Haworth-Attard, Barbara

All the changes in 14-year-old Meaghan's life have left her feeling powerless. Meaghan turns to her elderly neighbor Miss Sarah, a kind black woman, for comfort.

Desperate to be popular, fourteen-year-old Teresa shares her uncertainties with her old Ken and Barbie dolls as she learns that her mother is pregnant, her grandfather has Alzheimer's, and having a boyfriend does not automatically solve all her problems.

When his emotionally volatile relationship with his mother ends with him being kicked out of the house, sixteen-year-old Dylan meets three other teenagers while struggling to survive on the streets and must determine which of them he can trust.