A young black girl struggles to fulfill her father's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where, in 1910, they are the only blacks.
Amy has a horrible accident and ends up in a coma. Erin prays for her but Amy cannot be brought back and dies. Can her death bring hope to someone else?.
While helping restore the cemetery of the old Baptist church, eleven-year-old Raisin solves the mystery surrounding the founding of her home town and gains pride in her family's past.
During one difficult week in her junior year, Val's world falls apart as she learns some truths about her origins, her father's business, and her relationship with her best friend.
Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed babysitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her exhusband.
When a high school senior falls in love with the girl he is supposed to be fixing up with his best friend, the ensuing experiences profoundly change the relationships each has with the others.
Six high school juniors discover surprising, often painful, things about themselves and their relationships with the people around them in the diaries they are asked to keep as a three-month English assignment.
