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At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.

After breaking out of juvenile detention, fourteen-year-old Digger stops his trek across Maryland at a campground where he recovers from injuries, cares for little Luke, works with smart and pretty Nora, and begins to understand how his behavior and choices shape his life.

In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his father's disappearance, "Uncle Marty," who looks after the family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper.

Following the death of her favorite adoptive aunt, Lucy goes searching for her biological family who abandoned her in an old Buick eighteen years before.

An anthology of original short stories about Jews coming of age by thirteen well-known Jewish authors.

During the summer between eighth and ninth grades, Alice and her friends Pamela and Elizabeth decide to improve themselves through exercise.

Alex, suffering a bit of a crush on her eighth-grade teacher Simon, becomes confused about what is true when a new girl at Forest Alternative claims Simon has been molesting her and Alex.

After his parents and the others in Longlight are killed in a raid, fifteen-year-old Roan struggles to reconcile his feelings of rage and his old pledge to peace, soon finding that his life has a purpose he never could have guessed--and that the destruction of his homeland had one as well.

On St. Helena Island, South Carolina, fifteen year-old Rose meets and marries Rene, a Yankee from Brooklyn, New York, who takes her north to his home where she encounters many differences in attitudes and lifestyles.

Fifteen-year-old Jeremy Chandler's love of basketball leads him to hang around the gym even though a birth defect keeps him from playing the game, but he is forced to decide what is really important in life when he sees the coach molest a cheerleader and testifies against him in court.

Fifteen-year-old Miri, daughter of two of the city of Noveskina's most important Officials, faces a shameful dilemma as she faces a life among the lower classes after she fails to mature with no clear talent.

Fisher Brown, a sixteen-year-old overachiever, is on the verge of academic burnout when he impulsively decides to stop cramming for the SATs for one weekend and accompany his neighbor to an out of town job repairing a roof.

Fourteen-year-old Casey dreads leaving her friends and boyfriend--as well as cell phone and Internet service--to spend a boring summer on a Caribbean island with her naturalist father, stepmother, and brothers, but she has some life-changing experiences, including learning to sail, helping with turtle conservation, surviving storms, and romance.

After getting caught stealing from his grandmother's toilet store, the narrator is punished by being forced to work at a soup kitchen, an experience that seems inconsequential until he discovers one of his friends depends on the free food.

Contains eleven stories about growing up written by well-known authors; including Meg Cabot, Lois Lowry, Cathy Hopkins, and more.