Through her love of music and membership in her brother's band, sixteen-year-old Lisa learns to deal with her feelings of abandonment following her mother's death.
While spending the summer with her cousin, who is preoccupied with problems of her own, fifteen-year-old Melinda learns to assert herself instead of always trying to please her divorced parents.
Still very small at fifteen, Lydia becomes self-conscious about her size and develops an obsession with growing, until she meets Michelle, who has anorexia nervosa and wants only to be smaller.
Clever Beatrice seeks out Mister Le Pain, the village breadmaker, to come up with a plan to protect her pony from the tiny bearded lutin that magically rides him every night.
Thirteen-year-old Arly's private obsession with an older boy, the mysterious David Dolores, becomes complicated when she makes friends with an eccentric, demanding new girl in town.
Jessie and Lenny become a couple during their senior year in high school. Lenny has a history of chronic depression. Jessie feels her love is enough to save him. But will she love herself while helping him?.
