Laurel's boyfriend Dan becomes a neo-Nazi skinhead and gets the attention and respect he has been denied all his life, especially when he becomes involved in a First Amendment battle.
Seventeen-year-old Karen persists in renewing an old friendship with her classmate Connie when Connie comes down with AIDS, despite pressure from other students, her mother, and her best friends.
While traveling across the country, a group of teenagers decide to launch a kids' campaign against nuclear war unaware that they are being pursued by government agents determined to kill each of them.
Students couldn't care less about their education at Garfield High where gangs roam the halls. Yet one teacher dreams of teaching calculus there. Can he succeed?.
A fictional recreation of the 1957 integration of Little Rock's Central High School, focusing on the experiences of two girl students, one white, the other black.
Karen thinks she is at the ultimate beach party in California, and she means to enjoy every minute of it. As the party gets wilder Karen realizes that someone very close to her is close enough to kill. Will this be her last party?.