They're called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the US while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she'd be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California. Suddenly she finds herself living in a stranger's house, with no one to tell her what to do for the first time in her life. She soon embraces her newfound...

This summer, Lou will working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. When she gets a letter from her biological father, a man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his life, Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him, no matter how much he insists. While King's friendship makes Lou feel...