Five students who meet in freshman orientation agree to write notes to their future selves and promise to reunite in exactly four years when they are ready to graduate from high school.

A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California adolescents and misfits.

"The seven kids who bonded in Mr. Terupt's fifth-grade class are in eighth grade now and reunited with their beloved teacher. Jeffrey, Alexia, Anna, Danielle, Luke, Peter, and Jessica are thrilled to have their beloved teacher, Mr. Terupt, back for the school year as their biweekly adviser. To celebrate their remaining time with Mr. Terupt, the students hatch bucket-list type projects to make the school year important, memorable, and way bigger than...

Miki Yoshida has decided that her final year of high school is going to be her best. Then, Hiroo Sakurai shows up, with a secret that Miki desperately wants to know. Then she starts to fall for him and nothing, even Hiro himself, can stop her.

Momo suffers through the worst night of her life after Sae ruins her special night with Toji by drawing an unwilling Momo into a one-night stand with Goro, leaving both Momo and Toji heartbroken and wondering if their relationship will survive.

Momo competes with another woman for Kiley's love, but when Kiley takes off to clear his head, Toji steps in and asks Momo if she will take him back.

Aya and her twin brother Aki find a mummified hand at their grandfather's which unleashes strange powers in them.

"'Save me!' Those were Sakurako Amamiya's last words to her friend Ageha Yoshina before she mysteriously went missing. Now Ageha's on a quest to find her. He's convinced that the mythical Psyren Secret Society has something to do with the recent rash of disappearances. And now he seems to be caught up as a player in their very deadly game" -- from publihser's web site.

"A teenage girl grapples with her sister's death and her own place in the universe over the course of one fateful summer in upstate New York. With an epic '80s soundtrack blasting in the background, Lost Stars is a novel that encapsulates teenage-life and all its awkward longing, heady passion, and introspective questioning"-- Before her older sister died Carrie was a science nerd, obsessively tracking her beloved Vira comet. But now that Ginny is...