responsibility

Adora Benet fears her summer will be a disaster when her best friends and her boyfriend all announce they are heading off on separate journeys, leaving Adora alone in the city to try and earn money for college, but with the help of some new friends, Adora learns an important lesson about being true to herself.

Simple text and photographs show various ways children can be responsible.

A youngster feels angry and betrayed when his doting mother begins asking him to do things for himself.

Chad's parents agree to let him take the puppy, Fudge, on a trial basis if he takes care of her.

Thirteen-year-old Ryan Barnes is the youngest skater in a group on an international tour to South America, but an Argentinean team, led by an older skater named Arsenio, is determined to win at any cost--including getting Ryan and his friends into serious trouble.

When her mother cannot find a babysitter for the weekend, thirteen-year-old Monica is left in charge of the house and her stepsister Angela, with disastrous results.

When the people of Rovenia vote to restore their monarchy, sixteen-year-old Alex Varenhoff must suddenly leave his native England to become prince of a land he knows only from his grandfather's stories.

Dora Anne is a doll that has been in Kate's family for 150 years, and Kate sets out to prove to her mother that she is old enough to take care of the special doll.

Briefly discusses the process of decision making, emphasizing real-situations in which teenagers may find themselves.

Mae likes starting projects but never seems to finish them, and so when Aunt Susan asks her to take care of a feisty chicken Mae is soon distracted, then must find a way to make up for her neglect before Aunt Susan's visit.