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When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.

The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.

Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.

Rachel is Stephanie's best friend. Then, Alison moves in and Stephanie hopes that the three of them can be best friends. Even though they all live in a quiet neighborhood, there is a lot going on.

Reveals the effects on a trio of bright, attractive, fifteen-year-old friends--Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, and Nate Archibald--when Serena considers leaving their seemingly-perfect life of luxury in New York's Upper East Side for boarding school.

Blair and Serena, who go to an exclusive private school in Manhattan, are no longer best friends but are still both consumed with thoughts of boyfriends and college. In this sequel to "Gossip Girl, " brunette vixen Blair Waldorf is turning 17, and she knows exactly what she wants--Nate, her studly, troubled boyfriend of three years. But Blair's been too busy filling out Ivy League college applications to notice that Nate has found himself another...