"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley Life for Lacey Carson hasn't been a straight road into paradise. Struggling with the death of her mother, her abusive step-father, and love for music and freedom, she's torn about who she really is, and who she's become. Growing up with a natural talent for drumming, rhythms, and beats; Lacey and her faithful drum sticks can't ever be divided. So when a national competition for a battle of the bands is announced; the reward for the winning band being a grand prize of a million dollars, a ticket to the number one recording studio in England, and being signed into one of the hottest record labels in the world, Lacey knew that it was fate. All she needed was a band to play with... But indifferent, apathetic, and cold to the rest of the world, will she be able to find a group who she could trust and befriend? Fall in love with a not-so-mysterious stranger who may or may not have feelings for her too? Discover her own true self tangled in between a web of lies? Or is it all simply just a decoy?

Lovely Ali is a wanderer. In LA on her own, she is found by men and women who love her—for awhile—but never for long enough. The only one who never leaves is an acrobat named Michael who watches Ali with sad eyes. But before she can recognize who she is and what she already has, Ali must search deep within the darkest parts of herself. This short story from Francesca Lia Block, acclaimed author of the upcoming LOVE IN THE TIME OF GLOBAL WARMING, pays homage to a lost girl on a quest for love and home.

"Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell." -Kim Edwards Eleanor Morisette doesn't speak. She doesn't have an illness that causes it, and wasn't born mute; she just chooses not to talk. What reason is there to say words when no one's there to hear them? Instead, she expresses herself through the art of photography. Obsessed with the beauty in the world that overshadows her own problems, all she wants is to someday capture life to its fullest; without having to worry about her parents' declining love and the loneliness of being an outcast at school. But what happens when she accidentally takes a photo of a boy who she can't take her mind off? Will he be the one to open up her shell? Or will she continue wandering lost in her world of lonely magic?

Jamie enrolls in a new high school every six months, trying to keep her identity low. She fears of getting locked up as doctors and scientists study her day and night. She wants to be free - but she can't. Every month her hair changes color, her eyes turn into a different hue, her face changes shape, and her name changes. But her memories, habits, and thoughts all remain the same. And when one person finds out her secret, she's afraid the world will know of it. Of her gift - or curse.

Everyone knows the story of Sky High and the heroes that walked its hallowed halls, but little known Saint Leonard's Academy. It's not a Catholic school, or for the public for that matter. It's the reformatory for Sky High. It's composed of those troble kids who just couldn't make it at the school in the sky. So what happens when one girl uncovers that will rock the foundation of the hero world?

The world is in chaos. The human population is dwindling. Avril Rose just wants to forget. About what? Well, everything really, but it's hard to forget when the only way to save herself (and maybe the world) is to remember every little detail she just wants to forget.