Colman, Hila

During the summer she takes care of an elderly woman, a teenage girl gains a greater respect for growing old.

Sixteen-year-old Emily is in the car with her boyfriend when he hits and kills a young boy she knows, and that death has a dramatic effect on them, the boy's family, and Emily's own parents.

Bored at school, Ethan throws himself into playing electronic tic-tac-toe games with an orangutan at the zoo.

Fourteen-year-old Amanda's comfortable practice of spending weekends with her divorced father is disrupted when he announces plans to remarry, providing her with a stepmother and a new sister her own age.

A cultured, protected teenager longs to break out of her confined life through her friendship with a very different boy.

Running from problems at home, fifteen-year-old David goes to Mexico where a boy from a poor Indian village teaches him something about pride and responsibility.

When a motorcycle accident leaves one of them paralyzed, two young people try to cope with feelings of bitterness and guilt.

A young Jewish woman, whose family has been impoverished by the 1929 stock market crash, struggles to define herself during the intellectual ferment of New York in the 1930's.

The overpriviledged, lonely daughter of a famous and popular singer seeks to find her own identity through friendship with a street lady.