"In the poor town of Carp, New York, a group of teens enters a high-stakes game that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than $50,000--enough money to start a new life"--

"In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer--Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real life--dramatically...

In a single night--graduation night--Thomas has to decide: Do what everyone has always expected of him? Or forge an entirely new path? Thomas is supposed to leave for the army in the morning. His father was Army. His brother, Jake, is Army--is a hero, even, with the medals to prove it. Everyone expects Thomas to follow in that fine tradition. But Jake came back from overseas a completely different person, and that has shaken Thomas's certainty about...

17-year-old physics whiz Casey Carlyle is urged by her physics teacher to work on a physics project over the summer for presentation to Harvard. Since Casey is an ice skater, she decides on a project that will show the elements of physics applied in competitive figure skating. To better understand the principles she's using, she will have to become her own test subject. She decides that she wants to skate on the Nationals circuit, but has some very...

Told in separate voices, Jack and Hallie, eighteen-year-olds facing separate crises, discover who they are meant to be while taking a spontaneous road trip together. On the verge for leaving for college, Jack wants to track down his estranged brother, Alex and find some closure in the wake of their father's death. Hallie has just found out some upsetting news about a friend in Oregon, and she has a small window to go see him before it is too late....

After high school graduation, best friends Matt and Cole strive to put behind them the school shooting they survived in first grade and really begin to live. Told in two voices.

Before Matt, Ella had a plan. A simple one: get over her ex-boyfriend, graduate, and attend Florida State. The cute, shy, bespectacled bass player was never part of that plan...and neither was attending a party that was crashed by the cops just minutes after they arrived. Or spending an entire night saying "yes" to every crazy, fun thing they could think of. Then Matt leaves town. When he shows up a year later--wanting to relive the night that brought...

Teenager Tim Temples must decide if he wants to leave his comfortable life in a small town and go to college.

The summer before college, Amelia, Chase, Cleo, and Logan are on the first leg of their road trip inspired by the unique tarot deck that Amelia inherited from her grandmother. Their trip--full of visiting occult shops, bonding and sightseeing--takes a major detour as the friends discover that their tarot deck is more valuable, and coveted, than they could have ever imagined. As the friends race to finish a mystical scavenger-hunt across the West coast...

The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.