Keegan Flannery, feeling responsible for his twin brother's death and his mother's mental illness, believes he must atone by commiting suicide before his sixteenth birthday, but he gains new insights when he joins his school's wrestling team.
When nonbeliever Michael transfers to a Catholic school in eleventh grade, he quickly connects with a secret support group intent on exposing the school's hypocrisies one stunt at a time.
When Jessica, a new student who was badly burned in a fire, attends St. Catherine's while getting treatments at a nearby hospital, seventh-grader Tom wrestles with his aversion to her appearance while gradually learning to accept her as a friend.
Jimmy Murphy starts sixth grade determined to be a better student and impress the beautiful Kathy Guenther, but Sister Angelica has him and his friends pegged as troublemakers - and they may just prove her right.
Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago.
Margaret Pokiak-Fenton provides an account of her time in an all-girls school, during which she was forced to endure the machinations of the Raven, a nun who took an instant disliking to her. Pokiak-Fenton discusses how she was able to retain her Inuit identity against all odds while receiving the education she had always wanted. Includes black-and-white photographs.
Red Blazer Girls Sophie, Margaret, Becca, and Leigh Ann are hired by Father Julian who wants them to authenticate a painting, while Sophie faces off with her arch-rival and takes care of movie-star Nate Etan's dog.
Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago.
Fourteen-year-old Marty Sullivan attends an all-girl Catholic high school while her best friend, Jimmy, goes to public school in a different town and when he comes out of the closet, he finds a new group of friends while Marty finds connections--and also confusion and uncertainty--through her school's fall musical.
While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.
