Alvie Fitz is determined to keep pretending to be normal until she is eighteen and can be legally emancipated, but everything changes when she meets Stanley, the only person she has met who is stranger than she is.

Relationships take work. Tucker gets that. Some are easier than others, though. Look at Tucker and his best friend, Bobby, or his mom. Simple, steady. Tucker's dad, on the other hand, seems to only show up when he wants to bring Tucker down. Then Erika Green comes back into his life, stirring up feelings Tucker thought were ancient history. A small part of him doesn't want to get attached during senior year, but a bigger part of him doesn't want her...

From Jennifer Niven, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's...

Best friends Luke and Toby are looking forward to leaving their small dead-end town at the end of their senior year of high school. Then one action changes everything--and now Luke writes letters to Toby from death row reflecting on where things went wrong.

"Fern and her mother have lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family, for as long as she can remember, and her friendship with Dr. Davenport's son Ryder was never a problem . . . until they came of age. An intimate encounter following a high school prom brings the pair near-tragic consequences, and the forces of fate, arrogance, and class prejudice gather to crush their warm relationship. Still, the real threat...

Fifteen-year-old Leyla has always looked up to her outgoing cousin, Emma, but when Emma learns she is HIV positive after having unprotected sex jut once, Leyla must be the strong one and support her cousin.

Fifteen-year-old Aleecia can't believe it when Kyle, the 18-year-old captain of the football team, falls for her. She would do anything to keep him as her own, even have sex without protection. When she gets pregnant, she tells Kyle, and he stands by her--at least for a while. But Kyle's troubled family life intrudes on their bliss. Being a pregnant teenager turns out to be a lot harder than Aleecia ever imagined. Will their love weather Kyle's move...

Isabella and Carlos live in St. Louis, Missouri--and are totally in love. They are 18 and finishing their senior year of high school when they decide to have a baby and get married. Carlos joins the military to support his new family. But when tragedy strikes, Isabella is left completely devastated and forced to raise her child alone. A year later, she is reunited with Pete, a boy she knew in high school. For a while, she thinks she's found a second...

Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way," he says. "Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it's all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex." Cole fantasizes about whomever he's looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with...

Nell Pestowsky takes risks. Like the night she jumped from a rooftop into a lake at a party -- in nothing but her underwear. She wasn't trying to cause trouble, but that jump set off an unstoppable chain of events, ending with her boyfriend, Toby, crashing his bicycle and fracturing his skull. Everyone is talking about Nell -- and not in a good way. But no one knows what happened right after Nell's infamous jump. That's when she met the Birdcatcher...