A teenager considers himself the "All-American" failure until he meets an eccentric old lady who helps him to see the true value of being an individual.
In the middle of a small and largely unnoticed nervous breakdown, fifteen-year-old Joel tries to cope with the complications caused by his brother's sudden fame as a novelist, a devoted dog, and the kidnapping of his brother's former girlfriend.
Feeling unattractive, untalented, and misunderstood by her parents, a New York City teenager realizes that she is someone special through her friendship with a homeless street performer.
During the summer she is sixteen, overweight Rita Formica falls in love with the most beautiful young man she's ever seen and is determined to win him at all costs.
Eighteen-year-old Rita, an overweight writer living in a Long Island town, is caught between love for her parents and love for Arnold, a man twice her age.
A sensitive, lonely fourteen-year-old boy and a strong, uniquely individual fifteen-year-old girl become friends unexpectedly when they discover they share both a love of animals and the ambition to become wildlife photographers.
Seventeen-year-old Heidi Rosenbloom decides against college when she finishes high school and to devote herself to stray dogs instead; but the entrance of photographer Harvey Beaumont into her life adds another dimension.
A teenager considers himself the "All-American" failure until he meets an eccentric old lady who helps him to see the true value of being an individual.
