Having learned not to expect too much from life, Laurie Beth's plans to marry her high school boyfriend and start a family in her small farm community are upset by the arrival of Dylan, a motorcyclist who teaches her to write poetry and dream

The "in" crowd at school had accepted Lindsay, but not her best friend. The problem came to a head when the school decided to build a swimming pool on a public playground site. She found herself pulled between taking a stand and losing her new clique.

The only thing Andrea likes about moving back to her widowed father's rural hometown is that she can see her best friend, Lisa, again, but when she falls for Lisa's boyfriend, Josh, her most precious friendship is threatened.

Shelly Carlson falls head-over-heels in love with bright, funny, and sensitive Jay Ransom, never suspecting that he is terminally ill.

Senior year of high school has hardly begun, and already Kathy is bored. None of her classes is challenging, and a two-year relationship with Eddie is growing stale. On a whim, she enrolls in a physics course and becomes entranced by the subject, partly because of her infatuation with her handsome teacher. Kathy ultimately sees the world, her future career as a physicist (much to her parents' chagrin) and kind, adoring Eddie in a completely different light. Set in Southern California, this first-person narrative deals with adolescent sexuality, peer pressure and how important it is for young men and women to choose their own career goals.