friendship

Four high school friends pledge to maintain their virginity in order to exemplify the purity required to win a scholarship.

Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.

At the beginning of the sixth grade, twelve-year-old Quinney starts volunteering at a shelter for stray animals and tackles some tough issues about loyalty and friendship when her former best friend Marguerite appears to be turning into a "bad girl.".

A collection of stories based on experiences from the author's youth and peopled with an unusual assortment of family and friends.

Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, Angela confides in and seeks help from her brilliant friend Tycho.

Had it not been for the firm belief of two young girls that one of them was a changeling, their lives would have been very different.

Eleven-year-old Prin's secure world in a small Tennessee town during the 1950s is turned upside down when she discovers that her new friend and neighbor is being abused by the girl's own father.

Living under a pseudonym with his grandfather in a small town, the son of a celebrity teams up with the local tomboy, "an alliance he calls Nothing Power and she calls Going Steady.".

Harris offers Bostock the affections of his sister in exchange for the brass telescope of Bostock's father and starts a string of misunderstandings about who is courting whom in Brighton.

Katie O'Roark, who has received a heart transplant, is spending the summer at Jenny House to help others who face medical crises. She becomes a "Big Sister" to Amanda, an eleven-year-old with leukemia; Chelsea, a thirteen-year-old candidate for a heart transplant; and Lacey, a fifteen-year-old diabetic.