Teenager Harper Winslow gets his first job at the town's weekly newspaper. However, he soon finds himself reporting on his father's campaign for mayor and his sister's mysterious car accident.
Teenager Harper Winslow starts an underground newspaper in which he pokes fun at teachers and students, but when one of his stories concerns a bully he finds himself in big trouble.
Teenager Harper Winslow falls in love for the first time with lovely artist Sunny Taylor, but his happiness is clouded with the possibility that Sunny might move to Toronto to attend art school.
Rooster is failing out of Winston High School, in trouble with his mother and his girlfriend, and in danger of not graduating, until his guidance counselor and the principal come up with a plan to get him through the twelfth grade.
Fifteen-year-old Lefty Carmichael, diagnosed with epilepsy, discovers he must not only learn to deal with the seizures, but must also find a way to handle the reactions of his family and friends to the news of his condition.