YA Story Ideas

YA story premises for groups. Each idea is a first chapter — write the second one together.

1. A new girl at school is the only one who can see the old wing, demolished forty years ago.
2. Three best friends find one of them deleted from every photo on every phone.
3. A teenager wins a writing competition with a story she swears she didn't write.
4. The lost property cupboard returns things the owners never lost.
5. A boy band's biggest fan realises one of the singers has been replaced.
6. A summer camp counsellor recognises a camper from a recurring dream.
7. The student council president receives threats signed by next year's president.
8. A museum school trip ends with one student in an exhibit.
9. A teenager inherits a haunted YouTube channel.
10. A girl's diary is being updated by someone else.
11. The new exchange student is from a country that doesn't exist.
12. A boy's grandmother gives him a key with no lock.
13. Two friends discover their shared imaginary friend was real and is still here.
14. A school's annual play turns into the real version of itself.
15. A debate club captain finds the opposition's notes inside her own.
16. A choir's lost soloist returns three years later, the same age she left.
17. A girl wakes to find she is taller, older and engaged.
18. A boy is bullied by his future self.
19. The school football team's lucky charm is missing and the school is missing with it.
20. A teenager realises every adult she trusts is reading from the same script.