friendship

Fifteen-year-old Darren, a social misfit who spends his time at school trying not to be noticed while drawing characters for a planned film series and book tie-ins, befriends Eric, another outcast who reveals that he never sleeps.

Mitch, a shy and awkward high school junior, negotiates the difficult social situations he encounters, both with girls and with his best friend David, after David reveals to him that he is gay.

Fourteen-year-old Ernie Dolan and his best friend Mike find their friendship tested while attending basketball camp, where Mike succumbs to peer pressure and begins teasing Ernie in the hopes of fitting in with the other boys, but when Ernie risks his life to save three of his teammates, he becomes the camp hero and the boys' relationship is altered once again.

Sixteen-year-old Star struggles with the responsibility of being a mother, while the baby's father, a star athlete, is urged by friends and family to lend his support to Star and his newborn son.

Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.

Overweight teenage Catherine embarks on a high school science project in which she must emulate the ways of hominims, the earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet and foregoing technology.

A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship.

Finishing their sophomore year of high school, Lucas and four of his closest friends experience a summer filled with laughter, love, tears, and loss, including the devastating aftermath of Derek's appearance on the reality television show, Loserville.

Four young people in two families tell of their experience during World War I when the boys enlist and are sent to fight, Emma finishes school, and Muriel joins the suffrage movement.

With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student--who is hiding a big secret--arrives at his small-town Missouri high school.