Lizzie's family is suffering hard times during the Depression until long-lost Grandpa Jake appears on their doorstep and generates some needed changes

Although at first antagonistic to one another, high school senior and former model Julie and college freshman Jeff find their mutual interest in an activist group fighting for animal rights gives both of them a chance to become individuals in the shadow of domineering mothers.Julie, a successful high school model who lacks self-esteem, and Jeff, an animal rights activist bereft of his father, find comfort and support in each other but must deal with clashing ideals and parental disapproval

Sixteen-year-old Bernadette experiments with psychic forces, including black magic, in her unhappiness over the family's move to California; but a series of murders and a threat on her own life ensue.

A science-fiction story set in the 1990s centers on Anna Hart and the terrible secret she learns about herself

When Tim and Felice become close friends at school, they help each other to overcome emotional problems

Once she decides to arrange her father's marriage to the English teacher she adores, Jamie begins to discover people are not always as they seem to be on the surface

Philo and his friend Cristabel befriend a neighborhood dog named Mopey, but Mopey joins a gang of strays and the kids must worry about five other dogs

The Reilly family combats the pressures of the Depression by participating in a dance marathon at Gaiety Beach, where Mary watches as her sister Sue Ellen dances, and falls in love, with Harry

Her new association with a girl whose parents are also divorced helps eleven-year-old Amy Warner discover there is more to friendship than just liking the same things

Three children find a large, beautifully-wrapped box, turn it in at the police station, and wait thirty days wondering what is inside.

Feeling pressured and unhappy in her everyday life, a young girl welcomes the opportunity of having a look-alike life-size doll take her place at school and at home.