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After a bombing in the city, Jane's parents move to a suburb where she befriends three outcasts--all named Jane--and starts a group called People Loving Art in Neighborhoods, which tries to enrich their community with art but instead is viewed as a threat.

Ren, forced to move from New York to the suburbs of Connecticut with her grief-stricken dad after her mother is killed in a freak accident, cannot seem to fit in at her new school--thanks primarily to popular snob Farrin, but when she finds out Farrin is involved in an online relationship with an older man, she discovers friends she never knew she had.

Two cousins, one from the city and one from the suburbs, spend a day and a night together at each other's house, and decide that each likes his own home better.

A group of friends who are all named Jane get together and try to make their small town beautiful by engaging in subversive art, and the main Jane wrestles with her affection for two different boys on Valentine's Day while she runs out of money for continuing her artwork.

A sheltered fifteen-year-old girl named Mary Fred Anderson is removed from her home in a fundamentalist sect and placed in foster care in a Washington, D.

In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters live their eccentric lives and quietly commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year.

Rebecca the skunk had been successful in eluding all of the homeowners' attempts to evict her from under the deck; but when they threw mothballs into her nest, she decided it was time to go.

A collection of true stories that expose the dark side of life in the suburbs, describing murders, hauntings, and bizarre events that have taken place in American suburbs throughout history.

Jacob Green, an adolescent boy with an over-active imagination, learns about life, love, religion, sex, and growing up from his brother and his nanny.

No longer able to tolerate living with his alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend, high schooler Benji, nicknamed Dogboy, has moved in with his emotionally distant father, stepmother, and stepsister, and strives to be invisible at home and at school until a series of events forces him to express himself.

Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only around the corner.

Young widow and mother of two Sarah Laden becomes the foster mother to Jordon, a neighborhood boy after a tragedy leaves him an orphan.

A teenager tells how life changes for his family when they move from Brooklyn to Levittown, one of the earliest suburban communities.