Orphaned at sixteen, Lake Davidson goes to live with an old woman who is a stranger to her...her grandmother. Gray, lonely days are livened only by the stories her grandmother tells her of a treasure buried on the family land. The only clue to its...
Jenny West is so happy! Sweet sixteen and summer on the way! But her life turns sour when her father’s illness sends the West’s off to an isolated beach for the whole summer. Jenny’s miserable until the bright morning when she looks up and find...
Other girls know how to interest boys, how to make them laugh, how to be casual and smart. Christy never knows what to say, or how to say it when she’s with a boy. Being a new girl in town doesn’t make it any easier! Then she meets Mike, one...
A lightening bug flew between Nick and me. Both of us reached out for it, our palms cupped. We missed the bug, but our fingers touched and somehow Nick was holding my two hands in his, and he didn’t turn them loose. The summer Edie dreaded turns...
When Julie Talbott father dies it brings about some unexpected changes moving to another state , starting in a new school and having to make new friends. But Julie’s shyness is mistaken for snobbery and when she attempts to launch a campaign to...
Christy and Mike are finally going steady! And Christy's senior year promises to be extra special, especially after she gets a part-time job in a gift shop. But by Thanksgiving, nothing is right. Mike gets upset every time Christy mentions her j...
“Wendy,” Charlie stammered, “I really like you, but we ought to date other people. I guess I’m saying I’m not in love with you anymore.” Wendy knows she’ll never forget the hurt of those words. How could Charlie say them? She and Charli...
Baby-sitting for a nice couple in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains could be a drag, even though Alison liked her employers and their daughter. Something was definitely missing. Could it possibly be masculine attention? Then, in answer to her drea...
Christy and Mike are finally going steady! And Christy’s senior year promises to be extra special, especially after she gets a part-time job in a gift shop. But by Thanksgiving, nothing is right. Mike gets upset every time Christy mentions her job....
If Robin Miller hadn't been late leaving school, she might have missed seeing Eddie Fielding... and her whole life would have been different. They had gone to grade school and junior high together. Then he had moved to another part of town. Now he ha...
Christy has never been so happy. She and Mike are sure of their love for one another and bask together in it’s warmth. But their happiness is short-lived when Christy is summoned to the hospital where Mike lies, badly injured. Christy is terrified...
Christy still can’t face Sonny’s, the soda shop where she and Mike spent so much time. She wonders if there will ever be a day when she doesn’t see Mike’s shadow in everything she does… So Christy tries to throw herself into the last mon...
It’s not true that any boy is better than no boy. For Beth-Ann Hughes, who just turned 16, “dating blues” used to mean “no dates.” But after great-looking Kenny and upperclassman Curtis start asking her out, Beth-Ann knows that having lo...