Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie; but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school.
Henry Burton signs on as a staff member working on the presidential campaign of Jack Stanton, the governor of a small southern state, and gets an education in the workings of American politics as played by the draft-dodging, womanizing, charm-oozing Stanton.
When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers, in place of her younger sister, to become a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a horrifyingly grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Shadow-kissed Rose is hunted by the immortal undead that are seeking vengeance on her for her Strigoi kills, which puts her in a terrible position that could result in the death one of the two people she values most, her best friend Lissa, or her tutor Dimitri Belikov, the man she loves.
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.
As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, and demands that Bluejay either surrender or doom the children to slavery in the silver mines.
