Johnson, Kathleen Jeffrie

Connor, not quite eighteen, has a crush on his teacher--and it may be reciprocated.

After being brutally raped, Grady finally goes to a new high school where he meets an outgoing African American and several other students who try to help him deal with the horrible secret that is robbing him of his life.

After being brutally raped, Grady finally goes to a new high school where he meets an outgoing African American and several other students who try to help him deal with the horrible secret that is robbing him of his life.

Surrounded by sexually unfaithful and physically beautiful adults, Robin, a fifteen-year-old fat girl, misses her best friend who has recently moved, gives in to an older neighbor's sexual advances, and doesn't recognize that a handsome black classmate likes her as she is.

A story told through e-mails, newspaper articles, and short story excerpts, in which Niki, a teenaged girl abandoned by her father, believes that she and her brother can transform themselves into a cat and a hawk, and a sympathetic classmate coping with his mother's death tries to protect the pair from rumors of incest.

Carlotta is doing research to become a romance writer, but with her mother's current flame trying to get sober while her mother crisscrosses the East Coast selling hand-crocheted Easter bunnies, even Carlotta realizes the course of true love does not run smoothly.

Surrounded by sexually unfaithful and physically beautiful adults, Robin, a fifteen-year-old fat girl, misses her best friend who has recently moved, gives in to an older neighbor's sexual advances, and doesn't recognize that a handsome black classmate likes her as she is.