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During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs.

When Jessica, a new student who was badly burned in a fire, attends St.

The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.

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.

After getting caught stealing from his grandmother's toilet store, the narrator is punished by being forced to work at a soup kitchen, an experience that seems inconsequential until he discovers one of his friends depends on the free food.

Seven years ago Mal disappeared for three days. Everyone says he had some kind of breakdown, but he knows he was abducted by aliens.

After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.

When the body of one of her classmates is discovered in the woods, sixteen-year-old Evie's lies wind up involving her with the girl's best friend in an attempt to track down the killer.

While trying to cope with his father's death, his mother's new job as a stripper, and his own libido, high-school junior Walker meets a new girl who makes life seem pretty wonderful after all.

"Cody's best friend, Spencer, and his parents are moving in with his grandmother right around the corner, and Cody can't wait.

Karl Shoemaker, starting his senior year in Lightsburg, Ohio, in 1973, vows to break out of the therapy group he has been forced to attend during school hours and become "normal.

The lives of the teenagers at Blithedale High intensify, as Claudia begins to tutor Nigel, Darren contemplates a major decision, and Paula wants to be more public in her relationship with Johanna.

Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco and Melody Grimshaw strive together to survive senior year and break away from their rural factory town.

"High school junior Del Rainey unwittingly joins a Purity Pledge class at church, hoping to get closer to his long-term crush, Kiera"--Provided by publisher.

Eighteen-year-old Jemima Kincaid is in her final year at Northern Virginia's elite Chawton School and is named to the senior prom committee.