Colman, Hila

When spirited but often-ignored Kelly discovers that her ""perfect"" older brother is a thief, she finally speaks out and forces her family to face their deeper problems.

The Dobson family seems to be coming apart as anger becomes the prevailing emotion between father and daughter and husband and wife.

The Dobson family seems to be coming apart as anger becomes the prevailing emotion between father and daughter and husband and wife.

When her father dies, seventeen-year-old Dallas must cope not only with her grief, but also with her mother's sudden and total dependence upon her.

When Paul is wrongly accused of stealing bagels intended for an art project in his classroom, he sets out to find the real culprit.

Fourteen-year-old Amanda's comfortable practice of spending weekends with her divorced father is disrupted when he announces plans to remarry, providing her with a stepmother and a new sister her own age.

Angela, a sixteen-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood in New York City, learns not to judge people by their socio-economic class after she reluctantly accepts a scholarship to a fancy boarding school.

Sixteen-year-old Jill falls in love with a political activist and begins to experience some changing values.

With her father dead and her mother in a mental institution, sixteen-year-old Becky, chafing under the authority of her older sister, petitions the juvenile court to become an emancipated minor.