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Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.

As he enters high school, fourteen-year-old Elvin continues to deal with his weight problem as he tries to find his place among his peers.

High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.

Keegan Flannery, feeling responsible for his twin brother's death and his mother's mental illness, believes he must atone by committing suicide before his sixteenth birthday, but he gains new insights when he joins his school's wrestling team.

Hockey has been Nick Taglio's life since he was five years old, so when a massive concussion benches him--possibly for good--everything seems to fall apart, including his schoolwork, his family relationships, his friendships, and his love life.

Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.

As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay, events start to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer.

When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

LaVaughn, having overcome many obstacles to obtain admission to the Women in Science program, a stepping-stone to college, finds her dreams jeopardized by her attempts to resolve a difficult situation involving people she cares about.

A young high school teacher relates the frustrations and challenges of teaching through fictitious memos, letters, papers, and student comments.

If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to relaize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketballl, he will have to imporrove at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new-white-student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.

In 1939 in Westphalia, Ohio, seventeen-year-old German American Karl Schmidt has trouble believing what he is hearing from his friend Rebecca about Jews being mistreated by Hitler.

Matt has a problem with tardiness that angers his history teacher, causes his girlfriend to break up with him, and finally finds him missing the bus to a baseball game in which he was to be the starting pitcher.

Keely, a young gymnast, dreams of competing in the Olympics, but when pressure about her weight causes her health to deteriorate, she begins to wonder if her dream is worth the struggle.

The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina are irrevocably intertwined through the course of one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to beat up Trina and must decide whether or not to get involved.