Pearson, Mary

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

Friends Jenna, Locke, and Kara suffer a terrible accident that destroys their bodies, but their minds are preserved in a digital netherworld, allowing the friends to remain connected, until the day Jenna disappears, and then, decades later, Locke and Kara are given new bodies and discover everyone they knew and loved--except Jenna--are dead and gone.

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

Dan does everything quickly, except when it is time to go to bed.

A girl loves to eat pickles in all kinds of unusual combinations.

Zoe Beth Buckman finds that the pressure of taking care of her mother, expenses, work, and school is too much and decides to move out in order to put her life back together again.

Seventeen-year-old Destiny keeps a painful childhood secret all to herself until she and three classmates from her exclusive boarding school take off on an unauthorized road trip in search of "one fair day.".

When the class gerbil escapes from his cage, the children look everywhere for it and find a way to get it to return home.

To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, seventeen-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earnings as a waitress after school are minimal and she must go to extremes to cover expenses.

Despite her family's long feud with the Crutchfields, seventeen-year-old Kaitlin falls in love with Bram Crutchfield--the son of the man her father murdered--and weaves a tangled web of deception to conceal her identity from him.