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Angela is looking forward to getting back into gymnastics after the summer break. But she has changed over the summer. Her body is more filled out, more curvy. When she goes to try out, she sees that Tina, a senior student, has become quite thin over the summer. Then Angela bumps into Chris, a football player and member of the student council. She's thrilled that he notices her. Over the next few weeks she spends time with Chris and ignores her old friends. She does not notice that Chris is manipulating her into losing weight. Only when an old friend Sal is accused of stealing money and Angela catches Tina inducing herself to vomit does she start to realize what has happened. Finally Angela, with the help of her friends and a couple of teachers, tricks Chris into stealing more money. Turns out he has a serious drug problem and has been using others to avoid taking responsibility for his actions.

Justin is paired with Travis to work on a geography project. He thinks it would be cool to be involved with Travis and some of his friends even though this means Justin missed taking part in the spring play. Eventually he realizes that Travis is not pulling his weight in the partnership. Then Travis almost gets them arrested for stealing a teacher's boat. But the teacher understands the pressure Justin is under and offers him support. Finally Travis hatches a plan to beat Daniel for supposedly stealing Travis' girlfriend. Actually the girl does not like Travis. It turns out Daniel can take care of himself - he's taken karate for ten years. In the last chapter Justin confronts Travis about his poor choices. Then, when a gang threatens to beat up both Travis and Justin, Daniel shows up and says the police are coming, showing his generosity of spirit.

Zack Brown's parents have been arguing a lot recently. However, when Zack's father does not even come to his daughter Shelli's sixth birthday, it seems to be the last straw. Zack's mother confronts Mr. Brown when he returns late at night. Mr. Brown says he doesn't want to be married any more. Mrs. Brown tells the two older children but delays telling Shelli. Then Zack sees his father kissing his substitute teacher in a local store. He gets really angry with his father. They eventually talk. A couple of Zack's friends also let him know he is not alone. By the end of the book, the Brown family seems to be on its way to working with the new reality of their lives.

Jack Lucas loves to play hockey. He dreams that one day he'll see his long-absent father in the stands cheering him on. However, usually it's the other parents encouraging the players to fight each other. Finally Coach Martins declares that the Bayview Sharks need to learn better skating skills and not to rely on violence to win their games. So he brings in the figure skating coach to work with the hockey players. The Sharks learn that figure skating is a difficult sport and that they have lots to learn. But they begin to win games based on skill and non-violence. At the same time, Jack Lucas deals with his shyness. More importantly, he learns the truth about his father - that he is a pathetic drunk.

Shawn Weston, who loves to row and tinker with cars, buys an old truck from the father of a member of the rowing team of a rival school. What starts out as pranks played by rival teams begins to turn nasty as Shawn and his friends are nearly arrested. Finally, their rivals destroy Bayview's boat and members of the Bayview team are injured in a car accident; one nearly loses his life. The members of both teams realize their mistakes, and the Bayview team wins their final race by asking a girl to replace the injured rower.

Liz Gordon is a shy student who would like to become a journalist. She is having trouble with math and her teacher sets her up with a tutor from grade eleven. One day she is asked to join the school newspaper, not as a reporter but as the advice columnist. There's one problem: the letters are fake. Liz's “answers” are so clever that she soon receives real letters, including from a person who would like to become friends with herself. Liz and her friends speculate on who the anonymous admirer could be. Liz is invited to a party and there discovers that the letter-writer is the younger brother of a person she thought she liked. Her English teacher submits an essay on “The Person I Admire Most in the World” to the local newspaper and everyone learns about Liz's sister with Downs syndrome but the essay is so wonderful that Liz is promoted to reporter and it appears her future in journalism is assured.

Ethan Munroe is faced with some difficult choices. He likes to draw and hang out at this favourite coffee shop, The Edge. There he meets Kat who likes his work and invites him to work with her on a computer game. However, at Kat's house, Ethan is introduced to marijuana. He feels conflict about trying it but his own friends seem to be ignoring him so Kat and her friends seem at first more interesting. Eventually, Ethan sees that Kat is just using him to protect her real boyfriend. In the end, Ethan realizes he can trust his step-father to help him.

Vish Chopra is flunking tests, getting grounded, and messing up at his job. He wants to be a filmmaker, and practices by making movies in secret. A new friend encourages him to follow his dream. He wants to trust her, but he soon finds out she has secrets of her own.

Gus McDonald has been playing online poker every night for hours—and winning. But when he gets an invitation to play for higher stakes, he loses big, and has to take desperate measures to get back in the game. But the price he has to pay may be too high.

Riley Jackson is a smart student in his last year of high school. He is used to getting high marks; his parents expect him to do well. When he cannot take debating and has to take photography instead, he discovers a new love. He uses his skill in photography to get a part-time job and to help his friend Tyson to possibly foil a break-in. Soon a deadline looms and Riley downloads an essay from the Internet. But before he can hand it in, Riley learns that another friend is also facing pressure from home. Riley stands up to his parents and learns that his mother gave up studying fine art to become a lawyer.

Kalen and Scott have been friends for a long time. After their summer away from each other, Kalen sees that Scott has developed muscles. Kalen joins a gym to try and bulk up like his friend. Kalen is also concerned because he thinks his girlfriend Amber is attracted to more muscular boys. However, soon Kalen hears about steroid use and eventually suspects Scott of it. After a fight, and parental intervention, it turns out to be true. Scott has learned his lesson and he and Kalen end up still friends.

Anna Kelley experiences many changes in her life. First her beloved Gran dies, then her mother quits her job as a lawyer and buys a bookstore. This means that the Kelleys have to sell their house and move to a smaller house. But the biggest change is that Anna cannot go to a private school but must begin the new year at Bayview. She is soon befriended by a group of girls who sit together at lunch. Then Anna, wanting to be liked, goes to the mall, cuts classes, steals a pair of sunglasses and ends up getting drunk at a party hosted by one of the girls. Anna soon learns who her real friends are and how easy it is to make the wrong choices.

Ivan's already busy with a newspaper internship, school, and a job as a busboy. But things are going to get more stressful after a robbery at the restaurant, and a brutal assault lands a Bayview High student in hospital. Ivan has the chance to break a major story for the paper but it might mean getting a friend in trouble.

Alejandro Hidalgo Perez arrives in Port Catherine on an exchange to study at Bayview High and play on its soccer team. He quickly finds out that his host family is not quite what he expected. The parents expect him to do lots of chores and the son not only does nothing, he is rarely at home and does not seem to attend school. Then brutality on the soccer pitch and a series of car vandalisms put Alejandro into a difficult position. Eventually the car vandals are caught, Alejandro wins respect from the other players for his skill and sense of fair play and he is moved from the dysfunctional Fletcher family to live with a fellow soccer player's family.

Bayview’s spring musical is underway and nothing is going right. Autumn Bracken didn’t get the lead role, the new sound system disappears, and someone has it in for the shy stage manager, Emma. Mean rumours and insults about Emma begin to fly online on a terrible website targeting her. Will Autumn trade in her dream to save someone else's nightmare?

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