Haunted by the suicide of a gifted young black writer who was his best friend, Jed pursues the reason for it.

Ten-year-old Angel and her little brother Rags have to cope with an incompetent sitter and several crises while their mother is away.

While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend ...

Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison.

Too young to get a job at the Onion River Mall, fifteen-year-old Mitch earns money from salesclerks to harrass rude shoppers.