Kerr, M. E

The animals at Critters animal shelter look forward to Christmas as well as the ever-present possibility of adoption.

Alan's senior year brings many changes, some of which are very painful.

Living under a pseudonym with his grandfather in a small town, the son of a celebrity teams up with the local tomboy, "an alliance he calls Nothing Power and she calls Going Steady.".

The daughter of charismatic Christians and the son of a television evangelist come to terms with their families and faiths.

Two teenagers resist pressure to lead lives their parents have fashioned for them.

Two teen-aged girls become friends in their small New York town as they attempt to make sense of their families and neighbors in the years leading up to World War II.

Many things change in a teenage boy's life when he meets the overweight girl who answers his advertisement for the cat he must give away.

Seventeen-year-old Erick's comfortable and well-ordered life begins to fall apart when he is forced to keep two secrets: the identity of his new girlfriend and the nature of his brother's debilitating disease.

The author recounts escapades from her own teenage years and reveals how many of those real-life people and events served as springboards for the fictional characters and plots in her nine young adult novels.

Three generations suffer the consequences of an ill-fated romance between a young girl from the wrong side of the tracks and the son of the richest family in a small upstate New York town.