Seventeen-year-old mathematical genius Peter Blankman battles his lifelong panic attacks as he tries to find his missing twin sister, Bel, and those who nearly assassinated his mother, a famous scientist.

Everything happens for a reason, Maddie Grayson believes. Life is good, and she hasn't had a panic attack in the last year. Then new minister Ricky O'Shea drops in-- literally parachutes into town. He's the one man in the world she hoped never to see again-- her archnemesis from kindergarten through her senior dance. When he offers her a chance to change what happens next, is it time to panic? Or a second chance at love? -- adapted from back cover...

"Peter Blankman is brilliant. A teenage math genius, who could have the world at his feet ... if it weren't for his terrible panic attacks that make the only way to survive every day be with the help of his mother--a famous scientist--and his twin sister"--OCLC.

Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been missing.

Eighth-grader Hester Greene suffers from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, plus anxiety, which is why she loves making movies where she is behind the camera and in complete control of the action--but if she cannot improve her language arts grade she will not be allowed to enter her video in The Hoot (a showcase of student work) and write a satisfactory ending to her middle school career.