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Seventeen-year-old Christy, sad since her father's death, ignored by her mother, and abused by her drug-dealing half-brother, finds friends who help her learn to stand up for herself and move past the old hurts and fears that are keeping her down.

In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.

Thirteen-year-old Olivia Hughes is forced to rethink her plans to become an actress when a full-blown case of acne results in the dramatic decline of her popularity at school, and the cancellation of a national advertising campaign.

Barricaded in Cortege High with five other teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane Price observes her fellow captives become more unpredictable and violent as time passes although they each have much more reason to live than she has.

Students in Mrs. Mack's class describe their families--big or small, living together or apart, with two moms or none--and learn why every family is special and important.

Shy and unremarkable, seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to find himself singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colbly, until he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions.

When Clarice has to do a school project on the environment, she and her family become eco-warriors in an attempt to save a tree on their street.

In Pittsburgh in 1933, sixth-grader Mike Costa notices a connection between several strange occurrences, but the only way he can find out the truth about what's happening is to be nice to the class bully.

While preparing for a role in the school play, 12 yr.old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the way people change as they grow up.

After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.

When sixth-grader Chela Gonzalez's father has a stroke and her grandmother moves in to help take care of the family, her world is turned upside down.

Contains the fictional diary of Dawn, a thirteen-year-old girl who is having difficulty coping with a new school, her stepmother's pregnancy, and her changing relationships with her friends.

High school senior Mary Jane Ettermeyer has always been the good girl, but when she falls hard for Jackson, the cutest guy in school, she finds herself questioning her desire to stay pure until marriage and wondering if she even has a chance with Jackson.

Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.

Maryland high school juniors and best friends Blue Reynolds and Collin Andrews seem to have it all, and when they decide to become party promoters, anything can happen--including being pitted against parents, jealous girlfriends, and even one another.