Vel?squez, Gloria

When fifteen-year-old Celia Chavez becomes pregnant, she receives help from her friends, family, and a psychiatrist who recently had a miscarriage.

At his fourth school in four years, Moses Vargas explodes when it is revealed that his father is in prison, but in a support group for teens with absentee fathers, he begins finding better ways to cope.

A high school student and member of a Mexican-American family struggles with his sexual identity and finally learns that he will not have to stand alone anymore.

A high school student and member of a Mexican-American family struggles with his sexual identity and finally learns that he will not have to stand alone anymore.

When a seventeen-year-old Mexican American girl starts getting into trouble as a reaction to her parents' divorce, she is helped by a psychologist who has problems of her own.

A Puerto Rican teenager describes her family's life with her abusive stepfather in alternating chapters with the story of the counselor who is trying to help them.

Angry and troubled when his alcoholic father abandons the family, high school senior Tyrone gives up his plans to become an engineer, drops out of school, and takes a full-time job, refusing help from his girlfriend, school counselor, and a psychologist with problems of her own.