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Tired of being hungry, cold, and dirty from living on the streets of New York City with a tribe of other homeless teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future and longs for someone to care about her.

High schooler Jan Miller, hoping for a senior year romance, just cannot seem to do anything right, especially when compared to her best friend Rebecca who has just been named a New York "It Girl, " but things start looking up when an old crush moves back to town.

Since he was eight, New York City high school junior Locke Vinetti has experienced bouts of overpowering anger, but now that he has friends who accept him and a true girlfriend, he hopes his anger (which he calls "the venom") will go away.

Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.

Jude is adopted by diehard hippies and raised in a small Vermont town and spends his youth smoking marijuana with his best friend Teddy, but after Teddy dies of an overdose, Jude is sent to live with his pot-dealing father in New York City, where Jude discovers the underground culture of straight edge and aspires to adopt the clean, militant lifestyle to honor Teddy's memory.

Paige Turner, who has just moved to New York with her family, uses her sketchbook to try to make sense of her new life, and she finds the process of sharing her artwork and identity with others both scary and rewarding.

A coming-of-age novel about a seventeen-year-old New Jersey boy who falls in love and stumbles into a bit part in Orson Welles's debut production on Broadway, all in the same week.

When Francisco, gifted student and basketball player from Spanish Harlem, receives a scholarship to a distinguished boarding school, his fellow students view him as an outsider and assume the worst about him.

Nineteen-year-old Miranda Woke's guilt over the drug-related death of her boyfriend does not keep her from pursuing her life as an extremely rich, severely addicted, party girl in New York society circles, but when friends finally convince her to seek help she discovers an entirely new way of living.

Teenagers Mal and Laura, having grown up in the grim reality of a spiritless New York City, face additional woes when Mal discovers his brother has disappeared and Laura's parents have forgotten her, and their efforts to reclaim their families lead the teens to discover that they have been erased from the memories of everyone they have ever known.

Follows Wes through the course of one day in which many important things happen to him: he will lose his virginity and break his own heart, try to meet an impossible deadline for a paper, and prepare a supper he hopes will reunite his family.

After solving a deadly case in the small town of Lobo's Nod, seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of history's most infamous serial murderer, travels to New York City to help the police track down the Hat-Dog Killer.

Katani and Maeve head to New York City to experience a teen fashion show.

Schuyler Van Alen, a loner at a prestigious New York City private school, sets out to learn the secrets of the Blue Bloods, an ancient group of vampires.

Gossip Girl, an unknown narrator, shares the inside scoop on her friends and foes in a privileged private school in New York City, focusing on the return of the beautiful Serena van der Woodson, who is rumored to have been kicked out of boarding school.