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A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood.

Shira, a fifteen-year-old who lives with her grandmother and widowed father in a Miami hotel, picks up shoplifting as a new hobby and is caught by a streetwise boy from Spain who becomes her friend, ally, and possibly more as she wrestles with the hardships of growing up.

A teenaged Nigerian girl and her older brother struggle to cope with life in their tense, stifling household--caused by their father's demands for perfection--after getting a taste of freedom during a visit to their aunt's home.

"Nearly a year after her popular older sister's accidental death, Hannah meets Anne, a guidance counselor, and Josh, a potential new friend, who offer her the chance to move forward"--OCLC.

"Ruth, Magda, and Isabel are different from everyone else. They can see beneath the seemingly perfect, cookie-cutter exterior of their small town of Highbone, Long Island.

Matilda "Tilly" Castillo is seriously injured during her senior year, meaning her dream of becoming a contemporary dancer in the future becomes just that--a dream--until she gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to join a New York dance troupe for the summer.

Sixteen-year-old Allie has known since she was seven years old that her family is different and even feared.

"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world.

"Growing up in Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution.

Contains two novels by Sarah Dessen, including 'Someone Like You' in which Halley, a junior in high school, deals with death, a friend's pregnancy, and her first serious relationship; and 'That Summer' in which fifteen-year-old Haven, during the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, comes into her own by letting go of the past.

"Ada's life is a mess. She just caught her boyfriend cheating on her after a humiliating attempt at losing her virginity, and she's had it up to here with her gorgeous older sister's unsolicited advice.

"Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman.

A wealthy teenager named Abena's world is turned upside down when she meets Faiza, a Muslim migrant worker, while working at her auntie's shop in Makola Market.

"Fifteen-year-old Layla Freeman likes to pretend her life is fine.