A collection of 101 stories for high school students written by other teens and by adults about their experiences in high school.

Foreword -- xi -- 1 Happy to Be Me -- 1. Not Perfect, Shiori Miko -- 2. Being a Band Babe, Madeline Clapps -- 3. Dancing Queen, Only Seventeen, Kyle Kochersperger -- 4. Change the Way You Look at Things, Molly Roe -- 5. Looking Back at Me, Crystal Burgess -- 6. Take Back Your Life, Jacklyn Lee Lindstrom -- 7. My Gay Red Shorts, Mike Polanski -- 2 Dating, Crushes, and Just Friends -- 8. Not Like in the Movies, Lynn Grasberg -- 9. A Love Remembered, Tasha Vemulkonda -- 10. Summer Dreaming, Michael Tenzer -- 11. A Little Love, Nicole Lee -- 12. Just Friends?, Sara E. Rowe -- 13. Dealing with the Truth, Marcella Dario Fuentes -- 14. First Kiss, Terri Tiffany -- 15. That Special Someone, Roxanne Hawthorne -- 16. My First "Non" Date, Nicola Booyse -- 17. The Double Date I Ditched, Theresa Sanders -- 3 Doing the Right Thing -- 18. The Help I Could Give, Aimee McCarron -- 19. Slam Book, Teresa Cleary -- 20. Ricky, Will Moore -- 21. A Flower for Leourn, Kristi Powers -- 22. The Boldest in Class, Christy Westbrook -- 23. Troubled Influence, Natalie Embrey Hikel -- 24. May I Have This Dance?, Roger Dean Kiser -- 25. Walking Away, Michelle Vanderwist -- 26. The True Meaning of Friendship, Amber Curtis -- 4 Love Gone Bad -- 27. Hideaway Friend, Tiffany Caudill -- 28. My Own Path, Renea Winchester -- 29. Like Glass, Alexi Leigh -- 30. Too Much to Sacrifice, Katie Hankins -- 31. The Broken Boy before Me, Michelle Vanderwist -- 32. Without a Trace, Laura Castro -- 33. The Persuasion of Him, Laura Campbell -- 34. Against My Will, As told to Teresa Cleary -- 5 Fitting In... or Not -- 35. Ingrained, Jennifer Lynn Clay -- 36. Library Sanctuary, Karen Woodward -- 37. Finding My Way, Melissa Townsend -- 38. Having, Losing, Finding Myself, Annie Summers -- 39. Boomerang, Siddart Rangachari -- 40. Without Limo, Luck, or Love, Laurel Jefferson -- 41. The Academic Jock, Tanya Bermudez -- 42. Have Pump, Will Travel, Vinnie Penn -- 43. Material , Cristy L. Trandahl -- 44. The Football, Kristie Jones -- 6 That Was Embarrassing- -- 45. The Test, Julie Pierce -- 46. Freshman Zit , Anna Kendall -- 47. A Most Embarrassing Date, Belinda Howard Smith -- 48. Most Likely to..., Karen Waldman -- 49. Humble Pie, Sarah Jo Smith -- 50. Hair Don't, Madeline Clapps -- 51. Beauty Comes from Within, Pat Kane -- 52. Worrywart on the Dance Floor, Anna Kendall -- 7 Consequences -- 53. The Power of Saying I Was Wrong, Rose M. Jackson -- 54. But I Never Spoke, Monique Ayub -- 55. Middle Ground, Theresa Sanders -- 56. Regretting My First Kiss, Nicollette Alvarez -- 57. Lines Leading Home, Whitney Smoot -- 58. A Hard Lesson, Matthew P. Mayo -- 59. Stuff, Jacqueline Seewald -- 60. Center Your Life, Thomas Schonhardt -- 61. I Thought I Had Time, Jacqueline Perkins -- 62. Pomp and Happenstance, Leah Elliott Hauge -- 8 Going for It -- 63. The Unlikely Queen, Janelle Coleman -- 64. A Work In Progress, Valerie Lisa Weiss -- 65. Giving Up the Goods, Ashley Mie Yang -- 66. Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace, Carol E. Ayer -- 67. Election Day, Allison Moore -- 68. It's the Journey, Not the Destination, AC Gaughen -- 69. The Audition, Claire Courchane -- 9 Tough Stuff -- 70. Losing David, Kathryn Lay -- 71. Lia, Jillian Genco -- 72. Be Strong, Kerri Grogan -- 73. I Will Remember You, Allie Walsh -- 74. Don't You Fake It, Amy Anderson -- 75. Crashdown, Chloe Scott -- 76. G-1, Adrian McElwee -- 77. Pain Long Enough, Samantha Reinke -- 78. A Senseless Death, Megan Brooke Conrad -- 79. Blood on the Carpet, Amanda Panitch -- 10 Family Ups and Downs -- 80. A Fresh Start, Amelia Mumford -- 81. Finding Karen, Karen Majoris-Garrison -- 82. Helping My Brother Get Clean, E.N.S. -- 83. Seeing Double, Jan Dunham as told to Teresa Cleary -- 84. Sticks and Stones, David Clay -- 85. Letters from My Brother's Cell, Cheryl M. Kremer -- 86. The Unseen Hand, Eric Egger -- 87. Thanks Giving, Teresa Cleary -- 11 Overcoming Challenges -- 88. Tasting Forgiveness, Priscilla Dann-Courtney -- 89. Gift Given Back, Andrea C. Canale -- 90. From Death and Destruction, Capri Colella -- 91. Those Detestable Braces, Louis Hill, Jr. -- 92. When My Teachers Stood Up for Me, Erik Benau -- 93. I Am a Teen Parent, Bryonna Garcia -- 94. New Life, New Beginnings, Tina O'Reilly -- 95. Finding My Voice, Kelly Starling Lyons -- 12 Moving On -- 96. No Regrets, Ashley Mie Yang -- 97 Jump the Bush, Mark Murphy -- 98. Questions: A Poem in Two Voices, Carmela Martino -- 99. Beyond the Brochure, Tia L. Napolitano -- 100. Teacher's Pet, Mary Kolesnikova -- 101. Four YearsFast, Debra T. Scipioni -- Meet the Contributors -- Who Is Jack Canfield? -- Who Is Mark Victor Hansen? -- Who Is Amy Newmark? -- Who Is Madeline Clapps? -- Acknowledgments.