When Joe meets Candy, it seems like a regular boy-meets-girl scenario. They chat over coffee, she gives him her number, and he writes her a song. But then Joe is drawn into Candy's world - a world of drugs, violence, and desperation. As the dark truth about Candy's life emerges, Joe finds himself facing real danger at every twist and turn.

Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London and travel to a desolate and isolated village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie finds himself on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

A disturbing look at an abused boy who has been bounced around the foster care system for most of his life. He’s seeing a therapist, who tries to break through America’s rage and belligerence. Very dark and full of pain, anger, and fear..

Stephie is pregnant. Dontay hates his foster home. Carmen was arrested on a DUI charge. Harris was kicked out of his house for being gay. Katie’s stepfather abuses her, and her mother doesn’t believe her. All of them find friendship and refuge at Keesha’s House, an unofficial hideaway for troubled teens. [The author, Helen Frost, lives in Fort Wayne.]

When her sister kills herself, sixteen-year-old Leila goes looking for a reason and, instead, discovers great love, her family's true history, and what her own place in it is.

Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Ben has cerebral palsy and lives with his overly protective grandmother – a bad combination for a teenage boy. He describes his rather lonely life in a matter-of-fact, humorous way that doesn’t allow for pity. His life is turned upside down when he meets Colleen, who is bold, brash, and loud – and a drug addict.

Zoe keeps a journal as part of her therapy as she deals with her best friend’s suicide. Anger, guilt, bitterness, and loneliness abound. Not for the faint of heart.

As a sixteen-year-old looks at and systematically destroys each of his mementos of Ann-Katrin, he replays scenes from their relationship and realizes that it was not the great romance he believed it to be.

To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.

Steve was a model student. So how did he turn into a rebellious stoner? His answer makes up this essay, which he hopes will keep him out of summer school. This is a funny, touching, and realistic coming-of-age story.