have you ever woken up one morning with something on your face that wasn't suppose to be there? well a 15 year old girl, named Nicole, has that problem. Only hers is way worse. She lives the first ten years of her life not knowing who she really was. Until one day she woke up with that one thing on her face, and the truth finally spilled out.

This book is about a girl named Paulina and she's trying to find her first love. She came over from Hawaii with her friend Nancy to California to join a soccer camp for 2 months. Their trying to meet new people and see how talented people are here on the main land. So will Paulina and Nancy find the guy of their dreams or will someone get in the way of the most important moment of their lives? True love.

"All I want to be is myself, a powerful bassist who won't let you step on me and my dreams any more!" All River's life she has been in the dark, literally. She has stayed in her sister's shadow since the womb itself, completley and utterly afraid to go out of her comfort zone and taste the world around her. The opportunity for change rises to the surface of her pool of aspirations when she is accepted to a prestigious music academy, the Gustav Holst Academy for Exceptional Musicians. When she accepts the offer, her goal is to go through high school unnoticed, only preparing for the harsh world of musicians which she wishes to be a part of. But her trail to success is bent and seemingly twisted once the strange people around her put her in situations that take her comfort zone to another dimension. With the friends that have odd reasons, the sister who takes, and a boy who should probably think before he speaks, River is sent on this four-year quest to be come who she wants to be.

"He looks so familiar. Luke, I think, the name finally clicks in my brain. My neighbor, but I haven't seen him in years. And that is definitely not the same scrawny Luke I remember from second grade." • Natalie Sparks is your ordinary teenage girl. She has good grades, a whole lot of friends, and is one of the Queens High School track captains; it will take a lot of work to knock this girl down. Nat will have to face arguments with friends, boy troubles, hurdles and much more that can stop her from reaching the finish line.

Joseph is the happiest person in Oregon. Too bad, bad luck always follows him. It all started when his mother gave birth to him, then held him hostage at the hospital. She turned out to be a terrorist, which he discovered after she bombed the building. He was the only surviver, but lost both his big toes, which made him unbalanced later on in life. This story is a tale about all of Joseph's misfortunes in life.