Tired of being viewed by everyone as boring, reliable Good Ol' Charlie, a sixteen-year-old boy sees his family's move to a new town as a chance to change his image.
Rob, who lives at a school for troubled teenagers, and Sara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of an army colonel, meet in a poetry chat-room and develop a close relationship via E-mail.
The arrival of Arnold, who has spent much of his life in juvenile detention centers, has a great impact on fourteen-year-old Michael and his ninth-grade classmates.
Life in the remote town of Alder Creek, California, is boring for eighth-grader Sam and his friends, until his newly awakened ability to tell when a person is lying involves him in a series of mysterious events.
When his mother offers to share their apartment temporarily with an old friend and her three-year-old son, Dan finds himself resenting the loss of space, privacy, and peace and quiet.
Dan thinks he is going to have a terrible time when he is forced to go camping with his mother's boyfriend Mike and Mike's brainy son Raymond, but the two boys form a surprising friendship.
