Goobie, Beth

Trying to escape the horror that forced her to attempt suicide, Skey dreams of a dark tunnel, a place where she is safe and alone.

Having barely survived a brain aneurysm two years earlier, fifteen-year-old Adrien, working at her Aunt Erin's summer camp, is caught between the land of the living and the spirit world, unsure where she belongs. Faced with the knowledge that another potentially fatal aneurysm could strikes her at any time, Adrien struggles to understand the message delivered by the spirt of the five young women that only she sees -- a message that seems to hold the key to the dark secret that haunts her aunt.

When Sal Hanson "wins" the lottery run by the secret Shadow Council at her high school, her fate seems set - she will be shunned by all. But her refusal to be a victim might ultimately set her free.

After attempting suicide, Kelly Paddick is sent to a "secure facility". As she tries to find a way out she has to come to terms with her memories of abuse.

Jill opposes her high school's Lovely Legs Competition and decides to make a statement about sexism by giving up shaving her legs before entering the contest.

A nine-year-old boy sent to a group home by his mother, who can't handle him any longer, learns to trust the people around him, and to talk about his fears despite his concern that his mother might not take him back.

Relates the story of Shir, an unpopular girl who finds herself the target of casual cruelty as well as vicious bullying in high school, and her efforts to overcome her negative self image.

After spending five months in treatment, Skey still doesn't know why she hurt herself, but when she meets another boy her own age who has many of the same problems, she begins to understand her own destructive behavior.

Nellie, an Advanced Cadet in the Black Core Program at the Detta training center--the sinister agency dedicated to violence and terrorism--is conflicted when she is forced to face her long-forgotten twin sister in combat.