A high school junior who has received two blood transfusions finds out he has the AIDS virus, though not the disease, and finds all his relationships changing--with his friends, his girlfriend, and even his family.
Increasingly stifled by her overprotective mother and the demands of her fledgling acting career, sixteen-year-old Valerie comes to realize that she must make her own decisions about the direction of her life.
To increase his chances of winning a college scholarship, a talented high school quarterback risks his health by taking anabolic steroids to gain weight.
A brief biography emphasizing the training and gymnastic achievements of the fourteen-year-old Romanian who earned a perfect score seven times in the 1976 Olympic Games.
After an accidental nuclear explosion off the coast of California, Philip searches for his family through a heavily militarized and devastated Los Angeles.
Seventeen-year-old Emiko, brought up in a strict Japanese-American family, is in love with handsome blond Adam, although she realizes her old-fashioned father expects her to find a Japanese husband.
When Brian comes to live with Tim Anderson and his family, Tim can't help but notice his cousin's bizarre behavior and can't get the awful thought out of his mind "Cousin Brian couldn't have killed his own parents...could he?".
