Ostow, Micol

Having been home-schooled and raised in the African bush, Cady is unprepared for the cut-throat politics of high school.

While working as a production assistant on her aunt's television show about the paranormal, a seventeen-year-old girl discovers a psychic ability of her own, which may provide clues to her mother's death.

"Six-year-old Louise Trapeze lives at the circus and can't wait to fly on the trapeze until she discovers that she is afraid of heights"--Provided by publisher.

In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.

"Two teens narrate the terrifying days and nights they spend living in a house of horrors"--.

Forced to stay with her mother in Puerto Rico for weeks after her grandmother's funeral, half-Jewish Emily, who has just graduated from a Westchester, New York, high school, does not find it easy to connect with her Puerto Rican heritage and relatives she had never met.

When sixteen-year-olds Eliza of Washington, D.C., and Billie of Melbourne, Australia, participate in a semester-long ecology exchange program, Eliza's plan to "cut loose" out of the public eye goes awry, while Belinda must consider tempering her idealism in order to work within the system.

When Cass Parker, who is a big believer in fate, walks in on her best friend kissing Jesse, the guy that she likes, she decides to find new friends and join weekly poker night, but Jesse turns up for the final showdown.

When Laine decides to teach a cooking class at her local community center, she meets Seth, her sexy co-teacher, and when he offers her a job at his family restaurant, Laine cannot resist, but soon discovers that Callie, another waitress, is planning to steal Seth for herself.

Claudia Clarkson says goodbye to her high school boyfriend when she goes off to college, but she has trouble meeting new boys when she realizes she completely forgot how to flirt.