A daughter of missionaries from Papua New Guinea spends the summer in Los Angeles with her cousin and ends up in debt after getting caught up in the consumerism of wealthy surfer life.
Ruth copes with an abusive situation at home by cutting herself, until her high school counselor helps her get the treatment she needs to start a new life.
A Mexican-American high school senior deals with the separation and divorce of her parents and their effects on her relationship with them and with God.
Feeling like she is the only virgin on the planet, a high school junior wrestles with questions about love and sex before ultimately choosing to give herself to God instead of her boyfriend.
When a classmate goes missing Samantha is not surprised, but then she gets a vision that the girl is in danger and doesn't know if her vision is from God or just imagined. She works together with a detective to uncover the truth.
Samantha has a gift from God that makes her see visions of crimes and impending disasters and she struggles to use this special ability to help people and to glorify God.