When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray witnesses a murder committed by three other teens who are invisible to everyone else, her life changes totally. Things she has always known and believed in are suddenly changed; her mother totally disappears; and she comes to realize that her life, as she has known it, is a fraud. Clary possesses supernatural powers and learns that she is one of the Shadowhunters, a group dedicated to ridding the world of demons. Viciously attacked by a slithering demon, she takes refuge in an infirmary run by other Shadowhunters. There she makes friends who help her understand more about her life and her destiny. Fighting werewolves and vampires with strength and magical energy, she sets out with the help of her newfound friends to rescue her now comatose mother.

What would it be like to be on death row while you were still a teen? Until 2005, the United States was one of only a few countries that allowed death sentences for youthful offenders. Young men who were convicted and sent to death row before they turned eighteen are interviewed and try to answer that question. The inmates recount their crimes, or supposed crimes, and their memories surrounding the decisions that put them in these circumstances. They also talk about the brutal realities and the extreme violence of prison life. Family members of victims and convicted killers are also interviewed, as well as a lawyer who provides information on legal issues. These stories urge us to consider the inhuman plight of juvenile offenders and the flaws in the American justice system. And they ask the question: Can a teen with a violent history ever become a contributing member of society?

With a name like Shakespeare, you had better be good at writing and humor—and Shakespeare Shapiro is very good at both. Now in his final year of high school, he has to write a memoir chronicling his high school life. And Shakespeare tells it all. From romantic rejection and an embarrassing family to the painful imperfections in his changing body and frustrations about sex, he leaves no catastrophic event unturned. With ironic and self-conscious humor, Shakespeare struggles to hide the emotions and anxieties of adolescence while attempting to make light of his seemingly sane

Seventeen-year old Jenna awakens from an eighteen-month coma to realize that she has no memory of the devastating accident that left her with a life and a body she no longer recognizes. After a sudden move to California with her family to live near her strangely hostile grandmother, Jenna struggles to remember her previous life, her friends and her family. She soon discovers a complex lie that has been constructed by her father, an expert in biotechnology. After the horrible accident, he created a “new” Jenna with a new body and intellect in order to keep her alive. As Jenna struggles with the ethics of her parent's decision to keep her alive in a new body and mind, she fights to make her place in the world.

In Katniss's futuristic world, the United States is divided into districts, ruled by a dictatorship that keeps everyone poor and powerless. Used to supporting her family by hunting and scavenging, Katniss wonders if she can win the annual “Hunger Games,” a real-time gladiator-type war between young people selected from each district. The winner's district will receive food and wealth; the rest will go hungry. Only one person is allowed to survive these games. So sixteen-year-old Katniss knows that it's “Kill or be killed” when she volunteers to take her younger sister's place in the “Hunger Games.” Then Katniss finds out that her fiercest competitor will be Peeta, the only friend she has had since she was five years old. Would he really kill her? Could she really kill him?

Twelve-year-old Todd is the only boy in a town of all men. A killer virus has killed all the women and infected the men with a germ that broadcasts the men's thoughts out loud. No one's thoughts can be private. When Todd turns thirteen, he will undergo a mysterious initiation and will become part of their sad, forlorn group. Traveling into the woods with his talking dog, Todd is shocked to find a thirteen-year-old girl. Where did she come from? Why didn’t the virus kill her? As Todd comes to realize that everything he has been taught about his world is a lie, he and his new friend find themselves on the run. Can they escape the townsmen, who want him dead before he can reveal their secrets?