Unhappy at home, Nancy and her friend Katie adopt punk lifestyles and find relief in cutting themselves, until Nancy is forced to confront her problems.
While spending the summer with her cousin, who is preoccupied with problems of her own, fifteen-year-old Melinda learns to assert herself instead of always trying to please her divorced parents.
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.
Spunky teenage sleuth Carter Colborn, visiting her writer-director father in Hollywood, delves into the disappearance of a fifteen-year-old movie star whose past oddly mirrors her own.
Feeling crowded and trapped in the farm commune where she has spent most of her life, fifteen-year-old Lake can find no hiding place from everything going wrong with the farm and with her parents.