Waldorf, Heather

Eleventh-grader Rainey and five other students embark on a cross-country field trip that will change her life forever as she discovers her true calling, learns the truth about her mother, who abandoned her years earlier, and begins a new relationship with a fellow classmate.

Fifteen-year-old Sarah Greene, sentenced to do community service hours at Camp Dog Gone Fun after a brief skirmish with the law, is finally able to come to grips with her past and the abuse she suffered from her father with the help of Judy, a big, goofy dog, and a quirky boy named Sullivan.

Theresa struggles but learns to accept and deal with the changes in her life after her father is hit by a drunk driver and suffers a head injury.

Charlie, unhappy with her widowed father's new love interest, her best friend's defection to Australia, and her beloved English teacher's criticism of her final writing project, decides to spend the summer with her grandmother on Lake Ringrose, where her blossoming romance with a local boy forces shocking revelations about the past.

Eleventh-grader Rainey and five other students embark on a cross-country field trip that will change her life forever as she discovers her true calling, learns the truth about her mother, who abandoned her years earlier, and begins a new relationship with a fellow classmate.