Four friends on the brink of graduation - and adulthood... It's senior year at California's Glenwood High for sexy Kit McCoy, athletic Alex Enomoto, brainy Elaine Gregory, and beautiful Lori Woodhouse. It is a time for discovery - and for falling in love. These four friends share everything: their dreams, fears, and deepest secrets. If one has a special date, she's sure to tell the other girls every delicious detail. If one of them is in trouble, her friends are the first to know - and help. So you can bet Elaine, Alex, and Lori are right by Kit's side when she confesses she's in love with Justin Kennerly. It's only natural that her flamboyant good looks have turned Justin's head. But her friends are concerned. They know that under her flirtatious exterior, Kit's terribly scared of love - and surprisingly inexperienced. But does Justin know the truth? Or does he expect TOO MUCH, TOO SOON?

She's a wildcat in disguise... — Elaine's closest friends—Kit, Alex, and Lori—are the only ones who know that she is also the rowdy school mascot, Wilbur the Wildcat. To the rest of the school, she is shy, soft-spoken Elaine Gregory, "the Brain." — So when she's asked to tutor handsome Rusty, Elaine is excited, but terrified. Flirting with the popular football player is easy when she's dressed as Wilbur, but will Rusty ever see anything romantic in plain old Elaine? To make matters worse, things at home are very tense. Elaine's whole life has changed since her father lost his job, and she can't figure out what to to—even though everyone thinks she's SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW.

Alex Enomoto, a fiercely competitive athlete and super-achiever, finds her attitudes toward winning creates problems with her boyfriend, Danny, until the illness of her brother, "Noodle," a victim of cystic fibrosis, leads to new insight

She's running away from the past... — Tall and slender, with long blond hair, a perfect smile, and ocean-blue eyes, Lori Woodhouse is a beauty by everyone's definition—except her own. In her mind, she's still the overweight girl she used to be before she moved to Glenwood a year ago. But nobody knows about the old Lori. Not even Kit, Alex, or Elaine, her best friends. Even worse, they don't realize that Lori is hiding an alcoholic father. But Lori's plan to keep her past a secret threatens to backfire when Perry, a boy from her old school, moves into the area. The harder Lori tries to avoid him, the more he chases after her. Lori's friends tell her she's crazy not to give good-looking Perry a chance. But Lori's determined to keep him out of her life. If Perry gets too close, he might figure out who she is. Then everyone will discover why Lori is AFRAID TO LOVE.

Kit's struggle to prepare for an audition for a dance scholarship at the Julliard School is complicated by difficulties with her boyfriend.

Upset when her boyfriend, Carl, suggests they start dating others, Elaine gets a professional beauty makeover and attracts the attention of sophisticated Brian Fitzgerald, a twenty-one-year-old computer whiz turned millionaire

When her parents become foster parents, Alex is upset by her new sister, Stephanie, a hostile, devious sixteen-year-old who uses her beauty to get what she wants—and she wants Danny, Alex's boyfriend

Lori longs for the one thing she cannot have... — After her boyfriend moves away to New York City, beautiful Lori Woodhouse is crushed. Instead of dating other boys, Lori spends time with her girl friends and keeps busy by baby-sitting three-year-old Melissa, the daughter of a neighbor. — Chris Farleigh, Melissa's young father, is separated from his wife and works long hours at the magazine he runs. So it's not surprising that he grows to depend on Lori; she takes such good care of his little daughter. But despite Lori's devotion to the job, she soon realizes she's got a disturbing new problem—she and Chris have fallen in love. Is it wrong? Should Lori keep her feelings to herself? What will be the consequences of their FORBIDDEN KISSES?

Ginger, Kit's glamorous cousin, who transfers to Glenwood from New York, finds her love for classmate Craig Stevenson threatened by rumors that she is having an affair with movie star Spence Kelly

She's made him what he is today... — Gayle is happy to help her friends transform square Bruce into a Glenwood High heartthrob. As a newly-emerged "Slenderella," she knows how terrific it is to change from an ugly duckling into a swan. And when she's assigned the task of teaching Bruce to drive, Gayle discovers that she really enjoys his company. As the plan gets under way, many of the girls around school begin to notice the new Bruce. He's delighted, but for some odd reason, Gayle doesn't feel as elated as she should. When Bruce comes to her for kissing practice, Gayle has to admit she's fallen in love with him. But soon Bruce won't need her anymore. Gayle's beginning to regret that she and her friends ever dreamed up the idea of PRESENTING SUPERHUNK.