The pitch for this one is pretty compelling: Phantom of the Opera meets Black Swan.

New Kora’s ballet theater is legendary. The girls enchant their audiences every night, and until Emberlyn was the star of the show, she dreamed of landing that role. But learning what it means to be one of those dancing girls changed her feelings about it. The dancers are bound by magical curse to the show’s mastermind, Malcolm. Malcolm wields invisible strings, marionette like, that don’t stop when the show ends. It bleeds into the everyday lives of the dancers.

Parlizia is a dazzling city where the girls have been invited to perform and Emberlyn believes this is their chance to cut the curse. This comes through Emberlyn’s meeting an elusive boy who has a connection to the girls . . . but learning the truth of the ballet’s creation and what the realities are of breaking free are higher than anyone can imagine.

Calendula is an affluent Chinese American suburb in California, and it’s where Ellie, Liberty, Vera, and O were all best friends (see the L.O.V.E. there?). Ellie died three years ago, and since then, Liberty and Vera have moved away, leaving O alone.

That is until senior year, when Liberty and Vera move back. They’re not able to glide back into their former friendship, but when the three of them gather at an old clubhouse, they find a new game there waiting for them to play. It’s from Ellie.

The three are sucked into the game quite literally, a botanical fantasy called Morning Glory. So many moments in the game parallel the friendship among them all, though what’s happening with O is especially weird: she’s been given a cryptic hint about what really happened to Ellie three years ago.

As the remaining L.O.V.E. club members play it out, O starts to see her dream of meeting Ellie again is close to coming true. But that wish comes with many unexpected fallouts and secrets elsewhere.

Thanks to the decision in Brown vs. Board of Education that ruled in favor of school desegregation, Rosa Capistrano is attending North Phoenix High School, which is one extra point in her favor. She dreams of a college education and journalism career, but it’s been especially difficult to picture since she’s Mexican American. But this school will definitely help, so long as she is able to keep up her white-passing persona, Rosie, while there. This is to ensure she stays safe and under the radar.

It is hard enough to do this solo, but it’s made harder when Rosa’s  best friend Ramon and classmate Julianne meet and fall in love. Following a tragedy that impacts the entire community, Rosa’s thrown into the spotlight because of the town-wide scandal. Her identity is in question.

Marcos, Rosa’s brother, is passionate about everything he does, and he insists that Rosa make the right choice: keep playing down who she is in order to protect some idea of safety or do everything she can to help her friends find much-deserved justice.

It’s Romeo & Juliet meets desegregation meets journalism meets activism and more.

Annie’s got an unstable home, a bad reputation, and just dropped her cheating (now ex-) boyfriend. Now she’s been left for dead. The mountain where her body was dumped has been rumored to raise the dead and she’s going to use that to her advantage. Whoever killed Annie is going to pay, and she’s going to be the one to get that revenge.

It’s Florence 1517 and 17-year-old Rosa, a conwoman, has arrived in the city the same time that Medici Pope, Leo X, takes power. This is on purpose. The Pope is stealing money from the people, and Rosa’s been sent in to put an end to it.

Rosa has assembled her ragtag crew to pull off the heist, including the help of Michelangelo (yes, that one). But as the team gets closer to the Pope, old secrets and tensions among the team might splinter them before they successfully accomplish their mission.

Ezra Cloud hates northern Minnesota, where he lives with his family. It’s not pretty, it’s not the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation, and it’s got the meanest bully he’s ever come face to face with in Matt. Matt is mean to Ezra, as well as Ezra’s best friend Nora.

Then Matt’s house burns down, and it happens the night after Ezra and Matt have a big brawl. Ezra is a prime suspect in the fire, even though he didn’t do it. There is no way he’ll get a word in about it, and his parents decide that the best recourse at this point is to send Ezra elsewhere. So he’s shipped to remote Canada where he’ll live with his grandfather.

Getting that far away won’t stop Matt’s family from trying to find Ezra and lay the blame of the fire on him, but it will help Ezra learn how to stand up for himself, lean into her heritage, and build a powerful relationship with one of his elder family members.