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Sixteen-year-old Audre is forced to move to Minneapolis from Trinidad after being caught with a secret girlfriend, and in Minneapolis, sixteen-year-old Mabel is trying to make sense of her relationships and the nagging illness plaguing her all summer.

"More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara.

"David Scheinman is the popular president of his senior class, battling cystic fibrosis.

Collects more than a dozen short stories that feature interracial and queer relationships in which the differences are prominent, but also don't matter.

"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead.

Sixteen-year-old Isabella "Izzy" Crawford is a trailer-park scholarship kid at a wealthy Catholic school in Virginia, and is desperate to keep her status a secret from everyone.

Louise dumps her popular, jock boyfriend after he makes some insensitive remarks about his brother's Native American fianc?e without regard for the fact that she is also Native American.

Suffering from the post-traumatic stress of being buried alive after a 1945 bombing raid on her Japanese hometown, fifteen-year-old Hana feels she has nothing to live for until meets seventeen-year-old Taro, a Kamikaze pilot training for his one and only mission.

While troubled black teen Tyson Trice recovers from being shot, he is taken in by Nandy Smith and her well-to-do family in the Pacific Hills community.

When Margot gets grounded, her parents make her work at the deli in their grocery store.

After having been marooned on an island for ten days, Catherine and William are finally rescued and brought aboard a pirate ship that is captained by a woman who takes a liking to William and forbids Catherine, his true love, from seeing him.

Follows teenager Helen White, who moves with her mother to be with her mother's new boyfriend, going from a middle-class neighborhood to an Indian reservation, where among her new school's 200 kids she is the only one with white skin.