Klass, David

When he joins a predominantly African American "Teen Dream Team" that will be representing the United States in an international basketball tournament in Rome, Jimmy Doyle makes some unexpected discoveries about prejudice, racism, and politics.

When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of an environmental conflict.

After John was trashed by beautiful, shallow, and manipulative Gloria, he discovers that down-to-earth Violet is truly the girl of his dreams. With his life already at one of its lowest points, John verbally abuses his algebra teacher and receives a week's suspension. He is viciously beaten by "the man who is not my father, " and his mother doesn't know that her live-in almost-fiance? is a hard-drinking, violent crook until he nearly kills John on a night when she is out of town.

At a sports-crazy NJ high school where all kids must play on a team, a group of rebels start a soccer team designed to undermine the jock-culture of the school.

Champion high school wrestler Ron Woods faces a soul-searching season when he refuses to retake a mandatory drug test he has failed. This affects every area of his life, including his feelings about his father, who died in Vietnam, and his first tentative romance.

Seventeen-year-old Tony, a soccer player whose parents are divorcing, goes to Atami, Japan, to spend four-and-a-half months with a Japanese family.

When Jerry Downing, star quarterback in a small football town, gets a second chance after his drunk driving had serious consequences, Carla Jensen, ace reporter for the school newspaper, invites him to join her in writing a blog, mainly about sports.

"At a sports-crazy NJ high school where all kids must play on a team, a group of rebels start a soccer team designed to undermine the jock-culture of the school"--.

Freshman Daniel Pratzer is surprised when his teammates on the high school chess team invite him and his father to a weekend-long parent-child tournament, but Daniel soon begins to uncover secrets about his father that force him to re-examine his own life.