Twins Noah and Jude Sweetwine, who stopped speaking after their mother’s death, finally tell each other the secrets they have been hiding about the art school applications and about their mother’s last days.

At the end of the summer at Cousins Beach, Isabel “Belly” Conklin finally kisses Conrad Fisher, the older brother she has loved for years, after his brother Jeremiah confesses his own feelings for her.

Lara Jean Covey’s secret love letters are mailed out, and her fake relationship with Peter Kavinsky turns real until a rumour about them in a hot tub on a school ski trip breaks them apart.

After being blackmailed and then outed online by his classmate Martin, Simon Spier asks his anonymous email pen pal, “Blue,” to meet him at the carnival Ferris wheel.

After his parents tell him that it’s obvious he loves his best friend Dante, Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza finally admits it to himself.

Natasha Kingsley, whose family is deported to Jamaica, and Daniel Bae, who falls in love with her during one day in New York, are separated when she leaves.

Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is found not guilty of felony murder for his alleged role as a lookout in a Harlem drugstore robbery in which the owner was killed.

Justyce McAllister, a Black honour student at an elite Atlanta prep school, survives a shooting by an off-duty white police officer that kills his best friend Manny.

Precious Jones, a Harlem teenager who has survived years of abuse, learns she is HIV positive, but she leaves her violent mother, finds a home in a halfway house and keeps learning to read and write.

Peter Houghton, a bullied seventeen-year-old who killed ten people in a nineteen-minute shooting at his New Hampshire high school, is convicted and later kills himself in prison.