Fourteen-year-old Darcy's life undergoes a drastic change when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer in 1974 and is unable to help Darcy deal with the teenage struggles of starting high school, falling in love, and worrying about the Vietnam War.
Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.
After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.
Despite years of abuse at the hands of her drunken father, Baby Girl has always believed that she was special, partly because of her "gift" of seeing the future, until she and her mother set out to begin a new life on their own.
The death of Rose's father exposes secrets that force her and her mother to leave the only life they have ever known and become live-in companions to a wealthy woman and her nephew.
Rain's daughter, Summer, leaves home with her best friend, a young man named Harley, in an attempt to pick up the pieces when her young life is shattered by a brutal act soon after her sixteenth birthday.
Melody, hoping to finally learn the truth about her past, travels across the country to confront a woman she believes to be her mother--even though her mother supposedly died months earlier.
Fifteen-year-old Liza tries to deal with the normal everyday crises of life in an Austin, Texas, high school, a process complicated by her mother's fight with breast cancer.
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about the relationship of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies during the mid-nineteenth century in New England.
