When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with her sister Cora, whom she has not seen for ten years, where she learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she has something to offer others as well.

Emaline and Luke have been together all through high school, and Emaline thinks it is perfect. However, this is the summer before college, and things are changing in her small town of Colby on the beach. For one is Theo, the super-ambitious, handsome, smart New York boy who has come to town to help on a documentary--and he thinks Emaline is pretty. Then there is Emaline's dad, who thinks she ought to go to an Ivy League school and leave Luke behind....

Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.

During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.

Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.

The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.

Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.

Raised by a mother who has had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician. "La regla de oro de Remy es no enamorarse nunca, jam�s, bajo ninguna circunstancia. Es una chica inteligente y muy popular, pero teme involucrarse en una relaci�n y siempre decide cortar antes de que la cosa se ponga seria. Sin pretenderlo, es una rompe-corazones, como su...

Dos corazones solitarios, unidos por la magia de las noches en la playa. Ahora, con todo el verano por delante, todo puede pasar... Desde que comenzaron las peleas y sus padres se divorciaron, Auden no ha podido dormir. Ahora, tiene la oportunidad de pasar un verano idilico en la casa de playa de su padre, quien vive con su nueva familia. Un trabajo en una tienda de ropa introduce a Auden al mundo de las chicas de su edad: las amigas, las charlas...

A bitter teenager, disillusioned by the divorce of her parents and other relationships gone wrong, begins to think again after meeting a new boy in school.