When adults-mostly the government- lose all faith in the future generations of the United States, they vote on taking a whole new approach. A more violent one. A brutal program called the "Youth Renewal" program is anything but renewing. Students from 6th grade and beyond fight in hand to hand and weaponry combat against their peers to keep their grades up and their lives as well. Aleina and her friends enter into their final year of middle school and are quickly finding out that this "program" is nothing to play with. Told from their points of view, Aleina and her friends will give "surviving the school year" a whole new meaning.

NOW PUBLISHED BY SOURCEBOOKS FIRE! Oliver, Alec, Xander, and JJ are just four regular guys. They're also members of the world famous boy band the Heartbreakers. This is their story.

A neighbor is in desperate need of help and the family across the street reluctantly obliges...

Vanessa Laine is a college student and aspiring musician. She's got the look and she's got the voice. The only thing that's stopping her is her stage fright...and an opportunity. But opportunity knocks when pop-punk band, The Velocity, holds auditions for a new lead singer at the restaurant that Vanessa works at. Getting in was the easy part. Surviving as the only girl in the band is the hard part. Can she do it?