Tamar, Erika

Fifteen-year-old Andy is often baffled by his girlfriend Kim's apparent coolness and rigidity until her tragic past is suddenly revealed.

High school senior Laura Jean is shocked when her boyfriend Scott appears to be involved in the gang-raping of a retarded girl by a group of school jocks.

A summer romance with an older woman gives seventeen-year-old Andy a hard lesson about physical love, spiritual love, and their consequences.

A talented singer's love turns to obsession when he starts dating the female guitarist in his rock band.

Kate, a girl living in New York City, takes the subway to the beach, where she imagines being a mermaid, swimming with the fishes, and becoming queen of the sea.

While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her parent's courtship of a local widow.

When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe. Includes a note on the Children's Aid Society which operated the orphan trains from 1854 to 1930.

In 1906, mortified by her mother's suffragist activities that cause the family to move from New York City to Cape Light, fourteen-year-old Rose sees no value in her mother's feminist views until she tries to enter a horse riding competition open only to boys.

Fifteen-year-old Linda, who resembles her father and has his gift for music, pursues the truth about her long-absent parent now that he has died, and her own interest in the guitar.

Ninth-grader Andy's quiet life with his father and cat above their Manhattan restaurant is threatened when his father falls in love and their restaurant is "discovered, " bringing the Mafia in for a cut of the increasing business.