In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father returns home after a two-year absence.

When Sherry Baldwin hosts a makeover sleepover that causes horrible reactions in her friends' skin, she enlists the help of her mother, a ghost detective at the Academy of Spirits, to help solve the mystery of the tainted makeup.

Delilah reads a fairy tale she found in the school library multiple times and feels as though it is more than words on a page. One day she finds out that the handsome prince, castle and evil villain are real, but from a different world, and she wonders how this meeting of fantasy and reality can work.

Seventeen-year-old Jess Morgan discovers her great-great-aunt's diaries, leading her on a quest to uncover whether Aunt Anna was actually a Romanov princess. Includes author's note.