Pfeffer, Susan Beth

During one difficult week in her junior year, Val's world falls apart as she learns some truths about her origins, her father's business, and her relationship with her best friend.

Meg's sheltered life with her wealthy aunt changes after meeting Nick Sebastian at her sixteenth birthday party.

Since the death of her parents, sixteen-year-old Sloan has lived a privileged, protected life with her grandmother, the matriarch of a prominent political family. But now the drunken advances of an elected official lead to a public scandal.

A group of high school students are suspended from school for publishing an underground newspaper that the principal finds objectionable.

Because she desperately wants to have her picture taken, ten-year-old Amy finds a way to accumulate the necessary five dollars but then decides to spend it in another way.

Through letters and essays, emotionally disturbed sixteen-year-old Abby chronicles her growing desperation in a family consisting of parents who seem devoid of love, one older sister bent on self-destruction, and another older sister who has always seemed perfect.

Twelve-year-old April has trouble making friends at her new middle school, until her father's friendship with a missing rock star catapults her into the news and suddenly makes her popular.

Eight-year-old Crista has the worst week of her life, experiencing bad times at school and at home, but when her twin sister Betsy tries to sympathize by sharing her bad times it causes a fight.

Carrie and Jill are best friends and their families have always been close, so when Jill's parents separate, it not only affects Carrie and Jill's friendship, but Carrie's feelings about her own family as well.

Distracted by her worries that her parents may get a divorce, Taryn gets in trouble with her seventh-grade English teacher and is caught up in an increasingly complicated series of lies.