Six middle school students with different backgrounds and personalities are stuck in an upstairs bathroom during an emergency severe weather lockdown. The story is told by Jordan, one of the six boys.
Jessie Holmes’ entire world has flipped upside down. Things have never been the same between Jessie and her dad since her mother died six years ago, but never did she imagine ending up where they are today. Her father has remarried a rich woman in Los Angeles, where Jessie and her dad move to at the start of her junior year of high school. Here, Jessie attends Wood Valley High School, a prestigious, expensive school where everybody seems to be spoiled brats. Despite these circumstances, Jessie still manages to make friends- and enemies too.
This book follows Brooke, a 16 year old Floridian who, throughout the book, becomes involved in various familial and friendship struggles. It begins with Brooke and her friends attempting to secretly help another friend see her boyfriend, whom her parents disapprove. This ends up backfiring and getting all of them into trouble, foreshadowing another similar event that will take place later in the book.
Autumn is the victim of a cyber prank gone viral. This prank forced her to transfer to a new school where she decides to reinvent herself for her sophomore year. New school new Autumn, so she thinks. She tried to become an outgoing popular girl but she can't escape her old habits that made her quiet and shy. When she learns her best friend, Sophie Rose, is transfering to her new school she gets excited, until Sophie actually comes and she's not Autumn's best friend anymore.
Andie is the daughter of a congressman who got caught in some scandals that ended his career. Andie, who has been basically raising herself and planning her own future, has fallen into ruins after the scandals. Now she has to work, walking a bunch of dogs, and her life will never be the same again. Her plans have been forced to change. Read The Unexpected Everything to find out how Andie is going to take her life and try to put it back together.
During the school year Sam goes to a boarding school in the United States, but every summer Sam goes to Egypt to spend the time with his uncle. His uncle wants to teach Sam all about Egypt but Sam is not interested in learning. In fact, Sam does not even want to come to Egypt in the first place. This particular summer Sam meets a girl named Mary on the plane. Usually he tries to avoid conversation but this time Sam’s new found friend starts the conversation, and she does seem to know a lot about Egypt.
Amanda Walsh, a hopeful artist with very low self-esteem, goes by Zero. She expects her summer to be simple and spent having fun with her best friend. But it goes a little something like this: Zero and her best friend get in a fight and decide not to be friends anymore, Zero gets into her dream college, and she falls in love.
