Would Vonnie ever get it together ? Vonnie was just beginning to feel at home in Houston. She was doing well in school, had made new friends and was even getting to be known as a leader. Things had settled down after the unfortunate shoplifting epis...
Who’s that guy ? His name was Paul Weiser. He was new in town and he was gorgeous! Dark hair, lots of muscles and a sexy scowl. To Sara, he was the embodiment of all her romantic daydreams. Sara had never had a boyfriend, just a best buddy, Sco...
It wasn’t as though Ritchie were a little boy. He was almost fifteen and really didn’t need a mother. Besides, she really liked his brother better. It was time to join his father again. He’s saved a little money. He’d taken a good look at th...
Was it an impossible love ? As the new girl in town, Janine Anderson had no way of knowing that she had just flipped over one of the most popular boys in school. Craig Matthews was a public figure, a star athlete already dating a cheerleader. W...
Do opposites attract ? Maggie wanted to think so, especially after she met Greg. But her best friend didn't agree. She carefully explained why Maggie and Greg could never be a couple. > Greg was into music; Maggie wasn't. > Greg was mad ab...
Chris’s parents had been against her taking a job at Camp Whiteoak. “You’re only 16,” they’d said. They were being overprotective. They just wanted to keep her a little kid forever. They didn’t want her to grow up. But when she arrive...
Who would have guessed it? They seemed like such an unlikely combination: square little Vonnie with her guileless blue eyes; tall, cool Monique with her blond mane and sexy figure. Yet now they were a team, pooling their talents and working toward ...
Whatever happened to the old Todd Roberts, cutup and clown of the junior class ? He became a senior, that's what! Now, as duly elected class president, he would be mature, dignified, a straight-A student, a mover and shaker, friend to the principa...
Before Katy moved from Florida, she'd attended a small, select private academy. Now she was finding her way around a crowded, noisy high school and hanging out with a ready-made group of friends, bequeathed to her by her cousin. What a group! All g...
A DIFFICULT QUESTION For years Jodi had been best friends with her handsome neighbor. Now they were going steady. Jodi found this a pretty satisfactory arrangement until she met Jeff whose dark good looks and obvious interest in her sparked feelings...
ALL WASHED UP? Katy and Mark were a couple. Even when the gang got together to cruise down Lakeside and grab a pizza, it was still Katy and Mark. But then Mark started acting weird. Really weird! Had he fallen for someone else or what? Katy didn't u...
Polly Anderson was famous as a fortune teller; she had been doing it ever since grade school. When she moved to a California high school, she started telling fortunes again and soon won many new friends that way. Sometimes she told them about the fut...
It wasn’t fair! Robin, the baby of her family, was now the only one left at home over the summer. Her brother and sister were away doing glamorous things. There was no one for her to hang out with but pesky Eustice, and he was acting superior as...
Marcie's attraction to Ivan sparked the very moment they met. But they lived in totally different worlds. She was a local high school student leading an everyday life and working after school for the local veterinarian.He was a dashing trapeze artist...
To get Lindalee away from a fast crowd, her parents shipped her off to the jungles of Papua, New Guinea, on a research project with her naturalist aunt and uncle and a group of teenagers. This was hardly Lindalee’s idea of a great way to spend a su...
VONNIE HAD A SECRET She was determined not to share it with her classmates. After all, it wasn't their business. That would make moving easier. No one could call her "strange" or "different". She'd make a fresh start. This time, she promised herself...
ONE LITTLE FIB LEADS TO ANOTHER... Meredith wanted to be a writer someday. She certainly had the imagination for it. In fact, her amazing talent for inventing things began to get totally out of hand. It started when Meredith bought herself a fancy,...
WILL THE REAL SAMANTHA PLEASE STAND UP AND PUT ON A CHICKEN SUIT? Samantha needed to be independent. Although she received a generous allowance from her parents, she wanted a job. So she went out and got one. And what a job it was --dressing up in c...
