Junior is a cartoonist and bookworm with a violent but protective best friend Rowdy. Soon after they start freshman year, Junior boldly transfers from a school on the Spokane reservation to one in a tiny white town 22 miles away. Despite his parents' frequent lack of gas money, racism at school and many crushing deaths at home, he manages the year. Rowdy rejects him, feeling betrayed, and their competing basketball teams take on mammoth symbolic proportions. The reservation's poverty and desolate alcoholism offer early mortality and broken dreams, but Junior's knowledge that he must leave is rooted in love and respect for his family and the Spokane tribe. 

Luke, known as “Wizard” to his friends because of his multi-sport talents, experiences his worst nightmare when he is hit by a beanball during a baseball game and loses sight in one eye. Told in free verse by many voices, the story follows Luke’s fight to find a reason to get better and get on with his life.

High school senior Jamie Carcaterra tries to win a scholarship by sharing her experiences as a fat girl in today's appearance-obsessed high school culture, but as she opens her life up to the criticism of her classmates and the media, she begins to wonder if she is being truly honest with herself.

With his best friend on life-support after taking drugs at a party, seventeen-year-old Clay, a medical technician, recalls their long friendship, future plans, and recent disagreement, and tries to figure out who is responsible for the accidental overdose.

Following her conscience, Mena goes against the teachings of her conservative church background when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include "Intelligent Design" in lessons on evolution and now it seems she doesn’t have a friend in the entire world. The only person who doesn’t seem to care about Mena’s recent notoriety is her lab partner in biology, Casey, who's pretty funny for a brainiac. When Ms. Shepherd begins teaching the unit on evolution, school becomes more dramatic than ever . . . and Mena’s life starts to evolve in some surprising and unforeseen ways.

If Harlem High School senior, Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing ball in college, then professional basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player. everything is going Drew’s way UNTIL a new kid comes on the court at school. He finds himself second in line to a the new white student who becomes the scouts’ favorite pick.Jealousy arises and the basketball team begins to play as individuals rather than as a team.

Determined to follow the laws set down in the Qur’an, seventeen-year-old Nadia becomes involved in a violent revolutionary movement aimed at supporting Muslim rule in Syria and opposing the Western politics and materialism that increasingly affect her family. Sneaking around, telling lies, going to places alone - what will come of it? What else will this stranger ask her to do? Will she do it? 

After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnology has made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, seventeen-year-old Jenna learns a startling secret about her existence.  Following a devastating accident, Jenna awakens after an 18-month-long coma with no memory.  As Jenna begins to remember and unravel her parents’ mysterious explanations, the true horror comes into focus as she learns that the controversial discoveries that have saved her life have created medical and bioethical debates.

In the not-so-distant future, the Zero Tolerance Party is in complete control. Nearly everything is restricted, the country is surrounded by walls, and those who resist the government are met with prison or death. Consigned to a prison-like Youth Training Facility because of her parents' political activities, Marena organizes a resistance movement to combat the restrictive policies of the ruling Zero Tolerance party. Will she succeed or  die in  the attempt to resist?

Clay Jenkins receives a package that changes his life. The package is filled with audio tapes narrated by this classmate, Hannah Baker. Hannah recently committed suicide, and the audio cassettes are going to reveal the 13 reasons why. 

High school senior Tyler Miller, the school geek, comes from a dysfunctional family and fades into the background, until Tyler is busted for drawing graffiti on the school. His mandatory probation creates a brand new body and attracts Bethany Milbury’s attention. Bethany is one of the girls in the popular group and the sister of Tyler’s bully. Their relationship finally gets Tyler in with the popular kids. A series of events has Tyler questioning his place in school and his family. 

Music or racing? This is the decision that Kyle Hillebrand must make. This choice might seem easy except for the fact that his family is one of the most famous racing families in the circuit.