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Tired of being hungry, cold, and dirty from living on the streets of New York City with a tribe of other homeless teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future and longs for someone to care about her.

Shakespeare Shapiro navigates a senior year fraught with feelings of insecurity while writing the memoir of his embarrassing life, worrying about his younger brother being cooler than he is, and having no prospects of ever getting a girlfriend.

Seventeen-year-old Mclean begins to lose sight of who she really is after she tries to reinvent herself at each school she attends after her parents' divorce and her father moves her from town to town.

"Karen has new roller skates. She is a very good skater. She can even do tricks.

To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented.

Sixteen-year-old Eliza, an Amish girl, goes to work for an "English" family as a nanny to two young children, and must then choose between two entirely different ways of life.

Her parents' divorce has sixth-grader Karen Newman struggling to understand that sometimes people are unable to live together.

The close friendship of two eleven-year-old girls, who live in New York City, begins to unravel as each struggles to deal with a brother who is leaving home.

Chrissa Maxwell moves to a new school in the middle of the year, and the girls in her fourth-grade class are decidedly unfriendly.

Seventeen year-old Maitlin Malone was born to hate the Crutchfields.

Poe, a homeless young teen, struggles to keep his living situation a secret.

In South Carolina in 1959 Casey Quinn dreams of being a ballerina, and though she has never had the money for lessons, she follows her dream to New York City and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.

Scarlett Blaine's life in 1960's Georgia isn't always easy with her parent's financial struggles, her sister Juli's hippie lifestyle, and her brother Cliff's dream of going up in a rocket.

Hallie and Grace Weston move to Beverly Hills after their father dies, and the two very different sisters must find out whom they want to be.

Living on the streets, Maddie forms an unlikely family and finds that it takes more than good intentions to make things work.