QUEEN OF THE IN CROWD Ellen must have been born under a lucky star. She was pretty and popular and smart. Not only that, she was so sweet, it was hard not to like her. She had a successful family and a cute boyfriend, who was captain of the high s...
WHO WAS HE? His picture, gorgeous and smiling, had fallen out of Shelley's battered American literature book. She'd felt and immediate bond with this attractive stranger, but when a classmate found the snapshot propped up on her desk, the rumors sta...
It was a tough decision for a kid like B.J. to make, to leave home and set up on her own. She wasn’t exactly running away, just getting out of a bad situation. Anyway, she did it and she didn’t regret it for a minute. She found a grungy littl...
DESPERATELY SEEKING ANN Here was the good news. The guy Ann-Marie had drooled over from afar for so long had finally noticed her. One day at the ice-cream shop he walked over and asked her for a date. There was just one teensy problem. Biff thought...
The Roommates are back! It’s spring break, and four escapees from Miss Mingsham’s Academy are ready for a fling. Best friends and roomies Portia, Pam , Dee and Marylou are off to North Carolina where there’s an archaelogical dig going on ri...
Lorrie's infatuation with handsome and popular Sam Young is fueled by his request for a date, but his reputation as a heartbreaker and his on-again, off-again involvement with a cheerleader lead Lorrie to doubt his sincerity...
They were the kids who had everything. The movers and shakers. The leaders. The stars that streaked across Lee High. THE IN CROWD The were best friends, inseparable since fourth grade. Sam, the golden girl. Marcy, the kid with the highest grade...
Wendy had a new boyfriend. For years she had been going around with Skooter, but she was the first to admit that he wasn't a boyfriend. How could he be? They'd been thrown together since childhood, and anyway, he was now wearing all those silly hats....
Know-it-all alert! School newspaper editor Luke has talked Samantha into helping him with one of his crazy schemes. She’s to be the paper’s mysterious Dr. Heartbreak, dishing out advice to kids who write to her about their problems. At first S...
In her sister's shadow... Fifteen-going-on-sixteen-year-old Mary Sanford is tired of always being compared to her older sister, Jessica. Perfect Jess. She's smart, pretty, talented and popular, too. How can an all-around average teen compete with an...
AQUARIUS: MAJOR CHANGES IN THE MONTHS AHEAD Senior year was supposed to be the best, right? Well, Samantha wasn't so sure about that. First, Luke talked her into helping him with one of his crazy schemes. She knew it could get her in real trouble....
Would their love survive? When her parents divorced, Stacy had made up her mind to live on an old farm in the country with her aunt and uncle. But her mother didn’t agree. She though the only reason Stacy wanted to be there was to be with Lane...
GRADUATION BLUES Who says senior year is one big P-A-R-T-Y? Just ask the kids in the In Crowd for the real scoop. Samantha doesn't want to say goodbye to any of her friends, especially her guy, Pip. Pip can't stand the thought of Sam dating th...
RETURN OF THE NATIVE For the past year life had been just about perfect for Sally. That was before her older sister, June had unexpectedly returned to interrupt Sally's first date with super dreamboat Trevor. Worse yet, June planned to stay. She had...
WHEN THREE'S A CROWD Spending Easter vacation in a dreary English coastal resort off season with relatives was not exactly a treat for lively fourteen-year-old Abby and her dreamy, romantic older sister, Helen. Yet it had its charms -- namely Gray C...
MAMIE WAS LIVING A LIE Mamie was apprehensive about moving from London to the country. She felt shy about changing schools and making all new friends. Then she met Guy, and a whole new world opened up to her. Soon she found herself falling in love w...
Pam wasn’t perfect. Of this she was all too aware. For years she’d cherished the memory of her twin sister, Angela, who died at birth. In Pam’s mind Angela was all that Pam was not, slim, beautiful and poised, while Pam saw herself as heavy...