Tasha Flanagan uses her blog, Blabbermouth, as a weapon against her mother's new boyfriend, Jed Hazell, and his daughter when she begins to suspect they are hiding a guilty secret.
In the midst of trouble at home, with her best friends, and with her love life, thirteen-year-old Ellie receives an encouraging letter from her favorite illustrator.
Dayle, a sixteen-year-old girl dealing with the typical teen problems of relationships, boys, school, and family, is faced with a whole new set of complications when she is badly burned in an accident and a friend seriously injured.
Escaping a bad relationship, nineteen-year-old Heaven Kogo starts over in fast-paced Las Vegas and gets caught up in a dangerous game involving one new friend and one old.
Presents the attitudes and achievements of a diverse group of girls between the ages of thirteen and eighteen living across the United States through portraits and their own words.
Leslie's life seems to settle from chaos to wonderful when Jason, the new guy in school, asks her out. Things quickly change, however, and spin out of control as she finds out that Jason is not as nice as she thought and she must find a way to break out of the relationship.
Shayla Dubois, an aspiring writer growing up in a poor section of Houston, is mystified by the fantastic stories told to her by new neighbor Kambia Elaine, but she soon comes to realize that the girl is in trouble, yet she cannot get past the stories to the truth.
Novalee Nation, seventeen, pregnant, and living in a Wal-Mart store discovers friendship, encouragement, direction and love with a group of caring people in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.
