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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.

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.

"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.

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