dating (social customs)

In a series of papers for Honors English, a senior girl relates the difficulties of being blessed with a voluptuous body that began appearing in fifth grade.

Discusses the realities of all types of date abuse--physical and emotional as well as sexual--and describes both date abusers and those who are abused, explaining why people often fall into these roles.

Abby wants to turn down a date for a Valentine's Day dance.

Fifteen-year-old Tessa tries to be happy when her crush, Charlie, falls for her younger sister, Lulu, and it becomes easier after she begins a secret relationship with Jasper, a social outcast who lives next door to Tessa's best friend. Alternate chapters are in graphic novel form.

Hollywood teen starlet Katilin Burke moves to New York for the summer to appear in a Broadway show, all the while worrying about her boyfriend back in Los Angeles, her handsome new co-star, and the offstage drama going on around her.

Helps teens learn about dating relationships, includes discussion of healthy relationships, challenges couples face, making a decision about sex, and handling breakups.

A four-foot-two sixth grader gets pointers from his handsome older brother on handling women, and tries them out on his classmates.

The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.

Rising high school senior Maggie remembers little about the accidental death of her boyfriend, Joey, but as she slowly begins to recall that day at the gorge with their long-time friends, she realizes he was keeping some terrible secrets.

Seventeen-year-old Elise wakes up suddenly unaware of who she is, unable to recognize herself, and with visions from the lives of strangers. People she does not know warn her of the approaching Shadows, and she finds herself drawn to two different handsome young men.