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Nadia wishes she had never taught her parents to use the Internet. It's too late now: they've already online-ordered the Panoptimom, the latest child-minding robot, to completely ruin Nadia's freedom. As child-minders begin to take over the school, Nadia's friends are smoothing down their fauxhawks into bobs and swapping out beers for lemonade. But Nadia is determined to outsmart these high-tech chaperones - even if it means getting herself grounded for the rest of eternity.

A wry narrator fresh from an abusive romantic debacle takes us on her journey into the skewed world of a rehabilitation center, befriending along the way fellow patient Amp, a bold woman with a destructive proclivity for self-amputation. Forced to come to terms with the ways in which she has hurt and been hurt by her family, our narrator must learn how to live life on her own terms despite her troubled past.

Scared and confused, Kailani recalls the mystical stories of starshells that her ailing grandmother once loved to tell. When her grandmother urges Kailani to leave her bedside in search of the starshells, Kailani soon realizes that those old stories were more than they seemed. As Kailani relives her grandmother's story, her own story begins to unfold.

Sarah's been sequestered to her grandparents' house for the summer - again - and she's convinced it'll be the most boring summer ever. That is, until she discovers who's been stealing her grandmother's beets. It isn't long before Sarah realizes she's in for the adventure of a lifetime.