In an edenic community of wealthy Bay Area families, Molly Nicholl, a replacement teacher from a poorer, scrubbier version of California, arrives in the middle of the school year and soon becomes intrigues by the hidden lives of her privileged students. Unknown to her, a tragedy from their middle school years continues to reverberate for 'her' kids. Among these are Callista, a hippie outcast who hides her intelligence for reasons of her own; Ryan...

High school senior Sway specializes in getting things people want.

Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens—until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's...

"In her new book, Alexandra Robbins explores the ways group identity theories play out among cliques - and the students they exclude. She reveals the new labels students stick onto each other today, the long-term effects of this marginalization, and the reasons students falling under these categories are often shunned. And then she will celebrate them. In this ever-conformist, cookie-cutter, magazine-celebrity-worshipping, creativity-stifling society,...

As English teacher Laura Reed and pediatrician J.C. Fullerton team up to help Misty, a 16-year-old bullying victim, they're shocked to realize that they're developing feelings for each other.

Cam is more familiar than most of his fellow angels with Hell, and high school is no easier. Cam aches to see Lilith, the girl of his dreams, pay for the crimes that Cam committed. Thanks to a bet with Lucifer, Cam now has 15 days to make Lilith fall back in love with him. Failure will send Cam straight back to Hell. Here, at last, is Cam's story

Kyon feels uneasy around the new SOS Brigade member.

When an uncharacteristic lapse in judgment leaves Emily paralyzed to stop a classmate with developmental disabilities from being attacked, Emily and a football player who also witnessed the crime are sentenced to community service. But helping those at the center for disabled people does little to assuage their guilt over not helping the one girl who needed them most.

When Daniel Musgrove's troubled family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, he is appalled. On top of the usual teenage humiliations, he now has to learn to say "y'all" and "Co-Cola" or risk being ostracized as a Yankee. But Daniel's loneliness fades when he meets fellow outsider Tim Cousins. You only need one best friend, he figures, to make it through high school alive. Daniel and Tim become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule,...

"Two young teens fall in love for the first time, and discover it might not last forever"--