african american teenagers

When Charli Black makes the Lockwood High School cheer squad she deals with jealousy, and when Amir Knight makes the football team despite his parents objections he forges his father's signature in order to play.

On the brink of adulthood, four high school seniors--Lauren, Jayda, Danielle and Brenda--struggle with various issues and must rely on their faith in God and their friendship with each other to see them through these tough times.

17-year-old Antonio Lopez is a player who loves and leaves women, and Miesha Wilson believes the thrill of the chase is not getting caught. When Antonio's jealous ex gets involved Miesha and Antonio begin to wonder if love is real after all. anyone she sees as a rival.

Emily Bird is an African American high school senior in Washington D.C., member of a privileged medical family, on the verge of college and the edge of the drug culture, and not really sure which way she will go--then one day she wakes up in the hospitalwith no memory of what happened.

Charly St. James takes on the challenge of helping three charitable foundations, which are supported by hot male celebrities, build a retreat for sick teen girls, but things get complicated when all three guys and her sort of boyfriend, Liam, begin to compete for her attention.

Charly hopes her television show can gain more viewers when she decides to make over the life of a small-town teenager, but finds her work cut out for her when the teen's twin sister tries to sabotage her mission.

Sunday Talliver, a successful singer, has finished her first year of college and is ready for new opportunities, but she encounters unexpected drama and has unfinished business with her ex-boyfriend.

Charly, an African American teen living in the outskirts of Chicago, has dreams of moving to New York and becoming an actress.

African-American teens Joe Billy King and Cilla Handsom face hatred and violence when their school is integrated with the local all-white school and gain a strength and courage that will follow them throughout their lives.

Presents two novels by Earl Sewell: in "Keysha's Drama" African-American sixteen-year-old Keysha Kendall takes up with a bad crowd as she struggles to adjust to life in her affluent biological father's home after her mother is arrested; and in "If I Were Your Boyfriend" after having her reputation ruined by a girl who planted drugs on her, Keysha returns to school to find she is a social outcast and builds a relationship with Wesley Morris, a sexy guy who wants to help her, even though her family does not approve of him.