"The ability to go back in time and fix things or forward in time to see how a choice will work out sounds like the perfect solution. But are some things bound to happen no matter what we do? And when is your life actually happening if you become obsessed with the past and future and are never present for the present?"--

As she tries to enjoy her senior year and choose which college she will attend, Korean American Ellen Sung must deal with the prejudice of some of her classmates and pressure from her parents to get good grades.

Ellie Mae's mind swirls with ideas when her teacher asks, What do you want to be when you grow up?

No! No! And no! A little boy wants "no" shower, "no" eggs at breakfast, "no" scarf or hat or gloves to wear. But he gives a big, firm YES! to taking his backpack, having his homework done, and listening in class.

Inspired by an intriguing girl who is nothing like his shallow girlfriend, a high school senior whose life has been mapped out by his parents makes some surprising decisions that lead him to take dangerous--but exhilarating--risks.

In 2036 New Jersey, when teens are expected to become fanatically religious wives and mothers or high-priced Surrogettes for couples made infertile by a widespread virus, sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony find in one another the courage to believe they have choices.

Though devoted to the husband whose family took her in as an orphan, Ruth now wonders about her choices and the life they will share when her husband retires as the head of the Derry School, a private boys' school to which the couple has given everything they have.

Keiko, Audrey, and Jenna have always been best friends, and Keiko desperately wants it to stay that way, but now they are starting seventh grade, and everything seems to be changing; Audrey is obsessed with the idea of them all securing boyfriends, but when she and Jenna focus on the same boy their friendship starts to break apart--and then Keiko finds herself attracted to Audrey's brother, Conner (who has generally been cast as the enemy), and suddenly...

In this combination of four previously published works, edited to form a single narrative, Soli and Lucy return to Faerieground but an anti-human spell makes Lucy sick, and Soli may have to choose between her friend and her kingdom.

Eighteen-year-old David Ellison, a senior at Oak Fields Preparatory School which is only a few miles away from the Stanford University campus, tries to reconcile his desire to attend Juillard instead of an Ivy League university as is expected of him, while also wondering why he seems dissatisfied with his long-term girlfriend after being cast opposite an interesting new student in the school play.