family problems

"Armando Salguera is a tight end at El Dorado High School and is aiming to make his NFL aspiration come true. But his dream is threatened when--after 15 years of silence--his estranged father, Oswaldo, sends word that he will be coming across the border, back into Armando's life. Could this mean that Armando's dreams of making the pros are over?"--Provided by publisher.

When seventeen-year-old Frankie Skinaway's incarcerated father and cousins try to get him involved in the First Nations Mafia, even after his mother enrolls Frankie in an alternative high school to keep him safe, Frankie has a hard choice to make.

A new, alternative high school, psychotherapy, a romantic interest, and a manga club help tenth-grader Jessica cope with her social anxiety disorder.

Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco and Melody Grimshaw strive together to survive senior year and break away from their rural factory town.

Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.

In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant.

Deena comes out as lesbian to her family on her seventeenth birthday, but that event is overshadowed when her older sister, Mandy, jumps off a cliff. Their extended family is surprised by neither event, having always considered the Rys sisters "bad apples." Then, Deena finds the impossible happening--she starts receiving letters from Mandy, sparking a cross-country search in the hopes of healing her family and herself.

While serving a community service sentence for young offenders, a Romanian immigrant boy and a troubled British girl fall in love.

High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra in the care of her grandmother.

Three Mexican American teenagers in a small-town in Texas struggle with difficulties at home and at school as they try to attain the elusive status of adulthood.