Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.

A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.

Expelled from boarding school, Charles' presence at home proves disruptive, especially for his sister Rachel, a gifted seventh grader juggling friendships and school activities.

Stephanie's relationship with her best friend, Rachel, changes during her first year in junior high as she tries to conceal a family problem and meets a new girl from California.

While spending the winter of 1947-1948 in Miami Beach with her family, ten year-old Sally makes up stories, casts herself in starring roles in movies, and encounters a sinister stranger.

Davey Wexler finds it painfully difficult recovering from the death of her father, who was killed during the robbery of his store.