When her sister kills herself, sixteen-old Leila goes looking for a reason and, instead, discovers great love, her family's true history, and what her own place in it is.
Seventeen-year-old Leigh changes high schools his senior year to help his stepsister and finds himself falling in love with her emotionally disturbed friend, even though he is still attached to a girl back home.
Seventeen-year-old Leigh changes high schools his senior year to help his stepsister and finds himself falling in love with her emotionally disturbed friend, even though he is still attached to a girl back home.
When Polina's "prince" moves out of their Venice, California, house, two ducks that live on the canals but believe themselves to be French try to help Polina, a dress designer, by giving her something to make her stop being sad.
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.
A new friendship with a boy who is both attractive and intelligent helps fifteen-year-old Sophie sort out her feelings about her younger brother Erhart, who died three years earlier, her self-centered older sister, and her distant father.
Fifteen-year-old Phebe Knight, a lifelong ballerina who seems to have lost her focus on dance, decides to spend the summer in Switzerland with her father where she meets teenage chess champion Nikolai Kotalev and becomes involved in his obsessive quest to find the perfect teacher.
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.
Fifteen-year-old Phebe Knight, a lifelong ballerina who seems to have lost her focus on dance, decides to spend the summer in Switzerland with her father where she meets teenage chess champion Nikolai Kotalev and becomes involved in his obsessive quest to find the perfect teacher.
When her sister kills herself, sixteen-old Leila goes looking for a reason and, instead, discovers great love, her family's true history, and what her own place in it is.
