realistic fiction

Friendships are forged on prom night, when four teens help each other through disappointment, near-arrest, parental interference and panic attacks.

Twelve-year-old Sadie's life changes drastically when she moves to Maryland and her father is deployed to Afghanistan, but then she gets Lucky, a new young horse, and together they encounter horse thieves, Maryland storms, and unwanted horses in need of rescuing.

Diana reaches into the pocket of a fancy coat and finds an invitation to a gala in New York City. Since the coat's owner is out of town, Diana gets a wild idea. With the help of some friends and a glamorous dress, Diana pretends to be someone she's not, and makes it into the party!.

Life is finally beginning to smooth out for Taylor, until her abusive boyfriend Devon shows up and traps her and her best friend Lily in a secluded cabin, with no escape in sight.

Playing the "bad girl" at school to get back at her feuding parents, sixteen-year-old Evelyn gets into drugs and sex with a bad boy and becomes pregnant. Horrified that this could happen to her, she wonders how she will cope with a baby and still be valedictorian and realize her Ivy League dreams. When the baby's father wants nothing more to do with her or the child, Evelyn faces some difficult decisions.

High school seniors Sara and Tobey attempt to figure out what is important in life as they try to balance their preparations for their futures with their enjoyment of the present.

Samantha, having kissed Alex to make Zee jealous, becomes the school pariah and a media sensation after Alex dies from a peanut allergy shortly after they kissed and must figure out how to make things right.

Sixteen-year-old Eliza, an Amish girl, goes to work for an "English" family as a nanny to two young children, and must then choose between two entirely different ways of life.

Alice, Summer, and Tiernan were best friends who broke up at the same time as their favorite band, but four years later, just before they are preparing to go off to college, the girls reluctantly come back together, each with her own motives, for a road trip from Massachusetts to Austin, Texas, for the band's one-time-only reunion concert.

After her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Rose works through her grief by finding meaning in a survival kit that her mother left behind.