High school senior Thea Delacroix, aided by her friends, seeks to catch the Gemini Thief, who abducts and releases boys unharmed--including her cousin--but begins to fear the criminal is someone very near.

Unable to recover from the guilt of his younger sister's death when he was supposed to be watching her, Jude endures a bleak and silent existence the summer before his senior year before finding the strength to move on.

Desperate to escape suffocating expectations and menacing families, seventeen-year-old Maude and her step-cousin Frankie fake their own deaths while on a family vacation in Hawaii, with deadly consequences.

In the aftermath of 9/11, high school sophomore Omid grapples with finding the right words to connect with his grandfather, embrace his Iranian heritage, and express his feelings towards a girl, until he immerses himself in the rhymes and rhythms of rap music and finds his voice.

Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.