family problems

"Against all odds, Atty and Cole have escaped their lives in Minneapolis, leaving judgmental parents and unsavory circumstances behind. Their getaway was anything but clean, however, and both of them are haunted and hounded by the mistakes of their pasts. As their old lives begin to catch up with them, they make an unthinkable choice in order to stay together forever. Atty's journal entries offer a telling and poignant look at the decisions that pushed them to the bitter end."--Provided by publisher.

Kelleigh, a fifteen-year-old suburban high school student with a learner's permit, recounts how she began stealing cars one summer despite being unsure of her reasons for doing so.

Seventeen-year-old Tom Long wants to be proud of his heritage as a Nez Perce Indian, but he finds it difficult to be true to his own culture in modern society.

During a trip to her childhood home in Texas, a mother tries to prevent her teenage daughter from finding out the truth about her father.

With his family still grieving over his sister's death in a terrorist bombing seven years earlier, ten-year-old Jamie is far more interested in his cat, Roger, his birthday Spider-Man T-shirt, and keeping his new Muslim friend, Sunya, a secret from his father.

Seventeen-year-old Scilla Davis has a drug-addicted best friend, a drug-dealing almost-boyfriend, and huge legal troubles of her own, but hesitates to help an FBI agent eager to catch Randy's supplier of the fad drug, Ferocity, despite his promises to help.

"High school senior William "Wee Wee" Tucker may not be able to meet his pastor-father's expectations, stop his mother's drinking, or protect his gay brother, but his heroism as a volunteer firefighter has a big impact on his small Alabama town"--Provided by publisher.

Sixteen-year-old Aster, caught between a self-absorbed older sister and a mentally-disabled younger one, yearns for a normal life and, with her first boyfriend's encouragement and trust in God, she begins to make things better.

While both deal with problems at home, one-time best friends Jill and Max, seventeen, kiss, and while Jill knows that was a mistake, she struggles not to kiss him again.

In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.