At his mother's death, seventeenyear-old Garrett is invited to live with his father in Los Angeles, where a lifestyle that at first seems simply mysterious turns into a nightmare.
On one of his mother's nursing cases, a "misfit" teenager meets a man who, though insulting and capable of bizarre behavior, gives Chris some needed lessons in life.
Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family.
When Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living next door to her has the ability to go into the fourth dimension, she makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys there.
A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where, in 1910, they are the only blacks.
With the help of an attractive graduate student, Kate endures a summer with her overpowering artist father and gains the courage to pursue her own artistic goals.
A fifteen-year-old scientific whiz who feels like a clod around boys falls in love for the first time with an auto mechanic whose picture she has seen.
Someone is following Nicole and intentionally frightening her. She thinks it may be her former boyfriend, Michael. She knows he has a darker side and he does seem obsessed with making her his girlfriend again. How far will he carry his desperate pursuit?.
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?.
