and how to act.
Katie, a New York City fashionista and dancer at the Anna Pavlova Academy, the finest and most competitive of all ballet schools, has just hit a brick wall. Her family is leaving the city for, yes, Fir Lake, population: 2,100. All of a sudden her bags are packed and her friends, ballet, and the bright city lights, are gone and replaced with Ms. Mabel Thorpe's School for Dance and Movement, people who climb mountains and milk cows for fun, and neighbors who know you too well.
Sam, a 16 year-old boy, lives a normal life. It consists of eating, sleeping, going to school, and skateboarding. With a Tony Hawk poster to lead the way, and his new girlfriend, he is good to go. When Sam finally thinks he's got a hold on his life, things suddenly take a turn for the worst. With his now ex-girlfriend's news that he is about to become a father he has a choice to make: stick it out and raise his child, or run away from it all.
When 17-year-old Dominique, or Dom for short, meets the boy of her dreams it is when she least expects it. She is sandwiched between a fat lady and this insanely gorgeous boy, covered it mud, standing next to a porta-potty. However, even though it their relationship seemed to be off to a rough start, things somehow flip upside-down, much to the suprise of Dom. As their love grows they end up experiencing many firsts: true love, dates, sloppy kisses, and boyfriends, together. If only he came with instructions...
Starcrossed tells a tale of two starcrossed lovers, caught in modern day time. When Christy first meets Ben, it is at the one place she least expects, the plastic surgeons office. Both wanting to remove unwanted tatoos and painful memories. Besides the fact that Ben has the same name as her last Christy's last boyfriend, they have nothing in common. Christy is and impulsive, wisecracking horoscpe junkie, and Ben is a well mannared college freshman. Together, they dig up old memories, and create some very new ones.
Logan Palony is stuck in a new town, which he hates, and where everything is 'fine' and 'nothing is wrong'. With no one to talk to, his best friend gone, and the whole neighborhood (including parents) ganged up on him, Logan doesn't know what to do. All he ever wanted to do was continue being an outcast, continue not liking girls, continue being terrible at sports and reading science textbooks. He never wanted to be like this, silent, alone, and harassed. Logan finds that doing one thing, in one night, can change his entire personality, his entire life, just like that.
