After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.

Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.

Gem has never known what it is to have security. She's never known an adult she can truly rely on. But the one constant in her life has been Dixie. Gem grew up taking care of her sister when no one else could: not their mother, whose issues make it hard for her to keep food on the table, and definitely not their father, whose intermittent presence is the only thing worse than his frequent absence. Even as Gem and Dixie have grown apart, they've always...

"One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother, ... Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as 'Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls.'...

While Constable Ned Parker tries to track down fourteen-year-old Pepper and her friend Cael Westlake, who've run away to California, Sheriff Cody Parker and Deputy Anna Sloan investigate a robbery gone awry that resulted in two deaths.

When Anna Larson's granddaughter Sarah finds her independence, she travels away from all that is familiar, but when she returns to Shining Waters, three generations of family heartbreak converge and Sarah finds God right in the center of it all.

The story of a victim of child abuse that makes reference to the works of Beatrix Potter.

Annabel Lee is delighted when a young boy is recruited to help with her father's bootlegging business, but when the boy's older sister sends law officer Corbin Appleby to find him, Annabel must choose between her rumrunning father and the handsome lawman.

In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, three teenagers in West Germany head for Berlin to join a May Day rally on the Communist side of the divided city, only to find themselves arrested by the East German secret police.

Best friends are forged by fire. For Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce, that fire happens the night they meet outside the police station, both deciding whether to turn their families in. Shy, restrained Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home she shares with her seemingly perfect father, celebrity weatherman Stormy Olsen. No one knows he locks the pantry door to control her eating and leaves bruises where no one can see them....