dating (social customs)

Sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents which means that she faces a choice between her best friend and her current crush versus potential new friends and possible boyfriends in her vampire class.

Camelia, who has recently discovered she shares her crush Ben's power of psychometry, finds herself in a tortured love triangle when a figure from Ben's past arrives and Camelia discovers that both boys are hiding dangerous secrets.

Answers letters received by Talk City's "The InSite" and provides advice about dealing with authority figures, handling problems with parents and siblings, making a relationship work, finding and keeping real friends, sex, and more topics important to teens.

Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.

Fifteen-year-old Gideon Rayburn becomes torn between two girls during his first year at a prestigious New England prep school--gorgeous Pilar Benitez-Jones and cute, smart Molly McGarry--and feels pressure to impress his two roommates with his choice.

Highschoolers Stacie and Cole begin to have problems in their relationship when Cole decides they should have sex and Stacie doesn't know if she is ready.

Fourteen-year-old high school student Michael "Storky" Pomerantz's journal describes his freshman year, from dealing with his mother's dating his dentist to attempting to win the heart of the girl he loves.

Describes the female body's changes during puberty and provides information and guidance for young girls on sexuality, intercourse, the decision to become sexually active, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, and related issues such as harassment and rape.

When seventeen-year-old Marit decides to lose her virginity to her best friend, she finds that separating sex from love proves to be more complicated than she expected.

Ruby Oliver, a moderately popular fifteen-year-old who has suddenly become a social pariah, begins seeing a psychiatrist and makes a list of all her past boyfriends in an attempt to understand where her life went wrong.