Davis, Jenny

As a project for an unusually open class in sex education, Livvie and her boyfriend David learn to care for a pregnant young neighbor, and as they become deeply involved with her and with each other, they learn about love and caring.

Edda, only eight years old when her father is killed in a mining accident, tries to hold her family together long enough for her mother to gather the strength to get past the tragedy.

Edda's mother is courted by the man responsible for her young father's death in a mine accident in a small Kentucky town.

While spending the summer helping her grandmother run a small restaurant in a decaying and dangerous neighborhood on the edge of Pittsburgh, thirteen-yearold Cab meets many colorful characters. ..

As a project for an unusually open class in sex education, Livvie and her boyfriend David learn to care for a pregnant young neighbor, and as they become deeply involved with her and with each other, they learn about love and caring and eventually about pain and courage.

While spending the summer helping her grandmother run a small restaurant in a decaying and dangerous neighborhood on the edge of Pittsburgh, thirteen-year-old Cab meets many colorful characters and helps with the neighborhood crime watch.