Paige is thrilled when she starts dating Ty, the football team's star running back, but when Ty hits her out of anger and is arrested for assault, she realizes she needs to decide between being afraid and being alone.

When Cassie skips school to tryout for a talent competition, she meets a talent agent that makes her question how far she will go to become famous.

Jeff, a high school senior, becomes obsessed with creating a new, beautiful, person out of an unhappy fat girl, but when she begins to think independently, he loses control of the situation.

Dessa's life is changing...mostly because the life of her best friend, Kat, is changing. Kat has started dating a girl, Arwen, and she's trying to keep it on the down-low. Dessa is happy to keep the secret, but she starts hanging out with Kat's theater friends, hoping to learn more about Kat's new relationship. Everything's going great until Dessa accidentally lets Kat's secret slip. Some other students quickly make Kat a target-and Dessa takes steps...

Agnostic and anti-social Jade Fulton and Ethan Garrett--star athlete, boyfriend to the most popular girl in school, and a devout Christian--are locked in their school's aerobics room overnight. Finding that they are both different from the labels they have given each other, Ethan and Jade spend hours arguing, philosophizing, and playing games to pass the time. In the morning they go back to their normal lives, but neither can shake the new feelings...

When high-school senior Kai Tamura sneaks into Ms. Opal's classroom to steal the upcoming trigonometry exam, he sees her changing answers on her students' standardized tests, and he takes photos to prove it--then when no one believes him and he is suspended, Kai sets out to prove the truth, even though it means ruining a popular teacher whom he likes.