When Chase returns to middle school after falling off the roof and losing his memory, he learns that the person he was before the amnesia is not someone he likes.

Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.

When you wake up in the morning, how do you feel? Happy, tired, sad? Noisy, quiet, glad? This book invites very young children to think and talk about themselves and their world.

When she does poorly on the SAT exam, perfectionist and opinionated Samantha decides that the only way she can get into college is to win the class election, but her bad attitude makes it difficult to get votes.

In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.

Daren's tendency to blame everyone but himself when anything goes wrong causes problems with his best friend, with a young neighbor who idolizes him, and with one of his basketball teammates.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.