Forced to spend a semester in his father's small hometown up in the mountains, seventeen-year-old Rob finds his feelings of alienation and self-hatred diminishing as he forges relationships with relatives and new friends.
Describes Helen's world where toxic-food scares, contaminated water, sweeping chemical fires, and monumental earthquakes are part of every-day life. Deals with an era of dysfunctional nuclear families and collapsing personal relationships.
David Mahooley, a teenage playwright suffering from writer's block, finds himself drawn into the passionate world of a flamboyant, alcoholic young actress with a talent for lying.
Summoned by his grandmother, Lipsha returns to the reservation where he falls in love with Shawnee Ray. He finds himself at crossroads torn between success and meaning, love and money, the future and the past.
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the value of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers.
While visiting their grandmother, two cousins enjoy playing in their own little house in the woods, but they do not realize what consequences their exclusion of a poor local girl will bring.
Dynamite Dinah finds her feelings about sixth-grade classmate Nick Tribble changing when they share involvement in a school play, a debate, and a sock hop.
