While Liz is planning a summer that includes a possible new boyfriend and great parties, Jason Sullivan, the boy who used to be her best friend before he was sent away, returns, and she is torn between her new life and her feelings for Jason.
Since his mother died thirteen-year-old Troy has been skipping school and hanging out with the wrong crowd, and now he and his friend Foster have been sentenced to work in the local Philadelphia stables; at first he is apprehensive around the horses, but soon he bonds with a mare named Chance, and discovers the sport of polo--but also makes some new enemies.
Rodrigo Garcia, a young man with a long record of juvenile crimes is given one last chance to get his life in order at a detention camp for deliquent teens, but it is going to be difficult for him to learn to control his hot temper, especially when he is assigned to room with obnoxious big mouth Jon Chandler.
Seventeen-year-old Jules Parish turned to stealing cars to try to get her sister out of foster care, but after she is caught, a wealthy eccentic offers a promising--but perilous--solution.
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Looks at different ways young adults can end up in a juvenile detention center, discussing what they are, how to avoid going, hiring a lawyer, alternatives to detention and more.
After a party gets raided by the police, four teenagers who barely know each other find themselves on the run in a car with a trunk full of stolen drugs--and in the next few hours they will make decisions that will determine the course of the rest of their lives.
