Carlson, Melody

Jordan Ferguson and Shawna Frye's friendship is tested when Timothy dumps Shawna to start dating Jordan and Shawna begins spreading vicious rumors about Jordan in order to getrevenge on her former friend.

On the outside, Alice Laxton appears to be a normal college student, but as her senior year becomes more stressful, her schizophrenia progresses, disrupting her life and forcing her to seek experimental treatment.

When sixteen-year-old Chelsea Martin's future stepmother gives her a total makeover, she attracts all of the wrong boys and drives away many girls, but her friend Janelle keeps telling Chelsea to be true to herself, while helping her find a way to catch the eye of Nicholas, the one "non-jerk" at school.

An intelligent but insecure fifteen-year-old aspiring musician, who sports off-beat clothes, spiked hair, and multiple piercings, questions the existence of God until she meets Him head-on in a graveyard.

Seventeen-year-old Emily, originally attempting to lose only a few pounds, develops an eating disorder that plagues her until she decides that trusting in God and her friends can help her regain her health.

High school sophomore Kara Hendricks grows closer to God when Jordan, her best friend since kindergarten, dumps her for the "cool" crowd.

The daughter of a pastor justifies going to drinking parties as helping others, disregarding the feelings of real friends.

At the Carter boardinghouse for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, the race for high school homecoming queen turns friends and roommates against one another, and, as the votes roll in, some of the girls grow smarter and closer to God, while others seem to make the same mistakes over again.

Sixteen-year-old Kim Peterson learns more about herself and her friends, and practices her new commitment to God, by writing a teen advice column for the newspaper on which her father is managing editor.

Two look-alike, discontented seventeen-year-olds--one a sophisticated city girl and the other an Amish farm girl--decide to trade lives for a week.