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Carina, crown princess of a tiny European nation, is desperate to sneak away from her chaperones while on a goodwill tour of Los Angeles to attend a Toadmuffin concert, so she switches places with local look-alike Julia, who is only too happy to accept ten thousand dollars to attend an embassy ball, but things go awry when Julia falls in love with Carina's fiance, and Carina somehow finds herself on the way to Texas on the band tour bus.

Sophomore iconoclast Cindy Gold publishes an anti-prom letter in her high school newspaper, but when she develops a crush on her SAT tutor, on top of the ones she already has on popular senior Adam Silver as well as a boy she has been exchanging instant messages with, she begins to doubt her own convictions.

After her family loses their cottage in the Los Angeles hills, junior high school outcast Weetzie Bat's father leaves her mother and Weetzie learns how to stand up for herself and to find beauty in even the most difficult situations.

Hoping to remake herself to find happiness, Simone Walker loses weight, develops a new image, and moves in with seven college guys who are more than happy to help her during her quest.

Witch Baby comes to live with Weetzie Bat and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man and has wild adventures in Los Angeles as she tries to understand where she belongs.

Contains two magical-realist stories by Francesca Lia Block including "Witch Baby" and "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys.

When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past.