atlanta (ga.)

Working undercover for an Atlanta airline, the Hardys have uncovered an international terrorist ring bent on smuggling and murder. In Alaska the ring is preparing to square off against an ultrasecret government agency.

Living a privileged life in Atlanta, wealthy and beautiful African American twin sisters, Sydney and Lauren, must deal with family secrets and scandal when their father is released from prison.

High school friends Sam and Gilly steal a hidden cache of money from Gilly's dad and head to Atlanta where they embark on a search to find the Witches' Carnival, a magical party attended by beautiful people that has been going on for decades.

Winnie's thirteenth year brings many joys and challenges as she negotiates her relationship with her first boyfriend and realizes that change is inevitable in her friends, family, and even herself.

Fourteen-year-old Winnie counts down the days until she begins high school, but turmoil in her relationships with Lars, Dinah, Cinnamon, and her family provide Winnie with a distraction that allows her to ignore her own issues.

Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the "Nigras" their place.

As high school graduation nears, Wren Gray is surprised to connect with gentle Charlie Parker, a boy with a troubled past who has loved her for years, while she considers displeasing her parents for the first time and changing the plans for her future.

Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, teenage sisters Ahalya and Sita Ghai are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner before they are helped by an American attorney fighting human trafficking.

Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering.

The Freitags, a family of elitist German Jews, are thrown into turmoil in the winter of 1939 when daughter Lala falls for her uncle's new assistant, Joe Farkas, and hints for him to take her to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season, but Joe sets his sights on Lala's cousin, Sunny.