Mazer, Norma Fox

Ten-year-old Sprig no longer gets along with her twelve-year-old sister, Dakota, but the two pull together during their father's extended business trip to Afghanistan, sharing concerns about his safety, an elderly neighbor's health, fights with their best friends, and boys.

After discovering her grandfather is dying, fifteen-year-old Rachel gets to know him better than ever before and finds the experience bittersweet.

After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.

Thirteen-year-old Terri has enjoyed growing up with her dad, but her life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers her father kidnapped her when she was four and that her mother, who she had been told died in an automobile accident, is still alive.

Thirteen-year-old Sarabeth Silver's life is turned upside-down when her mother dies suddenly, leaving her orphaned, confused, and at the mercy of everyone who seems to know what is best for her.

Emily decides to play hide and seek when her father calls her for lunch.

Despite their different backgrounds, Sarabeth, a teenager living with her mother in a trailer and transferring to a new school, makes friends with Grant and her affluent friends, including troubled Patty who shares a painful secret about her uncle.

Eight stories about teenaged girls and young women who face their lives with courage and humor.

A teen-age girl has the misfortune to fall in love with the son of a woman who killed her sister in a car accident.