Hautman, Pete

Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.

Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--but even that friendship cannot keep Doug from sinking farther and farther into the grip of insanity.

When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.

Seventeen-year-old Jacob, a member of a Grace--an insular Christian cult in Montana--begins to question his faith when a number of tragedies befall the members of Grace and he meets a girl from the outside world who shows him another way of life.

Nearly a thousand years in the future, a sheltered and spoiled girl named Lah Lia was raised for a single purpose--to be sacrificed into the mysterious spacetime diskos that hovers over the Cydonian Pyramid. Just before she is killed, however, a strange boy appears from the diskos, and helps her escape. Now her fate and the boy's--Tucker Feye--are inextricably linked.

"Hoping to win a cash prize in a pizza eating contest after racking up a tab on his mother's credit card, David must juggle his competitive eating training with the responsibi lity of looking after his autistic younger brother"--OCLC.

Kelleigh, a fifteen-year-old suburban high school student with a learner's permit, recounts how she began stealing cars one summer despite being unsure of her reasons for doing so.

During an eventful year for the Christian cult where he has grown up, seventeen-year-old Jacob finds his faith and devotion tested when he meets new friends from the outside world and encounters temptations that threaten his contentment.

Thirteen-year-old Ginger investigates a series of weird events taking place in her home town of Flinkwater, Iowa, beginning with people falling into comas while using their computers.