Grant, Cynthia D

Max grows up a little as he learns to deal with all kinds of crises during three weeks of summer vacation.

Abandoned by her mother, Livvy decides she is smart and self-reliant enough to live by herself, if she can only keep her situation a secret.

Seventeen-year-old Stephen deals with a self-destructive friend and a relationship with an "older woman" of twenty-three.

Sixteen-year-old Caroline and her twin sister, Honey, share a terrible secret about their Uncle Toddy, who comes into their room at night. While Honey pretends that nothing is wrong, Carolyn is desperate to tell someone and can keep the secret no longer.

Sixteen-year-old Mary tries to keep her family together as they aimlessly travel the country after her father's business fails and he starts to change.

In her journal the relentlessly superficial Tiffany, head of the cheerleading group called the Cannibals, describes the excitement and turmoil of her senior year in high school.

In her writing for a concerned teacher, sixteen-year-old Raina reveals her troubles with a dysfunctional family, life on the streets, drug abuse, and finally an unplanned pregnancy.

Charming but reckless eighteen-year-old Gabe, drunk as usual, smashes his truck into a tree and dies, sending waves of shock and grief through his small town.

In her journal the relentlessly superficial Tiffany, head of the cheerleading group called the Cannibals, describes the excitement and turmoil of her senior year in high school.

Sixteen-year-old Mary tries to keep her family together as they aimlessly travel the country after her father's business fails and he starts to change.