A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. It's a story of what it's like to grow up in high school, tracing a course through uncharted territory in the world of first dates, family dramas and new friends.

Molly Petree, orphaned during the Civil War, is rescued from the neglect of her uncle's greedy wife by a comrade of her father's who sends her to the upper-class Gatewood Academy and then insists that she wed a rich man she does not love, but her life takes a different turn when instead she meets and marries dashing country singer Jacky Jarvis.

"The diary of a young man's journey through the grotesque underbelly of daily life. Or maybe it's the exposure of daily life itself as a grotesque underbelly, blistered and searing and glaringly obvious, like a passed-out sunbather. Fleeing a talking mold stain in the ceiling of his bedroom in Chicago, he moves to Los Angeles, where he rents an apartment with his sister, Kim. Despite the new city, new friends, and new love interests, something haunts...

"Daily journal writings help to keep Millie focused. She looks inside matters of the heart. Millie defines and presents truth as it is, with a brilliant photographic image of how children should live. Her character speaks on many levels as she grows up and experiences different facts of life. She waits to see change come to a world in desperate need of love and unity"--

Princess Mia and her friends volunteer to build a house for the less fortunate during their spring break.

A teenager who wants to be a journalist in a suppressed society describes to his diary his daily life in his hometown of Damascus, Syria.

"Julia's best friend is her diary. She calls it "My Everything" -- twelve-years-old at its beginning and fifteen at the end; a girl at the beginning, a young woman at its end, knowing more than she ever wanted to know. Julia tells her diary everything about growing up in Juárez. At first, her family loses their house and their car, then suddenly her father is making lots of money. The family has a new car and a new house. It doesn't make sense. Her...