Sixteen-year-old Maya receives an invitation to a secret school for shadow-workers, where she discovers her late mother was the academy's most dangerous graduate.
On a failing generation-ship carrying the last of Earth, a young maintenance worker begins intercepting signals from a derelict sister vessel drifting in the same orbit, and has to decide whether the voice answering back is a rescue, a memory, or a trap.
Two teenagers on opposite banks of a river that divides their town discover a half-sunk footbridge no one else remembers, and begin rebuilding it at night — one letter, one plank at a time — while learning that the real distance between them was never the water.
A student journalist and a reluctant new kid decipher a series of coded notes washing up on a small-town beach, leading them to a decades-old disappearance the town agreed to forget and a secret still walking the nightly tide.
Two rival astronomy-club presidents discover that the school's only telescope begins predicting constellations that mirror each other's deepest confessions. As they race to decode the impossible charts, they find themselves charting something neither expected — each other.
Seventeen-year-old Clary Vane draws maps that reveal locations that do not exist on any official chart. When one impossible coordinate marks the field where her sister vanished, Clary must unravel a century-old mystery of cartographers and hidden cities.
Elena Sawyer, a sixteen-year-old orphan, wins a scholarship to Crucible Academy, the nation's only magic school. The world's mana is running out, and the students who "graduate" are harvested to power the capital. One girl refuses to look away.