Koss, Amy Goldman

In a government class three popular girls undergo a mock trial for their ruthless bullying of a classmate.

Gwen's hope of spending the summer playing softball and hanging out with her cousin Jess is ruined when her father and her uncle land on opposite sides of the local newspaper strike.

Marla, the only Jewish student in her fourth-grade class, wishes she celebrated Christmas like her best friend Lucy, until one year when she decides to learn all about Hanukkah and to teach her family about it too.

Twelve-year-old John develops a new understanding of his divorced father during an eventful summer visit to California.

Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong, manipulative hold one of the group exerts on the others, causing hurt and self-doubt among the girls.

Depicts Jacki, a teen-ager, whose life is turned upside down when the depression affects her family. Jacki doesn't understand the things that caused it and is determined to overcome their financial woes and focus on friends and a happy ending.

Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong, manipulative hold one of the group exerts on the others, causing hurt and self-doubt among the girls.

The relationships between three friends change in seventh grade when they discover that two of them have a crush on the same boy.

Gwen's hope of spending the summer playing softball and hanging out with her cousin Jess is ruined when her father and her uncle land on opposite sides of the local newspaper strike.

Everything changes for Isabelle, not quite fifteen, when she is diagnosed with lymphoma--but eventually she survives and even thrives.